Kerry wants a vacation?

[Worst Username Ever]

I think taking a rich-guy vacation is the wrong message to send right now... couldn't this wait 5 more months??


NANTUCKET, Mass. (Reuters) - Sometimes a vacation is just a vacation, even if you're Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) and you spend the weekend boating, dining out and searching for just the right wind to kite surf in one of America's most exclusive summer playgrounds.



http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=584&e=5&u=/nm/20040620/pl_nm/campaign_kerry_dc

[Dookus]

1. he took a weekend

the bastard!

Seriously, when you put in the effort Kerry has, then you can judge. In the meantime, I'm willing to let him take a weekend off without slamming him. He's running on a schedule that would exhaust you or me. The election is 4 and a half months away. It's not a sprint, it's a marathon.

[Caution]

Gimme a break

Because he is running for President he can't take a vacation? This is nothing more than a hatchet job. And tell that to pResident Bush. The guy has taken more vacation than anyone in America. Heck if you look at the amount of time he has actually been working you would think he was one of the millions of un or under-employed people in the country. Where is the article about that? And why isn't the media saying that his constant vacations are sending the wrong message?

[Bridget Burke]

2. You respond so well to the right wing talking points.

Kerry spent a long weekend at his family's summer place. So what.

And Bush is such a down-to-earth back-to-the-land type. Yeah, sure.

[Jack_Dawson]

3. Let it go

Who cares? I went to Nantucket last year and I'm not a rich guy. It's a nice place. Campaigning must be exhausting. I'd need several vacations by now.

[Fenris]

4. It's not like Bush ever takes a vacation.

:eyes:

[JI7]

5. it was a day off for father's day to be with his daughter

[LittleApple81]

6. The repugs CANNOT accept that a Dem might be RICH. Dems don't

limit their membership to poor people. Dems know how to work, how to make money, how to think about other people besides themselves. And that is truly following the precepts that are important in Christianity... you don't need to be a Repug who steals the money from the poor to be able to take vacations. ALL OF US, including rich Democrats have a right to vacation. And if you are rich, you can take a more luxurious vacation that a poor person.
By the way, by Bush going to that fake ranch, all he is showing is that he knows how to deceive people AND HIS LACK OF CREATIVITY in how to spend, what is that, something like 30% of the time we are paying him to work for the country?

[seabeyond]

7. we will have a debate, bush vacation vs kerry

for the last three years

dont feed that media bs crap, wink

[piece sine]

8. and after Nantucket..it's off to Aspen...

or should I say A$pen. Look it, we're all ABB around here but it seems somehow odd to be denouncing Republican fat-cats while turning a blind-eye to our own. I could care less where Teddy and John go out to dinner. And I could care less how much Bush's texas spread is worth. I am voting for Kerry for other reasons besides his wife's money, and I'm voting against Bush for other reasons than his family's wealth. Truman, Nixon, Carter, Reagan and Clinton were all relatively middle-class when they entered the White House; FDR and Kennedy were very wealthy. In the end it hardly mattered and these Presidents rose or fell on issues that nothing to do with their personal fortune.

I don't "get" why some posters At DU are so blisteringly angry about Bush's wealth but get equally huffy when they see Kerry identified as also leading a millionaire's life. It isn't relevant as why Kerry should win or Bush should lose. Stop the madness! Stay on the issues and let go of frivolous bile about who's richer than whom. PEACE STARTS HERE.

[JI7]

10. people are not angry about bush for being wealthy in itself

they are angry at the policies he supports which unfairly makes some rich while ripping off the working people. it's a right wing talking point to say democrats don't like rich when the reality is that it's the policies that people don't like. fdr, kennedys, george soros, bill gates sr and many others are good examples of this. they show it's about the policies not just about whether one has money or not.

[Jacobin]

9. Me, I'm longing for the "Sleepless Summer of Dean"

:cry:

[KC21304]

11. Two days ? A week end ? Rich man's vacation ?

Give me a break. Bush's term has been one long lunch break. Because he is REALLY OUT TO LUNCH !

[Hoping4Change]

12. Taking time off when campaigning is not the same as time off

when you're president and the CIA and others monitoring terrorists are running around with their hair on fire.

And why the "rich-guy" sarcasm, unless you're playing from the same deck as Repukes?

[Blue_Roses]

13. oh come on,

he deserves a vacation just like every other American. Congress gets the WHOLE MONTH of AUGUST off. He needs to take a break, so he can be ready to debate in the fall.

Get off of his back...