But then this is the same candidate who has just been exposed as a liar for claiming repeatedly that he met with the "entire" U.N. Security Council in October 2002 before the United Nations authorized force in Iraq. The Washington Times exposed that falsehood, noting that in his second debate with President Bush, Kerry crooned, "I went to meet with the members of the Security Council in the week before we voted. I went to New York. I talked to all of them."
The statement is as demonstrably false as his claim in the final presidential debate that he passed 56 bills during his Senate career. He was responding to the president's claim that he had only passed five bills. The correct figure is 11, including two declaring "world population awareness week" and something about saving the dolphins, or was it the Dauphin?
One wonders how long the Massachusetts Braggart will lead off his campaign speeches with this bogus story. For that matter, how long will he claim that Republican poll watchers are "suppressing" the black vote?
This brings us to the really disturbing aspect of this election, the possibility of widespread voter fraud and the Democrats' efforts to institutionalize voter fraud. As John Fund has written in "Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy" -- the most important political book of this campaign -- voter fraud expanded from being a local problem to being a national threat to democratic governance with the 1993 passage of the "Motor Voter Law."
With it, anyone anywhere in America was offered voter registration upon applying for welfare, unemployment compensation or renewal of a driver's license. Proof of citizenship or identifications was not necessary. Also permitted was mail-in voter registration, and states were barred from pruning from voter rolls the deceased, the convicted and those who had moved from their districts.
If you ever wondered how voting machines and the other instruments of voting became such vexed matters, this is it. Never, before the "Motor Voter Law," did such vast numbers of Americans supposedly come to ruin in a voting booth. But then never before were so many ineligible to vote.
Now we face a national embarrassment. The greatest democracy on earth will, as the election booths close, be duly likened to a banana republic, with district after district convulsed in charges of electoral fraud. That should be the news story of the hour. But no, it is rather this bogus story about, about what? Was it that Caspar Weinberger was found in the Qaqaa munitions depot inebriated? If CBS and the Times reported it, you can bet that Jean Francois would repeat it ... and with feeling.