Posted on 05/17/2004 4:40:46 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty
A side note; Will Kerry pick Clark for VP?
Kerry's face is saying either, "Clark would make a fine VP." or "I never realized how handsome Wesley is."
I think it might be happening, Clark as Kerry's pick for VP. Clark's been introducing and/or stumping for Effin'.
Oh please let me get my wish! A Kerry/Clark ticket.
LOL! So that explains the tummy bloat. She should try sucking in the tummy to prop up the boobs.
Hey, I said that first!
Try this on for size (I refuse to post the actualy picture on here): Gay Marriage
The reporter on the lower left looks like she's about to upchuck.
In the mid 80's, my tape deck spit out tatters of the last Springsteen tape I bought. I took it as a sign; the tape player was right.
BEDFORD TOWNSHIP -- It looks like Senator John Kerry will speak at a local high school's graduation in June. A student wrote to both Kerry and President George Bush, asking them for an interview for the Bedford High School newspaper. Kerry's campaign responded, saying it would do one better by having the senator speak at commencement. Bush's campaign did not respond.
A school board member, some parents, and some students have complained, saying Kerry would take away the spotlight from the kids, and turn it into a political rally [gee, ya think?]. Bedford High School Principal Dennis Caldwell says he's already spoken with district leaders, and got their okay. Caldwell says he's been assured that won't happen, and the campaign has offered to pick up the extra costs.
Students we talked to at Bedford say they wanted to make sure any commencement speaker who was chosen wasn't a distraction. They say graduation day is about the students, not about any political candidate.
We asked the Kerry campaign for a comment on this. Ohio Campaign Chairman Jim Ruvolo told us, "We do not view this as a political event. Senator Kerry is not going to make it a political speech. He'll talk about the importance of education."
The Bedford school board will meet on Tuesday to talk about the situation. But principal Caldwell says there's very little that the board could do to change the plan for commencement. WTOL
As if that isn't bad enough, I can't shake the feeling that his campaign wizards are trying to out do GWB's campaign with something GWB's did in the 2000 election.
A young boy named Chaille Stovall decided to make a video of the 2000 primary candidates and continued through the election. He tried and tried to get interviews with both albore and GWB, Karen Hughes was the only one to call him back. Chaille got his sit down interview with then Gov. Bush.
Kerry's wizards thinking they're being clever by doing this commencement, thinking it makes GWB look too high and mighty to lower himself to a high school commencement speech.
Those poor kids, having to listen to Lurch bloviate about life.
BTW, the dems were pretty unfriendly to Chaille, at the end of his video there was an apology from Chaille to some albore campaign dame for "talking too loud" or some such nonsense. They also threw Chaille out of an MTV 'Rock the Vote' party:
During the Democratic convention in Los Angeles, Chaille and his crew attended an MTV "Rock the Vote" event at the House of Blues. He met Wilmer Valderrama, a star of "That 70's Show," a Fox sitcom popular with teenagers, who was exhorting young people to become more politically active. Chaille asked him point-blank, "Do you know who your local congressman is?"
The actor did not. Within minutes, Democratic press aides evicted Chaille and his crew. Link
And just when you thought Kerry couldn't get any more dorky...
Daughter reveals to the world that while daddy John may well be the biggest boob in the family, he's definately not the only boob.
Jackie is gorgeous! Her brother must get many requests for her telephone number. :-)
I'm a guy, not a woman, but I think a white slip would have been well-advised. A white slip would be more visible than a black neglige, but would have more effectively concealed anything underneath. And if the slip was uniformly white, it shouldn't draw undue attention to itself.
Can the body politic withstand another wardrobe malfunction?
I guess we'll find out now that presidential candidate John Kerry's daughter Alexandra has turned up at the Cannes Film Festival wearing a sheer, translucent black gown that left very little - well, nothing really - to the imagination.
As photographs sent around the world confirm, the 30-year-old actress and documentary filmmaker arrived on the red carpet for "Kill Bill: Vol. 2" in a getup so revealing that the British tabloid The Sun mused that the younger Kerry "showed at least two reasons why Americans should vote her dad into the White House in November."
Which prompted Lowdown to take a quick survey of pundits and operatives to see how Alexandra Kerry's Lil' Kim moment might play in the "red states":
Washington Times editorial page editor Tony Blankley: "It was a lovely photograph, but not a single vote is going to be cast based on the naked appearance of his daughter. Those people who care about that deeply are probably not Kerry voters. I assume she's available for dating - I would think when you dress as enchantingly as that, you're looking forward to enchanting others."
Former Al Gore campaign manager Donna Brazile: "Too Much Information! Whatever happened to earth tones?"
New York Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum: "What's everybody so uptight about? I thinks she has a very nice body, and she seems perfectly well-covered. But I don't know anything about the 'red states.' I never leave New York City."
Ragin' Cajun James Carville: "Who's Alexandra Kerry? ... I'm not commenting on John Kerry's daughter or anyone else's daughter."
Bush/Cheney campaign spokesman Kevin Madden: "I'm not going to comment."
Which is revealing in itself.
- - Lloyd Grove, http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/194460p-168044c.html
It's not clear who called whom. But reporter Seymour Hersh and The New Yorker editor, David Remnick, both vividly recall that on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, they conferred about the need for Hersh to focus single-mindedly on the 9/11 story -- to "be all over this, be on this wherever it takes you," in Remnick's words. "He said, `Well, you're not going anywhere for the next year,' " Hersh said yesterday. "We didn't know it would last as long." full story
If you're planning a dinner party, take this bit of sage advice: Don't invite Bill Clinton.
Big Bill is so desperate for attention these days that he might actually show up, and then you'd have a hard time getting rid of him as he jabbered on into the wee hours while your other guests stifle yawns and sneak peeks at their watches.
"Those who socialize with Clinton say there's no off switch even when he's relaxed," Robert Sam Anson writes in an amazing article on Clinton's post-presidential years in the June issue of Vanity Fair. Anson backs up that point with a series of devastating anonymous quotes from Clinton cronies:
"He just talks. You don't really have a conversation with him."
"He is just self-absorbed. Totally."
"He's always the last to leave."
"He can't stand to be alone."
Anson is a veteran journalist and author who chronicled the ex-presidency of Richard Nixon in the 1984 book "Exile." Now, watching Clinton, he concludes that the ex-prez suffers from "spotlight starvation" -- a compulsion characterized by "a hankering for attention that makes him a joke even to admirers."
After leaving office in 2001, Anson says, Clinton was so bored sitting in Chappaqua, N.Y., while his wife worked in the Senate that he showed up at a local elementary school one morning to watch a school play. Another time, he invited a couple of local 12-year-olds into his living room to chat about the impact of technology on everyday life.
"He was," Anson theorizes, "desperate for company."
These days, Clinton is tanned and trim, his famous paunch whittled away by the South Beach Diet and a tenacious German trainer. But his charisma is still intact and when he strolls down the street, Anson reports, people yell, "I wish you were still president."
Other folks are even friendlier. Last year, Clinton dined in a Palm Beach restaurant with Bill McBride, the Democratic candidate for governor of Florida. "They were greeted by a table of several young women," Anson writes, "one of whom -- to the hysterical amusement of neighboring diners -- volunteered to perform Monica's specialty on the spot."
Not very well rounded are you Ms. Gotbaum? And Lloyd makes it seem like people in the 'blue states' haven't a modicum of modesty. I thought those high minded types didn't approve of lumping people into catagories.
A fun experiment for the un-uptight Betsy would be one day in NYC, every woman wear a sheer frock with nothing underneath. Then we count how many times Betsy's phone rings, how many WYWO's litter her desk at the New York Public Advocate offices.
"We didn't know it would last as long." .... Words that prove Hersh has the foresight of a log. And just when is Hersh going to focus on the 9/11 story? So far all we've gotten is how awful GWB, his cabinet and the military have done everything. There must be 1001 stories about terrorist cells right here in River City.
What The New Yorker may be doing is opening up a space for this kind of journalism . . . long-form, based on original investigative work,
Investigative?! Talking to anonymous sources who think the people in charge are wrong on everything is investigating? Ha! Ha! Lazy pseudo-journalist.
Two weeks ago, Hersh's story about mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners, accompanied by disturbing pictures, along with a broadcast by CBS's "60 Minutes II," had an explosive impact on the national discussion. (The abuse had been reported by the Associated Press in November but was not widely covered by the media.)
If Hersh were a good journalist he could have made that story have an impact back in November or at the very least January. Not close enough to the election I guess.
Another time, he invited a couple of local 12-year-olds into his living room to chat about the impact of technology on everyday life.
This sends shivers up and down my spine every time I read it. Blubby must have parents that let Micheal Jackson babysit their children on speed dial.
volunteered to perform Monica's specialty on the spot."
I hope, I hope, I hope, Mrs. McBride was at the table or perhaps a catty friend of hers sitting nearby. (Clinton is so proud of the values he helped shape when prez...., No way those young soldiers at Abu Grwhatever couldn't think up those nasty torture pyramids on their own!)
"The bloody blundering in Iraq," Anson writes, "has produced a new bumper sticker: 'When Clinton Lied, Nobody Died.' "
Clinton and his feckless minions will choke on these words some day very soon.
Mountaineer, do you find it odd that the clinton devotees remain in awe of the man while they snicker about what a self-centered sleaze he is or is that just par for the course with the type that is a clinton-lover?
No supercat a black slip would have better than a white slip. Actually, the designer should have included a lining inside the dress since the dress has only one shoulder.
It's dresses like the one Alex was wearing that makes me think that urban legend about designers designing clothes that make women look stupid because they hate women is all too true.
And just a little tip for you if the question ever arises... Always wear a beige or nude color undergarment when wearing white. The beige will disappear where as white will be very noticeable under a white garment. :-)
Back in the Lewinsky "scandal" days (1998), it was said that Clinton supporters really weren't outraged because they appreciated having a president who was on their own sleazy level. It helped them justify their own behavior. In other words, Joe Six-Pack who had an extramarital fling with a coworker or smoked dope or told big fat lies didn't feel quite so bad about it. After all, even the president does it, and he's "only human," just like me.
At the same time, the notion that there are no absolutes of right and wrong - and certainly no such thing as evil - which I think really took root in the 1960s (do your own thing), came to full fruition during the Clinton years. The lefties hated it when Reagan used terms like "evil empire," then Dubya echoed RR with his "axis of evil" comments. Oh the humanity! How dare anyone be so judgmental? So they may laugh at Clinton's girlfriends, his cheating at golf, his amoral behavior, but they sure as heck aren't criticizing it, because to do so would judge themselves.
Perhaps my confusion is that the sleaze haven't recognized the country is different from those wild and crazy days of clinton. I must stop looking at dems from my perspective, i.e., if I do something stupid I make the appropriate remedies and keep my head down in the hope it's forgotten. I'm beginning to think there is no amount of stupid that would cause dems to clam up. None!
The 2002 election didn't stagger them, they blame their failures on us stoopid people who failed to get their message. A mantra dems continue to this day. Uh yeah, call me a stoopid boring goody two shoes, I'll vote for ya!
So far her dates have included her "brother" Andre Heinz and her cousin...
U.S. filmmaker Alexandra Kerry (R), daughter of Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerr, and French ecologist Brice Lalonde, the cousin of John Kerry, pose on the red carpet for the screening of 'Shrek 2' at the 57th Cannes Film Festival.
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