Ironically enough...(from a older FR post by doug from
upland):
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"Somebody told me the other day that the Secret Service has orders that if George Bush is shot, they're to shoot Quayle.
There isn't any press here, is there?" (Associated Press, Nov. 16, 1988).
Charge: Kerry delivered this joke at a business breakfast shortly after the election of President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle. The co-chairman of the Bush-Quayle campaign in Massachusetts called it "an extraordinarily reckless comment" that was "very clearly in bad taste."
That was a rare exception where I found Kerry funny. Of course he stole someone's joke and as a U.S. Senator shouldn't be saying stuff like that.