[Congressman Billybob]

FReepers may be wondering why John Kerry made the cut to be skewered in Doonesbury, after all, he was then rather obscure (a status he still deserves). The reason is that Gary Trudeau started Doonesbury while he was at Yale, and most of the characters were drawn from real people, or composites of them.

Trudeau was Yale, '65, as I recall. I don't remember him, but I remember his work. He had to have known John Kerry, Yale '64. And my classmate, Kerry, was an egotistical horse's patoot back then, as he is now. I ran into him through the Yale Political Union, of which I was an officer. I can't recall whether Kerry was a member of the Liberals (basically liberal Democrats) or the Party of the Left (socialists and communists). Might be interesting to find out which one Kerry was in.

(I was a member of the Conservative Party, though I had some affinity for the Party of the Right. The latter was an odd conflation of anarchists and monarchists. They believed "the only proper funtion of governments is to print stamps and maintain the standing army.")

Congressman Billybob

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[Congressman Billybob]

P.S. "B.D." in Doonesbury was patterned on Brian Downing, captain of our pathetic football team, by the way.

Billybob

[doug from upland]

Thanks for the insight, CB.

[Republic of Texas]

Add in pave the roads (interstate), and that sounds like a plan to me.

[TrueBeliever9]

I cannot imagine Mrs. Heinz-Kerry as First Lady. She is so intolerant and an elitest!