John Kerry/George W. Bush Challenge - The Inferno

John Kerry recently claimed that certain leaders of other countries told him privately that they really want him to beat President Bush in the upcoming election. This has been in the news in the past couple days, because he hasn't backed up his claims with any proof or provided any specific examples of who exactly has been telling him these things.

Ok, so, I don't really care whether John Kerry's telling the truth on this or not - maybe he is and maybe he isn't. My question is, why is he bragging about it, as if it would be a reason why Americans should vote for him? The way John Kerry's talking, he's saying that since these leaders of other countries want him to be President, then so should we as the American people.

Well, if that's the case, then why not just let the other countries have a vote and tell us who should lead our country? After all, they must know better than the American citizens about what's best for our nation, so who are we to make that decision?

Think about MTV's Real World/Road Rules Challenge - The Inferno for a second. If you've followed this season so far, you know that the opposing teams get to pick who they want to send to the Inferno. And the RW team has been doing everything it can to make sure Katie stays with the RR team, by not sending her to the Inferno. Why? Not because Katie's awesome, but because she sucks and holds back the RR team. Hmm.... strangely enough, it seems that the RW team doesn't have the RW team's best interests in mind. Imagine that.

Now I know, this analogy isn't completely applicable, because the United States isn't necessarily "competing" directly against France, Germany, Haiti, Iran, Russia, or whatever countries John Kerry is talking about. At least not in the same overt way that we see the RW/RR teams compete on MTV.

But still, one would be incredibly naive to think that any of these other countries' leaders have our best interests in mind. I don't care if a country is our close ally, or part of the "Axis of Evil", nobody is gonna care more about the American people than they would care about themselves and their own country's interests.

If anything, I think we should take John Kerry's claims as a negative, not a positive. When someone from a foreign country specifically wants a certain guy to be your President, that to me is what we call a "warning sign". It's a sign saying to me that the other countries view this guy as being less likely to stand tough and fight for the US of A and its people. That he's more likely to cave into their demands, so they can continue manipulating and milking us for money and help, while preventing our country from ever moving forward ourselves.

Kerry might as well tell American voters: "If you make me President, I'll probably send more of your jobs to Mexico, let North Korea continue researching nukes, and always ask France for permission to do anything. But don't worry, at least everyone will like us!". Or he could just put up campaign posters that say "Vote for me: You know Saddam would".

Am I the only one who sees anything wrong with this picture? Right now, Bush's campaigners seem to be too caught up in trying to dispute Kerry's claims and making him prove it, but in my opinion, it wasn't anything to brag about to begin with. So they shouldn't really give a flying crap about whether he can prove it or not.

In all honesty, I haven't yet decided whether I want to vote for Kerry or Bush (or maybe even Nader - by the way, did anyone else know that he's Arab-American?). I guess until I learn more about their policies and see how the next few months unfold, I'll try to be open-minded about the whole thing. But so far, I must say that I'm not too impressed with Kerry.