http://www.forbes.com/business/2004/02/13/cx_da_0213kerry.html?partner=netscape

Lyrics by Louis Prima:

Just a gigolo
everywhere I go
people know the part
I'm playing

Paid for every dance
selling each romance
every night some heart
betraying

There will come a day
youth will pass away
then what will they say
about me

When the end comes I know
they'll say just a gigolo
as life goes on
without me

(edited author)

Originally posted by Speed-ER doc
http://www.forbes.com/business/2004/02/13/cx_da_0213kerry.html?partner=netscape


Kerry had the good sense to marry a rich widow. That's a campaign issue? The fact is, all the greedy SOB right-wing nut cases who are making that an issue are seething with jealousy. And that's not the last thing Kerry is going to beat them out of.

So he cannot be bought. Perhaps he is driven by the ideal of public service - not power and money ? John

Originally posted by bernieunger
Kerry had the good sense to marry a rich widow. That's a campaign issue?
No, I think it was his SECOND rich widow, he dumped the first one for someone richer. And, yes, I think it will be a campaign issue. :D

Of course it will be a campaign isuue for some - any source of mud will do. Of course marrying your assistant and dumping the first wife is OK for a Republican candidate.

When will mud-slinging stop? Answer - Never

John

We won't have to worry about Kerry messin' around with the White House interns, though... they're broke college students, and wouldn't be worth the risk of his meal ticke... I mean, wife... divorcing him.

> 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.

Originally posted by Speed-ER doc
Lyrics by David Lee Roth: "Just a Gigolo"
Um, wrong. That would be Louis Prima. DLR did a remake.

Isn't everyone disgusted with partisan politics yet?

Originally posted by BOOSTD 7
Isn't everyone disgusted with partisan politics yet?
No way! It's much better than watching sitcoms or reality TV. Now when Spongebob is on....

Which office is he running for again?

At least Kerry didn't "cut in line" to get into the National Gaurd and avoid Vietnam.

I think it is funny with the republicans always bringing this crap up and talking family values. Yet they ignore that their messiah, Ronald Reagan, screwed around on his first wife and married Nancy Davis. Newt Gingrinch screwed around and dumped his first wife while she was in the hospital for an extended period of time. Nothing classier than that!

I say let the republicans go with their claim that they have "family values" and that non-republicans are philanderers. The best response then is all of us non-republicans don't have good family values but it is undeniable that we can pull the wool better than a republican. I can already see it now. They would then spew claims at how they have the values and are better wool pullers. They would prove this by increasing the budget deficit.