Posted on 11/02/2004 11:04:59 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
BOSTON (AFP) - John Kerry will have lunch at one of former president John F. Kennedy's favorite restaurants. The superstitious Democratic presidential candidate, who is clinging to his lucky charms, is hoping fate finds him a new home in the White House. After voting, the Massachusetts senator was due to head, as he does every election day, to the fabled Union Oyster House which calls itself the oldest in the United States. The quaint old spot was a favorite of another local, Kennedy, who had a regular table; John Forbes Kerry is hoping to follow in the other JFK's dining and presidential footsteps. Early Tuesday the restaurant crew was still working out whether Kerry would sit at what used to be Kennedy's table. The significance would not be lost on Kerry who, in the waning days of the tight presidential race, put increasingly heavy significance on symbolism. For days, he has not taken off his mustard-yellow barn (hunting) jacket, which he bought during a winning streak in last autumn's Democratic primaries, and he donned the same red tie in his televised debates against President George W. Bush, in which Kerry fared quite well. The historic World Series win by baseball's Boston Red Sox also has given him reason to believe in long-shot luck. Since then he has made one of his speechwriters, a fan of the rival New York Yankees, wear a Sox hat. Just Saturday Kerry said at a Wisconsin rally that he was optimistic about the presidential vote because of the solid showing by the local football team the Badgers. To top it all off Sunday's loss by the Washington's US football team, the Redskins, has helped fuel Kerry's enthusiasm; since 1936, 17 presidential votes, the Redskins' last home game before the election is said to decide the fate of the incumbent. And that is not the full extent of Kerry's superstition: he keeps his dog tags from Vietnam at close hand. He also carries a charm given him by an indigenous Navajo leader during a visit to New Mexico; as well as a chestnut from a buckeye, state tree of Ohio, a key swing state. "When a Native American chieftain hands me something and says if you carry this you're gonna be elected . . . Man, I carry that. I'm not taking any chances," Kerry told Knight Ridder newspapers. Of the prized chestnut, Kerry said: "It will be with me right on the Oval desk. "It'll sit there, a little glass cover on it, to preserve it -- for good luck for the country."
the magic hat from the CIA guy will bring him victory.
Does he keep a few rice grains in his butt too?
And, maybe like the original JFK, ole Johnny will have a little blonde bimbo for desert too!
Judging by Kerry's ego, in that picture it is apparent that he is worshiping the ground he walks on. But while he relies on luck, President Bush and his supporters rely on God.
Kerry needs more than the luck o' the Irish to win this one.
'course God would have told him to withdraw! LOL
He quotes holy scripture and the great hymns of faith in Jesus Christ, but practices many pagan rituals and trusts in them. Maybe he is confused. /s
You think *Kerry* is superstitious - think about TerrorAAayza for a moment. She's a nutcase from a third-world bughole - she probably is into whatever variation of Santeria/voodoo/animism/etc. they practice, wherever it is she came from.
The perfect candidate for new-age liberal fruitcakes.
LOL - perfect!
What a doofus.
"It'll sit there, a little glass cover on it, to preserve it -- for good luck for the country."
A chestnut. For luck. For the country.
Ugh.
Well, in that case, they're perfect for each other.
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