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.