NEW HAMPSHIRE: EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT HERE NOW [Mike Tuffin 10/21 12:02 PM]
Everything is different here now. The Red Sox are all anyone cares about. They are perhaps the only thing that brings this divided state together. The Red Sox relegate politics to an annoying sideshow for the time being. The First Lady is here today. Michael Moore is here today too. But nobody really cares. We misunderestimated ourselves. There's a sense of disorientation. New Englanders have never been here before and we're not quite sure what to do. But we know that politics is not what we want to do, at least not today. The campaigns would be well served to pull down the ads, call back the ground troops and enact a 24-hour cease fire.
When the campaigning resumes New Hampshire voters looking for clues about the candidates' character, will be interested to know that self-professed Red Sox fanatic John Kerry recently praised and associated himself with the Yankees. Kerry also claimed that growing up his favorite Red Sox player was one Eddie Yost, a fine player who never played for the Red Sox.
