Posted on 07/30/2004 3:39:25 PM PDT by John Jorsett
You might have missed this, but a few days ago Teresa revealed on National Public Radio that the recipe she submitted to Family Circle magazine for its election year cookie bake-off was not hers.
Mrs. Heinz Kerry had originally submitted a recipe called Yummy Wonders, but, according to Family Circle, its test kitchen said the recipe did not work. When the magazine called her press office and asked if there had been a mistake, the press office sent the pumpkin cookie recipe without consulting her, said her press secretary, Marla Romash.Whether she would have fessed up had the cookies been tasty is a matter that the historians will have to resolve.
I'm sure there are those who regard playing fast and loose with cookie recipes as of great/no (take your choice) importance, but what may be of some significance is the hint of an underlying paranoid style that pops up from time to time around Kerry's inner circle. Consider:
In an interview on National Public Radio that was broadcast yesterday, the cookies came up in conversation and in the direct, unvarnished style that people have come to expect, Mrs. Heinz Kerry said: "Somebody at my office gave that recipe out and, in fact, I think somebody really made it on purpose to give a nasty recipe. I never made pumpkin cookies; I don't like pumpkin spice cookies."Direct, unvarnished ... blame of others (in this case her own staff) for attempting to bring her down.
This is not pretty, but it's also not unique. Remember Kerry's response after his skiing, er, accident?
When asked a moment later about the incident by a reporter on the ski run, Kerry said sharply, "I don't fall down," the "son of a b*itch knocked me over." [The alleged son of a bitch was the Secret Service agent protecting Kerry at the time.]And now they've done it again. Did you see the pictures of Kerry in the funny looking "bunny suit" on his recent NASA visit? A "dirty trick," said his campaign. (Link via InstaPundit).
There was no "dirty trick" behind the photographs of Sen. John Kerry wearing the blue anti-contamination suit while touring the shuttle Discovery on Monday.No, what looks goofy, even mildly paranoid, is this habit of attributing everything that goes a bit wrong to the "dirty tricks" of others, presumably the all-powerful and ubiquitous "Republican attack machine" whose tentacles extend from NASA all the way into Teresa's kitchen.
As political pundits and comedians pounced on the pictures of Kerry in what outsiders might deem a goofy-looking costume, the senator's campaign aides alleged the pictures were not supposed to be released publicly.
Not true, said NASA. Government photographers routinely snap pictures of visiting dignitaries.
....Furthermore, NASA spokesman Bill Johnson said the Kerry campaign asked that the pictures be taken of the senator's unusually up-close tour of the Discovery and that processing be expedited so reporters could have them.
The pictures have prompted chuckles and jokes among political pundits covering the Democratic National Convention in Boston because, to people unfamiliar with shuttle operations, the head-to-toe light-blue suits look goofy.
UPDATE [30 July 4:30PM]
Comments below and other email remind me that I left out a few examples of Kerryian excuse-mongering:
• It was not Kerry but his "overzealous speechwriters" who were responsible for his oft-repeated attacks on "Benedict Arnold CEOs." (Also see Mark Steyn on this.)
• Kerry voted for the Iraq war resolution only because he was "misled." And how was he misled? When Debra Saunders of the San Francisco Chronicle asked him that in a meeting with the Chronicle's editorial board,
Kerry's answer was that Washington insiders believed that Bush didn't mean what he said. "I think that you had a hard-line group (then Pentagon adviser) Richard Perle, (Deputy Defense Secretary) Paul Wolfowitz and probably (Vice President Dick) Cheney. But when Brent Scowcroft and Jim Baker (former advisers to the first President Bush) weighed in, very publicly in op-eds in the New York Times and the (Washington) Post, the chatter around Washington and (Secretary of State Colin) Powell in particular, who was very much of a different school of thought, was really that the president hadn't made up his mind. He was looking for an out. That's what a lot of people thought."Do we want a leader who is so easily "misled"? Time will tell.
What about what Bush said to the U.N.? That was "rhetorical," Kerry answered. And "a whole bunch of very smart legitimate people" not running for president thought as he did. "So most people, actually on the inside, really felt that (Bush) himself was looking for the way out to sort of satisfy Cheney, satisfy Wolfowitz, but not get stuck." Kerry continued, "The fact that he jumped and went the other way, I think, shocked them and shocked us."
So Kerry was "misled" because he believed that Bush didn't mean what Bush said.
Talk about your dirty tricks . . .
• When Kerry bounced the ceremonial first pitch of a Yankees - Red Sox game in the dirt, it was only because he "held back" and "tried to lob it gently" out of concern for the National Guard soldier and Iraq veteran who was standing in as catcher.
Without a doubt, the worst candidate, ever, for office at any level of government.
Nah, you have a short memory. Dukakis was worse. He didn't even know when he'd been made an idiot; he just kept chugging along.
The national guardsman was originally supposed to be the pitcher but Kerry needed the lime light.................and he GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Beg to differ. At least Dukakis managed to avoid publicly insulting Secret Service agents and war veterans.
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<< Beg to differ. At least Dukakis managed to avoid publicly insulting Secret Service agents and war veterans. >>
And [I may need bringing up to date on this one it's been a while and he was never the focus of more than a passing glace] nor was he ever rewarded and feted by for so doing nor ever gave aid and comfort to -- in time of war or at any other time -- a mass-murdering enemy of the United States of America.
Kerry's picture and our enemy's high opinion of contribution to our nation's defeat has pride of place in the totalitarian Hell he helped create of big chunks of Indo-China and South East Asia.
And scores of thousand's of American and millions of Indo-Chinese and South-East Asian casualties -- and/or their survivors -- of the Communist enemy whose cause Kerry championed and whose victory he marshalled have reason to loathe, despise and revile him -- as does every morally and intellectually sound Human Being.
["Dukakis," who? -- By the way??]
I was simply remarking on the two candidates charm, or lack of it. Kerry may lack warmth but Dukakis was a cold fish. You are debating another point entirely.
My post supported your contention.
It took issue with that of "Jenny'scool."
Blessings -- B A
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