Does Hanoi John Kerry as spaceman equal Dukakis in tank?
A photo of John Kerry in a protective spacesuit is being compared to
the unflattering image that helped tank another Massachusetts
Democratic presidential nominee in 1988.
Republicans have distributed a photo of Kerry wearing one of NASA's
head-to-toe protective suits, taken Monday at the Kennedy Space Center
in Cape Canaveral. Kerry, along with Sens. John Glenn of Ohio and Bill
Nelson of Florida, were required to wear the suits to tour the
Discovery space shuttle due to a recent launch.
A handful of the images have been posted on the Kennedy Space Center's
website. It was a photograph of former Massachusetts Gov. Michael
Dukakis in a tank that helped sink his presidential bid.
Late-night comedians have already had fun with the picture and
Republicans have e-mailed it to thousands of supporters under the
caption "Earth to Kerry."
The headline on the front page of the Boston Herald read, "Bubble
Boy." To enter the orbiter and the cockpit area where commanders sit,
Kerry, Glenn and Nelson had to go through a "white room," and don the
special suits. Media cameras were not allowed in, but NASA later
released its own photographs.
The Kerry campaign drew its own parallel of the spacesuit picture with
Bush's May 1, 2003, landing on an aircraft carrier in a flight suit to
declare an end to combat operations in Iraq in front of a banner
reading "Mission Accomplished." More than 750 U.S. troops have died in
Iraq since that day and U.S. forces are plagued by violence.
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