Is Kerry Running for Class President?

John Kerry undeniably showed himself to be the better debater last week, but he's not running for Debater in Chief, he's running for president. However much it may rankle the rest of the nuanced world, I'll be voting based on the candidates' positions, not their felicity of expression.

As a result, I thought it would be profitable to have a look at John Kerry's website to read the National Security Plan he mentioned during the debate.

Following the National Security link under the heading "Plan for America," brought me to a platitudinous 483 word summary that has neither supporting links nor footnotes in the text (would it have been that hard to add relevant links?). Fortunately, there are some "National Security Plans" links on the right-hand side of that page. Unfortunately, they're not much better.

Take, for example, Kerry's plan for "Winning The Peace in Iraq." Each of the points made in this two-page commentary is either a promise upon which Kerry cannot plausibly deliver, a regurgitation of the current Bush administration policy, or a position that validates the harshest criticisms made against him.

Kerry promises, for instance, to get other nations to "share the burden" in Iraq with NATO troops (and hence with the funding to equip and deploy them). He does not explain--he has never explained--how he will accomplish this miraculous feat. France and Germany have already said no.

Kerry wants to help the Iraqis set up a stable, democratic government. Does this mean that Kerry will be voting to re-elect president Bush, whose administration has been working assiduously toward that goal for well over a year?

Kerry wants to "give other countries a stake in Iraq's future" by "letting them bid on [American taxpayer-funded] contracts." Uh, NO! The French, Germans, and Russians, in particular should not be receiving U.S. taxpayer dollars in Iraq after all they've done and said over the past few years. France and Russia are implicated in having supplied weapons to Saddam right up to the Iraq invasion, both are implicated in the UNSCAM Oil-for-Fraud ripoff, and, most recently, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin told journalists that "The Iraqi insurgents are our best allies." Also in the past few days, the French government has said it will not attend a summit meeting on Iraq unless the throat-slitting, anti-democracy terrorists are also invited.

John Kerry accuses president Bush of having offered financial assistance to the nations who have sent troops to fight and die alongside of Americans in the liberation of Iraq. But Kerry wants to offer taxpayer money to nations whose "best allies" are the very people killing our servicemen and -women.

I will never vote for such a man.

UPDATE:

Looks like PoliPundit beat me to the "Debater-in-Chief" title :-).