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[Mary Ann Parker]

And Then There Is -The Condensed John Kerry, Cont'd.

The best parts of the Boston Globe's new biography.
By Chris Suellentrop
Updated Wednesday, April 21, 2004, at 3:42 PM PT
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http://slate.msn.com/id/2099184/


In the preface to John F. Kerry: The Complete Biography by the Boston Globe Reporters Who Know Him Best, Globe editor Martin Baron cites a June 2003 e-mail from Jim Jordan, Kerry's then-campaign manager. Jordan complains that the Globe's forthcoming take on Kerry "doesn't look to be a fair, contextual look at a long, good life but, instead, a collection of gaffes, controversies, disputations." Baron insists
that Jordan has it wrong and that the Globe's book is "complete, balanced, and authoritative." But who wants to read that? Here's an incomplete, unbalanced selection of some of the "gaffes, controversies, disputations" that Jordan was moaning about, as well as an assortment of other interesting—and occasionally positive!—tidbits from the soon-to-be-released book:

Read the snips from pages in the BIASED BOOK.
Even they had some unfavorable quotes/opinions

Page 50: Why did Kerry, a Vietnam War opponent, decide to enlist? In addition to feeling obliged to serve his country (and wanting to go on the same adventure that his Yale friends were going on), Kerry says that part of the reason he enlisted in Vietnam was fear of the draft: "I called [the draft board] because I was thinking one of the options was, maybe I'll go study abroad, which was a euphemism for screwing around a bit, but it was clear to me that I was going to be at risk. My draft board … said, 'Look, the likelihood is you are probably going to be drafted.' I said, 'If I'm going to be drafted, I'd like to have responsibility and be an officer.' "

Page 70, 77: When Kerry asked to be a Swift boat captain, he wasn't asking for combat duty. At the time, the boats were not yet being used for the daring river raids that would make Kerry a war hero. In a 1986 book, Kerry wrote that the Swift boats "were engaged in coastal patrolling and that's what I thought I was going to be doing. Although I wanted to see for myself what was going on, I didn't really want to get involved in the war."
Seriously,
You have to STUDY all the links in that timeline.
It will change your life!!

Make it a studious day.
Mary Ann Parker