In the May 17, 2004 issue of National Review (article is only available to subscribers), Jay Nordlinger has an interesting piece on John Kerry's Latin American policy record. Excerpt:
For the benefit of South Florida, he's claiming to be a big anti-Castroite: "I don't like Fidel Castro. Some people have cottoned to him in our party [now there's an admission!] and go down and visit. I went to Cuba once and I purposely said I don't want to." That statement was a little mysterious. Kerry has also said, "I'm pretty tough on Castro, because I think he's running one of the last vestiges of a Stalinist, secret-police government in the world. And I voted for the Helms-Burton legislation to be tough on companies that deal with him." That was a little mysterious too, for Kerry was one of only 22 senators to vote against Helms-Burton. His campaign later explained that he had voted for an early version of the bill, objecting to the final one because of Title III: which allows Americans whose property was stolen to sue foreign companies acquiring that property.
Hey, that sounds familiar!
Sorry for the prolonged absence (again), but the demands of my job have consumed all of the time I had hoped to use for blogging. I think this should abate soon.
In any event, here's a sentence that I enjoyed by Bradley A. Smith and Allison R. Hayward in the May 3, 2004 issue of National Review:
Campaign-finance reform passsed Congress, and was upheld by the Supreme Court, because groups hostile to freedom spent hundreds of millions of dollars to create an intellectual climate in which free political participation was viewed as a threat to democracy.
Yep.
