NOT FOR EVERYONE In spite of any positive affects film actress Greta Garbo's traditionally overstated desire to be " left alone". I have always held firm to a more positive form of expressing one's latent personal pride and gratitude for being are whatever level one might have attained to at any given moment.
Other persons, some of them being "stars" as well in their own right, have consistently said it never to be good be "alone" for stars to be alone too long. It is true, perhaps, that once fame is gained in the entertainment world your life - or much of it - belongs to your fans and financial supporters. They see it to be to their advantage to keep you going and they tend to view you as an investment to be protected and available to be available to be stroked and admired from time-to-
time.
There are many ways in which a candidate can let his supporters know that he is ready to run for a political office and just being coy in seeming to hesitate and ask outright for help in doing so. I think we can safely say it is the political party group which brings about the individual who is to
run. He is, after all, doing so in their name. Each can look forward to praise if all goes well; if mishaps occur, which does happen, one can always blame it on the other.
To me, the rather casual manner in which John Kerry has announcement that may, possibly, seek the Democratic Party's approval for him to make a second run for the office of President under their banner was set forth rather timidly.
It seems to me he might have better attracted the attention of those who matter in the Democratic Party as it exists today, if he had chosen a more active, more compelling path. The announcement should have come to us in the form of a gentle, even modest rebuke by John Kerry to a trio of sturdy, loyal Kerry supporters demanding via every media muscle available that the American people - deluded and grossly misled at every turn - be now be given a fair chance to elect the right man for the Oval.
A second John Kerry campaign could be a political disaster. He had best stand clear of it all this time perhaps borrowing Greta Garbo's famous line: "I vant to be alone!"
Surely, John has been told that '08 is Hillary's year!
A. L.M. April 23, 2006 [c426wds]
