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and clouds made of marshmallow are raining cupcakes on my lawn The Lady With the Greyed Skirts today has a Magazine piece today designed to bolster sKerry after his moments out back o' the woodshed with Dubya on Friday... They call it: Kerry's Undeclared War. [login: biasedashell PW: dncshill]

As New York and Washington were under attack on Sept. 11, 2001, a film crew happened to come upon John Kerry leaving the Capitol. The brief moment of footage...' tells us something, perhaps, about Kerry in a crisis. The camera captures Congressional aides and visitors... streaming down the back steps of the Capitol building in near panic, ... Off to one side of the screen, there is Kerry, alone, his long legs carrying him calmly down the steps, his neck craning toward the sky, as if he were watching a gathering rainstorm. His face and demeanor appear unworried. Kerry could be a man lost in his thoughts who just happens to have wandered onto the set of a disaster film.

This would be after the 40 minutes he spent watching telly and sitting "in shock, being unable to think." Mind you, it was no 7 whole minutes spent finishing My Pet Goat... but still, seems like *knock*knock* lights on, stereo playing, no one's home. More portrait painting:

'You know, my instinct was, Where's my gun?'' Kerry told me.

Lovely, sparkly, almost life-like portraits aside, the piece goes on [for 11 freakin' pages] to detail Kerry's "thoughtful, forward-looking theory about terrorism and how to fight it." and goes on to ask the musical question, "But can it resonate with Americans in the post-9/11 world?" We shall see.

With the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the geopolitical currents that Washington had spent half a century mastering shifted all at once. It isn't clear how long it took Kerry ...to understand the political magnitude of that change.

We're still waiting on 'at . . .

George W. Bush and his advisers got it almost instantly.

Interesting NYT would notice . . . . NB I'm gonna break this up into several pieces so as not to go on and on and on to make it less egregious. The original piece is Kerry's Undeclared War from the NYT Magazine. [login: biasedashell PW: dncshill]

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