John F. Kerry has compared himself and his initials to John F. Kennedy, and taken the appropriate ridicule for doing so. But the very scarier prospect for American taxpayers is that a President Kerry would resemble FDR, one of the most clueless presidents in American history (at least on domestic policy).
Unfortunately, the comparison has now been explicitly granted by Kerry himself. Challenging what he considers to be President Bush’s lack of effective action on the economy and job creation, Kerry has issued a bunch of dubious-sounding proposals. But if you don’t like them, he says, he’ll just try some others:
The Massachusetts Democrat conceded his proposals are untested and could fail, but he said a new approach is called for in view of what he sees as the expense and futility of Mr. Bush’s program.
“When Franklin Roosevelt sought the presidency, he pledged ‘bold, persistent experimentation.’
“?’Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try something else,’?” Mr. Kerry said.
Actually, during his 1932 campaign against Herbert Hoover, Roosevelt called the incumbent president a big-spender and tax-increaser (all true) and promised more economy in government. FDR then proceeded to move sharply leftward after the election. Since Kerry has essentially adopted the economic platform of Hoover ? complete with the neo-protectionism ? it’s anybody’s guess where his version of “bold, persistent experimentation? would take us.
