Fellow members of an e-mail list I belong to have been sending out various and sundry anti-Kerry articles, even though the purpose of the list has nothing to do with the presidential campaign. After objecting to this abuse of the list a few times, I resigned myself to responding to the messages instead.
Now, let me be clear that I have misgivings about Kerry. I am on the fiscally conservative side when it comes to the role of government, and I'm a libertarian when it comes to individual freedom. I don't think Kerry's position on foreign policy is all that coherent, and I am nervous about the way he might handle Israel. I'd vote for a Democrat more often than a Republican, but McCain would get my endorsement over all the Democratic primary candidates, with the exception of Edwards.
But the debate seems to be based on the premise that if you can fault Kerry for anything at all, you better vote for Bush. And the standard doesn't apply the other way.
So this online debate quickly got down to the phrase "global test."
And the most remarkable series of exchanges was this:
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