Let me get this straight.
John Kerry wants to run the country, and says that he's the man who is best able to prosecute the war against the Islamofascists.
And yet, he has surrounded himself with people who are so astoundingly incompetent that either a) they don't know that a Vietnam-era typewriter and a modern computer produce printed output that differs so obviously in typeface and spacing that any expert could identify it as a forgery almost immediately, or b) they don't have enough sense to have the Highly Incriminating Documents That Are Just What We Need thoroughly examined by said experts, just on the off chance that Karl "Evil Genius" Rove supplied them to Democratic operatives using his vast network of sneaky dark elves. Or maybe Rove supplied the douments to the media knowing that--being so Objective and all--they'd snap them up like an emaciated shark lunching on half a cow carcass.
The Democratic Party is supposed to be full to bursting with Intelligent People who understand the subtleties of the world and are just dripping with finesse and nuance.
And yet, this incident bears the marks of a total loss of control. Either the campaign attempted a dirty trick and spectacularly bungled it, or they were completely unaware of what 60 Minutes had, or they were aware of it and didn't bother to make sure that the story wouldn't end up making them look like they fools that they increasingly seem to be.
Whether the Kerry campaign had anything to do with the documents or not, their near-total incompetence in handling the exigencies of a mere presidential campaign does not lead me to believe that Kerry is capable of making the kind of decisions that need to be made in this time of war.
Looks to me like "it" has been "brought on."
I wonder if that phrase is one of those things that makes the Senator's toes curl when he thinks about it? I've got loads of memories like that... so many that they make me twitch and squeak like a Tourette's-laden lunatic.
Good thing I'm not running for President, huh? I'd be a disaster.
And, once again, we're talking about crap instead issues--but apparently Kerry doesn't even have the wherewithal to change the subject.
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UPDATE or, rather, SOME MORE TRIVIAL CRAP:
A man obsessed with old typewriters says:
For those who want my opinion... the documents appear to be done in Word, and then copied repeatedly to make them "fuzzy". They use features that were not available on office typewriters the 1970s, specifically the combination of proportional spacing with superscript font. The IBM Executive has proportional spacing, but used fixed type bars. The Selectric has changeable type elements, but fixed spacing (some models could be selected at 10 or 12 pitch, but that's all). The Selectric Composer was not an office typewriter, but apparently did use proportional spacing. These were very expensive machines, used by printing offices, not administrative offices.
Meanwhile, 140,000 US troops continue to bake in the desert sun. Where is the most effective place to put them next? Do you know? I don't, and neither candidate is telling.
But by GOD we all know a bit more about typewriter technology, don't we? And that's always a good thing.
I said always!
