Kerry's speech - Just like in the movies!
I listened intently last night to a speech that all this week nearly every Democrat said needed to be a great, and afterward nearly every Democrat agreed was the best Kerry had ever delivered. As I listened, all I could think of was "Why is this guy sweating so much?" I mean, it was almost comical... reminiscent of Aaron Altman, Albert Brooks' character in Broadcast News, who had a sweating fit in his debut as an anchorman (and subsequently lost the job). At first it I thought it looked like drool glistening off his chin which, given the desperate measures he has been employing lately, seemed totally appropriate! The fact that Kerry kept licking his lips only added to this perception. But then I noticed that his entire face was becoming wet. As a bit of an historian, it brought to mind the result of the Nixon/Kennedy debates. The radio audience thought Nixon won the debate, but no one watching on TV really listened to Nixon because of the way he appeared on camera... like a used car salesman! Similarly, I found that I couldn't concentrate much on the substance of what Kerry was saying because he looked like a man who had invested everything he owned in a charade and needed desperately for those to whom he was speaking to believe him, lest the charade be exposed! Were that to happen, I'm sure he would insist Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
Kerry's nervous sweat reminded me of another movie as well, Total Recall (starring the Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger!). Remember the scene where some doctor walks in and tries to convince Arnold's character (Quaid) that everything he has experienced is just a hallucination, and that he (the doctor) has been inserted into Quaid's hallucination in order to 'talk him down' and thus save his life? The doctor is on the verge of convincing Quaid and getting him to let down his guard, when a telltale bead of sweat rolls down the good doctor's face. Quaid sees that sweat, realizes that if the doctor was really there for the altruistic reasons he was proclaiming, then he shouldn't be nervous or sweating, and BANG! - he puts a bullet between the doctor's eyes! And so it is that the Democrats are trying desperately to convince the American public that, with Kerry as president, they can pretend the Bush tenure (to include 9/11) never really happened, that is was all just a bad dream, and we should now get back to a proper Clinton-like administration and set the world right again. Now I do not want anyone to think I am advocating that any harm should come to Mr. Kerry, I am absolutely not! I just want his political life to come to an abrupt and complete end, and the fraud of a man behind the curtain to be exposed. During the day on Tuesday, November 2nd, I believe we'll all hear a loud click... and just after 7:00 PST, a dramatic BANG!
