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Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Fritz Hollings speaks his mind on John Kerry
I'll certainly miss Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings (D-SC) and his unique sayings and astonishing candor after he leaves the Senate next month after 38 years in the chamber. Here's a recent example of his pithy wit from The Hill:
There’s an unwritten rule in politics not to kick somebody when they’re down.Classic.
But Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-S.C.) — who has made a point of speaking his mind during nearly four decades in the Senate — is willing to do just that by criticizing Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) for his failed campaign for president.
“He wasn’t himself,” Hollings told The Hill after delivering his farewell speech Nov. 16. “He had political peripheral vision.”
Hollings, who noted that he himself failed to capture the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984, said Kerry “had no [applause] line” on the stump. “The people were looking at him head-on and couldn’t find him.”
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