http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04251/374641.stm
Quote:
With a friendly crowd in Canonsburg lobbing softball questions yesterday, Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry could have ignored a pocket of hecklers that tried to disrupt his campaign.
Instead, Kerry pulled the detractors into his Labor Day speech, part of the "front-porch discussions" he's been holding across the country. He told them their shouts and taunts couldn't cover up facts -- namely, that America has had a net loss of 1.6 million jobs under President Bush.
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One heckler then shouted, "Yeah, Kerry, you're really average."
Kerry pounced on the comment, replying: "No, I'm privileged, and my tax burden went down. I don't think that's right."
Kerry said Bush, also a man of money and privilege, has worked hard to lessen tax payments for the wealthiest Americans. Otherwise, Kerry said, Bush has presided over an economy that is in disarray.
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Patricia Romano of Canonsburg told Kerry that she has had 11 throat surgeries and must pay so much for prescription drugs that she had to get a part-time job at age 70.
Hecklers drowned out Romano at one point. That prompted Kerry to say, "While the Bush people were rudely shouting, we had a 70-year-old woman trying to speak" about runaway costs of prescription drugs.
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I find this quite amusing, mostly in its contrast value to Bush. For example, the tribal soverignty thing.
Also, a lot of people would say that this doesn't matter. I think one possible way for this to matter is in negotiations. A lot of times, rational Presidents speak with other nations' leaders to negotiate things, and a quick wit helps this.