AP's Mary Dalrymple GORES Kerry for wearing a jacket

[Sparkly]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041017/ap_on_el_pr/kerry

Kerry, in Ohio, Tries Average-Guy Look

Sun Oct 17, 6:52 AM ET

By MARY DALRYMPLE, Associated Press Writer

WAKEFIELD, Ohio - John Kerry (news - web sites) put on brown corduroy pants and a mustard yellow jacket to spend a chilly autumn day in Ohio, just an average guy looking for votes from average Ohioans.

The Democratic presidential candidate started and ended the day by appealing directly for support in one of the election's most important battlegrounds. Between campaign stops, Kerry sold himself as a hunter, a churchgoer and a neighbor.

There were reminders along the way that a presidential candidate isn't just a regular guy.

In Jeffersonville, Ohio, Kerry stopped at Mick and Larry Garringer's pumpkin patch. He sat in a rocking chair on their front porch and sipped cider with former astronaut and senator John Glenn. Ladies lined up for hugs as he left.


Again, they insist the Chimp is a "regular guy," but if Kerry wears that jacket he's pretending somehow. He's "selling himself AS" something. Grrrrrr....

[NMDemDist2]

1. he has been wearing that jacket since the primaries in Iowa and NH

this is news?

here's from last February

[spanone]

2. Hey Mary, get a real job. You're posing as a journalist. Not working.

[billbuckhead]

5. What a non story

[alcuno]

3. I LOVE that jacket and remember it from last spring.

Meanwhile * is wearing some gray rag to match his gray head. Love the contrast.

BTW - if you step back from the story, it isn't wrong. I don't see the word "pretending."

[Rose Siding]

4. AND she says he has a taste for foreign ice cream

snip>
Kerry searched an ice cream cooler for a Haagen Dazs bar. Finding none, he paid $140 for his hunting license and headed to a rally in Wakefield.
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This piece looked like a Goring to me, too, but I checked her other AP work and a cursory read makes her seem more serious than this. Either it's innocent or a new treatment is kicking in.

[fofer]

6. Haagen Dazs isn't foreign

. . .even though it sure sounds it! It originated in New York:

http://www.haagendazs.com/coicoi.do

I'm with Kerry. It's good stuff. :-)

[Rose Siding]

25. Of course- it's just the sound and the way it was written

They didn't have toney ice cream, so he didn't get any. -saying it was foreign was kind of a joke. ha. ha.....

[fofer]

31. Gotcha. . .

. . .the name definitely does sound European, I agree. :-)

[NYCGirl]

9. As creepy as the article is, it made no mention of "foreign" ice cream.

Unless everyone thinks Haagen Dasz is foreign.

[Rose Siding]

27. A small (imperceptable) joke about the sound of the words

That he didn't settle for anything else was kind of the point of the author's sentence, I guess. Anyway, it made me want to check her other pieces and they looked ok.

[slor]

7. Sorry folks, but she is right...

a mustard yellow jacket is regarded, in many cultures around the world, as THE definitive indication of a person's proclivity for hating freedom.

[Jackpine Radical]

14. Not to mention, it often indicates

that the wearer is trying to conceal mustard stains acquired in the process of eating different kinds of fancy French food.

[Eurobabe]

8. Kerry has worn this jacket before

this reporter is an idiot. He wore it in Iowa during the primaries.

'Nuff said.

I am so sick of these partisan HACKS!

[AP]

10. Did she mention that Emperor Bush is naked and doesn't know difference

between Sweden and Switzerland.

[noamnety]

11. obviously kerry is trying to trick us

I bet when the cameras are off, he wears a tuxedo jacket everywhere.

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. Heehee

:evilgrin:

[sadiesworld]

16. I'm thinking it's a knee-length chinchilla number.

[noamnety]

30. I heard his chincilla one is diamond encrusted (nt)

[tblue37]

23. yeah--and a top hat!!

[w4rma]

13. Fire Mary Dalrymple. What a crock of a story. (nt)

[debatepro]

15. Nice jacket

anyone know the brand and were I can get one?

[Renew Deal]

17. Oh bullshit

He has used that jacket on cold days for as long as I can remember. It's BS.

[slor]

18. We may have overlooked the BIG story here...

my friends, though it was alluded to by an observant member. Is John Forbes Kerry cheating on his wife? By wearing a mustard yellow jacket, he is clearly trying to conceal his use of French's Mustard, which may very well reveal his distaste for Heinz Ketchup. That dirty bastard!

[LizW]

19. Oh, my god. Did she just recycle this story

from the primary season, replacing "Wes Clark" with "John Kerry" and "sweater" with "jacket"?

We're electing a president for god's sake. Get with the program, Mary.

[ollie3]

21. WTF? Is this a fashion show or a campaign you are reporting?

This reporter must think that this is a fashion column being written? Sheez....

[riverwalker]

20. "Win, will you?"

I like what Father Lawrence Hummer said:
"There are many people who think that the destruction of Iraqi life is as direct an assault on the sacred as is the taking of unborn life. There are many people who regard the death penalty as an admission of the smallness of our nature rather than evidence of our greatness."
"God bless you. Win, will you?" Hummer told Kerry after mass ended.

[tblue37]

28. As much as I dislike Maureen Dowd,

she said something intelligent about the conservative archbishops who are calling a vote for Kerry a sin, and what she said applies also to the fundamentalist "Christians" who support Bush because of his antiabortion stand. She called those archbishops embryo-centric.

It's true. The only lives they seem to care about are embryos, and "violence" matters only if it is done to an embryo, even if that embryo consists of only a few cells and is no bigger than the head of a pin.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

29. I agree with you on both points, generally disliking MoDo and agreeing

with the embryocentric thing. I guess once you're out of the womb, you musta done SOMETHING to earn your fate, eh? :shrug:

[goclark]

22. If this is all they can't find

to pick on him for, let it roar!

They are picking at straws that can't blow with this stuff.

[JPace]

24. Some people have a difficult time understanding

that money does not always define who you are. Kerry
was raised with privilidge but has "class". That certain
something that manages to avoid arrogance by being rooted
in true humility. The Bushes have money but no class,
in fact I think they are "white trash" but have escaped
the poverty usually associated with that term.

[Mr_Spock]

26. MARY DALRYMPLE - good for nothing

She mine as well be Annthrax "the whore" Coultergeist

[atommom]

32. Puh-leeze. Bush is about as far from a "regular guy" as he can possibly

be. I still don't understand how he sold himself as an average Joe, when he has shown so much contempt for average Joes during his career. :shrug: