STUBBORN HOLDVERS
You may well have noticed a few of them in your own special field of interest, as well as in political and business affairs we share - persistent points of potential action which , while they have been in place for some time, simply refuse to go away.
One such story awaiting ignition is that which sees Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton springing forth ready to become the savior of the Democratic Party when it appears evident that the
Democratic National Convention, meeting in Boston within a few weeks, may find it difficult to support Senator John Kerry as the party's official banner waver this time around.
The H. Clinton move, of course, depends on how the Kerry “Bloody Shirt” campaign gets along. He insists on going back and again his rather lackluster military career as the main area of comparison with incumbent George Bush's National Guard participation. Kerry's efforts have not been received with any great enthusiasm. I don't think the American people have been as distrubed by revelations concerning Kerry's past as much asd they were expected to do by Republican party planners./ Such things have to be extreme now-a-days to shock average Americns hardened to such things by history and television treatment thereof. If it all depended on the remarkably severe broad-axe job C-Span aired early this week concerning John Kerry's wartime role. Either insufficient numbers viewed the hour long condemnation of just about everything Senator Kerry has allowed to be published concerning his dramatic four-months of heroic battle action. All of the participants = every one of them-officers and enlisted men – were member of the the very same “Strike Boat” crews in which John Kerry served and their condemnation was strikingly severe.
Any Boston-bound Democratic leader who saw that C-Span telecast by U.S.Navy Strike Boat personnel, each of whom had served at least a full year of duty, must be having some serious second thoughts about naming Kerry as their symbol of the typical wounded American hero
Another pesky idea which is hanging around/
What if candidate John Kerry shifts back to insisting that he was right when he led war protesters after he returned from Viet Nam? As and all=out “Peace” candidate, he might make it, if he can make skillful use and misuse of the present Iraqi prison scnadal and other anti-war clusters now plaguing George W. Bush.
Other such ideas which won't go away include: Will Michael Jakson go free? How many years wiil Martha Stewart be imprisoned? Several murder trials will decide if “he” did it or not or not.. In London, England it will continue to be illegal for one to feed the pigeons in Trafalgar Square making one subject to arrest for doing so. In style:”Pencil skirts”are in this year.
A.L.M. May 5, 2004 [c472ds]
