To me, John Kerry always seems somehow like a scrawny high school debater dressed up his first oversized suit. He's impressed with himself and his suit, and he's clean and well scrubbed, but from the perspective of an adult observer he's still a kid in his first suit.
The impression is not based on John Kerry's age, of course. It's based on his opinons. They're cobbled together from bits and pieces of learning, but lacking in depth, breadth, or firm foundations. They're shallow, like plants unlucky enough to take root in a thin half inch of soil on top of solid rock.
Ask Kerry during a presidential debate how important faith is in his policy decisions, for example, and instead of straightforwardly answering the question about applying his own faith to life choices, he'll wander from one religion to next, proclaiming himself a former Catholic altar boy but then mentioning the Torah, the Koran, and some Native American blessing he received the other day. It's shallow and uncommitted, and obviously so. If Kerry believes in the one God of Catholicism, you'd expect him to be at least a little bit concerned for the mortal souls of his polytheistic Native American friends, not bragging about how they gave him their pagan blessing the other day and what a swell guy he was to receive it. If you can't describe your own faith without rattling off four mutually incompatible religions, then perhaps your faith is still a bit unsettled. Wide, but not deep. Or, to continue with the high school analogy, your faith is still in draft form, with various earlier efforts crumpled up in balls that landed in or near the trash can. It's fine if one really is a high school or college student still trying to sort out life questions from scratch, but ideally an American president should be better grounded before taking on a job that will do its best to unsettle him at every turn.
Like any high schooler whose head is filled with volumes of freshly absorbed knowledge but little context or depth, Kerry overestimates himself. Thus, he has now declared that if only he were in charge of America right now, everything would be peachy keen.
What's wrong with this statement? It's arrogant. It's simplistic. It's absurd. Other than that, I have no problem with it.
Oh, yeah -- it's also ripe for ridicule. And here is:
Kerry: I can control the wind and the waves and Iran’s terrorists
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