Inside The Sick Kerry Mind



There's a term to explain why the clearly haughty and self-important
John Kerry repeatedly calls the clearly self-effacing and modest
George W. Bush "arrogant."

In psychology, it's called projection: attributing to others what, in
fact, perfectly describes the person hurling the insult.

Similarly, there's a term to explain why Kerry, a lifelong pacifist
after his four-month foray in Vietnam, is now trying to convince the
public that he would fight the war against terrorism more effectively
than President Bush.

It's called self-delusion.

Another term explains why Kerry has changed his mind and his votes on
just about every critical domestic and foreign policy issue in his 19
years in the Senate.

It's called indecisiveness.

Yet another term explains Kerry's Dean-like outburst - "That's none of
your business!" - when an attendee at a recent forum asked the
Democratic candidate to name the foreign leaders he claimed had told
him they hoped he wins the election.

It's called thin-skinned (or intemperate, defensive or just plain
nasty).

One more term explains Kerry's accusation that President Bush has
failed to give our troops adequate support, when in fact the president
has increased economic support to veterans by 8 percent and increased
defense spending by 10 percent.

It's called lying.

To date, the only thing the American public knows about Kerry is that
he is a blame-the-other-guy, self-deluding, indecisive, thin-skinned,
lying candidate.

Is this the "real" John Kerry?

The DSM-IV - popularly known as the diagnostic "bible" of the American
Psychiatric Association - goes on at length about Dissociative
Identity Disorder (DID), in which separate identities take on a life
of their own. Changing among those personalities is called
"switching," which DID people manage with amazing facility.

Whether or not Kerry has this disorder is a moot point. The public has
the right to know who the self-described "real deal" John Kerry really
is.

Is he the guy in full biker regalia who rides his Harley onto the
stage of "The Tonight Show" to show his macho side, or the Ivy League
esthete who sells his Renoir for campaign funds?

Is he the guy who uses the "f" word in a Rolling Stone interview to
show how hip he is, or the one who imitates President Kennedy to
convey an air of elegance?

Is he the guy who says he's "strong" on defense, or the guy who voted
against every major weapons system in our military and against
increased defense spending after the bombings of the World Trade
Center in 1993, the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996, the U.S.
embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, the USS Cole in 2000, and -
two weeks after Sept. 11, 2001 - the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon?

Is he the guy who claims to identify with the economic plight of
"regular" Americans, or the wealthiest member of the Senate (married
to one heiress and then another) who lives the high life in
multimillion-dollar homes and on yachts?

Is he the guy who tells you that, after Bill Clinton, he will be the
second black president, or the guy who, unlike Clinton, only spends
time in black churches when he's on the campaign trail?

Is he the guy who is a born-and-bred Catholic, or the guy with Jewish
blood coursing through his veins who has taken pains not to reveal his
heritage? This fact was exposed in fascinating detail in a Boston
Globe article in 2002 but never picked up by the "mainstream" media.
Now, on the campaign trail, Kerry is starting to speak before Jewish
audiences of his Jewish "roots."

Is he the guy who invokes highfalutin oratory when he's in front of
the camera, or the guy who tells a crowd - "not knowing" that his
microphone is on - that his opponents are crooks and liars?

Is he the guy who wants terrorists to lose their war against America,
or the guy who has voted against the $87 billion to support our troops
in Iraq ("I voted for it before I voted against it!")?

Significantly, Kerry was rated by the Washington, D.C.-based Center
for Security Policy "among the worst" legislators on national security
and defense, with a score of 5 out of a possible 100. More recently,
they rated him zero!

Is he the guy who wants Americans to believe he will make our country
safer, or the guy whose campaign promises are aired on Al Jazeera and
whose candidacy has been endorsed by the arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat;
the murderous Communist leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-il; the
virulently anti-Semitic and America-hating prime minister of Malaysia,
Mahathir Mohamad, and the new terrorist-appeasing president of Spain,
Jose Luis Zapatero, who Kerry urged to "stay the course"?

What course? Abandoning Spain's commitment to fighting terrorism in
Iraq, withdrawing its troops and joining the "global community" of
appeasers, including the United Nations, which Kerry to this day
embraces.

Today, predictably, candidate Kerry has distanced himself from Spain,
the better to convince the American public that he is not the
socialist he really is!

It now appears that Kerry - with advice from the "scorched earth"
tacticians of the Clinton crowd - is nothing more than a
sleight-of-hand magician who wants you to believe that the rabbits he
pulls out of his campaign hat are "the real thing."

Magic, however, is not reality but illusion - cloaked in an
ever-so-thin veil of credibility. Some people will settle for
illusion, but most people know when they're being snookered!

Given his pathological inability to make up his mind, it is no mystery
why Kerry has yet to offer any credible policy that will lead our
nation to victory over the terrorists who have targeted us for
annihilation, or - save for encroaching socialism - any suggestion
that will improve our recovering economy or enhance our education or
health-care systems.

In short, Kerry appears to be a "false personality" - a function of
what experts call "externally influenced ambition." This means that he
is so driven by the need to fit in, to be popular, to get votes, to
keep himself
front and center that he'll do and say anything to advance his own -
not the nation's - agenda. Kerry is not the first "complicated" man to
run for office. The history of the American presidency includes many
men whose characters, mindsets, motives and "track records" were
appropriately questioned on the campaign trail.

Unlike Kerry, however, few had such a lengthy history in elective
office - a history that now gives the public a uniquely birds-eye view
of what it can expect from a Kerry presidency. This is not a man the
public has to guess about, unless, that is, you believe that Kerry's
"inner" intentions are what matters and his behavior doesn't, or that
his votes, statements, flip-flopping, explanations, rationalizations
and backtracking are less important than his track record.

The eminent ethicist and psychiatrist Willard Gaylin could well have
been speaking to Kerry when, in a 1977 op-ed New York Times article,
he said, "You are, for the most part, what you seem to be; not what
you would wish to be, nor, indeed, what you believe yourself to be."

Gaylin continued: "The inner man is a fantasy. Like any fantasy, it
serves your purposes alone. It has no standing in the real world that
we share with each other. Those character traits, those attitudes,
that behavior - that strange and alien stuff sticking out all over you
- that's the real you!"

If history is any guide, Americans overwhelmingly prefer leaders who
are "authentic" personalities, such as George Washington, Thomas
Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan and George W.
Bush, all of whom took office in history-altering times. And all for
the better!



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