Anybody know if this is true about Kerry?

I did a quick search but was unable to find this or verify it was written by Howie Carr
(I like the change of motorcycle best)


From the New York Post

THE REAL KERRY

By HOWIE CARR


February 5, 2004 -- BOSTON

ONE of the surest ways to get the phones ringing on any Massachusetts talk-radio show is to ask people to call in and tell their John Kerry stories. The phone lines are soon filled, and most of the stories have a common theme: our junior senator pulling rank on one of his constituents, breaking in line, demanding to pay less (or nothing) or ducking out before the bill arrives.

The tales often have one other common thread. Most end with Sen. Kerry inquiring of the lesser mortal: "Do you know who I am?"

And now he's running for president as a populist. His first wife came from a Philadelphia Main Line family worth $300 million. His second wife is a pickle-and-ketchup heiress.

Kerry lives in a mansion on Beacon Hill on which he has borrowed $6 million to finance his campaign. A fire hydrant that prevented him and his wife from parking their SUV in front of their tony digs was removed by the city of Boston at his behest.

The Kerrys ski at a spa the widow Heinz owns in Aspen, and they summer on Nantucket in a sprawling seaside "cottage" on Hurlbert Avenue, which is so well-appointed that at a recent fund-raiser, they imported porta-toilets onto the front lawn so the donors wouldn't use the inside bathrooms. (They later claimed the decision was made on septic, not social, considerations).

It's a wonderful life these days for John Kerry. He sails Nantucket Sound in "the Scaramouche," a 42-foot Hinckley powerboat. Martha Stewart has a similar boat; the no-frills model reportedly starts at $695,000. Sen. Kerry bought it new, for cash.



Every Tuesday night, the local politicians here that Kerry elbowed out of his way on his march to the top watch, fascinated, as he claims victory in more primaries and denounces the special interests, the "millionaires" and "the overprivileged."

"His initials are JFK," longtime state Senate President William M. Bulger used to muse on St. Patrick's Day, "Just for Kerry. He's only Irish every sixth year." And now it turns out that he's not Irish at all.

But in the parochial world of Bay State politics, he was never really seen as Irish, even when he was claiming to be (although now, of course, he says that any references to his alleged Hibernian heritage were mistakenly put into the Congressional Record by an aide who apparently didn't know that on his paternal side he is, in fact, part-Jewish).

Kerry is, in fact, a Brahmin - his mother was a Forbes, from one of Massachusetts' oldest WASP families. The ancestor who wed Ralph Waldo Emerson's daughter was marrying down.

At the risk of engaging in ethnic stereotyping, Yankees have a reputation for, shall we say, frugality. And Kerry tosses around quarters like they were manhole covers. In 1993, for instance, living on a senator's salary of about $100,000, he managed to give a total of $135 to charity.

Yet that same year, he was somehow able to scrape together $8,600 for a brand-new, imported Italian motorcycle, a Ducati Paso 907 IE. He kept it for years, until he decided to run for president, at which time he traded it in for a Harley-Davidson like the one he rode onto "The Tonight Show" set a couple of months ago as Jay Leno applauded his fellow Bay Stater.

Of course, in 1993 he was between his first and second heiresses - a time he now calls "the wandering years," although an equally apt description might be "the freeloading years."

For some of the time, he was, for all practical purposes, homeless. His friends allowed him into a real-estate deal in which he flipped a condo for quick resale, netting a $21,000 profit on a cash investment of exactly nothing. For months he rode around in a new car supplied by a shady local Buick dealer. When the dealer's ties to a congressman who was later indicted for racketeering were exposed, Kerry quickly explained that the non-payment was a mere oversight, and wrote out a check.

In the Senate, his record of his constituent services has been lackluster, and most of his colleagues, despite their public support, are hard-pressed to list an accomplishment. Just last fall, a Boston TV reporter ambushed three congressmen with the question, name something John Kerry has accomplished in Congress. After a few nervous giggles, two could think of nothing, and a third mentioned a baseball field, and then misidentified Kerry as "Sen. Kennedy."

Many of his constituents see him in person only when he is cutting them in line - at an airport, a clam shack or the Registry of Motor Vehicles. One talk-show caller a few weeks back recalled standing behind a police barricade in 2002 as the Rolling Stones played the Orpheum Theater, a short limousine ride from Kerry's Louisburg Square mansion.

The caller, Jay, said he began heckling Kerry and his wife as they attempted to enter the theater. Finally, he said, the senator turned to him and asked him the eternal question.

"Do you know who I am?"

"Yeah," said Jay. "You're a gold-digger."

John Kerry. First he looks at the purse.

Howie Carr, a Boston Herald columnist and syndicated talk-radio host, has been covering John Kerry for 25 years.

 

Doesn't seem that much different to Bush or any other politician...

 

As much as I hate to admit it... sounds pretty typical of most Federal politicians. They all say they are for the common man but in reality they wouldn't have a clue what being a common man is.

 

funny how people are penalized for having money.

 

It isn't the fact that he has money, it's that he himself constantly blasts the rich, the special interests, the political insiders and the uncharitable.
Unfortunately, all those descriptions fit him to a T.

Kerry's biggest drawback, however, is that his political stand on anything depends on who he is talking to or about at the moment.

 

Kerry

i agree.

Kerry's opinons on an issue depends on who he's speaking to.
it's been proven, time and again.

most politicians will blast the rich and wealthy. it makes them sound as if they're for the little guy, and not backing his fellow fat-cats. it's all a game. after all, it's those fat-cats and their "chaitable donations" that got him there.............

 

Kerry frequently touts his status as a veteran. Here is the cover of the book he produced. It is a mocking depiction of the flag raising on Iwo Jima. Note the American flag is upside-down. When he ran for Congress he found it necessary to find and destroy as many copies of this book as possible.



Despite his claim to the veteran title, very few veteran's groups have any use for him.

 

Here is where you want to ask the question:

http://forum.johnkerry.com/

 

But there are bunch of Vietnam era vets that are fervently behind him. Obviously, right wing groups like the VFW won't support Kerry, that's a no brainer.

BTW, if Kerry looses the election to Bush, his anti-war activities will be looked on as his finest hour - he was very eloquent n his opposition to the war and was one of the more notable anti-war activists of his time, which is saying something.

And take what you read in the Boston papers with a pound of salt -- wasn't t the Boston Globe that broke the story of Bush being AWOL/deserting from the air national guard?

 

You can add Retired Gen. George S. Patton to the latter list, he reportedly stated that he considers Kerry's anti-war actions treasonous. And Senator John McCain, who has said that Kerry's anti-war escapades were used in mental torture of he and other American POW's.

Personally, I think he's pretty disgraceful. The lying about throwing his own medals on the ground at the Capitol, and the reports of his treatment of his ex-wife during a pretty difficult period in her life are telling. He's never done anything in his lifetime that reassures me that he has leadership qualities or ethics. Chasing wealthy heiresses seems to have been his only occupation outside of the political world. The Democrats surely can find a candidate more deserving of the Nation's respect.

 

Kerry

Mr. Kerry was in fact, in Vietnam.

However, he bacame a proud member of the "Jane Fonda" organization, upon returning home.

withing weeks of his return, He did nothing but publically bad mouth the governments involvement in the affair, and slander the soldiers in charge and still there......


yeah....i want this guy in office....... his ability to wear two faces was evident then, as it is now.

i don't need any more smoke blown up my ass..........

 

doesn't matter, this race is to see who the next guy to lose to george bush will be.

 

Talk about treason nixon and kissinger admitted that they convinced the s vietnamese to pull out of the paris peace talks just before the 68 election, to swing the very close election away from the dems -- the war dragged on for years milions died, inc about 12,000 Americans. They both deserve the gas chamber fo their treason. So much for their 'secret plan' to end the war.

 

Re: Kerry

its not smoke, but how does it feel?

 

dead Americans

Rodger Doyle....

your math is slightly off.....


57,939 American soldiers were killed in the South Vietnam War. 313,616 were wounded and 1,340 were declared missing in action.

this is as per the Lakewood War Casualties.

http://www.lkwdpl.org/mtn/index.html

and regarding the the "smoke"......you get used to it after a while.....

 

He's never done anything in his lifetime that reassures me that he has leadership qualities or ethics.

Doesn't seem that much different to Bush......

 

In fact, he doesn't seem that much different to any other politician...

 

Boris, cut the crap and get over to my photo contest thread and show me some knowledge of F1 history.

 

Hey, they're all crooked up here! The Kennedys have a lot of land in Hyannisport that would be swell for low-income housing on the Cape. I am not aware of anything Kerry has done in the Senate. He was Lt. Governor under Dukakis, which will probably provide additional ammo for Bush's team. It's not going to be pretty.

Interesting fact: The above mentioned William Bulger is the brother of James "Whitey" Bulger, who is currently at the top of the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list. Whitey was one of the leaders of the Winter Hill Gang. He disappeared after being tipped off by the FBI agent he was an informant for just before the arrest warrent was issued. Whitey is rumored to be hiding out in Ft. Lauderdale's gay community. The FBI agent is now in prison for ratting out his lower level informants to the mob, causing their executions.
Billy Bulger was recently forced out of his cushy University President job by the Gov., who refuses to believe he doesn't
have any contact with his bro.

A couple of years ago, Howie Carr suggested that the PC term for Indians should be "Casino-Americans".

 

Re: Kerry

These two letters concerning the first Gulf War were sent to the same person:

letter from Senator John Kerry to Wallace Carter of Newton Centre, Massachusetts, dated January 22 [1991]
"Thank you for contacting me to express your opposition ... to the early use of military force by the US against Iraq. I share your concerns. On January 11, I voted in favor of a resolution that would have insisted that economic sanctions be given more time to work and against a resolution giving the president the immediate authority to go to war."

letter from Senator Kerry to Wallace Carter, January 31 [1991]
"Thank you very much for contacting me to express your support for the actions of President Bush in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. From the outset of the invasion, I have strongly and unequivocally supported President Bush's response to the crisis and the policy goals he has established with our military deployment in the Persian Gulf."

It's deja' vu all over again.