Kerry destined for life at the top, says British country cousin

[T_i_B]

Article from Rupert Murdoch's Times. First we find out that Howard Dean spent a year at Felsted School, now this. Any more candidates with East Anglian connections out there?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1000859,00.html

AS JOHN KERRY crisscrosses America in his campaign for the White House, he can count on the support of a geography teacher from a small village in East Anglia.

None of Kevin Armstrong’s neighbours or secondary school colleagues know that the well-spoken 55-year-old is the country cousin of the Democrat most likely to be taking on President Bush later this year. But with admiration and a degree of awe, Mr Armstrong has quietly followed his cousin’s progress from fiercely competitive schoolboy to polished politician bidding to become the most powerful man on the planet.

“Johnny was always the big cousin,” he said. “Big in that he is tall, but also larger than life. He is somebody who stands out. It isn’t just strength of character. It’s an American thing, he is a real go-getter and an ambitious guy. Anything to do with Johnny would turn into a competition and a race.” The young John Kerry would race his cousins on bicycles and challenge relatives to games of “kick the can” where players would dodge opponents to boot an oil can out of a circle. “I remember him on his bike,” Mr Armstrong said. “He always looked like he was in a race. He was never just peddling along, he would be going like crazy. We always knew he would win.”

After Mr Kerry formed a rock band and made some records, the younger cousins would play them at home. “We thought, ‘Wow, there’s a rock star in the family’”. The records were a typical Kerry project, said Mr Armstrong. “Like everything he did, he went into it thoroughly.”

[Byronic]

1. Hmmm

That explains the animosity between the two candidates.

Maybe John Kerry supports Ipswich Town Football Club and Howard Dean is a fan of Norwich City.:)

[T_i_B]

4. Hmmm

Round Felstead way they tend to support West Ham in my experience, In the neck of the woods Kerry's cousin is in it's more Norwich City I think. :-)

[ShaneGR]

2. OMG, he was in a rock band?

That's it, can't support him.

;-)

[MoonRiver]

3. You can't get far in politics without a sizeable degre of competitiveness

Kerry was obviously a political natural. from the get go. * on the other hand is constantly gagging on his silver spoon. These 2 in a debate should be so hilarious. Although the General will always be my main man, I think Kerry is more likely to make mince meat out of jr. He knows intimately well how *'s cutthroat puppet meisters operate. We all do now, and nobody's going to fall into a Rove/media engineered trap again, ala Al Gore.

So my step by step advice to Kerry, and hopefully VP Clark, is to: take off gloves, extend claws, go on offensive, and don't stop attacking until you've got * by the throat, with teeth firmly positioned on his jugular (metaphorically speaking, of course). Time to get down and dirty, and don't it feel good!

:evilgrin:

edited for typo