I had been supporting John Bolton for UN Ambassador but I’m having second thoughts. After reading about John Kerry’s use of campaign funds to pay his parking tickets, I think we should consider sending the Senator to the UN. He could use a set of those ticket-immune diplomatic plates. Of course there’s another solution. His wife could buy a few parking lots and sprinkle them around for him. [Did this man actually run for President?-ed. I think so. Can't remember.]
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1. Terrye:Roger, I have to say from what I hear he is still running.
a regular energizer bunny.
The Democratic primary is going to be a regular circus. Ms. Clinton will be doing well to avoid getting dragged into her campaign staff’s legal troubles as well.
May 4, 2005 - 8:03 am 2. Ed Poinsett:Like Wiley E. Coyote, the good Senator doesn’t yet realize he ran off the cliff a while back.
May 4, 2005 - 8:20 am 3. Ron:How many days has it been that Senator Kerry promised to sign the Form 180 so that everyone could see what he has been hiding all these years in his service records? What do the readers of this Blog think it could be, just what is it that Senator Kerry doesn’t want anyone to see.
This was about the time that Jimmy Carter was giving out Presidential Pardons for draft dodgers in Canada and others who had been acting in accord with Hanoi. He really should sign the document and let everyone take a look.
How long has it been that he promised to sign the form 180? Maybe the Boston Globe or the New York Time’s could ask him and get an answer.
May 4, 2005 - 8:31 am 4. David Thomson:ìMaybe the Boston Globe or the New York Time’s could ask him and get an answer.î
Hey, you are not being fair. How can the MSM spend time on John Kerry while Tom DeLay is still in office? You obviously donít have your priorities straight.
May 4, 2005 - 8:37 am 5. Ron:Did you see the one that Volcker let get away. http://acepilots.com/unscam In the New York Sun, Claudia Rosett really gives it to Volcker for not pursuing the money trail.
That 24/7 shredding for 7 months is going to come back to haunt Mr. Annan, he might think that it was just Spring Housekeeping but no one else does. Has Mr. Riza gotten the now famous $1.00 immunity package that everyone else has recieved along with his retirement or can he be subponed and put on the stand and sweated for information about the documents he got rid of in the back rooms of the United Nations? Senator Barbara Boxer thinks that John Bolton will be to mean to Kofi and crew. She really should get her head screwed on and think about the country she should be working for, the one she took an oath of allegiance to and not the UN Thugocracy. If the UN is worth saving it will take a person like Bolton and nothing less, maybe several of them.
May 4, 2005 - 8:50 am 6. harborman:Do we remember that this is a man who, along with his wife, caused a fire hydrant in front of his multi-million-dollar townhouse on Beacon Hill’s Louisberg Square to be moved some distance away, without consulting with his neighbors about thus imperiling their property, if not their lives, because he felt that the hydrant lowered the value of his property?
Just wondering . . . .
May 4, 2005 - 8:58 am 7. David:I have a good friend who is seriously in need of running for president. If I ran for president could I kiss speeding tickets goodbye?
May 4, 2005 - 10:01 am 8. Fresh Air:Ron–
In answer to your question, 94 days have passed since Senator “I don’t fall down” Kerry promised to sign his Form 180. It’s been rumored he requisitioned a pen, however, though it has not been confirmed.
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May 4, 2005 - 10:17 am 9. TigerHawk:No decently run public company in America would allow its employees to expense parking tickets, even if they were, er, “incurred” on company business. Not only is the idea inherently offensive, but it creates a moral hazard. Why would employees be careful about where they park if the company is going to indemnify them for the ticket?
So while it may be just fine under our laughable campaign finance laws for members of Congress and presidential candidates to use campaign funds to pay civil penalties — a parking fine is a civil penalty, in case nobody noticed — it is wholly inconsistent with the experience of most of the American electorate.
The interesting question is whether John Kerry understands that and does not care, or whether he just doesn’t understand it.
May 4, 2005 - 10:59 am 10. Ed Poinsett:How dare they issue him parking tickets. Don’t they know who he is?
May 4, 2005 - 12:05 pm 11. vegetius:I hope that where ever the 180 is stored, there is
24 hour video and other means of surveillance.
If he is going to run, he knows that 180 will have to be ‘ammended’. There are just enough
holdovers and apparatchiks in the DOD that would be more than willing to buff that file.
Sandy Beger has been excising records, so I have to assume that others of his ilk would be more than willing to do Kerry a favor.
May 4, 2005 - 12:06 pm 12. Hogarth:Does anyone remember the story about the six year old boy raising some money somehow (that particular detail escapes me and I’m too lazy to google it) and contributing it to Kerry’s campaign?
How do you think that kid feels about his money being used to pay parking tickets?
Why anyone would contribute one red cent to that pompous ass is beyond me.
Of course, that’s the way I felt about Clinton’s legal defense fund(s) too.
May 4, 2005 - 12:23 pm 13. Terrye:Hey, maybe someone will leak those records of Kerry’s. Everything else gets leaked, why not them?
May 4, 2005 - 12:29 pm 14. Syl:If Kerry truly does attempt to run again he will finally feel the humiliation. The only reason he was selected in the primaries was because the voters thought he was more ‘electable’ than Dean.
Next time around they won’t look twice at him. What reason would they have to think Kerry would be more electable in 2008 than he was in 2004? Besides I’m sure they’ll zero in on someone else who they decide will be more electable than Kerry.
May 4, 2005 - 12:33 pm 15. Sandy P:What do you expect from the Boston Brahmin?
It’s not like they got a fire hydrant moved so they could park in front of their house or anything.
May 4, 2005 - 2:32 pm 16. Sandy P:Kind of OT, Roger. Has any of your lib friends admitted they’re kind of glad Gore didn’t get elected after all his meltdowns?
May 4, 2005 - 2:33 pm 17. Pat Curley:I’m just happy that Kerry blew $3,000 on the tickets to see that Red Sox game where he “threw” out the first pitch (and bounced it in the dirt five feet before home plate). We had a lot of fun with that pitch; it was one of my favorite moments of the entire campaign.
May 4, 2005 - 3:30 pm 18. Kyda Sylvester:Now, now, Pat, you know that Senator “Reporting for Doody” bounced that pitch on purpose because he was trying to go easy on the inexperienced, nervous soldier who was catching. That shot of him right before he releases the ball is one of my favorites. Why his handlers continued to allow sports photo ops, I’ll never know–to say he throws like a girl is an insult to girls everywhere (and remember the hunting? oy vey). I just hope he’s able to stay in the ‘08 race long enough to get down and dirty with Hillary. (Scroll down to compare and contrast and remember that perfect pitch.)
May 4, 2005 - 5:30 pm 19. Charlie (Colorado):No decently run public company in America would allow its employees to expense parking tickets, even if they were, er, “incurred” on company business. Not only is the idea inherently offensive, but it creates a moral hazard. Why would employees be careful about where they park if the company is going to indemnify them for the ticket?
Uh, TigerHawk — God, I hate to be in the position of defending Kerry’s campaign — but where exactly do you live? In places like Boston, companies expense parking tickets for employees all the time; in general, if people doing things like making deliveries didn’t risk parking tickets on a daily basis, deliveries wouldn’t get made at all.
May 4, 2005 - 6:05 pm 20. neo-neocon:Yes, not only did Kerry run for President, but as many have pointed out, he seems to be aiming to run again.
I don’t think he will be nominated–fortunately–but I do think that, if nominated, he could get quite a few votes. I still sweat it out that we came as close as we did to electing him in 2004. If he starts running in 2008 I, for one, will probably start to have nightmares. He is like the Undead–rising, phoenix-like, from his own ashes (I know, I know, it’s a mixed metaphor).
As far as the recent promise he made to sign the Form 180 goes, it is so interesting how even this egregious failure to keep his own documented word is virtually ignored by the press. The guy has lived a charmed life, virtually never being called to account–except for us poor bloggers, and of course the “debunked” [sic] Swift Vets– for anything he says or does. I recently wrote this post about an on-air pledge Kerry made 33 years ago that–at least as far as I have been able to determine–has not been fulfilled yet.
May 4, 2005 - 8:31 pm 21. Pat Curley:Thanks for the memories, Kyda! Kerry’s sports photo ops were an endless source of amusement for us (I ran Kerry Haters). Remember “Lambert Field”? Remember him getting great applause in Ohio when he mentioned liking Buckeye football, so he tried the same line in Michigan?
Neo-neo, I’m with you on fear of Kerry, but the nomination in 2008 is going to Hillary if she wants it and we all know she does. The problem Kerry has is that everybody thought beating Chimpy Shrub McHitler was going to be easy, and since Kerry didn’t do it, he ran a terrible campaign. He did run a bad campaign in parts (like August-September), but still came within a touch of knocking off an incumbent President in wartime with low unemployment, low interest rates and low inflation.
The good thing is nobody really liked Kerry, they just tolerated him because they felt like “anybody but Bush. I do think that Kerry could be troublesome if he gets another chance, because he’s been gone over with the proverbial fine-tooth comb, and nobody’s going to be interested in the medals or his Senate testimony or his meeting with the North Vietnamese….
That’s a great post that Neo-neo wrote by the way, and it ties into something I’ve been blogging about. Off to link!
May 4, 2005 - 9:48 pm 22. rosignol:Sorry, diplomatic plates wouldn’t do Kerry any good- diplomatic immunity makes you immune to foreign laws, not those of your home country.
May 5, 2005 - 5:25 am 23. Buddy Larsen:That a piece of work like John Kerry could get 47% of the vote is beyond my capacity to understand.
May 6, 2005 - 6:08 pm