Pardon my French, so to speak, but I get the impression Chirac would just love to trade places with JFK's jock.
More Jean Effin' anecdotes from today's NY Post:
JUST hours before Sen. John Kerry boldly announced, "I don't fall down," on a Sun Valley ski slope, he fell down. Kerry made headlines last week when, on his first snowboard run down Idaho's Mount Baldy, a skiing Secret Service agent collided with the Democratic presidential candidate, sending him tumbling into the powder. After getting to his feet - and being assured that news cameras hadn't caught the crash - Kerry told reporters: "I don't fall down. That son of a bitch knocked me over."
Not quite. Upon his arrival in Idaho the previous evening, Kerry showed he's as vulnerable to gravity as the rest of us. As his dozen-car motorcade made the 90-minute trek from a Twin Falls airport to the slopes of Ketchum, they stopped off at a Texaco mini-mart in Shoshone, where Kerry promptly lost his footing.
"Out jumps candidate Kerry to buy a bottle of water, but the lady at the mini-mart had just mopped the floor," a spy tells PAGE SIX. "Kerry slips and falls on the wet floor!"
"It was a quick slip and an immediate recovery," says Kerry rep David Wade. "He was up in a second."
The overwhelmingly Republican enclave might prove a bit slippery for Kerry. Ketchum elders were concerned when Secret Service agent Robert Harrell advised them a Kerry presidency would have "some noticeable impacts" on their lives. Kerry and wife Teresa Heinz Kerry live on the Big Wood River across Highway 75 in the Adams Gulch section of town. The agent warned that heightened security could entail occasional "frozen zones" where freedom of movement is restricted should Kerry win the 2004 election.
Many locals didn't seem too upset by the idea - they tolerate Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's five California state troopers in nearby Lake Creek. But they are horrified at the thought that legendary Pioneer Saloon could soon be in a "security bubble," says our Ketchum sources.
Kerry got a taste of local hostility when he lunched with his wife Thursday at the Warm Springs ski area. An octogenarian at a nearby table loudly told his date, "I see the idiot is here."
A young waitress scolded the senior citizen, "It's guys like you who got this country where it is!"
"Don't get personal about this, young lady," he replied.
Ah if only, if only ... "That's right, young lady. And it's guys like that who will #$%^ it up"
You mean it's guys like him that has given Americans the best standard of living on the planet.
Democrats are such ungrateful fools.