WASHINGTON — Just three months after losing his campaign to be president of the United States, a politically wounded and weary Senator John Kerry took a routine fact-finding tour of the Middle East. It was one of countless overseas trips Kerry had taken in his two decades in Congress. But this time, those accompanying the Massachusetts Democrat noticed something was different.
On the return leg of the trip, during a late night stroll to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, a crowd spontaneously gathered around the former Democratic nominee for the White House. They reached to shake his hand. They snapped his photo. They peppered him with questions about the Iraq War. He had attracted similar swarms in Israel, Iraq, Jordan, and the Palestinian territories.
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What idiots write this gabage?
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I was reading with some assumption of accuracy on the part of the Globe until I got to the part where Kerry threw his medals over the White House fence in 1971, followed by the part where he wore them to the Gridiron dinner last year. Did the White House return them? or did the reporters think readers could "get" the subtle coverage? In the timeline, they were just "medals", not his. What would have been the point of that?
Real story as I'm old enough to remember: he threw his own medals over the fence to make what I thought was a valid point at the time; I admired him for it. Then I moved to MA and found out it was phony gesture, changing my opinion of him. How much else in this story did the reporters get wrong?
a phony and a disgrace....perfect for an Obama post
Why the long face?
When the Globe says "A Post Kerry is prepared to tackle" does that mean that, as chariman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he is prepared to question the current Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton about what she knew about the Benghazi, Libya attack and when she knew it? And why Hillary blamed the attack on a Video?