John Kerry, in a speech today at Brown University, made this comment about Hurricane Katrina:
If 12 year-old Boy Scouts can be prepared, Americans have a right to expect the same from their 59 year-old President of the United States.
What he should have pointed out was that if 12-year-old Boy Scouts can be prepared, then most of the residents of New Orleans should have done more to prepare themselves for the aftermath of Katrina, instead of waiting for the local, state and federal governments to do everything for them.
Interesting that Kerry uses the Boy Scouts to make cheap political points in 2005, but in 2001, when the Scouts needed his support, he wasn’t there. In June of that year he (and John Edwards, by the way) voted against a Jesse Helms amendment that would withhold federal funds from schools discriminating against Boy Scouts.
