Another elite, narcistic democrat.
Via NY Post:
John Kerry has many passions. He loves the Boston Red Sox. He adores his wife, Teresa. He relishes diplomacy and bicycling. What John Kerry is most fond of, though, is John Kerry.
This is what stands out in his new memoir, “Every Day Is Extra.” It’s Kerry’s mastery of faux modesty.
Consider the 2009 inauguration. Kerry relays that President Barack Obama signed his program with the inscription, “I’m here because of you.” It was a reference to Kerry’s decision five years earlier to give Obama a prime speaking slot at the Democratic convention in Boston, where Kerry was the presidential nominee and Obama was just an ambitious state senator.
What turns it into a humble brag is that Kerry lets the reader know he actually disagreed with the new president’s assessment. “Of course, I didn’t think that was true,” Kerry writes. Obama was a terrific politician in his own right.
Nonetheless, Kerry allows himself to speculate: “What if we hadn’t tacked on a jobs event on the South Side of Chicago in 2004 and I hadn’t met him again in the campaign?” Maybe Kerry really did make Obama’s career after all.
Kerry’s humble-bragging is most evident when he talks about his physical injuries. He recounts the story of a painful accident he suffered playing broom hockey in Sun Valley, Idaho, with some kids and his neighbor (perhaps you’ve heard of him: Tom Hanks).
Kerry broke his nose and bruised his face. Yet the secretary of state was needed in Oman. “I grabbed a pair of big black sunglasses and off I went,” he writes.
When Kerry was visiting Israel in 2009 as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he made it a point to visit Gaza over the objections of the US embassy in Israel. Touring a refugee camp, he just couldn’t stay in his armored car. So he got out to talk to a little girl playing by the road.
The resulting photo of Kerry “walking amid the rubble was worth more to the Palestinian people than a thousand statements,” Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas later told the senator, according to the senator.