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JEALOUS KERRY FUMES AS DEM BOOSTS HILL

by Open-Publishing - Monday 25 April 2005
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A fuming John Kerry had "daggers in his eyes" after a fellow Democrat promoted Hillary Rodham Clinton for president - suggesting the 2004 loser is green with envy at a potential rival.

The flap was touched off two weeks ago when Clinton spoke at a Minneapolis Democratic dinner and Sen. Mark Dayton (D-Minn.) told the cheering crowd that he was introducing "the next great president of the United States."

Two days later, Kerry came over to Dayton on the Senate floor "with daggers in his eyes and said, ’What are you doing endorsing my 2008 presidential opponent?’ . . . He was very serious," Dayton told the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Clinton’s office declined comment but a friend tut-tutted: "Boys will be boys, even when they are senators."

Kerry spokesman David Wade tried to make light of the story, claiming "some lines must have gotten crossed in his retelling of this particular conversation" - and insisted they were mostly "joshing" about hockey.

But Dayton’s office says the "daggers in his eyes" report was accurate and Dayton has no quarrel with it.

At the April 9 Minnesota dinner, Dayton made it clear that touting Clinton for president was his own idea, saying it was an "unauthorized" introduction - but she did nothing to dispute it.

Dayton was also quoted as offering a blunt explanation - not very flattering to Kerry - about why he favors Clinton for 2008 after backing Kerry last year: "As Winston Churchill once said, I’d rather be right than consistent."

Kerry, who will visit Minnesota on May 3, has left little doubt that he yearns to run for president again in 2008, but trails Clinton in every poll of Democratic preference by margins approaching 2-1.

A Marist College poll in February asked Americans who would get their vote if the 2008 primary were being held today. Thirty-nine percent said Sen. Clinton and only 21 percent said Kerry.

In Minnesota, Clinton thrilled Democrats with her red-meat speech, accusing President Bush of ushering in "a brave new world of extremism."

She painted Republican lawmakers as "extras in the movie ’I, Robot’ " and said Bush’s call for an "ownership society" amounts to trying to turn America into a "you’re-on-your-own society."

Clinton’s fiery speech contrasted with her recent highly publicized moves to the center.

Meanwhile, Kerry - and his outspoken wife Teresa Heinz Kerry - are increasingly claiming he was robbed last November and should have won.

http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/45050.htm

Forum posts

  • Kerry is a LIAR and a LOSER!!
    He promised his supporters he would fight to make sure every vote was counted and then he conceeded before the votes were counted.
    He has NO support anymore, he will go nowhere in a Presidentil race. I know people who have switched from the Democratic Prty to unenrolled because of him.
    Mr. Kerry... "You should be ashamed of yourself!"

    • in that the left consists entirely of liars, losers and lamebrains, he is exactly what you deserve. Accept no substitutes.

  • People who want real change have to move away from the notion that a rich all-star candidate is the only thing that will knock out the Republicans in 2008. Kerry proved that the Democrats are just as corrupt as the GOP and Bill Clinton now hangs out with the Bushes every chance he gets. So Hillary, who sacrificed her credibility by sticking with her philandering husband and all his political contacts, would merely stay the course of American self-destruction we have seen in recent years. It’s time to 1) fix the voting system and 2) throw out a fresh, unaffiliated face with some new ideas to re-energize the country.

  • Happy to see that far left and far right meet. For the rest, you should read the Boston Herald on the same subject. Though they are also a right wing rag, htey have a little more perspective.

    Congratulations to you all, new Bush supporters.

  • She’ll get the 2008 nomination like she got the 2004 nomination, never, because she’ll keep "testing the water" until the pool freezes over.

    We went through all this last time, remember?

  • My thoughts about Hiliary as a candidate for President are - would people really want to see Bill Clinton "back in the White House?" Don’t get me wrong, I do basically like Bill, but I think that people would think back to "Monica" and remember....
    Bill could likely be detrimental to a serious "Hiliary for President" campaign.
    I also don’t think that Kerry will ever get another nomination from the party. We are all still recovering from the mindboggling blow received in November.
    But I think we will see John Edwards for sure....

  • Kerry, Kucinich, Clinton or Dean. The former Vietnam veteran Kerry has lost because of his military stunts. The democratic party or the republican party there is no difference.

  • coming from ruport’s rag du jour, I don’t believe a word of it. this is the type of stuff rush and hannity love to take and make an hour long segment of. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

    "hey bush herd, the democrats are fighting, isn’t that funny? that’s why we’re the best, we all stroke each other, have you heard of terry schiavo? no?, here’s a few hours of that, all better?"

    meet your actors in the great american day dream, they all star in the same movie your watching

    new world order = the end justifies the means

    widescale corruption and greed is the sign of the end for all great fascist empires, when leaders place themselves above the law, the road is set, better start pretending you like the government soon, the next step is when your neighbors start ratting you out for dissent to the feds

    I’m sure there are plenty of anne coulter neo-con-neo-lib types out there who would love to see their neighbor with their anti-war sticker sent to a crematorium and probably help herd them into cattle cars

    we’re talking about people who think murder, rape(of children), and torture is the product of a few bad apples, well, those bad apples don’t fall far from the tree, and the tree’s roots are underneath your feet, firmly planted

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  • Who cares about the quibbling of two rich Yalies, one of whom is a self-proclaimed lame duck and the other a lame loser. And, who cares about the scribblings of a New York Post wonkette, anyway. Bellaciao should take this crap down.

    • No one is forced to come here. If you do not like the freedom of Bellacio and the non censorship policies you do not need to come here. Although some of the things posted here are not worthy of the time it takes to read them, I really like that there are news reports here that never make it to the plastic tabloid t.v. news reports.

      Thanks Bellacio for the tiny slice of free press left in the U.S.A.

    • Is the "plastic" pulp news - and of the Rupert Murdoch variety at that - any better? If you want to read the Post, then go out and buy it. And, it’s spelled "BellaciAo."

    • What is that supposed to mean?

  • One would think Sen. Kerry might be content to simply live out the rest of his days enjoying the largesse of the second fabulously wealthy woman he married.

    Senator, you lost. Please go quietly and preserve what dignity you have left.