[FairOpinion]

From an earlier article:

John Kerry: A 'cheap' aristocrat

The Democratic presidential candidate grew up in a world of elite private schools and vacations on a French estate, something most Americans could only dream about. His parents, a U.S. diplomat and a homemaker, turned to a wealthy, childless great-aunt, Clara Winthrop, to help pay the bills.

John Kerry, born in Denver in 1943, lived in Groton and Millis, Mass., before the family moved to Washington when he was 7. He spent part of his youth in Swiss and New England boarding schools thanks to his aunt’s largess.

=====

And from another one:
'I'm a Good Closer'

Kerry's father, Richard, was a career State Department employee, an austere, somewhat disillusioned figure who never, to his regret, made ambassador.

Kerry's childhood seems rather lonely. As a little boy, he was moved from place to place before attending a "very strict" school in Switzerland, where he was one of only three English-speaking boys. Kerry learned, at an early age, to depend on himself.

At St. Paul's, a posh prep school in New Hampshire, Kerry was not popular. On the hockey team, he was called "Keep-the-Puck Kerry" because he didn't like to pass to his teammates as he skated toward the goal. Barging into pickup games on the school's frozen ponds, he was known for stealing the puck from younger boys and shooting it into the woods.

[Paul Atreides]

''Let me tell you something: When I was a kid, this 'kid from the East' had an aunt and uncle who had a dairy farm, and one of my greatest joys in life -- in fact, I lived on a farm as a young kid. My parents, when we lived in Massachusetts, we lived on a farm, and I learned my first cuss word sitting on a tractor with the guy who was driving it," Kerry said as he stood, wearing jeans and new Timberland hiking boots, in the tractor shed at the Dejno family farm in this community, which was founded on Independence Day in 1876.

And, how does this qualifies him to be President?

Chances are good that, if you have to dress up in jeans and hiking boots, talk about how you lived on a farm, and talk about cussing, in order to be seen as the "common man," you aren't a "common man."

[Lancey Howard]

Great post.
BUMP!

[eric_da_grate]

Did he learn to milk cats? Like Gaylord Focker?

[plain talk]

in fact, I lived on a farm as a young kid. My parents, when we lived in Massachusetts, we lived on a farm

Interesting. I didn't know he ever lived on a farm. I wonder if this is a lie too? Depends on one's definition of what the word "farm" means?

[RippleFire]

bump

[Senator_Blutarski]

Senator Kerry continues to prove he can fill the "honey wagon" with his stories.

[Morgan's Raider]

---in fact, I lived on a farm as a young kid.

Must be where he got so good at shovelling bullshit...

[jongaltsr]

When I was a kid, this 'kid from the East' had an aunt and uncle who had a dairy farm, and one of my greatest joys in life -- in fact, I lived on a farm as a young kid.

WOW ! I must have been raised on a farm also as my Aunt and Uncle owned a farm, and I visited them from time to time.

WOOPS.... Does that mean that I will grow up to be a "Jerk" also?

[Morgan's Raider]

Kerry grew up on a farm about like algore did, harvesting the balcony of the penthouse of the Fairfax hotel.

[Mr Rogers]

As much as I dislike Kerry, I also feel sorry for how he was raised.

Frankly, his parents were a couple of real @sses to treat a child like that - it qualifies as child abuse in my book.

And I suspect any kid so raised has probably become a man unfit to hold any leadership position. But his childhood must have sucked big time!

[Mr. K]

"... and he attended boarding school in Switzerland ..."

Was it Swiss?

Yeah... the Swissest

[Recovering_Democrat]

"My parents, when we lived in Massachusetts, we lived on a farm, and I learned my first cuss word sitting on a tractor with the guy who was driving it..."

John Kerry is insulting these people. Does he really think they're so stupid as to buy this load of crap??? What an obnoxious jerk.

BTW, does anyone know if he was in Vietnam?

[Maria S]

Oh, Maaann!! Next, we'll hear that he helped build the run-down shack he was born in.

[King Prout]

ARRRRGH!

it's like, every time Kerry flaps his yap, a new parallel universe (with a very brief half-life) spings into being.

it makes my head hurt.

[Smartass]

[nightdriver]

".....Kerry said as he stood, wearing jeans and new Timberland hiking boots.."

Yeah, he's just a regular clod-masher, ain't he? (/sarc.)

[Mr Rogers]

Great links... a couple of other quotes:

---

Before he married Teresa Heinz, the heir to the food empire, Kerry had little more than his annual Senate salary of $133,600 and a trust fund valued at $50,000 to $100,000.

In 1970, a year after returning from the Vietnam War, Kerry married Julia Thorne, who wore a wedding dress handed down from an ancestor whose nuptials were attended by Alexander Hamilton and George Washington. Thorne came from a wealthy Long Island, N.Y., family and, like Kerry, spent long periods of her youth in Europe.

As Kerry struggled to launch his political career, Thorne used her wealth to help support the family. He was a private lawyer and prosecutor in Middlesex County, Mass., before running for lieutenant governor in 1982, the year he and Thorne split. The financial terms of their 1988 divorce were not made public.

He bounced from apartment to apartment, sometimes staying with his daughters when his former wife was away or with buddies from his Vietnam years.

---

The reporter is confused, even by reporter standards.

Kerry was poor, forced to live on his $11,000/month salary (with 75K in the bank) - and any money he received as part of his divorce settlement for the multi-millionaire first wife...who had to marry in a hand me down dress from colonial times.

Poor bastard - imagine trying to get by on 11K/month! Probably Reagan's fault. How to make ends meet on $2,500/week. Fortunately, poor John had a solution -

"“He ran in circles with money, but money was never an issue for John. He was cheap,” said Bundy, a Chicago investment manager." Ya know, if ya cut a few corners, live off your daughters and war pals - why, you can stretch 2.5K/week somehow.

Good thing he found a billionaire to marry.

A man can't live on 2,500/week forever, you know...

[MissyMa]

Not related to this article, but Fox said that Kerry claimed to hold conservative values and although he is pro-choice he is against abortion.

He is trying to play these people like the violin. He is so far to the left the only conservative value he has is...............well.........I can't think of any at this time. I hope the media puts down his exact quotes in the paper tomorrow because they were such BS.

[Mr Rogers]

There is also this classic line:

"Richard Kerry taught his son to navigate the hard way: by blindfolding him in the fog and making him figure out how to get home."

OUCH!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

[bray]

Apparently the only tractor he drove as a kid was a manure spreader! Typical elitist liberal trying to hide the fact that he is an elitist.

Pray for W and Our Shining City