The John Kerry Post of the Day

My latest discovery about my favorite cheese-eating surrendermonkey-looking Ketchup King cum Presidential candidate:

Ah, now we're finally getting some details about how the esteemed King of Condiments plans to get us out of Iraq. Well, maybe not details, but he assures us he has details, as noted in the Washington Post:

But when questioned about saying Thursday in his acceptance speech, "I know what we have to do in Iraq," he would not tip his hand.

"I've been involved in this for a long time, longer than George Bush," he said. "I've spent 20 years negotiating, working, fighting for different kinds of treaties and different relationships around the world. I know that as president there's huge leverage that will be available to me, enormous cards to play, and I'm not going to play them in public. I'm not going to play them before I'm president."

Reminded that he sounded like Richard M. Nixon, who campaigned in 1968 by saying he had a secret plan to end the war in Vietnam, Kerry responded: "I don't care what it sounds like. The fact is that I'm not going to negotiate in public today without the presidency, without the power."

Kerry previously has discussed his desire to reduce U.S. forces in Iraq but declined to attach any timetable to that goal. He spoke more extensively about Iraq after his acceptance speech, suggesting he has an exit strategy.

You know, if Bush even suggested that he had a "secret plan" to get the troops out of Iraq, we'd be preparing for the reporters to barbecue him at the next press conference. No time table, no details -- but we're just supposed to trust him? On what basis? He served in Vietnam?

Here's the other part of the article I love, showing just a tad bit of partisan reporting:

As the long caravan headed north on Interstate 75 through western Ohio on Sunday, Kerry and Edwards occasionally slowed the buses to acknowledge groups of supporters lined up along the road, holding signs and waving U.S. flags. Kerry and Edwards continued to draw sizable and enthusiastic crowds, with an estimated 8,000 people here on a hot and sunny afternoon.

Bill May, 61, a registered Republican and military veteran who voted for Bush, said he probably will vote for Kerry in November. "It's time for a change," May said, "and I don't think Bush can do what needs to be done in Iraq."

Keith Kreager, 56, a veteran and Democrat who voted for Ronald Reagan, said he supports Kerry. "The president is indecisive," Kreager said. "He went after the wrong person. Instead of Osama, he attacked Saddam, when he's been a threat for years and there wasn't anything there."

A new poll showed that Kerry had received no real bounce in the polls from last week's Democratic National Convention in Boston. A CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll showed that among likely voters, Bush led Kerry by 50 percent to 46 percent, with independent Ralph Nader at 2 percent. In a pre-convention poll, Kerry led Bush 47 to 46 percent. Among registered voters, Kerry and Bush were tied. It is unusual for a candidate not to gain ground from his convention.

So let's see. The Post says Kerry and Edwards are drawing large crowds (although we don't know the source for the number, or even if 8,000 is a large number for a pre-planned rally of this sort), and let's make sure we get quotes in here from people who are supposedly political moderates for anecdotal evidence. We'll put this stuff ahead of the scientific numbers in the polls, which show Kerry struggling to get any bounce, no matter how much favorable press coverage he gets. I'm not saying the CNN-USA Today Gallup Poll is right (in fact, I highly doubt Bush got a bounce off the DNC) -- but it's probably more important evidence of what's going on then quotes from two people.

Wait... maybe THIS is the unintentionally funniest line in the article...

On domestic issues, Kerry gave a "rock hard" pledge not to raise middle-class taxes if he becomes president, though he said a national emergency or war could change that.

Reminded that the country is at war already, Kerry said, "We're going to reduce the burden in this war, and if we do what we need to do for our economy, we're going to grow the tax base of our country."

Heck, it's now a "rock hard pledge" not to raise the taxes, less then one week after he promised a middle class tax cut. But we already know his out when he opts to try and raise taxes -- there's a war on, for crying out loud!

Jokes aside, there's something truly disturbing about the Democratic candidate for President when he doesn't know that we're involved in a war.