Reply #30: There is nothing called the NY Times Sunday Magazine [View All]

[karynnj]

there is a NYT Magazine. The only Kerry article did NOT include that story. It was an excellent interview on Kerry's view of the War on Terror. It is one of the things that led to George Will's comment that Kerry was right. The comment you refer to has circulated in RW circles and is something that Howie Carr and similar RW people in Boston have pushed.

People who know Kerry have referred to him using words like; gentleman, polite, kind, and caring. There was a recent story in a Boston paper of Kerry and a young injured serviceman who was returning to MA after undergoing rehab in DC. By chance, he was next to Kerry on the plane. Kerry immediately stuck up a conversation with him, after talking about Iraq, they spoke of the Red Soxes. Hearing that the soldier, a huge Red Sox fan, had never had the money to get tickets, Kerry made a phone call and invited the man to join him at a game which he did. The soldier's description of Kerry was a that he was a very nice doen to earth guy who was easy to talk with.

There was also the story where Kerry was on Jury duty. His fellow jury members all liked him and said he encouraged everyone to speak and was a very nice guy. One woman told the reporter that she regretted her vote for Bush.

It is very clear that Kerry was smeared in many ways - but if you look back at his life, he had to be an incredibly nice guy. It is pretty rare when an ex-wife refers to an ex-husband as "having incredible compassion and committment" and being a "very good man" as Julia Thorne did several years ago when interviewed in the Boston Globe when she published a book on depression. How do you explain that Kerry was elected as both a Junior and Senior at Yale to head the (bipartisan) political union which brought in political speakers - even though he was a passionate Democrat in a mainly Republican school? How in high school is a not extraordinarilly talented boy become part of a rock band? How do you explain all the comments in his Navy fitness reports - where several superior commented on how devoted his sub-ordinates were to him.

Kerry might not be an extroverted charmer like Clinton, but between the two I think it's obvious who would be the better friend.