LOL. AM - when all else fails (as it seems to often for you...), resort to name calling or nit-picking someone's spelling. LOL
GH - let's see if Kerry had a political calling that he knew from and early age. Perhaps it was his political father or his activist mother he wanted to follow - or maybe his skull and bones buddies who convinced him to go to war, or his desire to be like his hero - jfk?
From Kerry’s own website: johnkerry.com
His mother, Rosemary, was a lifelong community activist
She was an environmentalist and a community activist.
his father was a Foreign Service Officer in the Eisenhower administration
As he was graduating from Yale, John Kerry volunteered to serve in Vietnam
His two great heroes - his father and John F. Kennedy - had served during World War II. John Kerry wanted to follow both their example
They were simply a band of brothers who all fought under the same flag and all prayed to the same God. And that is the America John Kerry wants today
After graduating from Boston College Law School in 1976
went to work as a top prosecutor in Middlesex County
John Kerry was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1982
he organized the nation's Governors to combat the acid rain that was polluting lakes, rivers, and the nation's water supply
Two years later, he was elected to the United States Senate
He has been praised as one of the leading environmentalists in the Senate
John Kerry has never forgotten the lessons he learned as a young man
From another source:
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/061503.shtml Most students who had graduated from Yale with Kerry the previous year knew him as the ultimate Brahmin, the studious and serious class orator who longed to run for president someday.
members of the university's elite Skull and Bones society
He enjoyed the cachet of illustrious family names but not always the bonds of a household.
By the time he was 10 years old, he was shipped off for an eight-year odyssey at boarding schools in Switzerland and New England
More than any one place, his ties were to a social milieu -- that rarefied world of wealth and privilege where the French is fluent and the manners impeccable
John Kerry dated Jacqueline Kennedy's half-sister and once sailed Narragansett Bay with JFK at the helm
He married wealthy wives whose net worth dwarfed his own
determined to turn a boyhood dream of following in JFK's footsteps into the reality of a Democratic primary win
But by the time he was 7, the family had moved to Washington. Politics was part of dinner-table conversation
paying close attention to presidential elections, and then along came John F. Kennedy… that is really when John began to be actively interested in politics
As graduation approached, Kerry knew that he had three choices: be drafted, seek a deferment for graduate school, or join up and position himself to become an officer. ``It was clear to me that I was going to be at risk,'' Kerry recalled. ``My draft board . . . said, `Look, the likelihood is you are probably going to be drafted.' I said, `If I'm going to be drafted, I'd like to have responsibility and be an officer.' ''
Kerry also had political ambitions -- and was aware of how much military service had served John Kennedy's career. ``John would clearly say, `If I could make my dream come true, it would be running for president of the United States,' '' recalled William Stanberry, Kerry's debate team partner for three years. ``It was not a casual interest. It was a serious, stated interest. His lifetime ambition was to be in political office.''
Only 15 students were chosen each year, and Kerry was picked mostly because he was viewed as a future political leader
But what fellow ``bonesmen'' most remember is how Kerry steered the talk toward Vietnam.
Many at Yale noticed that this young man, on his way to becoming a commissioned officer in Vietnam, was critical of the war -- and the use of American military might against communist regimes
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