"We need not to stay the course"

"We need not to stay the course but to change the course," John Waffles Kerry tells assembled press corps.*

The old boy looks chastened and nervous as he faces the Fourth Estate at a press conference in response to GW's U.N. address. We tried to listen and take notes -- honest we did -- but just couldn't do it. 'Kept nodding off at both the sound of his voice and the verbosity of his style. Here's the gist:

I have a plan to be successful in Iraq [never mind what].

It’s imperative to build an international coalition [never mind how].

The management of this war has been both [sic] arrogant, lacking in candor and incompetent. [Bush's fault™]

I have one position on Iraq. One position. [one at a time].

A classic nuance in response to a reporter's question about the inconsistency of Kerry's voting for the war and speaking out now against it:

It wasn't a vote to go to war right away. It was a vote to go to the U.N. and go to the allies. Not a vote for the President to make his own judgment.

*We predicted -- following Joe Biden's Democrat response to the President's U.N. speech this morning -- that Kerry would come up with something like "I changed the course after I stayed the course." Not bad, huh?

Comments

[mog]

You did better than I did, he pissed me off. Aside from his usual, he is horrible without a script, meanders all over the place. He should not speak extemporaneously. Ever.

[Sissy Willis]

I am planning to watch the debates with mute finger poised for instant relief when he opens his mouth.