Posted on 01/07/2005 12:17:31 PM PST by Radix
WASHINGTON -- Democratic Sen. John Kerry [related, bio], who lost his bid for president in the November election, will be in the West Bank for the Palestinian election on Sunday and is expected to visit a polling place.
Kerry, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is on a two-week trip to the Middle East. He has visited Baghdad and met with military leaders in Iraq.
Palestinians will be electing a president to replace Yasser Arafat, who died Nov. 11. The latest polls show interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas with a wide lead over democracy activist Mustafa Barghouti.
Because of his travels, Kerry was not in Washington on Thursday as Congress affirmed President Bush's election victory, certifying the 286-251 Electoral College vote. A total of 270 votes are needed to win.
While in Israel, the four-term Massachusetts senator will meet with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, veteran Labor Party leader Shimon Peres and Bethlehem Mayor Hanna Nasser, who is the Central Elections Commission president.
In addition to stops in Israel and Iraq, Kerry's trip includes visits to Kuwait, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. He last visited the Middle East in January 2002.
What's he looking for provisional ballots for Ohio?
Since he's a Democrat, he'll probably cast a ballot. "Hey, I'm here. That means I am eligible to vote."
I'm guessing Kerry will be back just in time to try to steal President Bush's inaugural limelight. I can already see him holding press conferences, "I was in Iraq and blah blah blah. Then I met with blah blah blah. It's a quagmire, this president has mislead us, blah blah blah."
I wonder if he is going to play up the 'Hey, I'm really Jewish and jsut pretending to be Irish' stuff over there.
Kerry is the ASS in mASSachusetts.
Steal President Bush's Inaugural Limelight?????????/ Are you kidding? No way. Pres Bush shines no matter what he does. It's Kerry and his ilk that NEED the limelight.
I said Kerry is going to *TRY* to steal the limelight. Mark my words, this is exactly what he's going to *TRY* to do.
He will NOT succeed, though!
Wonder if my senator is planning to show up for work anytime during the remainder of his term? "Holiday" vacation is over, and I'm sure he used up all his vacation time and sick leave during his benighted presidential campaign over the last two years
Oh, I forgot, showing up to do the job you were actually hired for and are being paid for is just s-o-o-o plebian.
Can I get me a senator here?
Glad to see my tax dollars hard at work.
John Kerry's "I wish I were the president, so let me act like one tour" is in the home stretch. I guess he really feels irrelevant. I would love to see someone in the West Bank polling place ask, "And you are"?
OK...Try. But, you are right. He won't be able to. He's so full of himself and such a pompous A__ he is.
Senators are not "hired"; rather they are elected to represent states.
He missed the casting of the electoral ballots in the Congress the other day, but he will be at the Iraq polls.
I would argue that the are "hired" by the voters to represent them. They earn salaries -- supposedly for doing the jobs we hire them to do.
The fact that we vote for them doesn't change the fact that they are hired by We The People.
So will a lot of Palestinians.
He can hold Jimmy Carter's hand.
HA! Good question.
Actually he'll probably stage a reunion with a long-lost Palestinian relative whose life he once saved.
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