Don't You Know Who I Am?

Heh. This should surprise exactly no one.

Vanity, thy name is John Kerry

Sen. John Kerry is so vain, he probably thinks this story is about him . . . and he’d be right!

Slate.com has named the skipper of the Isabel the most vain man in that vanity pit known as the U.S. Senate based on a “scientific analysis” of all 100 senators’ “Ego Walls.”

In a posting headed “If the Walls Could Talk,” Slate writers Darren Garnick (who also writes “The Working Stiff” column for the Herald) and Ilya Mirman explored the photo displays on the waiting-room walls of each senator’s office and developed a “Senate Vanity Index.” The formula, developed by Mirman, an engineer and scientist, measures the level of egotism displayed in each senator’s lobby based on how many pictures the solon has of himself (or herself) glad-handing celebrities, world leaders and the like.

Anyone from MA knows this to be true - Kerry's developed quite the reputation as the "Do you know who I am?" Senator, using his inflated sense of self-worth like most people use Tic-Tacs. Knowing Kerry, though, he's not displaying those pictures because he wants people to know all the celebrities he has met. No, Kerry just likes seeing himself that much. Given how much Lurch spends on Botox and other cosmetic enhancements, it's a toss-up between him and Nancy Pelosi as to who's the least "original".

Which is why it was so humorous, in 2004, to see Kerry attempting the "man of the people" schtick. Here's a guy so obviously removed from reality that he thinks "Can I get me a huntin' license?" is going to take people's minds off of his decades-long assault on our Second Amendment rights. He thinks that a 10 second photo op - in which he appears with a $10,000 shotgun and several thousand dollars of (brand new) LL Bean "hunting" gear - will magically transform him from gun grabber extraordinaire (remember, Kerry actually left the campaign trail in 2004 to vote for more gun control) to "average Joe out hunting"...

One thing's for certain - there's ugly that no amount of surgery, cosmetics, or money can fix, and that's the ugly of someone who thinks you are beneath them...

That is all.