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Newsflash: Politicians Also Get Bored, Poo
R. Alex Whitlock
Conservatives are salivating at the prospect of the upcoming documentary
Inside the Bubble (
trailer), which details the Kerry campaigns. I actually look forward to it myself, for reasons both noble (a look in to our political process) and ignoble (watching a lot of self-delusional Kerry boosters confidently coast to defeat).
One thing that stands out in some of the comments about the movie is a seen in the trailer where John Kerry is talking to himself while prepping for a debate. He's sort of practicing expressions and tone. Mostly he's just bored and waiting, though. I find it odd that some people have chosen this part to demonstrate how goofy John Kerry is. Or how much a phony he is.
It reminds me of a couple weeks back when the media read in on a note that President Bush passed on to Secretary of State Rice, informing her that he could use a restroom break and inquiring as to the feasibility of said break (using shorter and more direct language). This got a lot of play on the left because... well... because I guess it's a little bit weird thinking of the leader of the free world needing to take a potty break. A couple made remarks about how this may be indicative of how much he was paying attention to the context of the meetings (and that he's stupid ha ha ha).
I find this all quite bizarre. Presidents and presidential candidates, as they say, put on their pants one leg at a time like the rest of us. They need potty breaks and they get bored. They also get excited in a
rocket hatch. Truth be told, I found the Kerry scene to be a bit endearing. It seemed like a quick piercing through the role he was playing during the campaign (and all candidates play a "role" during campaigns).
The rest of it, though, looks like a lot of fun from this cold-hearted Republican's point-of-view.
 
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I felt a little bit bad for Kerry when the crawling bunny picture (from the rocket hatch) was released. No matter how presidential you are, it's hard to look good in a pink snowsuit.
 
Considering the associative coolness, you'd think that the engineers would have found a way to get it to look cool. But these are engineers, after all, so I guess not :).
 
You know, given that she is the Secretary of State and spends a lot more time involved with the UN, his question actually did make sense.
It's not his arena. He doesn't spend days on end there. More to the point, he doesn't know when a good time to duck out is and who you can safely walk out on - no matter how boring a pomposity they're blaring into the microphone - without giving offense to.
Yeesh.
 
Except when his pants are on, Kerry makes gold records.
Hey, at least Kerry didn't get in a tank.
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