Why I'll Never Run For President
Reason Number 687: I like green tea.
According to this article, green tea was a problem for Kerry:
....During a luncheon speech Monday to the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches, CNN political correspondent Candy Crowley shared an early memory from the campaign trail that may explain why John Kerry will not be president next year. In January 2003, when his campaign was still young enough that Kerry would actually sit down with reporters in a relaxed setting, he and Crowley met for breakfast at the Holiday Inn in Dubuque, Iowa.
"I'd like to start out with some green tea," Kerry told the waitress, who stared at him for a moment before responding, "We have Lipton's." Lipton's would be fine, Kerry said, but the memory stayed with Crowley.
"There were many green tea instances," she told the sell-out crowd of 450 at the Kravis Center's Cohen Pavilion. "There's a very large disconnect between the Washington politicians and most of America and how they live. Bush was able to bridge that gap, and Kerry was not."
If the Democrats hope to regain the White House, she said, they will have to close the green tea gap.
As Hullabaloo points out (and that is where I became aware of the green tea "problem"), widely reported research suggests chemicals in green tea are useful in fighting cancer and may aid in keeping some cancers in remission. John Kerry's father died of prostate cancer and he is a prostate cancer survivor himself. He probably drinks green tea as part of an effort to stay healthy. If that puts him on the wrong side of the "green tea gap" there is something fundamentally and abhorently wrong with this nation. Or maybe it's just that "CNN political correspondent" Candy Crowley is a flaming idiot.
Additionally, Mediamatters.org notes:
...[G]reen tea may not be quite the highbrow delicacy Crowley seems to think. In fact, Lipton itself makes more than a half-dozen different varieties of green tea. Lipton's website even reveals that green tea accounts for 20 percent of all tea produced. And, according to Lipton's product locator, you can buy green tea in Dubuque, Iowa, at that gourmet market known as ... Kmart.
So, who is the real out-of-touch elitist -- John Kerry, for drinking green tea, or Candy Crowley, for assuming that simple Iowa folk couldn't possibly be familiar with the beverage?
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