Kerry Comes Down Hard on Both Sides of Cuba

John Kerry boasted to Miami Herald reporter Peter Wallsten that he had voted for the Helms-Burton bill that put the force of law behind the United States boycott of Cuba.

The trouble is that the record clearly shows that Kerry voted against it.

"When Wallsten asked why Kerry said he voted for Helms-Burton when in fact he voted against it, he was told that the senator opposed the bill "because he disagreed with some of the final technical aspects." And what were those "technical aspects?" Oh, only the bill's most important new sanction: Title III. The yes vote that Kerry trumpeted in Florida had come five months earlier, on a weaker version of Helms-Burton that never became law."