Insider Report: John McCain Won't Get VP Slot

Headlines (Scroll down for complete stories):
1. Blix Endorses Kerry
2. John McCain Won't Get VP Slot
3. Amnesty International Destroys Itself
4. Please Keep Talking, Al Gore

Hans Blix, who once told NewsMax.com he was honored that we included him in our Deck of Weasels as "the Inspector Clouseau of the United Nations," has endorsed John Kerry for president.

"I place my trust in the multilateralism of Democratic candidate John Kerry," the Swedish retiree told the Italian newspaper La Stampa. "And in any event, I think that the whole world should vote on 2 November because so much depends on the outcome of that vote."

Oh. So, do Americans get to vote in Sweden's and France's and Cuba's elections?

The Wall Street Journal, noting that the former weapons inspector gave Saddam Hussein "the benefit of every doubt," commented:  "Mr. Kerry remarked in March that foreign leaders were privately supporting his candidacy. Mr. Blix has now revealed the kind of foreigners he was referring to." 

2. John McCain Won't Get VP Slot 

A Bush administration policy adviser tells NewsMax that John McCain won't even be considered as John Kerry's running mate.

Why?

"They'll never trust him," the source said.

Then why all the hoopla and "talk" about a possible Kerry-McCain ticket?

Source says the Democrats love this. It boosts McCain's image and standing - which won't hurt them. They know he is a persistent thorn in the side of the Bush White House.

The strategy has worked well. McCain gets major press during the campaign. He can knock Bush and praise Kerry - which he has been doing regularly.

McCain still may be gunning for Rumsfeld's job in the Pentagon. Kerry has already said he would ask McCain to take the post. But, then again, would he? Can he trust John McCain?

3. Amnesty International Destroys Itself

Count the once-respectable organization Amnesty International as another globalist supporter of John Kerry. The outfit recently obliterated any iota of credibility that might still have clung to it by comparing President Bush unfavorably to Osama bin Laden and genocidal maniac Pol Pot.

Amnesty's secretary general, Irene Khan, claimed that she wasn't condoning al-Qaida but that America's war on terrorism was the most sustained erosion of human rights in 50 years.

"As a strategy, the war on terror is bankrupt of vision and bereft of principle," Khan fretted. "Sacrificing human rights in the name of national security, turning a blind eye to abuse abroad and using pre-emptive military force where and when the powerful choose to act has damaged justice and freedom, and made the world a more dangerous and divided place."

Amnesty's annual report also criticized such nations as Britain, Spain and even France for passing anti-terrorism laws that the group deems "regressive."

Khan moaned: "There were terrible abuses in the past - Rwanda, Cambodia, in the Balkans.... But what we are now seeing is a pervasive culture of abuse that has spread like a cancerous growth, and that is what is so dangerous today."

Too bad Khan is so ignorant about the communists' murder of millions of Cambodians. If she's too lazy to read about Pol Pot, she should watch the video of "The Killing Fields," Hollywood's only notable anti-communist movie.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan put Khan in her place by noting:  "The war on terrorism has protected the human rights of some 25 million people in Afghanistan and some 25 million people in Iraq. The war on terror has led to the liberation of some 50 million people in those countries, and the United States is a leader when it comes to protecting human rights, and we will continue to be."

4. Please Keep Talking, Al Gore

Yet another anti-Bush, pro-Kerry voice is so pathetic we have to feel sorry for it. Some people were all hot and bothered about Al Gore's latest blast of venom at the president, but we suspect he'll do the Dems more harm than good.

As columnist Joan Vennochi noted (heavens! at times she appears to be the Boston Globe's second token conservative), "he is a man without a purpose, and he may end up a man without a party. Standing anywhere near him can be hazardous to a Democrat's political health....

"When he gives a speech, Democrats are depressed, Republicans are delighted.... It must be sad to be Gore. It will be sadder, still, to be Kerry if Gore sticks around the Kerry campaign trail," Vennochi concluded.

One of the New York Times' loudest Democrat voices, Maureen Dowd, had this snippy observation: "John Kerry's advisers were surprised and annoyed to hear that Gore hollered so much, he made Howard Dean look like George Pataki. They don't want voters to be reminded of the wackadoo wing of the Democratic Party."

How unfortunate that we haven't heard from the failed former presidential candidate for a whole week. Let's hope he vents loud and vents often during the next six months.

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