A secret service agent cuts in front of you and you go tumbling. This should not be a big deal, reporters say you fell at least six times during the day. But you wanted to look in control, a hip sixty-something, perfect. You know, you wanted to look presidential. So you tell the reporters "I don't fall down. The son of a bitch knocked me over."
Never mind the fact that you have reinforced your reputation of being a vulgar man. Many Americans use profanity and your base will certainly overlook that. However, you just publicly insulted one of men responsible for protecting your life. This man is expected to jump in front of a bullet for you. In the remote chance anyone decides you are worth killing, you have now reduced the Secret Service agents' motivation for placing your welfare above their own. Your lack of judgment is astounding. And you expect voters to give you responsibility for our well being. Senator Kerry, I am not that stupid.
This story was put together from accounts I heard on television, but you can find some details at Drudge.
Some might say a few of us bloggers are making a mountain out of a molehill. But Kerry has a pattern of arrogance. He and his staff expect special treatment, to the extent they even hacked off Dave Barry last September. Sen. John Kerry, who once came, with his entourage, into a ski-rental shop in Ketchum, Idaho, where I was waiting patiently with my family to rent snowboards, and Sen. Kerry used one of his lackeys to flagrantly barge in line ahead of us and everybody else, as if he had some urgent senatorial need for a snowboard, like there was about to be an emergency meeting, out on the slopes, of the Joint Halfpipe Committee. Kerry is not the type of man who should be our leader.
Many thanks for the link.
I couldn't agree more with your assessment of Kerry's judgment, and I enjoy your blog.