March 12, 2003
YOU CAN'T MAKE CHICKEN SALAD OUT OF JOHN KERRY:
Kerry to skip St. Pat's Day political roast (Joe Battenfeld, March 12, 2003, Boston Herald)His White House ambitions and a lack of Irish heritage make him the perfect target at Sunday's St. Patrick's Day political roast, but U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry apparently won't be there to take the heat. [...]Kerry's staff says that he had to cancel the South Boston roast after his surgery last month.
But the surgery hasn't stopped Kerry from making a number of other campaign events. He is slated to appear at a major Boston fund-raiser tonight, and travels to California this weekend for political events and fund-raisers.
Kerry is also planning to appear at another St. Patrick's Day roast - in New Hampshire - the following weekend.
The St. Patrick's Day event in South Boston, where the state's political titans exchange insults and jokes, could be particularly uncomfortable for Kerry this year.
The senator is in the midst of a presidential campaign and has taken some criticism for failing to refute several inaccurate reports in the Boston Globe that cited his Irish ancestry.
Not exactly a profile in courage there, JFK. Posted by Orrin Judd at March 12, 2003 8:30 AM
The great Kerry/St. Patrick's Day Roast story is, of course, when he was recognized by Billy Bulger, at the time President of the Senate and now President of UMass. Bulger said something like, "hey, there's JFK. Just For Kerry."
Posted by: David Cohen at March 12, 2003 8:52 AMI've stuck with Kerry as Senator for 12 years. My dream is that he gets the Dem nomination, gets crushed by Bush, and quits the Senate. I think the crushing is probable but the leaving the Senate part not probable as he is, as David notes, Just for Kerry
Posted by: AWW at March 12, 2003 10:41 AMKerry is the easiest Dem candidate to roast. Hard to see him winning anything, despite the proximity to NH. I still think Gephardt and Lieberman are the leaders.
Posted by: pj at March 12, 2003 10:46 AMKerry will coast in NH which has been won by every Massachusettan to run there except Ted Kennedy who nearly beat a sitting president.
Posted by: oj at March 12, 2003 1:51 PM