Not a Joking Matter
TAGS: John Kerry, Mark Sanford, Sarah Palin.
Senator John Kerry has stooped to a new low, making a joke in exceptionally poor taste.
U.S. Sen. John Kerry must have been channeling his inner Letterman yesterday.
The Bay State senator was telling a group of business and civic leaders in town at his invitation about the “bizarre’’ tale of how South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford had “disappeared for four days’’ and claimed to be hiking along the Appalachian Trail, but no one was really certain of his whereabouts.
“Too bad,” Kerry said, “if a governor had to go missing it couldn’t have been the governor of Alaska. You know, Sarah Palin.”
Excuse me, Senator…since when is person going missing a joking matter? Political rival or not, that kind of joke is inexcusable, and shameful to come from the mouth of a United States Senator. Would you still be joking if the story of Governor Sanford turned out worse?
I’m sure Senator Kerry wouldn’t be laughing if someone joked “too bad it couldn’t have been the other Senator from Massachusetts with the brain tumor,” so perhaps he ought think twice about joking about such serious matters.
I hope we get something resembling an apology from Senator Kerry. Until such time, I hope Governor Sarah Palin knows that the rest of us in the Commonwealth, at least, those of us with some class, apologize for the behavior of our junior Senator.
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Aaron Margolis is a life long resident of the Bay State, and works at an architectural firm north of Boston. Aaron has a Master of Architecture Degree from Boston Architectural College and is currently in the process of becoming of a Registered Architect.
Kerry has been missing for 20 years.
The previous thread mentions “Republicans, independents and centrist Democrats in Massachusetts”
What all 250 of us?