Anti-Climacus

QUOTE: From Best of the Web Today:

"The Associated Press reports on a town meeting John Kerry held yesterday in Bethlehem, Pa.:

The town meeting was contentious at times, with 52-year-old Cedric Brown repeatedly pressing the candidate to name the foreign leaders whom Kerry has said are backing his campaign.

"I'm not going to betray a private conversation with anybody," Kerry said. As the crowd of several hundred people began to mutter and boo, Kerry said, "That's none of your business."

We guess "That's none of your business" is more polite than "You sit down!" But it's breathtakingly arrogant for Kerry to assert that his putative promises to foreign leaders to change America's policies are none of the voters' business*."

*though I recognize that foreign leaders telling Kerry they support him does not entail in being true that Kerry's offered to change his positions to garner their support, it does seem to leave open the possibility that the mere fact of foreign leaders getting involved entailing that said leaders (ahem, Spain) will change their actions specifically to frustrate Bush's foreign policy, whatever the merits.

More reason to believe that we should be conducting our foreign and domestic policy independent of what anyone else says we should do.