May 27, 2004

Kerry's House of Ketchup #13

Kerry speaks.

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With Memorial Day festivities approaching what better addition to the brats, hot dogs, Italian sausage, and hamburgers everyone will be grilling than a big, tomato-y edition of Kerry's House of Ketchup? Did you know KHoK goes great with beer? How do you think I can get through this every week?

First, some articles of note.

Kerry has a campaign theme: "Let America Be America Again." What does this mean? It must be full of nuance that only a French intellectual can understand.

Kerry thought about going to his party's nominating convention and not accepting his party's nod to be better positioned financially against the Bush money machine. That ticked off local Bostonians and threatened to turn the convention into an event only seen on C-SPAN. The idea got nixed yesterday. Another flip-flop?

Charles Paul Freund has an interesting piece on political intimacy and how Kerry used his war experience to give himself "a personal narrative sufficiently powerful to overcome his stylistic and rhetorical weaknesses."

His "personal narrative" might not be enough in Ohio. One local union president said, "There is some uneasiness there. He [Kerry] does not come across to working class people as well as some did." Another local union president points out that Kerry voters are the ABB (Anyone But Bush) type: "The enthusiasm may not be there for Kerry, but there is a great enthusiasm for getting rid of Bush, and that is going to send Kerry to the White House."

Enough of me. Let's see what other webloggers are saying about Senator Zoop:

• Paul at Wizbang wonders how Kerry's new wings will help him better relate to us little people. When showing off the plane to reporters he couldn't help himself and made a Vietnam reference. It's an uncontrollable tick for this man.
  

• Robert Garcia Tagorda finds Kerry lacking in his response to President Bush's Iraq speech on Monday. [via PoliBlog]
  

• Senator Kerry tried to use Truman and Wilson as examples of Presidential nominees who delayed accepting their nominations. Too bad, he got his history wrong [and here].
  

• Bill Hobbs notes Kerry's (and Reuters') ignoble replies to Bush falling off a bike.
  

• Glenn Reynolds compares Kerry to Nixon, and it has nothing to do with Watergate or scandal.
  

• Anti-Bushies want Kerry to win so badly they're urging people to move to "Bleeding Ohio."
  

• At Ipse Dixit, we have Kerry waffling on Supreme Court justices. Don't forget Steven Taylor's take.
  

• At Oscar, Jr., we have evidence of Kerry waffling on Cuba.
  

• At Viking Pundit, Kerry might waffle on the Patriot Act. [Somebody get me some syrup. Just not from this guy's "endangered" state.]
  

• Senator Kerry (at least technically since he doesn't seem to represent Massachusetts much in Congress) missed another vote.
  

• John Cole points out that Kerry's campaign is raking in the dough.
  

• Power Line looks at the weirdness of a Kerry-McCain ticket.
  

• Letterman helps Kerry with his VP pick.

• Erick Erickson, along with his take on the lame campaign theme ("compassionate conservatism" wasn't much better for Bush), has a Kerry-ketchup joke. That pretty much guarantees a link in the KHoK.
  

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[Thanks go to the John F. Kerry Media Relations Center for the Sen. Zoop's "voice."]