Elusive Policy

John Kerry is running an interesting campaign. He is promising a "significant, enormous reduction in the level of troops" in Iraq by the end of his first term. How will he fulfill this pledge? He won't say! It's top secret.

I know that as president there's huge leverage that will be available to me, enormous cards to play, and I'm not going to play them in public. I'm not going to play them before I'm president."

So there you have it. The cornerstone of the Kerry campaign, how to "do it the right way" in Iraq, and the candidate refuses to discuss it.

So what about domestic policy, i.e. finances and jobs? Here's07/30/2004 John Kerry's top economic advisor, former Clintonista Robert Rubin:

"I don't think you can make proposals to try dig out of this hole until you've gotten elected. If you start to put out proposals now, they would be vigorously attacked and they would in effect become tainted so they couldn't be used.

Say what?? Does this campaign really think letting people know what you intend to do before you do it is bad policy? Specifically because they might be challenged? Kerry appears to be running for king, not president.