In Game 6 of the 2002 World Series, the San Francisco Gaints looked like they had the game -- and the Series -- wrapped up. It looked like Barry Bonds would finally get his Championship. That is why everyone was shocked when Willie Mays opened Champagne in the dugout while the game was still going. Mays tempted fate...and the Giants lost.
If you think that is shocking, wait to you hear the latest story about the Shrum Curse and John Kerry...
From the
January 10th Newsweek:
It was a little after 7 p.m. on election night 2004. The network exit polls showed John Kerry leading George Bush in both Florida and Ohio by three points. Kerry's aides were confident that the Democratic candidate would carry these key swings states; Bush had not broken 48 percent in Kerry's recent tracking polls. The aides were a little hesitant to interrupt Kerry as he was fielding satellite TV interviews in a last get-out-the-vote push. Still, the 7 o'clock exit polls were considered to be reasonably reliable. Time to tell the candidate the good news.
Kerry had slept only two hours the night before. He was sitting in a small hotel room at the Westin Copley (in a small irony of history, next door to the hotel where his grandfather, a boom-and-bust businessman, shot himself some 80 years ago). Bob Shrum, Kerry's friend and close adviser, couldn't resist the moment. "May I be the first to say 'Mr. President'?" said Shrum.
First Kerry tempted fate by hiring Shrum and then Shrum went and did something like that while the polls were still open? WTF???
Oh, it gets better:
In the heady days before the election, Kerry's top aides sat around picking a cabinet...
I'm not making this shit up. Even worse, it appears Kerry thinks he is still a candidate:
He never quite came out and said it, but Kerry sounded very much like a man who was running for president again. He has a mailing list with 2.9 million names and an organization in every state. His moneymen have not backed away.
Uh, maybe his big moneymen, but the netroots only supported him because he wasn't Bush -- in fact, I've already unsubscribed from his email list.
The problem with Kerry is that he knows better but for some reason will never say it. Do you think this character flaw has been remedied since the election?
Though Kerry did not directly criticize his friend Shrum, it's clear he did not feel well served by his message makers and speechwriters.
No shit?
Jose Ferreira, Kerry's nephew, told his uncle, "Some people are saying that your candidacy was driven by ABB [Anything But Bush]." Kerry replied: "Do you think so?"
Yeah.
And now you're cursed too.
