Back In The High Life Again

Remember how during last year's presidential campaign Democrat nominee Senator John Finger Kerry proved so uproariously entertaining by pretending repeatedly to be a kind of Savoit Faire Joe Sixpack (Jean-Luc Sixpaquets?) - and how since his crushing defeat last November he was equally as side-splitting pretending to be a serious United State Senator?

Well, I have some bad news for your endorphine levels: Mr. French has gone back to being his pompous, effete, lazy self:

"I will launch a new era of public diplomacy to explain our policies to the world and to combat lies and distortions about America."

That's what Kerry said during the second presidential debate last fall, but apparently, judging by his failure to attend Friday's Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing for public diplomacy designate Karen Hughes, Kerry's new era of diplomacy will have to wait.

Kerry took a pass on Hughes's confirmation hearing to instead fly to Paris to watch American Lance Armstrong win his 7th Tour de France. Ten days ago, when Kerry staffers presented him with a briefing book on the Hughes nomination, including pointed questions about the Joe Wilson scandal and the apparent intelligence gaffes in Iraqi weapons capacity before Operation Iraqi Freedom, Kerry took a pass. [emphasis added]

Kinda speaks for itself, doesn't it? Besides, if he had even "combatted lies and distortions about America" without leaving the country, he'd have been in mortal combat with every other member of his own party.

But, as if to compensate for their boss' anticipated comedic decline, Kerryians mustered feigned astonishment:

Kerry's decision to play to the very stereotype Republicans and even some Democrats laid on him during the election - a French-loving dilettante - flabbergasted his advisers and supporters.

"We got some calls over the weekend when it was discovered where he was," says a current Kerry staffer with ties to his campaign last year. "This wasn't a good decision on his part, but this is why he's still in the Senate and not in the White House. It's mystifying to a lot of us."

Only if you're foolish or blind enough to fail to grasp what a complete phony Lurch is. For any of those "advisors and supporters" who are only now taking that final step into the sunshine of the true "reality-based community," welcome home. You missed some real gutbusters.