Breaking Monday? One Possibility

Blogs are abuzz with an alleged Monday story that will put Kerry on the defensive. See Powerline, INDC, Redstate and others. With his record of speaking sideways to many issues, it could be hard to nail this down. But there is at least one very good possibility I can point to. Leaks say the story deals with foreign policy and a purported Kerry lie.

If you examine what Kerry is currently doing as regards the Kyoto Treaty issue you will see he is playing a dangerous game with the truth. Kerry used the Kyoto Treaty issue to great effect in hammering President Bush in one of the debates. But the record shows that Kerry actually voted against the measure IN 1997. Within the last month or two Kerry has been endorsed by some groups because of his support for the measure, and endorsed by others for his opposition. This "lie," if you will resonates through a series of endorsements and website changes for and by the Kerry team.

Pertinent documents have disappeared from the Kerry website. The fact is it was Clinton who saw the treaty as DOA and Kerry was there trying to fix it. But its failure was placed on the shoulders of the EU by all press reports due to the injection of last minute changes giving breaks to China and India particularly. The US under Clinton or anyone else did not do in Kyoto, and certainly not Bush. Below are some quotes and links to explore. I'd love to hear some other opinions.

First Debate

"'No, no, no, no,'" Kerry cited DeGaulle as saying, "'The word of the president of the United States is good enough for me.' ... How many leaders in the world today would respond to us, as a result of what we've done, in that way? So what is at test here is the credibility of the United States of America and how we lead the world ...You don't help yourself with other nations when you turn away from the global warming treaty, for instance," Kerry said to George W. Bush.

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 105th Congress - 1st Session

Vote Date: July 25, 1997, 11:37 AM

Question: On the Resolution (s.res.98 )

Declares that the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol to, or other agreement regarding, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992, at negotiations in Kyoto in December 1997 or thereafter which would: (1) mandate new commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the Annex 1 Parties, unless the protocol or other agreement also mandates new specific scheduled commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for Developing Country Parties within the same compliance period; or (2) result in serious harm to the U.S. economy.

YEAs 95
NAYs 0
Not Voting 5

Kerry (D-MA), Yea

Mr. Kerry: "The fact is that the Kyoto treaty was flawed. I was in Kyoto, and I was part of that. I know what happened. But this president didn't try to fix it. He just declared it dead, ladies and gentlemen, and we walked away from the work of 160 nations over 10 years. You wonder why it is that people don't like us in some parts of the world. You just say: Hey, we don't agree with you. Goodbye. The president's done nothing to try to fix it."

During the presidential primaries, Sen. John Kerry quietly renounced support for the Kyoto treaty on global warming. More recently, as it readied itself for the Kerry lovefest in Boston, the Democratic Party surreptitiously removed from its platform support for Kyoto - a treaty, in large part, personally negotiated by its last presidential candidate Al Gore.

John Edwards, Kerry's running mate, who supports Kyoto, should be forgiven if he is surprised by Kerry's position, which essentially is now the same as President Bush's. Delegates to the recently convention were confused as well.

Indeed, the general public could be forgiven for not knowing Kerry's stance on Kyoto. After all, none of the major media outlets have highlighted his rejection of Kyoto and his campaign has gone to great lengths to portray Kerry's position as pro-Kyoto. For instance, Teresa Heinz Kerry recently boasted that Kerry had attended more Kyoto conferences than any other major politician.

The Kyoto Protocol's biggest fan

Forefront of presidential candidate John Kerry's environmental policy is to enact the Kyoto Protocol. He says as much in his "Vision for a Cleaner Environment, a Stronger Economy and Healthier Communities."

"The U.S. must join the international community and begin to constrain emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that are already changing the climate of our planet," he purports.

Alexandria, Aug 11 American International Automobile Dealers Association (AIADA) President Marianne McInerney today commended Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry for his opposition to the Kyoto Protocol. Kerry’s campaign made clear its opposition to the Kyoto Protocol in a report released Friday entitled, “The Kerry-Edwards Plan for Clean Coal.”

“All of us are concerned with climate change issues, but John Kerry is right, Kyoto is not the answer,” said McInerney. “The Kyoto Protocol would give a virtual free ride to 80 percent of the world -- including many of the nations most responsible for carbon dioxide emissions -- while imposing a huge economic burden on the U.S. economy.”

Comments

[Daisy]

Dan,

I like your attitude and, frankly, I like the attitute of this Administration -- of taking the fight to the enemy (both foreign and domestic).

Heck, even if there isn't a story, I like it. It may force them out of their holes with their surprise sooner.

Don't think it will be Kyoto, though. Frankly, the fact that he voted against it at one point is a positive, I think.

[Terry Gain]

Could it possibly be that his statement in the debate that he was in Kyoto (when the accord was being hammerd out) was a lie and will be proven to be such?

This is what Kerry said about why he was not carrying the goose he allegedly killed.

Q: Heavy? A: No, still giddy over the Red Sox. It was hard to focus.

This is speculation on my part but assuming it's true that the hunting party of four nabbed only three and Kerry came up empty handed I think Kerry is giving a rehearsed answer to the question whether he got one, but isn't facile enough (having an IQ of only 120) to adjust to the fact he's already lied in reply to that question. He utters the rehearsed answer as to whether he got a goose in reply to the question why he isn't carrying the goose he allegedly killed.

I can't speak for a European educated married well twice elitist but most people don't need to focus to carry a goose. Not focusing would explain why he missed.

I'm getting good at reading Kerry. I just assume he's lying and I concentrate on why.

Keep on trucking hard to Nov 2nd.

Terry Gain

[Donna]

I don't see Kyoto or the wild goose chase being good enough fodder for a 'big' story. Kerry's campaigned on both sides of Kyoto and 'hunting rights' all along. If this story is news at all, I think it would be about some issue that he appears to be consistent on.

If I find one of those, I'll let you know.

[William Trippe]

Some in the rightwing blogoshere are abuzz with news of a major negative story about Kerry set to appear tomorrow in a rightwing rag run by lunatics. This already feels like their excitement during the primaries when the biggest shithead on the Internet "broke" the nonstory about Kerry's affair that never happened.

I suspect even worse, though. I suspect this is a nonstory precisely timed to be as disruptful as possible to the Kerry campaign, and it has been "leaked" (read:broadcast) to the angry legions of Bush bloggers so they can foment as much hysteria as possible. I don't know who is worse: the cynics who are playing these morons, or the morons who allow themselves to be played.

See more on http://counterpundit.blogspot.com

[Terry Gain]

Tripe from William and nasty tripe at that.

1. ...rightwing rag run by lunatics

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If you don't like the message shoot the messenger. Why not, you had some success with this approach with the SBVFT whose revelations would have derailed and not just damaged the Kerry campaign if it had been handled fairly by the MSM non-rags.

2. ... a major negative story about Kerry set to appear tomorrow

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I am pregnant with anticipation. In the meantime it's fun to speculate what lie the Say Anything campaign will be caught out on.

3. ... biggest shithead on the Internet

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Why can't you lefties make a point without name calling

4. ... "broke" the nonstory about Kerry's affair that never happened.

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Thanks for reminding us about that nonstory. Don't you mean non-covered. If there was nothing to the story why did the young lady's father call Kerry a creep.

5. .... "leaked" (read:broadcast) to the angry legions of Bush bloggers

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Don't you mean "happy warriors"

6. ... so they can foment as much hysteria as possible.

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Mhmm. You sound worried.

7. ... I don't know who is worse: the cynics who are playing these morons, or the morons who allow themselves to be played.

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Now that's it's been revealed that our moron has a higher IQ than your moron perhaps the "m" word should be dropped from the left's armamenterium News of Kerry's lower IQ is interesting. Perhaps he wasn't lying every time he took a position contrary to the position he had taken before. Perhaps he just couldn't remember what his position was suposed to be.