Reply #64: Also a windsurfing board costs ...

[HamdenRice]

about $1500, the sail is about another $600, the boom another $500, the mast $500 -- easily $3000 which is more than most working stiffs make in a month -- for a basically toy. This is not your bowling ball, big shirt and rented shoes kind of sport.

And being totally decked out in the wet suit, and being a billionaire he probably didn't go for the discount version of any of it -- and he's doing it at Martha's Vineyard. He gave the message, that for a few days in the sun for him he's likely to spend two or three months salary of a working family.

This did not go over well with me (a Democrat); but really did not go over well with swing voters in Nassau county I met who did not have any pre-existing loyalty to the Democratic Party and did not have a visceral fear of 4 more years of bush. Most of them simply dismissed Kerry as an asshole, without knowing anything about him, long before the debates.