I’m slow to hearing the audio from this weekend (I just heard it on Sean Hannity’s radio show) when West Point grad, Vietnam-era Army man Cedric Brown (here’s more on this gent) asked John Kerry who the foreign leaders who support him are. (Rush Limbaugh called the incident a “Dean-like meltdown”; the excerpt below comes from Rush.)

KERRY: No, wait, wait, wait, wait you asked me if I’d met with any leaders. Yes. I have had conversations with leaders, yes, recently. That’s not your business, it’s mine. I’ve met with foreign leaders for any (inaudible) purpose – I never said that. What I said was that I have heard from people who are leaders elsewhere in the world who don’t appreciate the Bush administration approach and would love to see a change in the leadership of the United States. I’m talking our allies, I’m talking about people who were our friends nine months ago, I’m talking about people who ought to be at our side in Iraq and aren’t because this administration has pushed them away in its arrogance, that’s what I’m talking about. Are you a registered Republican? Are you a Republican? You answer the question. That’s not an answer. Did you vote for George Bush? Did you vote for George Bush? Thank you.

It’s much more of Mr. Brown’s business who those leaders are than it is Kerry’s business who Brown voted for. And, for that matter, does Kerry not want the vote of people who voted for Bush in 2000? Nice strategy. [N.B. Updated from original post]