The 45th position that John Kerry has expressed on the War in Iraq since April 2003. Rest assured that the ever-decisive Kerry will adopt Position 46 by the end of this week...
Kerry's Position 45 is "Saddam Hussein was a threat to this nation and I support our troops, but I voted against funding this war, which is the wrong war at the wrong time at the wrong place, but I will encourage the international community to support our efforts, even though the 30 nations supporting us right now are the coalition of the bribed and the coerced and don't I look cool windsurfing and snowboarding and using the word lesbian in a debate, blah, blah, blah, blah..."
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)