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Change is necessary to ensure that Social Security and Medicare remain successful insurance measures in the future, Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.) told an audience of more than 130 at the Institute of Politics last night...
...Veepstakes is only a backdrop. Gore and Kemp may face each other four years from now, but at this point the real race for both men is against potential rather than present enemies. "For us," says Democrat Bob Kerrey, speaking for those like Dick Gephardt and Chris Dodd who would deny Gore that chance, "how Al does this time will shape the race for next time--and the same is so with Jack for the other side." Why? "Money, mostly." For at least the next two years every person bitten by the presidential bug will be scrambling for political...
...good position. He was nervous when he got to the Hill: "I mean, all the media were there. I think 12 or 15 Senators were there, all friends and supporters--Paul Simon, Pat Leahy, [Paul] Wellstone from Minnesota, Nancy Kassebaum, John Kerry from Massachusetts, Bob Kerrey from Nebraska--all there in the front row, two feet away from me. Like, right in my face, all sort of looking with great support and ready for me to say something pithy and impressive. And I felt the moment has come, and I'm bombing...
...press Kerrey has often been depicted as the Democrat Who Tells the Truth, in implicit contrast to the fellow in the White House, the Democrat Who Doesn't. Kerrey seems resigned to his relationship with Clinton, almost saddened by it. "There is the perception that I'm competing with Bill Clinton, and that's absurd," he says. "I've sometimes made mistakes about what I've said, but I'm not competing with Bill Clinton, I am competing with his ideas...
...whether Kerrey's candidates--millionaires or otherwise--should run with the President, the Senator says Hell, yes. "The President will have coattails in November. He's a superb candidate. He can talk to and understand an audience as well as any politician I've ever seen," Kerrey says. As for his own future, Kerrey runs through the calculus in his brain. "Inquiry No. 1: Are you gonna run for President? Inquiry No. 2: Are you gonna run for the Senate (again)? Right now, I don't know the answer to either. I have to decide not long after November...