[lbo-talk] AP: Kerry Vacations With Wealthy in Nantucket

J Cullen jcullen at austin.rr.com
Mon Jun 21 10:29:17 PDT 2004


FYI: The "vacation" story is not the story you get when you click the URL at the bottom.

-- Jim Cullen


>[Seems like sheer attack journalism. The story's
>headline is asinine. Bush does this, but I can't
>recall a headline announcing Bush 'vacations with
>wealthy.' This story was also one of Yahoo!'s "Most
>Emailed" stories of June 20.]
>
>--
>
>Kerry Vacations With Wealthy in Nantucket
>
>Sun Jun 20, 4:30 PM ET 
>
>By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer
>
>NANTUCKET, Mass. - After a week of campaigning for the
>less fortunate, John Kerry (news - web sites) went on
>vacation with the fabulously wealthy.
>
>Kerry is a rich man who promotes the Democratic ideal
>that government should do more to help the poor. He
>moves between both worlds, spending the past week
>traveling to downtrodden places like South-side
>Columbus, Ohio, and the affluent island playground of
>Nantucket.
>
>Not since President Kennedy have Democrats been
>prepared to nominate a man of such riches. President
>Clinton (news - web sites) didn't own a home until he
>left the White House and President Carter was a peanut
>farmer. Both grew up poor in the South, as did
>President Johnson before them.
>
>[...]
>
>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=19&u=/ap/kerry
>



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