Mickey Kaus notices that Benedict Arnold is Flip-flopping in his Grave! Apparently it was all a misunderstanding that was the fault of the speech writers:
In other words, it means a lot less than Democratic primary voters were led to believe it meant. Boy, were they easy to con!Then Terpsboy points us to Bikegate:
Things really did get weird for the press when Kerry and his staff refused to discuss why the candidate was flying up to Boston on Sunday, particularly after it later turned out that the only reason was the ill-fated bike ride. "And the only reason we learned about that was because Kerry fell and someone on staff felt like they had to tell us," says a TV news producer based in Washington.Seems like doing a variety of sports badly in an expensively bizarre wardrobe is a Kerry trademark. At least he didn't blame the Secret Service this time. But Terpsboy points to EL Rushbo who suggests the trip was really for the monthly Botox injection and Instapundit points to some other health theories. I guess we won't be seeing those medical records any time soon. As for me, I suspect he was merely meeting with his controller from the Chinese embassy.
Prior to the fall, on the way up to Boston, Kerry told some of the reporters that it wasn't really their business what he was going to do in Boston. "I've just got a bunch of stuff I've got to do -- just never get home. There are some decisions that are more important than being on the road."
And it's best to make them while on a ten-speed (no word yet whether the bike is American-made or perhaps French or Italian). [A custom made Serotta - cbp] Prior to "Bikegate," the Kerry campaign was happy to create the illusion with some reporters that the supersecret Boston trip was convention and vice-presidential-candidate-selection related. The spill, in which Kerry was unhurt, was an embarrassing moment for all involved, including the reporters who felt they had been suckered.
