Only Dirty Bird JFKerry could invent a "misery index" that actually argues the higher your misery, the better off you are (the WSJ Opinion Journal offers commentary to this, as well as to data to the original and more intellectually honest misery index).
From his own site, his #1 "Key Finding" in a leftist-manufactured sham of an index created solely through a cafeteria-style use of data, chosen for the sole purpose of convuluting facts in a manner not representative of what I like to affectionately call "reality:"
In Kerryspeak, an proportional relationship exists between a decrease in misery and an comparable decrease in prosperity. The unhappier we are, by his logic, the better it is for our nation. By this logic, "bad"="good", "good"="bad", "economic recovery"="economic depression", and "total suspension of disbelief"="now we're talkin', America!"
Unfortunately for Kerry, he is undermined by his own "exhaustive" research. When a manufactured index is presented in such a way that reveals that America was better off under the mismanagement of not only Clinton, but also Carter, than we were with the good stewardship of either Presidents Bush, but also President Reagan, our national collective's inclination toward sanity mandates a legitimacy disconnect with Kerry's "findings."
Also devious suspicious is the fact that Kerry's conspirers offer an appendix sharing from where they "found" or "postulated" their data, but offer no direct references to specific fact and detail, nor direct links to where their numbers can be investigated. Call me a cynic, but methinks they're hoping America is too disappointingly happy to investigate whether or not John Kerry's claim to be able to make us worse for the better really holds up under scrutiny.
Clearly, the Democratic candidate reveals a sadistic tendency by a desire to up the ante of America's Pain Index. He must mean something completely different altogether when he utters the Clintonian catchphrase "I feel your pain."
April 14, 2004 6:04 AM