The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest

Vol: 36 Issue: 1 - Wednesday, September 01, 2004

Amazing Race
by Jack Kinsella

................................................................................................... it occurred to me as
I was watching the GOP Convention, and in particular, the Democratic
'Truth Squad' counter comments, that John Kerry's presidential campaign is
coming apart at the seams.

Maybe it was the painkillers.

I was watching the convention with a friend who asked me to explain the
difference between the two candidate's positions. This was actually a
moment of illumination for me.

I've been closely watching this race from the beginning.  I've listened to
the speeches and the counter-speeches until my head hurt.  I've read the
Kerry campaign literature and Kerry's proposed platform.

Here's the part that jarred my preserves.  Only two months from Election
Day, and after studying the various campaigns since Kerry became the
presumptive nominee, I realized that I don't have the faintest idea what
Kerry's platform actually is.

Try and explain it to yourself.  What exactly is Kerry FOR? I ran down the
list:

Economy: Kerry says the economy is in shambles.  Hmmm.

The Dow is up. The economy is still growing. Unemployment is at 5.5%
Interest rates are low, personal income is up.  The average American pays
$2000 less in taxes.

How does Kerry propose to 'fix' the 'broken' economy?  By repealing tax
cuts 'for the rich'. I've tried to figure out how that would work, and
still can't.  The 'rich' are the ones who most of us work for.  Nobody has
explained to my satisfaction how impoverishing employers will boost job
creation.

Kerry rails against the deficit, hoping nobody will point out that America
has operated as a deficit economy since 1913.

Our entire economic system is based on it and would collapse without it.

(see "How The Economy REALLY Works" Vol: 31, Issue: 2
http://www.omegaletter.com/briefings.asp?BID=883)

Kerry also hopes that nobody will point out that when we DID balance the
budget, it started a recession that was stopped in its tracks by the tax
cuts Kerry now wants to roll back.

So, as I see it, Kerry's platform calls for 'fixing' a vibrant economy by
raising taxes from employers and using that money to pay down the deficit
until it forces the economy into recession.  Confusing.

Defense: John Kerry's platform includes revoking the current "Bush
Doctrine of unilateral preemption" and ensuring the approval of our
'allies' like France and Germany before taking military action abroad.

A cornerstone of the Kerry platform is that America was wrong to invade
Iraq without UN approval.   But another cornerstone of the Kerry platform,
according  to John Kerry's speeches, is that, "we will never wait for a
green light from abroad when our safety is at stake.''

So, if unilateral preemption is wrong, would that not REQUIRE a 'green
light from abroad'?   The more I tried to explain it to my friend, the
more confused we both got.

John Kerry says the price of gas is too high and that he would take
'strong action' against the Saudis and other oil-producing states to bring
it down.  I read through Kerry's campaign literature extensively to see
how he intends to accomplish this miracle.

If he has a way, he is keeping it to himself.

In the Senate, he voted in favor of every fuel tax that was placed before
him, and even proposed an additional fifty-cent a gallon federal tax on
gas.

It didn't pass, but Kerry argued it should have passed, because the "price
of gas, as measured in inflation-adjusted dollars, is lower than it was in
1980."
 
 

Assessment:

This isn't a political screed to slam Kerry or boost Bush. Or, it isn't so
intended. I was trying to explain to my friend why half of America wants
to elect John Kerry to the White House.  It was so illuminating to me that
I thought I should put it before you for your consideration.

I devote a significant part of each working day to studying the political
scene. I SHOULD be able to articulate what the Kerry campaign's proposed
policies are, especially now that the Democratic Convention is behind us.

But I can't because I can't figure out what they are.  And the only
explanation I can offer for why half of America would elect him anyway is
because he isn't George Bush.

Kerry came out in favor of reducing US troop deployments in Germany, South
Korea and Japan three weeks ago.  So, we know something he is FOR.

Back then, he told ABC's "This Week":

"If the diplomacy that I believe can be put in place can work, I think we
can significantly change the deployment of troops, not just there, but
elsewhere in the world; in the Korean peninsula, perhaps; in Europe,
perhaps."

When Bush announced a massive troop withdrawal from the 'Korean peninsula
and Europe' seventeen days later, Kerry called  it a "hastily announced
plan" and asked:

"[W]hy are we unilaterally withdrawing 12,000 troops from the Korean
peninsula at the very time that we are negotiating with North Korea - a
country that really has nuclear weapons?"

Just when I thought I had found something Kerry was FOR, he announces he
is AGAINST it.

Remember, I was sincerely trying to explain to my friend why half of
Americans polled think John Kerry is better qualified to be
Commander-in-Chief than the guy who's been doing it for four years.

I was doing a miserable job.

Kerry's Senate record is one of favoring reducing intelligence
capabilities, reducing military capabilities, curtailing defense spending,
etc.  John Kerry's voting record establishes him as the most liberal
member of the Senate.

But America is at war.  Both halves of America know that already.  In
addition to the three thousand Americans murdered on September 11, America
has lost more than 1,000 soldiers in action. More than 7,000 of our troops
have been wounded in combat.  Why would anyone vote for John Kerry as a
wartime president?

Until last month, Kerry supporters would answer that question by pointing
to Kerry's Vietnam record, and comparing it to George Bush's stateside
National Guard service.

Now, if Vietnam comes up, Kerry's people either change the subject, or
they find themselves forced to defend it against a mounting pool of
evidence to the contrary.

Despite that, the latest presidential tracking polls have Kerry and Bush
in a dead heat.

The Amazing Race of 2004 is a study in mass deception.  Although virtually
nobody, including John Kerry, can explain why he should be considered for
president, he still has the support of half the country.

When pressed, the best his supporters can come up with is that he isn't
George Bush. But that seems to be enough for them.

Now frame the election in spiritual terms.  The most offensive thing about
George Bush to the Left is his professed faith.

The Islamic world has framed the war in terms of Christianity vs. Islam.
al-Jazeera endorses John Kerry, as does the majority of the Arab world.

This is no secret to potential voters. Shouldn't the fact that our enemy
prefers John Kerry set off a few alarm bells?

But Kerry and Bush remain in a statistical tie at the polls.

The Bible says that when the antichrist comes on the scene, he will be
accompanied by a 'strong delusion' that will cause people to believe what
they want to believe, because they 'received not the love of the truth'.

The Amazing Race of 2004 is a study in people believing what they want to
believe, despite clear evidences to the contrary.

My friend asked me what I think it all means, in terms of Bible prophecy.
That was my moment of epiphany:  John Kerry's propaganda machine has
already convinced almost half of America that he belongs in the Oval
Office.

By itself, that one fact alone proves that, to this generation, truth is
already not what IS true, but what people WANT to be true, even when they know
in their heart of hearts that it CAN'T be.

It took a generation to accomplish, but the conditioning process is
complete.