Posted on 10/14/2004 1:22:48 PM PDT by David M. Brooks
A warm welcome to FR -- hope you stick around!
These elitists are so selfish, unattractive, and uncivilized.
How anyone could fall for that crap is beyond me. There are folks with money who worship the money; their "common man" followers are others who worship money, but think they don't have enough of it. Those are the leftys in a nutshell.
Welcome! Nice to see you here.
Oh, Mo, if the unthinkable were to happen......*shudder*.........those who get their news strictly from the MSM and public TV would have an unpleasant surprise when they see this despicable elitest in action, wouldn't they? Although you can see it and read it in his aloof reactions on the campaign trail, if you are "tuned in".
Nope. There are email stories circulating about Bush's relationship with White House staff and the Secret Service. He invites them to barbecues at the ranch, serves them the food and knows all of them well enough to remember their children's names and chat about their families.
To quote Lynn Cheney, "This is not a good man."
I think it goes back to his days in college. Seriously.
Socialism is a disease! The cure is Conservatism. :)
No, but it might be possible to find out by going through ski patrol records for incidents on that particular slope. If we could my mother and her friends to narrow the date more specifically. I just don't have the resources or time to find out, but it would be interesting. Kerry married Tereza in 95'.
It would be very interesting and I bet Teresa would want to know about it.
I wonder - - whether possibly Kerry has always been on the fringes of being really in the super blueblood, royal echelon that he actually aspires to belong to. In the picture where he is just a teenage kid sitting on the boat in one of the occasional "meetings" with JFK, you can see the look of the awed outsider on his face. The feelings of inferiority, of being actually an "imposter" seemed to motivate him to behave socially in the snobby way all the "right" people thought one should behave - even when it involved treating a fellow human being shamefully. Even now, he doesn't actually make all that much money in the Senate and lives off a rich woman. If he were to be elevated to "king of the country", that is exactly how he will view it, and we would be the unwilling benefactors to a "let them eat cake" tyrant. I pray for the man to get a real life free of this bondage of raw ambition.
Of course! That's why Kerry divorced her -- insufficient snobbery!
I think you're on to it. Kerry came from an impecunious branch of the Forbes family and had to rely on contributions from wealthy relatives to pay tuition at St. Paul's and Yale. He could "summer" on Naushon because his mother was a Forbes, hence the middle name. The island is owned by a trust set up by another Forbes a long time ago. He made a fortune in the China Trade, much of that trade being opium.
He can become what he thinks those around him want him to be. I saw it back in the seventies when he would do "coffees" at different people's homes. I arranged several for him in those days. His language would change, along with his positions on the issues of the time, according to what kind of people were at the gathering. If you listen to his affected pronunciations in his now-infamous testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations committee in 1971, you'll see what I mean. You can see it again today when he gives speeches in the heartland during which he drops the "g" while speaking. "As I was sayin' " or "are you talkin' to me?" He's trying to sound like one of the guys. He's always tried to do that.
I have that "130 footer" story somewhere. Ugly
I've heard tell that he can actually be charming if the person on the other end is rich/powerful enough.
Hard to believe, but I suppose stranger things have happened . . . ;-)
"I Never Sail on Anything Less Than 135 Feet"
The John Kerry Experience
By HAL CRANMER
I would like to add my two cents about my John Kerry experience. During my career as an Air Force pilot, I spent two years flying a small twin-engine prop plane around the Pacific from my base in Okinawa, Japan.
On one trip we had to fly Senator Kerry, his congressional aide, and a Navy Captain (Vietnam, A-4 fighter pilot) who was also in Kerry's party to various locations in Vietnam and Cambodia as part of the MIA/POW talks.
When I met him, he was wearing a shirt with a picture of his sailboat on it. I told him I had a small 27' sailboat in Okinawa, he remarked 'Oh I never sail on anything less than 135 feet'.
I laughed to myself and realized this guy was no sailor.
When we first flew him into Phnom Penh, he went to the back of the airplane and grabbed the pizza that was put aside for the crew and passed it around to his staff. He was never offered any pizza because they were supposed to have lunch with the Cambodian government once we landed. The pizza would have been our only meal that day. He just never cared to ask.
Then when we picked him up in Cambodia, he was an hour late getting to the airport. We could not start the engines and therefore the air conditioning until he arrived. Phnom Penh at that time was over 100 degrees with 95% humidity and we were basically sitting in a greenhouse behind the cockpit windows. When he finally did arrive, we were wringing out our clothes from the perspiration. He walks out of the air conditioned car, into the airplane and asks us 'Could you guys get the air conditioning running, I'm a little warm." The other pilot had to physically restrain me from going back there and picking a fight.
Then we took him into Noi Bai airfield in Hanoi. After we picked him up the next day (he stayed the night in Vietnam, we stayed in Bangkok) we taxied out, ran up the engines for takeoff, and noticed that our prop rpm was vibrating all over the place. We taxied off to the side to look at it, but there was a good possibility that there was an engine malfunction and the engine may fail if we took off with it.
Well, Mr. Senator sticks his head up in the cockpit and says 'this plane WILL take - off, I have a press conference in Bangkok in three hours!" (Maybe this is an indication of how he will run the FAA). We ran the engines again, and did not have the problem, so we took off and made it back.
During the flight, he told everyone how he had taken a Cessna (a small General aviation plane) up with a fighter pilot, and the fighter pilot remarked that Kerry was one of the best pilots he had ever seen. I don't know about other pilots out there, but it's hard to imagine a little, single-engine prop plane pilot being able to show the 'right stuff'.
After Kerry left the plane, the Navy Captain came up to us, apologized and said basically that he knows Kerry is a jerk and that we should be glad we don't have to deal with him every day....
Or will we?
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