Very interesting comment about Kerry

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

I posted this in a thread and Bleachers7 suggested making a new thread about it. It IS a very interesting comment from a really good blog called Hullabaloo:

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/

"Kerry's Secret Weapon

Super smart commenter Sara points out something very interesting that may very well be a potent arrow in Kerry's quiver:

Well next month we have yet another book to digest -- from the inside of the Bush White House. Richard Clarke, the former NSC counterterrorism expert from Bush I, Clinton and 2 years plus of Bush II is publishing his insider book that takes no prisnors. Word is that Rove is very afraid of what Clarke has to say -- particularly because Clarke was the August 6 2001 briefer of Bush, and there is a good deal about how he got told never to raise such matters again with Bush. Book will get big play. Richard Clarke knows where all the bodies are buried.

The close collaborator with Richard Clarke -- going back to Bush I at NSC was Rand Beers -- who quit last summer in disgust, and walked down the street and volunteered his services to Kerry, where he has been ever since. Beers eventually drew Joe Wilson into the Kerry camp. Taken together this represents about 75 years of high level Bureaucratic Counterterrorism experience -- and it is super connected with every establishment going. To put it mildly, Kerry is not going into battle unarmed and with pacifist intents. If Bin Laden's been warehoused for use in October -- these are the guys who know it, and know who else knows


Kerry's foreign policy team is formidable and the fact that he has Wilson, Clarke and Beers on board, all of whom have been on the inside of the Cheney administration is very, very interesting.

If Kerry's biding his time with the kind of explosive info that could expose Bush on 9/11 then he is a major league threat. Big Time."

[saltpoint]

1. Calamity Jane --

-- thank you for this post. Much appreciated.

I hope ol' Karl Rove gets what he pays for in this campaign.

[NashVegas]

2. One Interesting Comment Deserves Another

Yesterday while talking to a co-worker, Air Force veteran with security clearance from post-military gigs with DoD contractors, about the primaries, he commented, "I learned early that the president decides nothing. Decisions are made by the people who stopped into my office and introduced themselves as 'John,' but their names were not John. They are the footsoldiers of the ones who make the real decisions."

Looks like the Johns are lining up behind .. John.

Be careful what you wish for, as they say.

[ShimokitaJer]

3. So it's an advantage that Kerry embraces former Cheney guys?

Perhaps that will be great for winning the election, but it doesn't say much for how he'll govern.

And some of us actually care about that.

[King of New Orleans]

4. If they are no longer with Cheney

because they realize that Cheney is evil then yes they might be an asset.