Posted on 10/29/2004 5:07:46 AM PDT by conservative in nyc
It's not quite Michael Dukakis on a tank, but John Kerry does look out of place in his flat-billed baseball cap. In the run-up to election day, the senator has seized on the victory of the New York Times-owned Red Sox as a symbol of his campaign. "I've been rooting for this day since I was a kid," Mr. Kerry said Wednesday night. "This Red Sox team came back against all odds and showed America what heart is. In 2004,the Red Sox are America's team."
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You would think Mr. Kerry actually watched the games, given the emotional investment he claims to have in his team. "I was 30 yards away from Billy Buckner in that famous Shea Stadium game in '86," Mr. Kerry said in an interview with ESPN.com, referring to the infamous error that lost game six of the World Series for Boston that year. "So I've been there in the heartbreaks." Mr. Kerry has also made this claim on the stump. "I was about 30 yards away from Billy Buckner when that ball wiggled away," he told a crowd of supporters in Lebanon, N.H. "I had cracked a bottle of Champagne, was jumping up and down prematurely. Nobody should celebrate prematurely. This race is really open."
It's only slightly odd to think of Mr. Kerry bouncing on the bleachers with his uncorked Dom Perignon - perhaps beckoning the hot dog vendor to bring him a baguette and foie gras. But it didn't happen. Mr. Kerry wasn't even there. On the night of game six, Mr. Kerry was at a banquet in South Boston sponsored by the Massachusetts Latino Democratic Committee. An anti-Kerry group of sports enthusiasts, Football Fans for Truth, unearthed a 1986 Boston Globe article establishing that Mr. Kerry attended the banquet, fittingly enough,with Governor Dukakis.
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Imagine Kerry telling the truth!
Well I just don't have that good of an imagination.
It is SEARED in his memory, don't you know!
This guy is either a pathological liar or he has a mental illness.
Most everything he pulls out of his memory never happened.
He's dangerous.
Kerry and Truth.
Contradiction in terms.
Kinda like chicken dentures.
Nobody needs 'em. Nobody believes him.
I didn`t know the Red Sox where located in France.
"This guy is either a pathological liar or he has a mental illness."
I vote for the latter, I think he's a narcissist. We had a gal who worked for our firm briefly who I felt had this disorder. People like that can be very destructive, they are incapable of even considering other people.
Very dangerous, I quite agree.
It's quite obvious why his mother's dying words were "Integrity. Integrity. Integrity."
I ran the Army 10 Miler in 1990 and I will forever remember 89:45 as not bad for an old 1SG.
Good article. I was waiting to see someone comment on how ridiculous Kerry looked in that baseball cap. I thought that was a Dukakis moment, even as much as the bunnysuit episode at NASA this summer. He's just not a regular guy and a baseball cap does not befit him.
More than that, for someone who claims to be a lifelong, diehard Red Sox fan, he was wearing a clearly brand new hat that hadn't even been broken in.
The bill was completely flat - he might as well have left the tag on.
I guarantee there were fans at the Wordl Series who are Kerry's age who were wearing 20 and 30 year old hats that they've worn every season to Fenway.
He's just so fake.
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