Reply #6: Cute story. Wicked cute, promise [View All]

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From the Boston Herald story:

At the Berkshire Museum, Kerry said the Bush campaign brushed aside issues such as health care and the environment in 2004 by "day after day, beating the terrorism drum." Arching his eyebrows and his tone turning sarcastic, he later asked, "You see any of those color (terrorism) alerts since the election?"

Well, except for the recent false alarm in Washington, not many.

Kerry also forecast that the GOP Congress will "slam dunk" Bush's tax cuts to permanent status. "They vote so monolithic," Kerry said.

So the man from Massachusetts who might have been president is back home, mending political fences, treading some old paths. But last Thursday, he had a new traveling companion: a 5-month-old schnauzer whom Kerry, dog-sitting for the day, held in his lap as he was driven from stop to stop.

And there was something endearing about the almost-leader of the free world standing on the curb by a Berkshires ice cream store, eating a frozen treat and cradling that puppy as protectively as some military aide might have held the fabled nuclear-code football if Kerry, not Bush, were in the White House now.