I've said that an elitist (your sister's story supports that label), arrogant Boston Brahmin would have gone to Harvard Law School as a matter of birthright.
There must be meaning to the fact that Kerry DIDN'T go to HLS and had to settle for BC. One person commented that he had a BS from Yale but didn't have the LSATs/credentials to get into HLS and, probably, Kerry didn't either. I don't buy that because a well connected Forbes could have gotten no matter what his LSATs were.
There must be another reason why Kerry didn't go to Harvard Law! Any suggestions?
Hi Tacis,
This is my first posting on Freerepublic. My sister Jane told me my column was posted on the site. This is exciting for someone living in Lovell, Maine, population 998.
I think Kerry went to Boston College Law School because it's kind of an "Irish Harvard." Kerry is astute enough to know that it helps to be perceived as Irish to get ahead in politics in the Bay State. He was just coming off a loss in the 5th district after everyone thought he was a shoe-in. The primary was thought to be the big contest back then. He won that in June and was cruising, only to be beaten in November by a Nixon Republican from nowhere. He had to re-group and pay his dues. That's why he did the Assistant DA thing with John Droney the DA, an old Irish Pol. He attended the St. Patrick's Day Breakfasts on Southie and tried to tell jokes. He ran for Lieutenant Governor, etc. Now he's in our faces every day. I sure hope he loses, because I won't be able to stand looking at him for four years.
Hope this helps.
Tom
I wonder - - whether possibly Kerry has always been on the fringes of being really in the super blueblood, royal echelon that he actually aspires to belong to. In the picture where he is just a teenage kid sitting on the boat in one of the occasional "meetings" with JFK, you can see the look of the awed outsider on his face. The feelings of inferiority, of being actually an "imposter" seemed to motivate him to behave socially in the snobby way all the "right" people thought one should behave - even when it involved treating a fellow human being shamefully. Even now, he doesn't actually make all that much money in the Senate and lives off a rich woman. If he were to be elevated to "king of the country", that is exactly how he will view it, and we would be the unwilling benefactors to a "let them eat cake" tyrant. I pray for the man to get a real life free of this bondage of raw ambition.