Monday - March 14, 2005

P.J. O’ Rourke Bitch-Slaps Kerry

Our intrepid journalist P.J. O’ ROurke recently attended an event in Boston featuring John Kerry and wrote a doozey of a column about it in the current issue of the Weekly Standard. Here’s a snippet ....

JOHN KERRY EFFECTIVELY ENDED HIS political career on February 28, 2005, during a little-noticed event at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston. Senator Kerry was being presented with the library’s “Distinguished American Award"--a bust of John Kennedy. The artist had portrayed JFK with head slightly tilted. The bust looked puzzled. The award was presented by Senator Ted Kennedy, who phoned it in. Supposedly Kennedy was rushing to catch the “last plane out of Logan” to get to Washington for a vital debate on bankruptcy reform legislation. Why the other senator from Massachusetts wasn’t vital was not explained. Nor was it explained why any Democrat was vital to a debate on legislation that was simply to be passed by the Republican majority and signed by the Republican president.

Paul Kirk, chairman of the Kennedy library, former Ted Kennedy staffer, and head of the DNC back when Kennedys mattered, introduced Kennedy’s disembodied voice. Kennedy praised Kerry’s “passion for the value of politics” and “practice of the politics of values.” (Where is Ted Sorenson when you need him?) Kennedy did his best to laud Kerry’s thin legislative record: “a key voice on arms control.” He added, “I can’t wait for Kerry in oh-eight” and suggested this as a bumpersticker.

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