What, actually, is the difference between the two front-runners? Well, both men attended Yale University and were members of the elite and secretive Skull and Bones Club.
Perhaps the club is no more than a closed arena for silly ritual. But it's odd that, apart from confirming that they remain members, neither man is willing to discuss the practices or purposes of the outfit.
The American investigative journalist Sam Smith suggested this week that Skull and Bones is "infantile, elitist, misogynist, anti-democratic and secret," and that its purpose is "the mutual support and protection of its members as they make their way into the upper ranks of American society."
Membership of Skull and Bones is not all that the two men share. Kerry has come across as a critic of the Iraq war. But he voted for it.
On the campaign trail, Kerry has attacked the draconian Patriot Act. "We are a nation of laws and liberties, not of a knock in the night." But he voted for that, too.
Belfast Telegraph
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Posted by: Ozzy bin Oswald | September 02, 2004 at 03:17 AM