At a meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus, Kerry said, "We are not going to stand by and allow another million African American votes to go uncounted in this election. We are not going to stand by and allow acts of voter suppression."
Another million? Where and when was the first million suppressed?
"What they did in Florida in 2000, they may be planning to do this year," Kerry said.
There will be voting irregularities Carter warns. He should have been watching the last time. During the 2000 election, 46,000 people were registered to vote in both New York and Florida, according to election records in both states. Never mind that voting in two separate states is a violation of federal law, 1,700 of those dual-state voters asked for write-in ballots (so they could vote at home and away).
And underline this: 68 percent of the cheaters were Democrats, 16 percent claimed no party affiliation, and only 12 percent claimed to be Republicans.
Now let's plug in the actual figures.
After all of the recounts, which were supervised and scrutinized and upheld by all panels of observers, both legislative and judicial, President Bush won Florida by 537 votes. The number of Democratic Party voters who asked for write-in ballots for both New York and Florida was 1,156 -- double the margin of the President's victory.
Because election records are routinely purged, there is no way to tell how many people -- from either party -- voted twice, but the fact that George W. Bush won Florida by even one single vote is nothing short of a miracle -- and I use "miracle" in the literal, biblical sense.
And on the issue of Iraq.
President George W. Bush has never wavered from his claim that Saddam Hussein was an enemy of free people everywhere who needed to be removed from power, by diplomacy or by force. Like every president since his father, and like virtually every world leader over the last decade, President Bush expected to find weapons of mass destruction. No weapons have been discovered, but after watching Hussein ignore world opinion for a dozen years, President Bush toppled the dictator and today he sits in a jail cell, awaiting justice for his crimes while Iraq anticipates a free election.
But John Kerry's stand on Iraq is another matter (maybe I should say his position on Iraq, because he certainly has not stood on any position for very long).
On CNN's "Crossfire," John Kerry said, "We know we can't count on the French. We know we can't count on the Russians. We know that Iraq is a danger to the United States, and we reserve the right to take pre-emptive action whenever we feel it's in our national interest." The date of that quote was 1997.
In October 2002 Kerry voted for the war.
In an early debate this year among Democratic candidates, John Kerry said, "I think it was the right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein. And when the president made the decision, I supported him, and I support the fact that we disarmed him."
In April Kerry said, "It would be unwise beyond belief for the United States of America to leave a failed Iraq in its wake."
Last month Kerry said, even knowing everything he now knows about events in Iraq, "Yes, I would have voted for the authority" of President Bush to wage war.
Now Kerry's line is, Iraq is "the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time."
Kerry's stump speech now declares that it was a mistake to topple Saddam Hussein. The brutal dictator, responsible for the deaths of uncountable thousands of his own country men, plus other tens of thousands in the Iran-Iraq war, should have been left in power -- according to John Kerry.
