Posted on 08/28/2004 5:14:56 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty
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Godspeed to Iowa Granny and Hillary's Lovely Legs on their trip to the convention!
Don't you have the pics of you guys standing on your hands in the swimming pool handy?
I'm not gonna get myself in any hot water with weights and measures, but when the IA delegation is shown, look for a very attractive blonde sporting gold and diamonds...a classy, high-maintenance look.
I swear, those folks are making the gores look good.
Ketchup people! spend some of that $$$ on yourselves.
Bored, indeed!
(Oh no! That's eleven letters!)
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LOL - you numerology guys are simply amazing.
Sorry JL, wrong freeper. That pic was with LBGA, may God rest her soul, and I don't have it.
I did remember IG is a blonde but wasn't sure if she still was. I was a blonde when I met her, now I'm a redhead, well, auburn anyway... ;-)
Yikes, ugly thunderstorm coming... back later!
THINKING BACK on the Vineyard, I was struck by how the island seems to have seceded from the red states of the union. It was the most Democratic place I've ever been. Stores have signs in windows reading "WELCOME BILL. WE MISS YOU!" And, indeed, Bill Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, were everywhere, flying in and out of the tiny airport, showing up at parties, signing books in the Bunch of Grapes, fielding rumors. "They're buying a house this year! They're not buying a house — why would they when they can visit the Mary Steenburgen/Ted Danson property!") [So glad to see everyone's preoccupied with the more important issues of the day]
There were Democrats everywhere — Maureen White and her financier hubby, Steve Rattner, plus veteran liberals Vernon and Ann Jordan, and add the Baron Evelyn de Rothschild's all-American wife, Lady Lynn, the Jack Valentis, also Democratic kingmaker Mandy Grunwald and her now famous Time magazine mister, Matt Cooper, who is under the gun for refusing to reveal his Washington sources. Also seen, former Clinton aide Lisa Caputo, now of Citibank, and hubby Rick Morris, wearing an "Anyone but Bush" button. [Isn't that the same button the Islamofascist terrorists are sporting these days?]...
... At another dinner honoring former Texas Gov. Ann Richards, the bumper sticker mounted on the fireplace read "Visualize one term." Here, I was nominated for president with the fabled Mr. Jordan for vice president. We even had campaign buttons. The handsome Vernon expressed outrage at being demoted to "vice." [Somehow, the words "vice" and "Vernon Jordan" just seem to go together, in a pimpdaddy kind of way. But I'm sorry, Liz, the world just isn't ready for an 80-year-old lesbian president.]
A mind is a terrible thing to lose...
I was SURE that you and IG had cocktails at some nice hotel in FL in your swimming gear. good grief.
When IG was here, she was definitely blonde, and I'm guessing that there's been no radical color changes since then.
[Somehow, the words "vice" and "Vernon Jordan" just seem to go together, in a pimpdaddy kind of way. But I'm sorry, Liz, the world just isn't ready for an 80-year-old lesbian president.]
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You should have your own column.
* The Kerry girls can give the Bush twins a run for their money: Alexandra and Vanessa hit the Hamptons' Star Room last Saturday night until the wee hours. After the photographers were shooed out, the two indulged in champagne in the upstairs VIP room. But they still managed to be coherent and clear-eyed on "Face the Nation" early the next morning.
How can you tell when a Democrat is drunk? I have no idea.
Women from the family of President George W. Bush (news - web sites) attended a 'W Stands for Women' rally at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York August 30, 2004. (L-R) daughters Barbara Bush and her twin sister Jenna, Doro Bush Koch, the president's sister, and Barbara Bush, the president's mother, and former first lady attended the rally. The twins didn't speak, but the president's sister and mother addressed the gathering which was held in conjunction with the Republican National Convention which began today at Madison Square Garden. REUTERS/Henny Ray Abrams
Dolphins on the loose in NYC!!
If you see folks on the streets of New York in dolphin suits, and wonder why they're wearing heavy, airless, synthetic-fiber getups in the killing summer sun, here's the answer: The Republican National Committee has deployed staffers and volunteers to impersonate Flipper, the beloved dolphin who starred in the 1960s television series. It's to lampoon Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and his alleged flip-flops on the issues.
RNC communications chief Jim Dyke yesterday told me that his office has bought 10 of the bulky, heat-stroke-inducing costumes, at $500 per, so a whole school of Flippers can attend Democratic Party events during the Republican Convention - including the Dems' daily news conference criticizing the opposition.
"We call them 'Flipper and friends,'" Dyke said. "We're trying to get them to DNC events and help DNC surrogates [advocates for Sen. John Kerry] get around the city. We want the Democrats to feel comfortable in New York - make them feel as if their flip-flopping candidate were present."
But "comfortable" is hardly the word.
RNC research director Tim Griffin said: "I think the temperature could get up to 110 degrees inside the costume, but I think some of them have little electric fans."
That should save the RNC's Flippers from keeling over on the sidewalk. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/227062p-195011c.html
"During the Democratic convention, Kerry told his Navy crewmates from the Vietnam War that he'd enjoy taking them "out on the water" while the GOP staged its show. But such a visit wasn't organized."
NOTE TO MAMA T: If Rasmussen shows up, do not serve chocolate chip cookies on the boat...
Gag me with a freakin' maggot:
In an election year with a seeming near-excess of candidates' daughters, Al Gore's second eldest, Kristin, presents an amusing, small novel somewhat weighed down by its political baggage. "Sammy's Hill" (Hyperion, $23.95) is the story of Samantha Joyce, who, at 26, is a domestic policy adviser to the earnest, upright Sen. Robert Gary (D-Ohio). She can be fey and flighty, but Sammy, as she's known, is steeped in the flaws of the health-care system and passionate about the reform of same.
Last year, when Jay Leno learned that Gore had written a novel about a Capitol Hill staffer for a health-care subcommittee, he cracked, "Apparently, that 'boring gene' doesn't fall far from the tree."
There's some truth to the observation, but given Gore's background as a comedy writer, primarily on the Fox animated show "Futurama," she's primed to put at least something of a wry spin on her drier material.
Indeed, as we meet Sammy, she's in a panic when the 83-year-old constituent in a wheelchair slated to testify at a hearing on prescription-drug plans for the elderly rolls in stoned. It appears he has been buying more than relief for his kidney ailment up there in Canada.
No, it's hardly a moment to produce gut-wrenching laughter, just an example of the madcap side of life on the Hill, where Sammy's other preoccupation is finding love. That she does as the novel progresses.
Aaron Driver is "undeniably hot, and not just D.C. hot, but actual real world hot." He's also the speechwriter for John Bramen, a ruthlessly self-aggrandizing Democrat who's the presidential front-runner and a pol her boss disdains. Gary's feelings are so intense that he signs onto a rival's ticket as the vice presidential nominee.
The ultimate opponent is the Republican White House incumbent, President Pile, known and despised for his "smug disregard."
So much so, that "the international community had become accustomed to shaking its head at America's troubles and did its best to prevent the Pile administration from spreading its unique brand of arrogant ineptitude beyond American borders."
Gore draws from life as she knows it in other respects, too, as she sends Sammy out into the heat of the presidential campaign (Gore campaigned for her father in 2000). Sammy stumbles in the race for the White House, though, when she literally drops from stress in her big, dramatic moment. And there are, as there needs to be in a story of this sort, complications of the heart.
It's not giving much away to say that in the familiar vernacular of Bridget Jones, Driver is bad boy Daniel Cleaver. The real question is, who will step up to play the role of Mark Darcy?
Oh, yeah, and who wins the election? Let's see. If we tell you that Gore does a nice job with what is essentially a contemporary romance novel, albeit one with political underpinnings, can you figure it out?
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/227139p-195052c.html
I took a peek at the other photos in your album and was once again very moved by the American Cemetary in France you visited last year. We left so many men over there-how dare the French treat us with such disrespect. What is their problem?
Probably because Bar just instructed them to do so!
Please ask HLL to grab some confetti if she can. Would be great to include a few in packages for our troops.
It just breaks my heart to see the French disrespect us, especially when I think of my grandfather who nearly died for them in November, 1918. I don't think the average French citizen feels the same way, thank goodness. Apart from the airport in Paris, I've never experienced rudeness from the French people.
I took a peek at the other photos in your album and was once again very moved by the American Cemetary in France you visited last year.
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Me, too.
Powerful picture.
Democractic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., windsurfs off the coast of Nantucket, Mass. on Monday, Aug. 30, 2004. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)
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