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• Monday, March 31, 2008 05:13 AM

  Xrandadu Hutman, I hope you don't think I'm making it up but, if you do, you can look at it for yourself

  John Kerry was being interviewed on South Coast Today.Com (HTP:/www.YouTube.com/watch?v..) This expression "taken out of context" seems to be a favourite in the English-speaking world as it is the constant refrain of slippery politicians in my own country when faced with awkward questions, sometimes by the media, the Opposition and less frequently by the electorate who have very little say in anything until vote-casting time comes around. The context in which John Kerry was speaking was Obama's "cachet" in the Muslim world, as Kerry perceived it, because he is "a black man" (direct quote). I don't have the faintest idea what Kerry meant by referring to Egypt and Jordan. The leader of the jihadists, Mohammad Atta, who attacked New York in 200l was an Egyptian. Despite your thinly-veiled hostility, Xrandadu Hutman, the whole world has an interest in the American election in an unprecedented way, for obvious reasons. My impression of John Kerry's statement re. Barack Obama and foreign policy was that Kerry's comments were superficial, even ludicrous. I hope I'm allowed to have an opinion, at the very least, and if it doesn't tally with yours that's what democracy is all about. I have to go now.

  —maureenodonnell Read maureenodonnell's other letters
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