For the record, I was joking about meeting in a restaurant. I was mocking Kerry for his stupid I-meet-world-leaders-at-restaurants comment. That story about him leaving the restaurant because workers didn't have health insurance is too funny. Who set that gig up for him?
The barbecue restaurant gig was set up for him by a Congresswoman named Brown. According to the American Spectator article, the Kerry camp had specifically asked her to set up an appearance for him so he could rub elbows with "common people." I'm wondering if he at least told the workers he'd been in Vietnam before he hit the road. The whole incident seemed rather bizarre. How do you ask a fellow elected official to set up an appearance for you, then you repay her by walking out? I wonder if she's still talking to him.