Massachusetts Senator John Kerry dissed his former running mate and the junior senator from New York who endorsed his 2004 presidential bid (does that make Kerry a misogynist?) in favor of upstart Barack Obama. As he endorsed Obama, Kerry remarked,
“Sometimes the hardest thing for the established political world to do is make a clean break with the past, to readily embrace new thinking and a new beginning. The old guard sometimes has a hard time acknowledging an individual who breaks the mold.”
"Old guard." Hmmm, I wonder to whom Kerry may be referring. Never mind. It will come to me, I'm sure.
To be fair, Kerry may not have endorsed Obama completely out of spite for Edwards and Hillary. It was the junior senator from Massachusetts who propelled Obama to the national stage when he invited the junior senator from Illinois to give the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic convention.
My cynical self is telling me that this endorsement is more a cry for relevance than a sincere gesture. I mean, who's even cared what John Kerry thinks since he lost the last presidential election? Since then, the only headline he was able to grab had to to with a "botched" joke, the brunt of which was our men and women in uniform in Iraq. The joke was on Kerry when our soldiers "retaliated." Here's that memorable photo:
Kerry, the irrelevant, wants to be where it's at. What hip factor would there be if he endorsed his former running mate or "Old Guard" Hillary?
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