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It looks like we're into Day 2 of the non-denouncement of the MoveOn.org ad by the Democratic Party leadership. As all America now knows, yesterday the New York Times carried a full page ad from MoveOn.org with the catch phrase "General Petreus or General Betray Us" as a lead-in to a highly incendiary diatribe that accuses Petreus of "cooking the books" to make the Bush Administration look good.

So far, the closest thing to a denunciation of the MoveOn ad comes from, somewhat surprisingly, Senator John Kerry. From Boston.com:

"Senator Obama's question is not about General Petraeus's patriotism. It's about his logic," said Bill Burton, a spokesman for Senator Barack Obama of Illinois. "There's no evidence that this surge is producing the political progress needed to resolve the civil war in Iraq, or that it will be accomplished through more of the same."

Phil Singer, a spokesman for Senator Hillary Clinton of New York, said, "It is unfortunate that Republican presidential candidates are focused on generating a political sideshow instead of discussing the president's failed war policy."

Other leading Democrats, however, said that MoveOn.org had gone too far.

US Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts said on MSNBC: "I believe that ad was just simply over the top, and I think it's inappropriate, period."

While Obama, Hillary and most other leading Democrats continue to roll over and play dead at the feet of MoveOn.org Moonbats, it looks like Kerry has decided to show a bit of common sense. While I am surprised at Kerry's remarks, stating that it was inappropriate, it still stops short of a denunciation of MoveOn.org and their tactics.

Kerry, to his credit, is not a Moonbat. He may been for the war before he was against it, but at least Kerry, unlike Obama, the Clintons, Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) and Eli Pariser, the executive director of MoveOn.org's political action committee, has shown he has the cojones to serve his country in the Armed Forces. What Kerry did after the war is highly questionable, but at least he is moving in the direction of sounding like someone who has some respect for our armed forces. For Kerry, this is a step in the right (as in correct, not conservative) direction.

Let's face it, the MoveOn.org "General Betray Us" ad is not only inappropriate and over the top, it is extremely inflammatory and slanderous.

However weak his not-quite-condemnation of the MoveOn "Betray Us" ad is, it does deserve recognition and some amount of kudos.

I bet George never thought I would say something positive about Kerry.

To reiterate: if you are a politician and you take MoveOn's money accept their volunteer support, even in the form of unauthorized ads, you agree with their calling Petreus a traitor. The same is also true if you give money and/or volunteer time to MoveOn.org.

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