The returns for John Kerry's campaign so far aren't promising. His campaign manager, Jim Jordan, was quoted as follows in the Washington Post yesterday: <br /><br />"He has sold himself as the straight-shooting candidate, the truth-teller, the one who will say what's hard and unpopular," said Jim Jordan, campaign manager for presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.). "In truth, he's a very crafty politician, very calculating."<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Asked by a young woman at an event at Des Moines Area Community College why she should vote for him and not for Edwards, the 60-year-old senator from Massachusetts talked about his experience and then said, "When I came home from Vietnam in 1969, I don't know if John Edwards was out of diapers then yet or not, I'm totally not sure. I don't know." He then appeared to re-think the issue, and said, "He was by then, it was earlier."<br /><br />----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />* While speaking at a house party in New Hampshire, John Kerry, in an apparent attempt to conjure poet Robert Frost, offered this bewildering sound bite: "The road traveled is the prologue to the road to be traveled." <br /><br />____________________________________________________________________________________________________
