Apologies if this is a repeat. I didn't see this posted on this forum (though I might have missed the post. . . just did a quick scan), but just in case you didn't see this first time around, here, from the August 29 oped page of the NYT, devoted to convention memories of various democrats (McGovern, Hart, Ferraro,Jackson, Ted Sorensen, Frank Manckiewicz), is John Kerry's chosen memory:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/opinion/29kerry.html
A Safe Harbor
We were together once again on the deck of a boat. Four years ago at the Democratic convention in Boston, I arrived on a ferry with 12 of the men I had served with in Vietnam. As we cruised into Boston Harbor, going from the airport to the Charlestown Navy Yard, I pointed out the sights to my old crewmates: Old Ironsides, the Old North Church, the Hancock Tower.
On the Mekong Delta we had passed the time laughing — and here we were again laughing as the sun cut through gray skies. Someone placed an orange life preserver around the neck of Jim Rassman — the Green Beret I’d pulled from the Bay Hap River — just in case, he joked, the Army guy fell out of the boat again. “I have this problem staying on a boat,” Jim said. Del Sandusky, who had driven PCF-94, teased me by saying that I had saved Jim only because he owed me 12 bucks.
Then Jim said, “Did you even think we’d live through it, much less get to this point?” Things got quiet. No more words were needed.
— JOHN KERRY, a senator from Massachusetts and the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee
Lovely. If only. sigh.
Noticed this in the "Names" page of the July 21 Boston Globe while cleaning out newspapers:
http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2008/07/21/no_room_for_gibson/ (you need to scroll down a bit, to second web page, to find this). Davio's is a well-known Boston restaurant. Hmm: Biden was there, and Bob Casey . . wonder why this group. Wonder what they were up to. Wonder if this had any impact on or relation to later VP nomination.
Power lunch
Senator John Kerry and a party of pols lunched at Davio's the other day. Partaking in the private room were fellow US senators Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, potential Obama veep Joe Biden of Delaware , Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, and US Senate candidate Kay Hagan of North Carolina.