I'm Back ... So Is Flipper

Following a week-long hiatus, debate08 is back ... and so is flip-flopper John Kerry.

Today Kerry said he will vote in favor of Bush's $81.9 billion spending plan for Iraq and Afghanistan.

"I think we're in a very different situation," Kerry said. "I'm going to vote for this ... I think this money is important to our being successful and to the completion of the process."

But apparently, while in the midst of a Presidential campaign, military funding is not important to success and completion of the process?

Let's take a second and recap Kerry's many positions on the war in Iraq:

He voted in favor of sending troops into battle.

But he then voted against funding those troops; although he famously cleared that up with his "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it" defense.

He then spent months defending his vote against the funding by calling Bush's handling of the war incompetent. So now that Kerry supports Bush's funding plan, is it safe to say that Kerry now supports Bush's handling of the war?

Of course not. We may be capable of following a string of events like this to a logical conclusion, but Kerry is not.

Kerry says the Bush administration is now only "trying some of the things" that he proposed such as focusing on training Iraqi forces (actually, Bush said that all along too) and getting other countries involved (did Bush ever say he didn't want other countries involved? He's just not willing to allow them to dictate US foreign policy!)

"I think my security proposals for the country (Iraq) were smack on, dead on," Kerry said, I assume with a straight face, but how is that really possible?

I'll tell you who doesn't have a straight face right now ... Hillary.

She's in the background, staying quiet, laughing her head off at the comeback of Kerry's incompetence.

The nomination is all but hers.