Kerry Calls Vote Change ‘Inarticulate’
On the eve of a foreign policy debate with President Bush, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said in an interview that his explanation of why he voted in favor of additional funding for the war in Iraq before voting against it was “one of those inarticulate moments” in the campaign.
I still can’t believe he said it. Sure, there are ways to explain what he meant, but all of them are clumsy, and regardless of whether his statement was factually true or not it is the kind of sound bite that an opponent can only dream of. It was far more than an inarticulate moment, it was a blunder of gargantuan proportions–and that ain’t hyperbole. He played right into the GOP script that he was a flip-flopper, and he did it in his own words on video, and did so on the issue of the campaign: Iraq.
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September 29th, 2004 at 1:37 pm
He said it was his explanation of the vote that was inarticulate, not the vote itself.
September 29th, 2004 at 1:44 pm
Indeed, that is my point.
September 29th, 2004 at 2:14 pm
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September 29th, 2004 at 4:10 pm
I don’t know if you heard the interview but the part that really concerned me (as I said in my post) was his position on Iraq. He was plenty articulate on that.