#1: Kerry is reported to have said, “I’ve met foreign leaders who can’t go out and say this publicly, but boy they look at you and say, ‘You’ve got to win this, you’ve got to beat this guy, we need a new policy.’ Things like that”.

#2: Bush Administration wants “names”. Colin Powell says so on the Sunday Morning Talking Show,

#3: The wire service reporter reports that he screwed up. I mistranscribed a key word,” explains Patrick Healy, a political reporter for the BOSTON GLOBE who covered the event in a pool capacity.

“Listening to the audio recorder now, in the quiet of my house, I hear ‘more leaders’ and I am certain that ‘more leaders’ is what Senator Kerry said.”

I HAVE A Question: What’s the difference between the two? Why are the left-ward blogs saying that there is a difference?

#4: The “right”ward chatterers bounce off of this. “What endorsements?” The thought is just soooo absurd, after all…

I’ve this weird sense of what to me looks like the obvious: QUESTION: who do you think Germany’s Schroeder, France’s Chirac, Canada’s Martin, and Spain’s Zapatero would rather see as America’s president?

Isn’t the Bush line supposed to be that they’re all cheese-eating surrender monkeys anyways without a clear grasp of our righteous mission*, and we can’t capitulate to them (“America needs not wait for a permission slip) — no, our mission is not to create a coalition… or is there a sufficient political shift going on in this nation that that line of tact simply won’t get as far as it used to?

Question: What would happen if whatever foreign diplomat that Kerry might have spoken to comes out and says whatever they might have said to Kerry?

Would anyone care? Should anyone care?

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* David Brooks’ Example in Waiting: *Nor is America itself without blame. Where was our State Department? Why hasn’t Colin Powell spent the past few years crisscrossing Europe so that voters there would at least know the arguments for the liberation of Iraq, would at least have some accurate picture of Americans, rather than the crude cowboy stereotype propagated by the European media? Why does the Bush administration make it so hard for its friends? Why is it so unable to reach out?

The answer to that question cracks me up. See first *asterix* mark.

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