Posted on 03/03/2004 9:04:58 PM PST by Pokey78
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:06:34 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
John Kerry certainly looks like a president--the thick steel-wool hair, the Lincolnian planes and shadows of his face. He is tall and slim and seems serious. He also has the guts to wear salmon-colored ties. A red tie is red and a blue tie is blue, and red and blue know what color they are. Salmon is a more delicate hue. Salmon can't decide what color it is. Sometimes it's pink and sometimes it's orange. It's like wearing ambivalence on your shirt. This is an unusual thing for a politician to do if it's thought through, and it takes courage.
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I said that the other day. Peggy has a great mind. (OK, it doesn't take any real genius to see the Dems had no one to run this year.)
Moreover, [Hillary] needs more distance between her and the many scandals of the Clinton era. By 2008 or 2012 they'll be ancient history.
NEVER will the Clinton-era scandals become ancient history! I was enjoying this article until you ruined it with that "insane" statement!
Prithee!
God is NOT impressed.
It's a great line....and I whole heartedly agree with it and the whole column. Very weird the power of the Kennedy god to the Dems.
Peggy is at her best here, but darn it, details matter, and it really was Michelangelo's, not Leonardo's painting.
Dim men have identity issues. Gore wanted to come across as Reagan, preppy boy, blue collar, union thug, lumberjack, lithper boy, and public lover boy. Kerry wants to come across as Kennedy, so far. Clinton wanted to come across as Elvis (sorry to Elvis fans out there).
Bush doesn't have identity problems. He's a manly man who has learned from where he's been and knows where he's headed. Real men rule.
Glad I searched before posting..... As usual, some quicker FReeper already found the same mistake. ;-)
Great line!
Peggy's on the money with this one.
If you sawa generation of Republican candidates doing a physical imitation of Ronald Reagan or George Bush the elder, would you find it weird? I think you would. The only person in politics who has ever tried to morph himself into Ronald Reagan was Al Gore in his first debate with George W. Bush. He even wore makeup that echoed the heightened color of Mr. Reagan's cheeks. He wound up looking not like Mr. Reagan but like a turn-of-the-century madam in a San Francisco whorehouse, but that's not important. What's important is the jarring weirdness of seeing one politician trying to make you unconsciously experience him as another politician.
When he speaks, both in prepared text and off the cuff, Mr. Kerry is boring. I don't mean he doesn't make you laugh, nod or swoon, I mean he doesn't make you think. A speech should be a text in which, ultimately, the speaker and the audience are thinking, together. Mr. Kerry's crowds seem to put up with his remarks and wait patiently till they end so they can begin to cheer.
I suspect that's his dream for all of us. Disgusting, isn't it?
Peggy on a bad day is far, far, better than a J-FK on his best day.
BTW: With the Dems championing the homosexual SCOURGE as one of their primary causes, the only "touch" from the Hand of God" THEY will be getting is one of Judgment and Damnation.
The one good thing of my liberalism at the time, was that it demanded that I remain open minded (dont most liberals say that? Yet they are usually the opposite)
A speech should be a text in which, ultimately, the speaker and the audience are thinking, together. Mr. Kerry's crowds seem to put up with his remarks and wait patiently till they end so they can begin to cheer.
Hah! since when...did most Democrats think???
Absolutely! I have a large family, mom, dad, seven grown kids. All but me are Democrats. Some are pretty conservative anyways, all of them are very smart. And yet it is like, they have a total failure to comprehend my arguments. I can dictate a bunch of facts, but they will act as if I never said anything.. OR, and this is very common now, they come up with conspiracy theories to explain the facts. Weird, but I remember when I was a liberal, I just thought all conservatives were so wrong, so stupid, that their arguments never had anything worth listening too.m
Peggy on a bad day is far, far, better than a J-FK on his best day.Absolutely no doubt about THAT !!
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