] Last Thursday, Kerry told minority journalists at the
] Unity 2004 conference in Washington that "I believe I can
] fight a more effective, more thoughtful, more strategic,
] more proactive, more sensitive war on terror that reaches
] out to other nations and brings them to our side."

[ Well, I think it's pretty damn obvious what Kerry *meant*, and I give his opponents enough credit that they do too. What they won't do is admit that, and what they will do is ride this comment for all it will give them, driving home the idea that liberals are pussies who'd roll over without a fight. The media will play along (for fucks sake, this article is about how Cheney *will*, i.e. hasn't yet, but is going to, deride Kerry over the comments, and news.google shows quite a few others) and I fear that the ever so sophisticated public will buy the misinterpretation as conventional wisdom. Fucking politics. -k]