Here's something amusing I found while searching the internet for "Ducati Paso 907". It's from an article by a Boston columnist writing about John Kerry, 2004 US Presidential candidate for president. Here it is.
"At the risk of engaging in ethnic stereotyping, Yankees have a reputation for, shall we say, frugality. And Kerry tosses around quarters like they were manhole covers. In 1993, for instance, living on a senator's salary of about $100,000, he managed to give a total of $135 to charity.
Yet that same year, [1993] he was somehow able to scrape together $8,600 for a brand-new, imported Italian motorcycle, a Ducati Paso 907 IE. He kept it for years, until he decided to run for president, at which time he traded it in for a Harley-Davidson like the one he rode onto "The Tonight Show" set a couple of months ago as Jay Leno applauded his fellow Bay Stater."
Well, I guess trading it in for a Harley was a bad thing, but that's politics for you.
Tim
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