| Now they also said that Kerry and Edwards weren't excatly what could be descriped as "best friends" (to put it mildly).
Few presidents and vice-presidents ever were. Thomas Jefferson cordially detested Aaron Burr (years before Burr's attempts to start up a breakaway nation) in a fashion he reserved for few people. FDR and Truman almost never spoke. Harding and Coolidge never did. Nixon regarded Agnew as a private joke. And it was the elder Bush, while running against Reagan during the Republican primaries, who coined the wonderful term about NeoCon financial theories, "voodoo economics."
I suspect that if Kerry gets elected, he and Edwards will complement each other nicely. The problem is that, for all of Edwards' vaunted charisma, he can't give an infusion of it to the man who could turn undead merely by addressing 'em. IMO, Kerry is as ponderous in uttering profound banalities as a Mack truck taking broken up marble to a rubbish dump.
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Last edited by fable; 07-06-2004 at 12:12 PM.
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