Posted on 06/21/2004 3:19:50 PM PDT by swilhelm73
The Kerry campaign is looking for a way to ease Sen. Edward Kennedy out of their regular rotation of officially sanctioned surrogates after a series of embarrassing incidents involving the senior Massachusetts senator.
First, Kennedy was caught by Boston reporters mocking Kerry at a private, supposedly closed-to-the-press fundraiser in Boston, where Kennedy was doing a poor imitation of Kerry begging Kennedy for help and support.
Then Kennedy and his Senate staff leaked word that Kennedy was being asked by Boston officials to help bail out the troubled Democratic convention in Boston, where local unions are protesting their lack of financial gain from the convention. "That leak was clearly intended to put Senator Kerry in his place. It didn't have to get out," says a Kerry adviser.
Finally, Kennedy gave an interview to a Boston magazine where he criticized the Pope for giving communion to former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet while American Catholic bishops threatened to withhold communion from Kerry.
"Kennedy is just getting a little too comfortable with talking on our behalf," says the Kerry adviser. "It's our fault for giving him so much leeway. Now we're paying the price. There is probably no way that we can take him completely off the surrogate list. It's not like we can really control him, but he's not going to be on our list of reliable surrogates down the road, that's for sure."
Ted Kennedy - a hitchiker's worst nightmare.
Lie down with dogs...
Dont start offending my dogs here.
"a series of embarrassing incidents involving the senior Massachusetts senator."
Starting at his birth.
Eddie Kennedy would look like he is inside with an Eddie Munster haircut.
Hmmmm. So that's why we haven't heard anything from uncle teddy since President Reagan's death. I wondered what had happened to him. The last time I saw his mug on TV was in the rotunda during the funeral. He had been pushed back from the front row and didn't look very happy. tee hee
"Put Ted Kennedy on a boat in Boston Harbor and ship him off!"
I put him in a tiny boat
And sent him out to sea
That he might sink, or he might swim
But he'd never come back to me!
(From an old Scottish folk song).
LOL!!!!!
Otherwise known as his life.
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