Good. This story fills in the part of Kerry's Bio that was hazy. The "Boston Globe" is not a friend of Kerry, and they would have nailed him if they could
No, indeed, the Globe is no friend of Kerry. Here's the start of a story that was on today's front page:
To some constituents, Kerry still a puzzle
By Joanna Weiss, Globe Staff, 2/28/2004
NEW BEDFORD -- These days, it's hard to find a politician who's universally loved or even universally known. But there is something in the way Massachusetts natives will rant about the Kennedys, or rhapsodize about the late US Representative J. Joseph Moakley, that suggests an enduring image.
And then there is the way people tend to talk about Senator John F. Kerry. The one who's running for president. The Vietnam vet. The one whose wife is an heiress . . . right? "Married the Hunt's queen -- Heinz -- Heinz 57," said David Willis of Hull, sitting on the fishing boat Regina's Pride in New Bedford harbor, which had just arrived with a haul of monkfish. "Seems like he is spending a lot of his own money to get a job."
He has been Massachusetts' junior senator for two decades now, embroiled himself in countless domestic and foreign policy debates. But as his image takes shape on the national stage, Kerry's current constituents, quizzed at fishing docks and shopping malls, at parks and campuses, cite him as a perpetually fuzzy figure, tall and craggy-jawed, but hard to define.
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Helluva story for his hometown paper to run on a four-term Senator cruising to his party's nomination. |
