March 6, 2003
WHEN NON-IRISH EYES ARE FROWNING:
Roots (Dotty Lynch, Steve Chaggaris and Kelly Doherty, March 6, 2003, CBS News)Those dogged reporters at the Boston Globe have discovered that Sen. John Kerry did too say he was Irish. Refuting Kerry’s claim that he’s been "clear as a bell" in never claiming Irish heritage, the Globe found a statement in the Congressional record from March 18, 1986 in which Kerry told his colleagues, "For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contribution that Irish-Americans from the time of the Revolutionary War to the present, have made to building a strong, vibrant nation."
More interesting than any of the particulars is his attempt to deny the overall theme. Obviously a guy who's been signing himself "JFK" for forty years was intentionally comparing himself to the man, and it doesn't seem like he was selling himself as the WASP version. Posted by Orrin Judd at March 6, 2003 2:55 PM
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For decades he's been associating himself with Irish-American groups whenever possible, and when they call him a "great Irish-American" he never contradicted them. Today he's claiming this Congressional Record item was inserted by his staff without his knowledge, and that he didn't actually say that on the floor. The guy may not have outright lied personally, but he sure spent decades willfully deceiving.
Posted by: pj at March 6, 2003 5:30 PMKerry is a fraud and has been since his anti-war days when he threw away some one else's medals claiming they were his. Perfect Democrat.
Posted by: Thomas J. Jackson at March 7, 2003 12:03 AM