Posted on 11/05/2004 12:50:37 PM PST by njsketch
The morning after the Feb. 3 primaries, which vaulted Kerry into a virtual-ly insurmountable lead, the candidate was fuming over his missing hairbrush. He and his aides were riding in a van on the way to a Time magazine cover-photo shoot. Nicholson had left the hairbrush behind. "Sir, I don't have it," he said, after rummaging in the bags. "Marvin, f---!" Kerry said. The press secretary, David Wade, offered his brush. "I'm not using Wade's brush," the long-faced senator pouted. "Marvin, f---, it's my Time photo shoot."
Nicholson was having a bad day. Breakfast had been late and rushed and not quite right for the senator. In the van, Kerry was working his cell phone and heard the beep signaling that the phone was running out of juice. "Marvin, charger," he said without turning around. "Sorry, I don't have it," said Nicholson, who was sitting in the rear of the van. Now Kerry turned around. "I'm running this campaign myself," he said, looking at Nicholson and the other aides. "I get myself breakfast. I get myself hairbrushes. I get myself my cell-phone charger. It's pretty amazing." In silent frustration, Nicholson helplessly punched the car seat.
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Heinz, who is not shy, decided to try a little "reality check" to test Kerry's true spirits.
"You know what, John?" the stepson said. "Nov. 3 is going to be f---ed up. The whole thing is going to be f---ed up."
"What do you mean?" Kerry asked. "Well, look," Heinz said. "John, if you win, you're the president of the United States. That's pretty f---ed up."
Kerry, smiling, nodded tentatively. "Yeah, all right."
"And if you lose," Heinz continued, "I'm not even going to tell you how f---ed up that is."
Kerry's cheeks, perched plump above a toothy grin, sank into an empty expression. "That's it," he said. "That's enough of that."
There were some places you didn't go with Kerry.
Words fail me.
"Match me, Sidney."
This-guy-might've-been-President ping.
All your hairbrush are belong to us!
Horrors that a candidate for President would deign to THINK about what he was saying! (This is why they lost.)
Ain't it great? Yesterday they were piling upon TerAYza about her "problem", something they've known all along, and today they slam the hubby. They must be punishing them for losing. No point in covering up for them any longer. Kind, affectionate Liberals... :)
I wonder what other nasty little tidbits they will reveal about their boy in the next few weeks.
Imagine if he had been really questioned by the press like Bush was? We would have has a Dean meltdown!
The sleazy hotels are probably at least four stars to the rest of us, maybe even fives.
But it was his "lucky" hairbrush!!!!! Give him a break!
if memory serves, Rush told us all, after the kerry nomunation, that the press hated kerry. They knew how arrogant he was. Rush said something like don't look for the MSM to build the guy up. Just tear Bush apart.
Thank God Republicans are D's.
Nice couple.
Bush would have simply asked "Has anyone seen my comb?".
Your point is well taken. You can't blame these particular reporters for not having blown the whistle on Kerry's character flaws.
But the fact is, anybody in the proximity of the campaign should've been able to observe for themselves (or, at least, sense) that Kerry's was temperamentally unqualified to be President.
As proof, I submit that -- from a distance -- most FReepers had concluded as much from their own observations. The only thing we lacked was physical confirmation of our instincts.
Every reporter on the Kerry beat knew he was a shallow, self-serving asshole. And not all of them were honor-bound to keep that a secret until after the election...
This is our President. I just can't imagine him getting pissy about a hairbrush. Or that he has ever spent more than 5 seconds brushing his hair. Or that he would ever toss around a prima donna attitude to the people he works with.
But before I ever read that article, I always knew that Kerry was a compete Jackass.....
Good article, well worth the read. I never knew sKerry got stuck in an elevator.
Prairie
I'm convinced, that heaven-forbid if Kerry was elected, he would have easily gone down as the least popular president in history. He would have pissed just about everybody off, even those who voted for him. It would have been an unmitigated disaster, not so much because of his policies, but just because the guy would have alienated everybody. How one runs a campaign says a lot about how they would act as President. This article confirms everything I thought about Kerry. I would have taken Bill Clinton anyday of the week over this guy.
I've read elsewhere that the f-word was very, very commonplace in the Kerry camp. Routine.
Prairie
Kerry's cheeks, perched plump above a toothy grin, sank into an empty expression. "That's it," he said. "That's enough of that."
There were some places you didn't go with Kerry.
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