When it Raines it pours

Boston Herald ^ | Thursday, June 3, 2004 | Herald wire services

[JZoback]

NEW YORK - Former New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines has has written a column for the The Guardian in London excoriating John Kerry [related, bio] as ``pompous'' and ``ponderous,'' and saying he looks like the character Lurch from the ``Addams Family'' TV show.

     ``The TV camera is an X-ray for picking up attitudinal truths, and Kerry's lantern jaw and Addams Family face somehow reinforce the message that this guy has passed from ponderous to pompous and is so accustomed to privilege that he doesn't have to worry about looking goofy,'' Raines wrote. ``It's as if Lurch had gone to Choate.
     Raines also said Kerry ``has to get better as a candidate'' if he is to win:
     ``Where Bill Clinton's most famous campaign message was, `It's the economy stupid,' Kerry's seems to be. `It's the war, sort of, and it's the economy, maybe.'''
     Comparing Kerry to Al Gore, Raines wrote Kerry is ``pompous in a way that Gore is not. With Gore, you feel that if he could choose, he would have been born poor and cool. Kerry radiates the feeling that he is entitled to his sense of entitlement. Probably that comes from spending too much time with Teddy Kennedy.''

[okie01]

sounds like Raines is finally telling the truth

The pull quotes and the title (below) are a little misleading. Actually, Raines undertakes the task of telling Kerry how to win.

According to Raines, to start with, Kerry must lie to the public about his objectives.

Must Do Better (Howell Raines on why John Kerry can't win the Presidency)

Recommended reading. Raines' article provides a picture window into the soul of a liberal. And it looks like it's pretty empty in there...

[NRA2BFree]

The best part is they are quoting Raines, the editor and chief sycophant from the "Paper of Record".

The Herald must really dislike Kerry to be doing that.

I know. THAT brings me much joy. LOL I've read some of the other stories their reporters have done on him and they are just as hard on him in those reports too. :-)