 Reading Eagle: Lauren A. Little |
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Posted on 08/30/2004 3:09:30 PM PDT by pittsburgh gop guy
Edited on 08/31/2004 7:48:18 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Reading Eagle: Lauren A. Little |
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| Kerry’s sister woos Berks Democrats Peggy Kerry stumps for her brother and 6th Congressional District candidate Lois Murphy at a Wyomissing restaurant. By Phoebe Sweet Peggy Kerry, the 63-year-old older sister of the Democratic presidential nominee, was stumping for her brother and 6th Congressional District candidate Lois Murphy Sunday at The Works in Wyomissing. A sinewy woman wearing tank top and sandals and decorated by buttons, earrings and a watch bearing her brother’s name, Kerry stressed the importance of this election to the approximately 50 Democrats who paid between $100 and $250 to attend the event. “This is the most important election in our lives,” Kerry told supporters, listing women’s rights, jobs, and health care among the most important issues of the campaign. “It’s not A.B.B., anybody but Bush It’s K.E.Y., Kerry, Edwards and you,” she said. “It’s with your help that on Nov. 2 we will elect and it sounds so strange we will elect my brother John Kerry president of the United States.” Kerry, of New York City’s Greenwich Village, said she was glad to have escaped the city Sunday, on the eve of the Republic National Convention. “I live in New York City and I’m glad I’m not there today,” she said. She expressed support for throngs of protesters marching for reproductive choice and against the war, and said she was proud of their message that “there are things that haven’t gone right in the last years,” although she declined to answer questions on foreign policy because she works as a civil servant with the U.S. mission to the United Nations. Kerry expressed awe of her brother, saying that despite having stumped for him in all of his campaigns, she still finds this presidential race amazing. “This is a little bit different obviously. He’s running for president,” she said. “It’s still unbelievable.” But harbingers of John Kerry’s shot at the nation’s highest office first came more than 30 years ago. “I think people ... first started to tease him when he was in college and his initials were the same as John Kennedy,” she said. “It was just something that finally happened.” Although the idea of her brother assuming the presidency is something she still hasn’t fathomed completely, she said his Navy service, four terms in the U.S. Senate, and time spent in Europe qualify him. “He has an understanding of international as well as national (affairs). He’s my brother,” she laughed. She said attacks on her brother’s experience and service in Vietnam are hard to take, both as a political supporter and a sister. “It is hard and I feel it’s disrespectful and dishonest to all veterans to take the record of one veteran and try to tear it apart and discredit all veterans,” Kerry said. She said veterans who put politics aside feel similarly. Kerry also said the media images of her brother as a rich Northerner who attended private schools or as a standoffish and impersonal man are also inaccurate. “I think this is what is lost, John’s ability to communicate and understand where people are coming from,” she said. “People try to paint him as aloof and he’s not.” Although she said she and her brother were privileged to have gone to private school, their education was paid for by a wealthy aunt. “We certainly didn’t have silver spoons in our mouths. So much of this is missold to the people,” she said, and described her family as middle to super-middle class. But despite attacks from the Bush campaign and outside interests, Kerry said her brother has what it takes to win. “My brother is a good closer. In New Hampshire and Iowa they wrote him off ... and then he won,” she said. Contact reporter Phoebe Sweet at 610-371-5014 or psweet@readingeagle.com. |
Can someone post the pic to a webserver -this one will disappear in the next day, as the newspaper does not keep images/articles on their website. - THANKS
My caption: "Why the long face?"
Some people should NOT wear tank tops.
The horse face gene is a strong, dominant hereditary trait.
Ping!
BTTT
It's obvious that she got the better hairdresser.
Those look like some pretty sweet flapjacks.
Why do we care what some rich liberal dimwit is saying to other rich liberal dimwits?
Yikes, she looks like john kerry with boobs.
No caption, but a comment: Remember, when all of the press and Dims were sneering at W having family members lend support for his candidacy?
Well, one could that's because he knows how to articulate both sides of an issue....
Wasn't she the one who was in the bathtub, in the hotel room, in The Shining?
A GOP DELEGATE WITH A COPY OF "UNFIT FOR COMMAND"! THIS PROVES COLLUSION!!
spent too much time in the sweat lodge at the commune.
No kidding. Thank goodness she's not wearing one of her niece's see-through dresses.
What makes you think JF"NK"S sister is rich? Did she marry well, too?
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