Kerry Learning to Wield Humor As Weapon
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"Heavens to Betsy," it's hard to believe that the John Kerry of U.S. Senate stiff-speak is out there on the campaign trail tossing off homespun phrases, and even a joke or two.
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Since Nov. 2, countless Kerry supporters have been flocking to the Internet in search of a postelection pick-me-up. Here are some of the imaginative ways they are coping with sorrow and anger online
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After John Kerry pronounced himself a fan of Bill O'Reilly, the Fox News Channel host is hoping that will translate into a pre-election interview.
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George Bush avoided scowling and John Kerry managed to crack a few more smiles.
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If you're not ready to feverishly debate Iraq or the deficit in this bitterly divisive election year, you can always surf the Web, where politics is frequently nothing but a big joke. President Bush and challenger John Kerry are spoofed as utter fools on the Internet daily, usually in good fun.
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John Kerry said he bagged a goose, but his real target was the voters who may harbor doubts about him.
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The political strategy behind Sen. John Kerry&#39;s appearance Tuesday on Comedy Central network&#39;s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart was threefold, political and communications experts say.
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This fall's presidential debates will pit George W. Bush's folksy manner and big-picture brand of policymaking against John Kerry's more cerebral outlook and nuanced world view. Each is a proven debater who knows, only too well, what personal pitfalls to avoid: Bush must stifle the smirk, for instance, and Kerry must cut short his rhetorical rambling.
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SILVER SPRING, Md.  - Have you heard the one about  the presidential candidate who told such great jokes the  American people elected him?
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Whether it's with rock star swagger, corny Irish jokes, boardroom-like seminars, storm-the-barricades rhetoric or motherly soothing, each White House hopeful has a unique pitch to voters.
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President Bush smirked and winked and chuckled to himself. He jumped from his stool, chopped at the air and interrupted the debate moderator. As he fought to keep his emotions in check in a testy, personal debate with Sen. John Kerry, the president asserted, "That answer almost made me scowl."
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Senator John F. Kerry, putting his own twist on a favorite attack line of the Bush campaign, yesterday accused the president
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Vanessa Kerry joked about life on the campaign trail while visiting the elite boarding school she and her father attended, but she turned serious when recalling criticism of Sen. John Kerry's service in the Vietnam War.
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Can a comedian really make a credible run for the U.S. Senate? If he's good enough and smart enough and, doggone it, if enough people like him
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President Bush headed Monday toward his first face-off with Sen. John F. Kerry by mocking his challenger as a vacillator who could spend the whole
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Tuesday marks a milestone for John Kerry, when the man who has often been at his best while giving a formal speech delivers the last one planned for his presidential campaign.
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Sen. John Kerry, whose botched joke about U.S. troops in Iraq dealt a blow to his presidential ambitions, will travel to Iraq this weekend to meet with soldiers, political leaders and military officials.