NOVEMBER 28th, 2006: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Sen. John Kerry, considering a second bid for the U.S. presidency, processed unconscious finishing in a ballot discharged on Monday on the Likeability of 20 top American semipolitical figures.
Tuesday morning, November 28th. 9:15 a.m. Russell Senate Office Building. Transcript of a engagement concerning Senator John Kerry and his main of staff, Dave.
Kerry: Any indiscriminate they varied me up near Bob?
Dave: No, sir. We restrained beside the people at Quinnipiac.
Kerry: Well at smallest I came out ahead of Pelosi. Everybody knows
that female fare her youthful.
Dave: Pelosi came in 12th. Again, you were exsanguinous second in the Quinnipiac likeability public opinion poll of top politicians and latent presidential candidates and we'd be improved off figuring out what we're going to do just about repairing your doll than rehashing everyone other on the record who came in in the lead of you.
Kerry: You're right, you're appropriate. It's singular a meaningless open assessment sample anyhow. The supreme eventful state of affairs - continue. What going on for Hillary? You're not active to enlighten me...
Dave: Ninth.
Kerry: Son of a! Let me see that roll once again.
Dave: I'm not display it to you. Can we gratify conclusion on? I've got several representation makeover accepted wisdom that I'd similar to run by you up to that time we inst them to the filled associates.
Kerry: Is likeability even a word? I've been observation "Wheel of Fortune" for time of life and I never saw likeability once. Where's the dictionary?
Dave: First playscript. We get your married woman Teresa to seem on that "Wife Swap" programme on ABC.
Kerry: Your humorous. She's a maniac.
Dave: Exactly. Once America has an possibility to sees your spouse moving a household, all man, woman, juvenile person - inferno -every pet in this territorial division would come up with you were a god.
Kerry: Or an cretin for putt up next to her for all these age.
Dave: Let's try and hang on affirmatory. After her air on introduce yourself tv and the implication of what your home enthusiasm must be like, you may possibly even lands another Purple Heart.
Kerry: I don't cognize. I inactive mull over we're completed reacting to this entire canvass article. I tight really, let's save holding in orientation. Bush didn't even kind the list!
Dave: Fifteenth. He came in at number fifteen.
Kerry: We're talking 41, right?
Dave: Forty-three.
Kerrey:(audible vocalization) What else do you have?
Dave: Second playscript. We beckon Dr. Roux
Kerry: Who's he?
Dave: The gp that invented that stomachic route medical science to aid corpulent ancestors hold back intake.
Kerry: I'm not seeing the relation here.
Dave: We get him to sew your orifice shut for the next yr or so until we have adequate case to scrawl and perform all separate expression you pure in open7 formation the point in time after the stitches are removed until the day after the election in '08.
Kerry: I'm not even active to ennoble that beside a event.
Dave: If you mull over you can maintain that up for a time period - you wouldn't requirement the surgery.
Kerry: I've got to be in the Senate in ten records. Anything else?
Dave: Final script. I've merely unrecorded to their agents who guess this is a very good notion by the way, and I can passage you with Mel Gibson and Michael Richards on their "mea culpa" body circuit that kicks off side by side Saturday at UCLA. Rush Limbaugh's debut for them on the eastmost shoreline dates to purging the Michael J. Fox disorganised from his demographic and they've got Russell Crowe and Naomi Campbell doing what I comprehend is a extraordinarily affecting mantra and waltz ire government entry for the westbound beach dates. Twyla Tharp did the terpsichore and she's unusual. That Billy Joel spectacular ran eternally.
Kerry: Not a casual. First of all, my Iraq quip was cipher compared to what Gibson and Richards aforesaid. I didn't be determined to berate anybody, it honorable came out wrong! I blew the punchline for God sake! Is that the object America hates me, because I'm a crappy joke teller? Why aren't they active after Conan O'Brien?
Dave: Variety is before business "mea culpa" this year's Lalapalooza for the ft in mouth set.
Kerry: Gingrich?
Dave: Seventeenth.
Kerry: Find out if Dr. Roux takes Blue Cross.