JF'nK: "Hey, guys! Wait up! Wait for me!"
Durbin: "Do you hear anything? I don't hear anything."
Murray: "Nah, I don't hear anything either. Keep walking."
Posted on 02/05/2007 6:55:49 AM PST by seanmerc
Senator John Kerry keeps to himself around the Capitol. He is always rushing somewhere, head down, disappearing into elevators. A Senate loner for 22 years, Kerry seems all the more isolated now as he darts past the news media hordes around the next set of presidential seekers, colleagues that include Hillary Rodham Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama.
Even in the best of times, Kerry's face hung droopy and funereal, one of the most weary in American politics. Today, Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who was the exit poll president-elect for a few hours in November 2004, endures the peculiar pariah status that his party reserves for its losing nominees.
"America does not tolerate losing, even though it's through losing that we learn the most," said David Thorne, the twin brother of Kerry's late first wife, Julia Thorne, and his closest friend. "People want fresh faces. Or they think they do."
As the 2008 campaign begins in earnest, Kerry has been forced to adapt to something resembling a normal Senate life. This has been no small challenge for a man whose identity has long been steeped in becoming president, or trying to.
Last week, days after he announced he would not run again, Kerry said there was no point to dwelling on what might have been. "You know, that's such a waste of time right now," he said in a Capitol hallway interview. "I came close, but so what? I didn't make it, so move on. Just go forward. There's no sense going backwards."
Kerry ratified his status as Dead Candidate Walking in an emotional speech on the Senate floor two weeks ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ...
"Even in the best of times, Kerry's face hung droopy and funereal,...."
Yeah, I noticed that.
What is the over/under in months before Tereza Ferreira shows Kerry the door?
Does anybody know if he was ever in Vietnam?
The line 'life is hard, beavis' comes to mind. Poor, poor kerry.
It's a funny title for a man who has been in the Senate for so long.
Kerry was in the Senate before he was in the Senate
It's taken him 22 years to "adjust" to his senate job and they still wonder why he wasn't elected (selected) president.
Can this guy be any more pathetic?
Maybe he'll actually show up for a vote or two!
JF'nK: "Hey, guys! Wait up! Wait for me!"
Durbin: "Do you hear anything? I don't hear anything."
Murray: "Nah, I don't hear anything either. Keep walking."
I'm pretty sure that he spent Christmas in Cambodia once...
In 22 Senate years, he's taken part in day to day activity less than 25 percent of the session days.
"Kerry has sought counsel from Kennedy, who himself returned to the Senate after a bitter primary defeat and went on to have a storied career as a lawmaker..." and who has done immeasurable damage to the nation. What a great role model for Kerry, who brings new meaning to the term pathetic loser.
Another great quote from the article:
"Kerry and his surrogates always emphasize how warmly he is still received whenever he ventures out of Washington. "John was treated like a rock star in Switzerland," said Senator Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, who traveled to Davos, Switzerland, with Kerry and other colleagues last month for the World Economic Forum."
Oh, BARF!!! Yeah, no freakin' kidding he's warmly received, that's because by "ventures out of Washington", they mean "trips to visit his Euroweenie buddies where he trashes the U.S." America's traitors are always welcome among America's haters.
Jahn Qerry has friends of the American persuasion? Who knew? I mean, if you count "friends" such as Al Qaeda, Socialists, EuroTrash, gun-grabbers, North Vietnamese, and the Iranian mullahs.
F'ing Kerry, the French looking dude, in 'Nam? Are you series?
ROFL!! The four horses' asses of the Apocalypse!
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