A Stoical Kerry on Bush's Day

Washington Post ^ | 1/21/05 | Dana Milbank

[bitt]

'It was just as John F. Kerry must have dreamed it would be: There he stood on the Capitol dais on a sunny Inauguration Day, looking presidential in blue scarf and overcoat, as the Marine Band played "Hail to the Chief" before the swearing-in.

But wait! Something was terribly wrong. Kerry's seat assignment was in the seventh row. And every time they flashed his picture on the Jumbotron, the crowd -- full of wealthy Republicans -- jeered. '

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[bitt]

'It's no fun being the runner-up on Inauguration Day. To add to the poignancy for Kerry, it was a year and a day since his surprise victory in the Iowa caucus propelled him to the Democratic nomination and, almost, the presidency. And yet, Kerry seemed to embrace the role of loser with ironic amusement.

The senator from Massachusetts took a seat up front where he was sure to be seen on television playing the part of Good Sport. When the color guard approached, he clutched his breast as if suffering a bout of arrhythmia. When the national anthem played, he sang as if he were Denyce Graves. When President Bush spoke, he clapped politely -- and gazed over the Mall with a faraway look.'...

[GVnana]

Euh, brother.

[crushelits]

THESE TWO, I GUESS THEY
WERE INVITED.
I SAW TEDDY, W/ DARK GLASSES AND A HAT

[Radix]

I got a lot of personal satisfaction when Kerry lost 2 months ago. May there be many more losses for that lying creep!

[quantim]

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Gag me with a rototiller.

[Tacis]

Terry Kerry would have been there as well, but she was over at the A.N.S.W.E.R. demonstration with George Soros funding the neocommunists.

[JudyinCanada]

Boy, does he ever look like Laurel or Hardy or whichever one in that picture.

[Williams]

Apparently Kerry performed heroically just by sitting there. I wonder if he has put in for another Purple Heart?

[Raycpa]

looking presidential

Yes, close your eyes real tight and say after me "there is no place like home", and then click your ruby red slippers.

[JudyinCanada]

Eww. Putting Kerry and performing in the same sentence...not good. :^)

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

I wouldn't put it past him. LOL

[bitt]

I just can't get enough of this picture...

[Salamander]

You can get a nasty splinter from a wooden bleacher.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

.

CLINTON was seen on C-Span just grinding his teeth away as BUSH was delivering his promise to bring Freedom to the World.

NEVER FORGET that it was on the very afternoon of the releasing of the transcript of BUSH's stirring Convention Speech, declaring our 21st Century as the LIBERTY Century, that CLINTON's chest pains put him in the Hospital.

For, you see,
...the Enemy of Freedom is now Within
...and always has been.

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[silent_jonny]

HAAAAHAAAA!

[Raycpa]

I just got the significance of Kerry's choice of colors. Blue of course.

What a jerk.

[dead]

It's a work of art. I wonder if I could get a clear print of that poster-size.

[Hank Rearden]

Boy, does he ever look like Laurel or Hardy or whichever one in that picture.

Exactly what I was thinking!

Wanna see something funny? When I googled to find that photo, the Google link was here!

[GVnana]

Stan Laurel. I was thinking the same thing.