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Posted on 10/25/2008 12:56:24 PM PDT by buccaneer81
John Kerry fighting for own image ‘I am proud that Ted Kennedy is my senior colleague. It does make it harder, that’s all.’ By Hillary Chabot Saturday, October 25, 2008 - Updated 3h ago + Recent Articles + Email
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An exasperated Sen. John F. Kerry vowed to defend his image yesterday and lashed out at opponents’ portrayals of him as a do-nothing senator riding the coattails of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
The former Democratic presidential candidate now up for re-election to the Senate presented a stack of 50 thank-you letters from constituents during an hourlong interview with the Herald as proof the critiques are false.
“John Kerry doesn’t get anything done. John Kerry lives in the shadow of Ted Kennedy. John Kerry doesn’t deliver. Blah, blah, blah,” Kerry said, mocking challengers who use those arguments when they run against him. “I’m sort of tired of that, actually. I’m going to fight back a little harder to make sure people understand that that’s an insult to my staff when people say that.”
The junior senator, who’s facing Republican candidate Jeff Beatty in his race for a fifth six-year term, admitted it’s tough to outshine Kennedy’s massive political power.
“I serve with the single most effective, capable United States senator in modern history,” Kerry said at a meeting with Herald reporters and editors. “He’s a big force, and I admire him and I’m learning a lot from him, but I didn’t become the nominee of the party because I don’t do things or I’m not capable. I am proud that Ted Kennedy is my senior colleague. It does make it harder, that’s all.”
He said his failed 2004 presidential run has fed into the criticism that he’s detached from the Bay State.
“When you run for president of the United States, first of all you’re not here, secondly there’s an automatic perception that you want to be something else,” Kerry said, adding he believed he could have done even more for Massachusetts as president but is now committed to his job in the Senate.
Kerry said he passed seven pieces of legislation in the month of July alone, but his hard work doesn’t get attention.
“I do a lot of things, but I haven’t been running around tooting my horn about it,” Kerry said.
Like most of his Senate colleagues, Kerry attaches his initiatives to larger bills, sometimes causing his work to get lost in the shuffle when the final bill enacted doesn’t bear his name.
Kerry blasted complaints about his constituent work, saying his Massachusetts office is almost as big as his office in Washington.
“We do the hard work of delivering to people,” Kerry said. “We have countless letters I receive where people say, ‘You know, I went to every other office, and no one would do anything for me, and you’re the first person who did.’ ”
He also attacked claims that he doesn’t spend time here.
“For 18 years, folks, I never spent a weekend in Washington, D.C. This is my home,” he said.
For video excerpts of Kerry’s sitdown with the Herald, log on to bostonherald.com.
John Kerry ‘fights’ in the fashion of Percy Dovetonsils.
Senator Kerry, REST ASSURED, your Legacy is Intact for all time!
You are an EGOTISTICAL, ELITIST, Northeastern Liberal SCUM!
That Quite an Achievement for One Presidential Campaign!
Liveshot ping!
No one is thinking that he’s been riding on Ted Kennedy’s coattails, but rather on Republican John Heinz’s coattails.
Gasp!
Time to throw down the gauntlet, Monsieur Keri. Enough is enough!
>>>>“For 18 years, folks, I never spent a weekend in Washington, D.C. This is my home,” he said. <<<<
Doesn’t a John Kerry “weekend” run from Thursday afternoon (jetting to Sun Valley or Nantucket) through Tuesday morning (back to Georgetown)?
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>>>>>that’s an insult to my staff when people say that.”
No doubt the whip cracks pretty hard and often while he’s on out on his $800,000 Scaramouche runabout, or windsurfing, or riding the $5,000 carbon fiber bicycle, or snowboarding in Sun Valley, or otherwise commuting from Georgetown to one his many playgrounds.
People, remember. Some of his lack of achievement may have come from his injuries fighting for our country in Viet Nam. If none of you have ever tried to sit for hours in the Senate with a grain of rice embedded in your butt, then you can’t possibly assume to know how hard it’s been for him. Please.
Your post brought tears to my eyes. Rice in the butt indeed.
Kerry's a "straw" man.
LOL! Thank God I wasn’t sipping coffee when I saw that.
I think his drink had a "head" on it, too.
Halp me Jon Kerri.
John F***ing Kerry, Hanoi’s National War Hero, who fouht in NAM for three months before he stole three Purple Hearts for accidently stinging himself with rice hulls via his own stupidity, arrogance and cowardice, CLAIMS HE STILL LEARNING HOW TO BE A SENATOR KNEELING AT KENNEDY’S BASS AFTER TWENTYFOUR FRICKEN YEARS SLITHERING THRU OUR SENATE’S HALLOWED HALLS!! REMEMBER HO CLOSE WE CAME TO BEING CURSED WITH LURCH AS OUR POTUS in 2004!! OBAMA OSAMA SADDAM HUSSEIN IS 100 TIMES WORSE THAN LURCH F***ing KERRY!! REMEMBER THAT AS NOVEMBER 4TH ARRIVES!!! MAY GOD SAVE US FROM THIS TERRIBLE FORCE OUT TO DESTROY OUR BELOVED AMERICA!! MAY GOD BLESS US IN THIS TIME OF DESPERATE NEED!! AMEN!!
The bottom photo? I never seen it before... what the heck is he doing? Playing some grab a** with himself?
Why do e NOT point out LURCH’s TEN MANSIONS and Italian Palace when accused of McCains Seven Condos? or Obama’s Three Million Dollar Nansion?
PUKE ALERT!!
How to be disgusting eating a PHILLY CHEESESTEAK!!
UK!! GROSS!! AND PERVERTED!!!
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