By John Burtis
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Well, it appears that John Kerry, taking leave of his usual potshots at President Bush, his contorted labyrinthine ideas for managing Iraq, his waffling on the numerous votes for prosecuting the war, and his attempts to hog the camera in Bill Clinton's absence, slipped quietly into New Hampshire on the fifth anniversary of 9/11, for a backyard keening session.
No, Mr. Kerry didn't enter the Granite State to quail about the administration's handling of the war or to expound on yet another attack by the Swift Boat veterans, who continually dredge up the iffy aspects of his career, which swim in his murky wake, but to grovel in supplication before a number of households in Keene and to hide.
So quiet was Mr. Kerry's entry and exit that the Weather Channel never showed a pip of traffic trouble on their cable site for southwest New Hampshire area. His long line of upscale SUV's apparently had little impact on the Sunday drivers, the local rubber-neckers, bicyclists, hikers, Wandervgel, and the local gendarmes had little to do, save ticket double-parkers.
PoliticsNH.com reports that a hundred people showed up for the monotonic patrician's chinwag and a door-to-door neighborhood ramble in the company of Maggie Hassan, a Democratic state senator from Exeter, from the far side of New Hampshire.
Ms. Hassan, a long time Kerry supporter, and Mr. Kerry, were joined in this vast enterprise by Ms. Molly Kelly, reportedly the single Democrat occupying the last and best hopes for dislodging a Republican state senate seat this fall.
accompanied by these storied women, who hold his local Kerry organization's hopes for 2008 in their hands, Mr. John Kerry of Beacon Hill, of the St. Paul's School in Concord, the illustrious Winter Soldier, whose fictive expressions of war guilt still ring down to us today – of heads, and arms - held forth for assembled town's folk on the sod in a back yard, his favorite haunt of late.
In that cozy setting in New Hampshire, with innocence abroad on the granite which lies below the grass, Maggie Wood Hassan described the new carnauba waxed Mr. Kerry observed perorating by the trellis. "He was crisper and stronger."
and it must be said that this clutch, numbering, so the article says, close to a hundred, clearly consisted of more supporters than that poor bedraggled assembly which recently greeted Mr. Kerry in Iowa, whose empty photos still clog the internet.
But, the story concludes, Ms. Hassan has not yet made up her mind about throwing the same amount of personal resources at Mr. Kerry as she shed in 2004, after he seemed to squander it all in his sweaty fustian lurching toward the Presidency.
"I think it's too early to know that," she explained, according to PoliticsNH.
So, there we have it.
Mr. Kerry is sneaking into New Hampshire on the fifth anniversary of 9/11, to share his wit and humor with a klatch of folks in Keene, rather than be seen, like Mr. Clinton and the other members of the Democratic leadership who were playing hide and seek, on this day of days.
Like every major progressive politician, 9/11 is remembered only once a year, on the anniversary of its occurrence, and then every golden pheasant wearing a Democratic golden party pin will be out of town. and small town New Hampshire is as good a place to be as any when you're ducking out of sight. and for a man like Mr. Kerry, lying doggo must be excruciating.
To be caught near a microphone and a camera in a major city would mean a comment on this dastardly attack – a retort which might bite one later.
and then Mr. John "Live Shot" Kerry - having gathered wool, bent his ear, rolled his eyes, jawed himself hoarse, littered the yard with painful amends, incessantly begged forgiveness, promised a better run campaign in the future and a more concentrated attack on Mr. Bush - departed for his lumbering wagon train and a vaporous return to the land of higher taxes, Mr. Kennedy, a runaway Supreme Judicial Court, and the Big Dig – home, sweet, home.
Of course, I wonder if anyone in attendance questioned Mr. Kerry on his support for ending the New Hampshire primary's pre-eminence and the insertion of those in Nevada and South Carolina.
These are designed to directly blunt the influence of the primary in New Hampshire, the last one in america which forces presidential candidates to actually meet and greet the voters, rather than rely upon the big city political machines and the mountains of money – to the delight of Mr. Soros, MoveOn.org, Howard Dean, and the leading Democrats in the US Senate.
But, alas, Mr. Kerry is crisper and stronger, now, and is, most likely, more able to skirt such questions about the wishes of the dreaded people and the vanishing need to wallow among them.
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