do you prefer the fake 'farmhand' routine laid out by the incumbent from kennebunkport....errr.crawford.

You poor guy. You're all alone in Seattle with your right-wing whining, aren't you? : (

Dinesh

Yes, I would prefer the "farmhand". He at least shows courtesy to those who support him.

I do not appreciate Mr. Kerry's aristocratic (and fake) attitude at all. He is King George revisited.

He takes the money, runs away from his own fund raiser to eat at a restaurant stiffing is own constituents? You gotta believe their are some very pissed off Democrats choking down their dinner at the hotel wondering why they came.

If I had paid $1000 for a fundraiser featuring a candidate who bailed to eat elsewhere, I'd draw enough conclusions about his character to switch parties immediately, and demand a refund in the next breath.

Tar and feathers...

gee, so what did ken lay get for all of his "donations" to bush?

i'm sure he made is speech, collected the checks and hit the door?

are you people either so naive or so partisan to see that the fundraising circuit is about collecting checks, making a speech, hitting the rope line for a few handshakes, then hitting the exit? oh, maybe some of you think that for $1000, that you get really tasty chicken or really tasty salmon?

please. find an issue.....say like the war in iraq, healthcare, education, stem cell research, the budget. republicans have all 3 branches of the federal govt (yes i'm including 5/9 of the supreme court) and most americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction. you can fool some people some of the time, but......

i'm no fan of kerry, but like i said, doing coke and alcohol from ages 20-40, waking up hungover on your 40th birthday, converting to fundamentalist christianity and getting a "call" from god does not qualify a person to be the president, even if his dad was. daddy's rolodex ain't that big. can recycle only so many cold-war veterans.

bush jr. is more properly the subject of a vh1 behind the music, not the white house.

but many of you think with partisan blinders, and could never accept the fact that your man is screwing this country. you whined about clinton's lack of (everything), yet you find it impossible to offer any critique of your own guy, and resort to this type of entertainment tonight style politics. please. get serious---after all its the leader of the free world we're talking here, not the co-star of the next tom cruise movie.

you guys are classic--read the whole article. he did not stiff his constituents.

now i know why 60% of americans believe that saddam was involved in 9/11.

Dinesh,

I read the whole article (again). What exactly do you think is in the article that I got wrong?

I believe that I read (or heard) that this was the wedding anniversary for that most romantic couple, John and Teresa. That would explain their private dinner.

And, to be fair, the fund raiser may have been scheduled by some one who did not know that.

All that said, John "Do You Know Who I Am" Kerry has a certain reputation back in Massachusetts. Think what he must have done to get most of the reporters at the Boston Globe to despise him. That wasn't easy considering how much they agree on issues.

Shark Man:

The article states:
"[John and Teresa Kerry] left last night's $1,000-a-plate fund-raiser at the Westin Hotel and had dinner at Canlis, overlooking Lake Union."

You write:

"...John Kerry snubbed even his most loyal fans..."

Where's the snub? He showed up, collected the checks and left. Nowhere in the article does it indicate that people were snubbed or felt snubbed.

So the man wanted to have an anniversary dinner with his wife. What's the big deal? Its not like he lied about WMD or something or the grave and gathering danger of saddam hussein.

Dinesh sounds a lot like Helen Thomas. You know Helen, she of the front row seat as part of the White House Press Core. She has warmed that chair since the Lincoln Administration. After another unhinged outburst from her, everybody just smiles and says, oh that's just Helen. Then they go on to something productive.

dinesh,
I would have said that George Bush doesn't make a good president just because he's W's father :)

"He showed up, collected the checks and left. Nowhere in the article does it indicate that people were snubbed or felt snubbed."

What in the F is your definition of snub, if not this?

And for the last time, it's George H.
W. Bush and George W. Bush. He's not a junior. (slapping forhead for the umpteenth time after reading a Dinesh post)

thanks for the lesson jimg. may i suggest you go to a major party fundraiser for either kerry or bush.

i like to call him jr. seeing that he has a nickname for everybody, i thought i'd give him one. and seeing that his closest advisors are retreads from his father, jr. seems fitting.