BG: O'Reilly agreed to drop SBVT issue "after speaking with Kerry" [View All]

[beachmom]

I didn't see this April 6th BG story posted anywhere. It largely deals with everyone "lining up" to challenge Kerry in the 2008 Senate re-election campaign:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/04/06/candidates_line_up_to_face_kerry/

I thought this part was unfair, considering how often we have read of Kerry making visits to various parts of Mass.:

"There is an extra challenge to going against an incumbent, but not when they haven't delivered," Ogonowski said yesterday in a phone interview. "You don't see him in Massachusetts. He's more interested in being a national figure than a representative of the people of Massachusetts."

Kerry, in his fourth six-year term, has not faced a serious challenge since Governor William F. Weld, a Republican, in 1996, and even fellow Democrats joke about Kerry's absence from Massachusetts. At the Saint Patrick's Day Breakfast last month, Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea Cabral compared him to Halley's Comet, appearing quickly every six years.

But lately his public appearances have seen a noticeable uptick. Over the past week, the junior senator was in Roxbury and Lawrence to talk about home foreclosures, and stopped by the opening ceremony for a Coast Guard command center. Tomorrow he is scheduled to be at a State House hearing on federal immigration raids in New England.

Lately? He has been doing this for quite some time making a lot of appearances in 2007, and really, he has been making appearances in Mass. post 2004. I remember watching video of him in Worcester, not to mention his Faneiul Hall speeches. Why don't the yahoos at the BG do their homework? As if they're not receiving press releases every time he makes an appearance in Mass.

But I digress. Here was the part of the article that caught my eye:

O'Reilly says Kerry did not oppose the Iraq war strongly enough and that spending on the war has diverted money from other areas such as education. In a previous interview with the Globe, O'Reilly also contended that issues raised by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth reflected poorly on Kerry's character, although he said yesterday that after speaking with Kerry, he agreed to drop that issue.

Thoughts?