Kerry rips Bush in front of former Iranian president at Davos; Update: Video added
posted at 1:24 pm on January 27, 2007 by Allahpundit
This isn’t the first time a major Democratic politician, or even Waffles himself, has handed Islamic fundamentalists a propaganda freebie.
The unwritten rule about politics ending at the water’s edge is long gone and we’re going to have to think very hard now about how best to restore it. If that means Gingrich or Giuliani going over to Israel or Australia or Japan when the Democrats are back in the White House and badmouthing the new president’s foreign policy, so be it. Tit for tat.
Kerry was asked about whether the U.S. government had failed to adequately engage Iran’s government before the election of hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005.
Kerry said the Bush administration has failed in addressing a number of foreign policy issues.
“When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don’t advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy,” Kerry said.
“So we have a crisis of confidence in the Middle East — in the world, really. I’ve never seen our country as isolated, as much as a sort of international pariah for a number of reasons as it is today.”…
Kerry criticized what he called the “unfortunate habit” of Americans to see the world “exclusively through an American lens.”
He said this while seated next to the former CEO of one of the world’s foremost terrorist states, which as we speak is working on building nuclear weapons, bankrolling Hezbollah’s efforts to foment civil war in Lebanon and Hamas’s exterminationist jihad against Israel, and supplying Shiite militias with IEDs to kill American soldiers in Iraq. Whose current leadership, lest we forget, Kerry has previously signaled a desire to meet with. Note the bolded bit in the quote, too: given a direct choice between defending the president or siding with the Iranian government circa 2003 — whose nominal leader was, of course, Khatami himself — Lurch essentially chose the latter.
Then he signed an autograph for the pig. The same pig who, six months ago, defended executing gays for the crime of homosexuality.
Fox aired video a little while ago. I’ll be back soon with a clip. Go read Captain Ed and see why Kerry’s comments, simply as a factual matter, prove that he’s either exceedingly stupid or a liar.
Update: Here’s the video, stitched together from two different Fox News segments. Note the crack about “neocon” rhetoric and regime change. Khatami’s masters must have enjoyed that.
Update: Here’s a nice gloss on the day’s events.
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I’m starting to believe there isn’t anything too far fetched to believe with this administration. I remember the Jack Ryan incident. The crazy part? The Illinois GOP powers-that-be backed away and then destroyed their own candidate. The Dems play for keeps. The GOP doesn’t have the intestinal fortitude to fight them.
Ajackson, great information and analysis, as usual.
I still just sit here and shake my head. This is crazy, futuristic dystopian stuff going on in this administration and so many people are oblivious to all it. And, Obama’s minions find it “offensive” to challenge him. *shaking my head*
Fallon on May 20, 2013 at 8:31 AM
Fast and Furious alone already told us this, and that’s just one head of 0dumba’s hydra!
Keep your popcorn ready – there’s more to come!
Anti-Control on May 20, 2013 at 8:36 AM
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Commerce (HHS)
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workingclass artist on May 20, 2013 at 8:45 AM
davidk on May 20, 2013 at 6:24 AM
Could Borowitz actually parody Zero with those QUOTES, and get away with it ?
Did Preezy truly say those things ?
Praps I need to suffer through the address, to know for sure ?
pambi on May 20, 2013 at 9:11 AM
Bingo: Obama and the IRS: The Smoking Gun?
This scam is being run through the greedy-union management structure, which thanks to an Executive Order signed by the REB, cannot be FOIA’d.
The Republicans have to put the greedy-union org structure on the wall and work their way through it like Mafia investigators do.
slickwillie2001 on May 20, 2013 at 9:15 AM
I nominate this one for the Butterfield Effect award.
Maybe we should help the writer out?
It’s called plausible deniability. He uses the office more aggressively than anyone who’s ever held it, then pretends ignorance when caught. Fortunately, absolutely no one is so stupid as to buy the innocent act.
Oh, wait…..
There Goes the Neighborhood on May 20, 2013 at 10:19 AM
Speaking of awards, this one ought to win Maureen Down an “unintentional humorist” award. The president targets his political enemies, and the only outrage she can muster is those nasty Republicans who are, in her mind, taking advantage of the scandal.
There Goes the Neighborhood on May 20, 2013 at 10:22 AM
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