On the Metro this morning I overheard a bedraggled young Democrat bemoaning the unfair personal criticism lumped on John Kerry. I felt a surge of nostalgia for those mixed emotions that Al Gore provoked in me, back in those heady days of 2000—the devotion, the insecurity, the rage at a world that just doesn't understand, man. And true to form, no noblesse oblige compels Kerry to prove his man right:
Sigh. The wallpaper is most certainly from Kerry's campaign Web site (courtesy of Meghan Keane). I swallowed the bitter pill of disappointment and acknowledged Kerry's preeminent douchebaggery long ago. At least there's Teresa Heinz, who promises to be one of the saucier First Ladies the White House has seen....
Posted by Kriston at April 29, 2004 11:43 AMHey, I get it, "saucier," like ketchup!
I've thought Kerry is pretty lame for a while and I groaned when Iowa went for him in January. People in Massachusetts recognize his phoniness from being exposed to it for a good long while. It seems kind of stupid that the lesser of our two senators is the one who is the nominee for president.
But I'm over all of that. When confronted with four more years of George Bush's disastrous economic and foreign policies, I find myself all too willing to cast a vote for a guy who isn't very appealing personally. It's too bad that Kerry's personal lameness so often overshadows the things people really should be voting on.
And "Kerry Rocks!" is nowhere near as bad as "Tipper Rocks!" That was the slogan projected when Tipper Gore came on stage to blaring music at the convention in 2000 for her speech. The campaign was trying to play up something about how she played the drums, never mind that she once led a movement to censor rock music.
Posted by: Dimmy Karras at April 29, 2004 12:01 PM...and she'd be the first African-American First Lady...which is cool, very cool. I just wish she was married to a Republican. Damn.
Posted by: J.Scott Barnard at April 29, 2004 2:05 PMThat guitar rules.
Sort of reminds me of a certain guitar that Kriston used to have.
Posted by: Seth at April 29, 2004 11:37 PM