Tuesday, February 24, 2004

Kerry is so very ... Nuanced, but is he Society worthy?

Yesterday, President Flyboy nominated his likely rival, Massachusetts Senator Vampire ("Don't bury me, I'm never dead) for induction into the Verbal Jazz Society for Elliptical Reasoning. Actually, President Bush, a charter member of the Society for Elliptical Reasoning ("Healthy Forests Initiative" = clearcutting is good for the environment; "Clear Skies Initiative:" Let's roll back environmental regulations on power plants because it will clear the air; and don't even get me started on going to war over weapons that inspectors never found, but we knew they were there, even though we later admitted that they may not have been there, but some scientist was making drawings of said mythical weapons just to avoid an execution, or something like that), has probably never heard of the Society. What Flyboy (I may not have been there, but at least I got paid) did say is that Kerry is for and against "Tax Relief" (another SER-quality euphemism), for and against the "Patriot Act" (so named as to brand anyone who opposes it is an Anti-Patriot, see?) and for and against the Iraq War Resolution. Surely the Vampire will find some long winded means of saying why he is for those things in principle, but not in the practice of the Administration. Being a member of the undead, Kerry has no concept of time, see? Kerry's supporters and random journalists would call this "nuanced."

Verbal Jazz makes no assumptions about Kerry's nuances, but assumes that if Kerry does carry the Democrat torch this Fall, he will find a way to earn his nomination into that elite Society of Elliptical Reasoning.

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