Link
to a story in AP about Kerry campaigning in Chicago.
This story is chock full of Kerry quotes that drive me up the wall:
"I'm tired of talking about valuing families and not valuing families."
or perhaps
"This is pretty simple. The workplace of the United States of America is as stressed as I don't think I've seen it stressed at any time. That's almost criminal. It's not criminal, but I want to underscore how unbelievable it is."
And of course, there's the quote that is the title of my diary, which was Kerry's reply when he was asked about being a tax-and-spend liberal. All of this leads me to ask: WHO TALKS LIKE THAT???
As a final happy note, the end of the article mentions that Howard Wolfson, who joined the campaign on Monday to deal with the response to Bush's attacks, left on Thursday after clashing with Stephanie Cutter, Kerry's spokeswoman. Do we need this right now? The Democrats don't have enough problems already, without battles within the campaign staff?
My advice to the Kerry campaign: stop bickering with each other and go hire Henry Higgins to teach Kerry to talk like a normal person.