May 26, 2004
DOES ANY DEMOCRAT LIKE HIM?:
Daley says Kerry went too far with joke about president's fall (Chicago Sun-Times, May 26, 2004)
Mayor Daley scolded Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry Tuesday for making a wisecrack about the bicycle accident that scraped the face, hands and knees of President Bush.Posted by Orrin Judd at May 26, 2004 10:47 AMAccording to the Drudge Report, Kerry was having a conversation with reporters that he apparently believed was off the record when he reportedly asked, "Did the training wheels fall off?"
Daley, who ripped the skin off his kneecap during a bicycle accident a few years ago, said the joke was disrespectful. "When someone falls . . . you should not wish ill upon anyone. It's not right. . . . You just don't do that. Let's have some respect for one another."
At least Bush didn't blame his Secret Service
agent for knocking him down as Kerry did out
in Sun Valley.
When Dem's berate you for disrespectful talk
you know you've gone too far.
Kerry sounds more like Tom Dewey every day.
Posted by: jim hamlen at May 26, 2004 11:06 AMWhat the h*ll is it about politicians and bicycles? Every week another one bites the dust, now it's Daley. Does Ted "whale blubber" Kennedy ride a bicycle?
Posted by: h-man at May 26, 2004 11:12 AMAARRGHH!! the thought of Splash Kennedy on a bicycle almost led me to tear my eyes out. The only way I could imagine Splash in a human-powered vehicle would be himself guzzling a gin and tonic in a rickshaw being pulled by a sweating tubercular Chinaman.
Posted by: John Cunningham at May 26, 2004 11:29 AMAARRGHH!! the thought of Splash Kennedy on a bicycle almost led me to tear my eyes out. The only way I could imagine Splash in a human-powered vehicle would be himself guzzling a gin and tonic in a rickshaw being pulled by a sweating tubercular Chinaman.
Posted by: John Cunningham at May 26, 2004 11:30 AMAARRGHH!! the thought of Splash Kennedy on a bicycle almost led me to tear my eyes out. The only way I could imagine Splash in a human-powered vehicle would be himself guzzling a gin and tonic in a rickshaw being pulled by a sweating tubercular Chinaman.
Posted by: John Cunningham at May 26, 2004 11:32 AMChicago is the last bastion of the old pre-1968 Democrats - things get done to serve the people, not some academic's theories. While the Democrat leadership elsewhere is thinking of the next oddball thing, Chicago Democrat leaders obsess on the fact that if the streets aren't plowed in winter, you lose your job.
As a result, there are almost no Republicans in Chicago. The idea that Chicago will ever have a Republican mayor, like Giulani in NY or Riordan in LA, in the near term is ridiculuos.
Daley is famous for his misquotes and gaffs, so falling off a bat is no surprise. However, he's also very well respected as a canny political operator and he's done much to revitalize the city. But he had a good teacher in his dad.
Posted by: Chris Durnell at May 26, 2004 11:56 AMUnlike his Dad in 1960, I do not think this Mayor Daley will work up ticket in the fall elections. If there are no state or local offices being contested, they may just stay home.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at May 26, 2004 12:22 PMWasn't Daley Gore's campaign manager in 2000? If he and the other Dems stay out in the fall (as Robert suggests) the GOP might do ok in IL (Ryan for Senator?)
Posted by: AWW at May 26, 2004 3:27 PMMayor Daley wasn't the manager. I think his brother, Bill - the former Transportation Secretary, might have been a manager.
The Machine doesn't work anymore the way Robert Schwartz suggests. The dead just don't vote that often anymore.
I'm not sure Ryan will win the Senate seat. From what I hear Obama is a good candidate, and IL bucked the 2002 GOP trend anyway.
Posted by: Chris Durnell at May 26, 2004 6:30 PMI find it hard to believe that the Chicago Democrats will work hard to get out the vote for a U of Chicago Professor running against an Irish guy.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at May 26, 2004 11:29 PM