So what did Kerry mean when he said "Global test"? He says that it didn't mean anything at all.

Sen. John Kerry on Monday lambasted as "pathetic" scaremongering, Republican criticism of his comments during last Thursday's debate in which he said the president's decision to go to war should pass a "global test" of legitimacy.

But he couldn't resist adding this:

But I can do a better job of protecting America's security because the test that I was talking about was a test of legitimacy, not just in the globe, but elsewhere.

Elsewhere? Beyond the globe?

Kerry is trying to say that we should ignore the part about a "global test". Even though he keeps adding it back in. I can explain this two different ways.

1) He doesn't believe what he is saying. It already hurt him politically to say that the UN Security Council should ratify any preemtive strikes so he is trying to say that he wouldn't wait for them. But he would and he can't stop himself from adding it back in.

or

2) He is trying to straddle the issue, hoping that people will hear the part that they want to hear. Examples of that here.

This column, which could be titled, "Whatever your position on Iraq, John Kerry is your man," is dedicated to Sean, a listener who called my radio show the day after the presidential debate. He enabled me to understand why most people believe John Kerry won the debate.

Sean explained that he was an opponent of the war in Iraq and only now could he finally vote for John Kerry. I asked him what Kerry said that confirmed that the Democratic candidate was his man.

Sean: "I believe he has a plan." (Kerry said he has a plan some 12 times.)

Prager: "A plan to do what?"

Sean: "A plan to withdraw our troops."

And then I understood. No matter what position you hold about American foreign
policy and the war in Iraq, John Kerry holds your position.

Sen. Kerry accomplished this so subtly that recognition of it had eluded me.

Yesterday I pointed out the foreign response to Kerry's performance in the debate. Now he is running an ad linking Bush and the Saudi royal family. The Saudis are not pleased not is his goal of energy independence from the Saudis possible.

Has there ever been a candidate whose foreign policy was already in taters before the election?

Farenheit 9/11 comes out today. Do you think that Kerry is trying to tie his campaign in with Michael Moore's film?

With the polls showing the candidates in a statistical dead heat, John Edwards says that half the country must be crazy.

"I'd say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you've lost your mind."