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From the John Kerry Website...TahRAYzuh's a nasty beee-ahhtch!!

The "Mother" of All House Parties

The East Bay for Kerry/MoveOn House party on December 7th combined the forces of two grass-roots organizations based in San Francisco East Bay Area. We had 200 guests eating, drinking, and watching the MoveOn Documentary “Uncovered” featuring Joseph Wilson and Rand Beers from the Kerry campaign.

When Teresa Heinz-Kerry arrived, she handed me a pin that read in the center: “Asses of Evil” with “Bush”, “Cheney”, “Rumsfeld” and “Ashcroft” surrounding it. She met, greeted and talked to a jam-packed room of Kerry supporters and others who came for the MoveOn documentary. Many were curious, others undecided, or belonging to other candidate camps.

Teresa talked about her life as the daughter of a physician in Africa, about life during a repressive regime, to life inside Washington DC, and a brief intimate glimpse into her courtship with John. She told a rapt crowd about how they met and their first date, and that he did not call again for six months, adding, “He was slow on the uptake”. Just as she was about to add more to the story, the phone rang. It was the Senator.

The synchronicity of this call was not lost on the crowd. We all laughed. John then spoke about the Medicare Bill recently signed by the president that effectively forces people into expensive HMO plans and prevents Medicare from using its formidable consumer base to drive the bulk purchase of expensive prescription drugs down. He also spoke about the recent Bush Thanksgiving visit to our military in Iraq, carrying a platter laden down with a fake turkey, smiling for a photo op.

People were hungry for the food we had prepared, but more so, hungry for John’s message of hope. After the call, Teresa took questions from the crowd. One of the questions was about grass-roots organizing, and the effect it had on the current presidential campaigns. Teresa responded that grass-roots has to happen at EVERY level, from the Internet, to canvassing and meeting people, to letter writing and phone calling. She reminded us that this was the way to connect with others and to get the message out.

A PBS producer working on a documentary on MoveOn interviewed Teresa. He asked, “Just as radio was for Roosevelt, and television was for Kennedy, the Internet has been defined as the new political grass-roots organizing tool for this era. What is your reaction to that?”

Teresa said, “The Internet is a great grass-roots organizing and political tool; but it is still an adjunct.” The producer asked her to clarify. Teresa responded, “Until EVERYONE has access to a computer and knows how to access the Internet, it will still be an adjunct political grassroots organizing tool”.

It was hard for Teresa to stay on schedule. The lovely voice of opera singer, Susan Gundunas was on hand to sing a few tunes, and that kept Teresa with us a while longer than expected. Before saying goodbye, she took with her some “Condoleezza Rice Crispies Bars” and “No Child Left Behind Chocolate Chip Cookies”, sold to generate donations to the cause. She left with a lilt to her step, a warm smile, and some new converts, some of whom were uncommitted and undecided, and some who were definitely committed, but came over to our camp. Because of her.

She gave us a bit of what she does best, connecting us as a community with her heart, compassion, and willingness to fight throughout all her life for the good of all of us. As her husband, John Kerry has throughout his life. Teresa completed the picture many people had unfinished about John Kerry. Now they know they have a “Real Deal”. From baking cookies, gathering food donations, staying up late cooking chicken wings, putting up artwork, and decorating that beautiful rambling modern home in the Oakland Hills, we at East Bay for Kerry did our job because we believe grass roots efforts include all of these finer, human details. We brought in more than 80 people to John’s birthday party the next night, bringing the room to capacity at 350 the following night

Thanks to Teresa, we kept the party going on, and she helped us here at East Bay for Kerry, throw the Mother of All House Parties.

Fe Bongolan - December 11, 2003
East Bay for Kerry - Berkeley, CA

"Justa Criminal"
(To be sung to "U2's 'SO cruel'")

Slick crossed the line...Greed pushed him over!!
Justice don't matter to you...it matters to me!!
Nation's adrift...but Right's voting!!
MUD's only singin' songs...to force Leftist's down...FReedom!!

[To Slick Willie hisse'f]
Country's been fearin' you...You sold our Security!!
Folks gave you everything you ever wanted...Death really what you wanted?!!
Women who love you, you hurt the most...
You've got no soul, yer just a ghost!!
The Left loves you...but yer TREASON is Left's Despair!!
Willie...yer nowhere!!
Waaah-aah-aah-Hoo-Waaahhh...you think, fer you, there are no rules...
Waaah-aah-aah-Hoo-Waaahhh...Willie...yer a Criminal!!

Lib'ralism is a tender trap...Destroys Hope every time!!
Left's Poverty Pimps...enslave DemWimps...Left's Vic-tim-ized!!!
Slick's time in Jail will inevitably come...Bill's cellmates're achin' fer his love!!
Hell'ry'll make Slick beg her fer her stuff...Bill may need her icy hug!!
Waaah-aah-aah-Hoo-Waaahhh...Slick thinks, fer him, there are no rules...
Waaah-aah-aah-Hoo-Waaahhh...Willie...Yer Despicable!!

Slick spit his love on that Huge Blue Dress...
While Slick's pud-whackin'...bin Laden schemed many deaths!!
Left's SCUM!! Folks, we need a shower...
SCUM...Libs're Whores fer Power!!

Aaaahhh-Haaahhhhh!!

[To SlixMYbi+c#, personally, again]
Slick, you must know, you must fear my desires...
Danger's the drug that takes you higher!!
Head of heaven, fingers...in the mire
Yer heart is racing...you can't keep up
The Right is FReepin' fer Justice!!
Between the horses of love and lust...
You'll be trampled...underfoot!!

Waaah-aah-aah-Hoo-Waaahhh...you think, fer you, there are no rules...
Waaah-aah-aah-Hoo-Waaahhh...Med'yuh...Leftist Tools!!

Waaah-aah-aah-Hoo-Waaahhh...To "Just Move On" we'd be damned fools!!
Waaah-aah-aah-Hoo-Waaahhh...Clinton's...Justa Criminal!!

Mudboy Slim (18 October 1999)