A few commentators have said that the debate included no memorable lines–no “There you go again” or “You’re no Jack Kennedy” moments. Perhaps none of last night’s rhetoric will make the history books, but something tells me the statement we’re most likely to remember is Kerry saying that the United States needs a foreign policy “that passes the global test.” Who gets to grade this test? Jacques Chirac? Kofi Annan? Kerry really blundered here, both because it’s a truly dreadful phrase and because it accurately represents an aspect of his thinking that most Americans won’t agree with.
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John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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