'The Body' Has Eye on Tackling White House in 2008 (Picks GOP'er Charles Barkley as Running Mate)

Boston Herald ^ | March 23, 2004 | Liz Beardsley

[blackie]

Both of these guys are loony tunes ~ it's a real sign that the left is losing it. :)

We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!

~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~

[Dane]

A sizeable population in the United States already celebrates Cinco de Mayo (even though it would make more sense for much of America to celebrate Texas Independence Day or even the date of the sale of the Louisiana Purchase).

Just a question, what's your opinion of Americans wearing green on March 17th(St.Patrick's Day).

Is that a bad thing to you or are you selective in condemning certain days.

[Dane]

BTW, weegee, what does Cinco de Mayo, have to do with jesse ventura shooting his big mouth off.

[jojodamofo]

He would get a boost from being a professional athlete, but in all honesty he would end up having about the same shot as Al Sharpton would down here.

[NYCVirago]

Ventura crawled out of the Minnesota governorship on his hands and knees, thoroughly and decisively whipped by the political process. He showed himself to be a crybaby and loser. He is permanently finished in politics.

And Jesse's such a bitter person, and he was so thin-skinned whenever anybody criticized him. He couldn't handle criticism from the Minnesota press; what makes him think he could handle the national press corps? One other thing -- IIRC, Arnold Schwarzenegger hired Ventura to appear in several movies with him. How did Jesse pay him back? By going on national TV with sour grapes about Arnold winning California!

[weegee]

Cinco de Mayo is Mexican Independence Day and it is quite a big celebration in America now (and not just here in Texas). Even the beer companies get into promoting it.

Meanwhile actual independence of American territories is not celebrated (you do realize that "Texas" extended into what is now Colorado). Texas Independence Day does not get the same attention that Cinco de Mayo gets even in Texas.

As long as we in America are encouraged to celebrate other nations' independence days, we might as well add the Bastille Day. Maybe then we would be more like the French and roll over when trouble comes a knocking.

What has the European continent gotten right politically in the past 100 years? They've gone socialist.

These comments are more directed at Sir Charles Barkley than they are at Jesse The Boa-Wearing Ventura.

[Dane]

Cinco de Mayo is Mexican Independence Day and it is quite a big celebration in America now (and not just here in Texas). Even the beer companies get into promoting it

And beer companies also promote St. Patrick's Day.

Why are you just condemning cinco de mayo.

JMO, you if you were consisitent you would also condemn Americans wearing green on St. Patrick's day, but it seems you are silent about that.

[weegee]

St. Patrick's Day is not an Independence Day. It started as a religious holiday and predates the foundation of this country.

"The first St. Patrick's Day parade took place not in Ireland, but in the United States. Irish soldiers serving in the English military marched through New York City on March 17, 1762."

While it may have been a source of national pride, it was not a celebration of a foreign nation.

If I am going to celebrate another country's independence, it would be the fall of the Soviet Union.

[Dane]

While it may have been a source of national pride, it was not a celebration of a foreign nation.

OK, so let's see if I have this correct according to weegee.

St. Patrick's day is in no way connected to the nation state of Ireland, correct.

[Shooter 2.5]

I saw Ventura at the fortieth anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. He was holding court so the government would "release all the records".

I lost a lot respect for the man for that one. He should sit down some week and see if he could get through 26 volumes before he asks for more.

[weegee]

Why must you troll this point?

St. Patrick's Day as founded was a religious, not political holiday.

Even still St. Patrick's Day carries no political connotation.

Independence Days always do. Someone is removed from power. Sometimes even maps are redrawn.

The members of La Raza and the Aztlan agitprop groups would like to see the US Southwest returned to Mexico. American Independence means nothing to them.

I have no ill will towards Mexico or wishing them to still be under Spanish rule. I do not see any point to celebrating their Independence. It makes as much sense as celebrating Bastille Day (which we do not do). We don't even celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall, the reunification of Germany, the fall of Hitler, the fall of the Soviet Union, et al. Even V-Day isn't a big event.

Is "Columbus Day" a "Spanish" or "Italian" holiday for America?

[Dane]

Why must you troll this point?

What am I trolling?

Sheesh St. Patrick's Day and Cinco De Mayo are not "political" holidays as celebrated in the US.

They are mostly celebrated as a reason to go to happy hour to a bar.

[ChicagoHebrew]

I routinely celebrate Israeli Independance Day... as to a lot of Christian Freepers.

[Hand em their arse]

This a very, very sad! We are becoming a nation that is beginning to take the Office of the President of the United States as a punchline. This is not a punchline time in history we are living in and something should be able to be done to stop these F**king morons form even being able attempting to be serious about this!

We are supposed to be a country that is looked at in stature as the greatest nation God gave man. And we are allowing someone who cross-dressed in a frigin' wrestling ring to actually entertain this. Give me a goddamn break!!!

[Hand em their arse]

"Cinco de Mayo is Mexican Independence Day"

Come on guys, anyone who has seen Paul Rodriguez knows for a fact that Cinco De Mayo came about by Mexican workers who told their foreman "Biff" that wanted their own holiday and after hearing that December 25th and January 1st were already holidays and they had those days off already, they said "how about May the 5th?". After Biff checked it out and saw nothing interfered Cinco De Mayo was born....

Just a little history lesson from your uncle Hand Em' Their Arse...

[GreenHornet]

Well, if he does plan to go ahead with this, I'd like to see him name Captain Lou Albano as his campaign manager ....the Captain.....the Guiding Light.....the manager of champions.

[Benrand]

RUUUN GET TO DA CHAAAPAH!!!

What's got Beely so spookuhd?

[ladyinred]

No Way? This guy is a nut, and his governorship proved it.

[PhilDragoo]

Mike Gallagher played the tape of his appearance with Charles Barkley on MTV Rock the Vote.

Barkley was aggressively ignorant and offensive in his pandering to the young, restless cucumber-condom crowd.

Ventura has taken more than his allowance of cheap shots at our president.

He has more than worn the gloss of novelty off his fifteen minutes.

This Ventura-Barkley ticket is headed for the land of the Clintons' adopted child, between the bathtub and the sink.

[OldSmaj]

Ventura is a goofy idiot and Barkley is a racist bigot.

They'll provide us with much comic relief, but they'll never see the White House unless they get invited by whoever the current resident will be.

And Barkley is not a GOP'er, he's a GOPINO.

That's Grand Old Party In Name Only.

Otherwise known as a RINO.