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[ProSense]

27/01/2006 - 10:41:18 AM

John Kerry postpones Ulster visit

Former US presidential candidate John Kerry has been forced to pull plans to visit the North this weekend.

The Democratic Massachusetts senator, who challenged President George Bush unsuccessfully in the 2004 election, was due to visit the University of Ulster in Derry to deliver a prestigious lecture on security in the 21st century.

He was also expected to meet a number of the North's politicians during his visit to the Magee Campus in Derry.

University authorities have been told to postpone his lecture because of pressing business in the US Senate in Washington.

Mr Kerry would have joined a distinguished list of guest speakers who have delivered lectures under a series commemorating veteran Democratic politician Tip O’Neill.

They include former US president Bill Clinton, United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan and ex-European Commission president Romano Prodi.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=73045344&p=73x45646&n=73045724

I hope they will invite him back.

[ProSense]

1. And it's worth it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=256704&mesg_id=256704

[Island Blue]

2. I'm sure they'll invite him back.

The article from earlier in the week said he was coming to Ulster on the invitation of John Hume - John Hume knows a thing or two about fighting for what is right. I'm sure he would be thrilled to have JK speak at a later date!

[TayTay]

3. Ahm, I cannot imagine the Irish not inviting a Boston pol back

We are sort of, ahm, tight with those folks. (LOL!) It will just happen a little later due to pending business. (Seriously guys, ahm, we are kind of tight with our cousins in Ireland. This is no problem.)

Thanks for coming home big guy. You rock!

[Mass]

4. Clearly the good move

Of course, these idiots on the RW and a couple of people on our side are already making fun of the fact that he was at Davos. I am sure they never heard of cell phones and emails.:sarcasm:

[_dynamicdems]

5. There hasn't been any mention of the other senators that are their with

him, either. This was Senate business, but they make it sound like he was off on some jaunt.

[ProSense]

6. Some Davos attendees

Senators Kerry, Biden, Chambliss, McCain, Smith, and Sununu.
House reps: Frank, Kolbe, Markey, Shays.

Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco
Bill Owens, the Republican governor of Colorado
Mark Warner — the Democrat who just got through being governor of Virginia.

Elaine Chao, the secretary of labor
Michael Chertoff, head of homeland security
Alberto Gonzales, attorney general
Robert Kimmitt, deputy secretary of the treasury
Michael Leavitt, secretary of health and human services
and Rob Portman, who started attending Davos as a House rep (Ohio) and is still attending, as U.S. trade rep.

[karynnj]

7. Thanks for the list -

From the photo, there was one other distiquished American - Teresa Heinz Kerry. I assume all the other Senators were doing work as opposed to Kerry who was hobknobbing.

The way the NYT portrayed this is pathetic. They had huge articles on the Renaisance weekend the Clintons attended each year - praising them for wanting to learn etc. They also covered the Clinton involvemant in the millenium challange (not positive of the name) last fall that was in NYC last fall.

[blm]

8. Please post this in GD - I told alot of folks he'd be in Ireland today.

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