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October 15, 2004

'A loathsome display of demagoguery'

Charles Krauthammer focuses on an issue that Camp Kerry has been shamelessly lying about, even to using dead celebrities as totems:

After the second presidential debate, in which John Kerry used the word "plan" 24 times, I said on television that Kerry has a plan for everything except curing psoriasis. I should have known there is no parodying Kerry's pandering. It turned out days later that the Kerry campaign has a plan -- nay, a promise -- to cure paralysis. What is the plan? Vote for Kerry.

This is John Edwards on Monday at a rally in Newton, Iowa: "If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again."

In my 25 years in Washington, I have never seen a more loathsome display of demagoguery. Hope is good. False hope is bad. Deliberately, for personal gain, raising false hope in the catastrophically afflicted is despicable.

Where does one begin to deconstruct this outrage?

Do read the whole thing and keep in mind that Dr. Krauthammer is a both a medical doctor and he, himself, is in a wheelchair.

Posted by Darleen at October 15, 2004 09:30 AM

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