Tony Blair Backs Kerry?

With all the Bush Administration's holier-than-thou rhetoric criticizing democratic presidential candidate John Kerry for saying that some foreign leaders "privately" want him to defeat George W., it turns out these are not-so-secret thoughts abroad. As the UK's Guardian Unlimited reported weeks ago, Tony Blair's Labour Party has concluded that they need to defeat the neo-conservative strand of American thinking that has come to dominate U.S. politics and, in their own words, "get George Bush out of the White House." Bush Is the Fly In Blair's Ointment.

Hey, truth is a defense, even in politics and especially in a mud-slinging environment like we've got now. Nor is it especially newsworthy that European leaders, most of whom are way to the left of the American mainstream -- even left-leaning Democratic party centrists -- would favor Kerry over Bush. But since this election cycle is all about hot potato non-issues like gay marriage and the like, it's no wonder that the current dispute du jour is that of the properity of electoral "endorsements" by foreign leaders.

 Posted by glenn