Saddam, Flipper FReep Kerry/Streisand Fundraiser in L.A. [PICTURES] (6/24)

[rintense]

You guys are GREAT!!!! God bless you all!

[The Mayor]

Fantastic!!

[b9]

Isn't downtown so NICE now?!

It's exquisite...I got a bit lost and turned around trying to find the freeway back to San Diego after the freep and made a turn back into downtown that took my breath away, it was so beautiful, with no traffic at all around 8:30.

Haven't seen downtown LA for several years and was really surprised. So glad you mentioned it.

[buffyt]

Hey ya OUTRAGED! I met you at the luncheon we had during the Bill Simon/ Gray Davis debates in 2002.

[LisaFab]

Great job CA FReepers!

[Bob J]

Moving Rightalong... ;}

[nutmeg]

Bob J (as Clinton-occhio) with diotima as the sulking Hildabeast, Joy Anglela (as Monica) with ALOHA RONNIE (with large sign) and RonDog (in prison outfit, WITHOUT "Bubba" mask) between Bob J and diotoma, getting the contact information from a "soon-to-be FReeper" who met us at that event.

OMG... what a priceless pic! You guys rock!!! ;-D

[RonDog]

ONLY
'FOREIGN'
LEADERS
( LIKE SADDAM )
LIKE
JOHN 'FRENCH' KERRY

My sign, of course, for those who might not know, refers to THIS story:

Kerry Challenged Over Comments on Foreign Leaders
Findlaw.com ^ | March 14, 2004 | John Whitesides
Posted on 03/14/2004 9:57:04 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy

Democratic White House candidate John Kerry was challenged on Sunday over his comments that some foreign leaders wanted him to beat President Bush, but he refused to reveal any of their names.

Reacting to comments made by Secretary of State Colin Powell in a television interview, and a question raised by a persistent Republican at a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania, Kerry repeated his contention that foreign leaders were encouraging his presidential bid because of unhappiness with U.S. policy.

But he refused to name the leaders and said some of the conversations were by telephone, not face-to-face.

"No leader would obviously share a conversation if I started listing them," Kerry told reporters after Powell suggested he name some names or stop implying foreign leaders wanted him to beat Bush.

"I don't think Colin Powell or the president would start listing names of people who had said something critical of something or somebody. I'm not going to do that," he said.

Kerry, who visited Pennsylvania to criticize Bush's health care policy, said last week he had "met foreign leaders who can't say this publicly, but boy they look at you and say 'you've got to win this, you've got to beat this guy, we need a new policy."'

CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread

[RonDog]

JOHN 'FRENCH' KERRY

See also, from:

Kerry criticized for French connection [FReeper quoted]
Boston Globe ^ | 4/12/2004 | By Susan Milligan, Globe Staff
Posted on 04/12/2004 12:51:21 AM PDT by Jim Robinson

WASHINGTON -- As the presidential race gets tighter and nastier, the F-word has increasingly crept into attacks against presumptive Democratic nominee John F. Kerry.

It has made its way into comments by the House majority leader, onto Internet blogs, and onto the Republican National Committee's website. It has shown up on sweatshirts and T-shirts, and been thrown around in columns by nationally known conservative writers.

Kerry, his foes complain, might as well be French.

"The French believe John Kerry has `a certain elegance,' " sneers a contributor [aka Prime Choice] to the FreeRepublic.com website, over unflattering pictures of the Massachusetts senator playing ping-pong, catching a football, and throwing a baseball. "Of course, the French also think Jerry Lewis is a comic genius. Think about it," the satirical posting says...

-- snip --

from FReeper Prime Choice
hosted on www.sacredcowburgers.com

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Thanks for the INSPIRATION, Prime Choice!

[RonDog]

from FReeper Prime Choice
hosted on www.sacredcowburgers.com

See also THIS thread:

Prayers requested for FReeper Prime Choice
Sacred Cow Burgers ^ | June 26, 2004 | me
Posted on 06/26/2004 6:02:19 PM PDT by PeoplesRep_of_LA

I'm am posting this to all the good people of FR that see it to please pray for the talented Jay D. Dyson to get better by God's grace. As many of you know the creator of the conservative parody site http://www.sacredcowburgers.com was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer and had to have surgery recently.

Unfortunately I have to report that he has had complicatation and has now come down with pneumonia and doctors are searching for blood clots in his lungs.

It is a critical time for him and really the only thing that will enable him to make it through this is God.

Please pray this evening that the Lord gives him strength, that He gives his doctors guidance and wisdom, and that he gives them all His Love.

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[RonDog]

We DID have lots of "flip flops" at this event, but we did not use them very much.

For security reasons, we needed to assemble ACROSS THE STREET from the concert hall, and SMALL objects were not very easy to see - from that distance...

As I posted previously, Kerry is VERY vulnerable to the kind of attack by HUMOR already underway -
all across the USA:

Sandal whappers serenade Kerry
[Should we FReep Kerry with REAL "flip flops" - across the USA?]
Cincinnati Enquirer ^ | April 7, 2004 | Gregory Korte and Cindi Andrews
Posted on 04/07/2004 10:25:07 PM PDT by RonDog

Wednesday, April 7, 2004

Sandal whappers serenade Kerry

---

Reporter's Notebook

By Gregory Korte and Cindi Andrews
The Cincinnati Enquirer

John Kerry had seen the tactic before - it emerged on the campaign trail last week - but few others seemed to understand what was going on.

Young Republicans wearing cheap sandals got in the front row and started clapping them together almost as soon as the Democratic presidential candidate took the stage at Sawyer Point on Tuesday.

Their message: that Kerry has flip-flopped on the issues...

-- snip --

See also, from www.rushlimbaugh.com:

Pathetic Kerry Condemns "Rude" GOP Protestors

April 7, 2004

-- snip --

Kerry's playbook is so old and he is so dishonest, it can be infuriating. But there's a simple way to listen to liberals without tearing your hair out, and that is this: everything liberals accuse Bush of, is what they do themselves. So when Kerry talks about the politics of lying, he's telling us what Democrats do. He's identifying his own tactics. As an example, consider Kerry's freak-out at a group of protestors waving flip-flop sandals at Kerry's Cincinnati speech.

As you can hear in the audio link below, this man who protested the Vietnam War and whose party has defined patriotism as requiring dissent, grumbled, "Obviously some young Republicans proving that they are very rude and they have no manners." Oh, the power, my friends! I am paralyzed here with how impressed I am by his retort. Why, what a way to shut them down! Not only calling them "rude" but "very rude!" This is so pathetic!

-- snip --

Listen to Rush...

(...JIP [JoinInProgress] audio of Kerry, and his angry ripping of dissenters at a speech in Cincinnati)

Read the Article...

(Cincinnati Enquirer: Sandal whappers serenade Kerry)

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[RonDog]

See also, THESE marvelous "flip flops..."

and

...from our good FRiends at www.rightstuffcomedy.com

(also known as www.2004flipflopkerry.com)

[RonDog]

Here is an EXCELLENT analysis of the strategery behind this concept...

...which is just TOO POWERFUL to ignore. :o)

Kerry flip flops killing him
HOW 'FLIP-FLOP' KILLS KERRY At Vote.com ^ | 3/17/04 | Dick Morris
Posted on 03/17/2004 6:00:12 PM PST by MNJohnnie

HOW 'FLIP-FLOP' KILLS KERRY
by Dick Morris

March 9, 2004 -- It is increasingly clear that President Bush's line of attack against Kerry will be to describe him as a flip-flopping politician, changing his positions constantly to suit the political needs of the moment. One negative ad, previewed on "Meet the Press," showed an animation of two John Kerry boxers battling one another. The winner? George W. Bush.

The obvious goal of the Bush attack is to discredit Kerry and make it hard for anyone to believe in him or anything he says. But this round of flip-flop attacks is just the precursor of the main Bush offensive. Attacking Kerry for reversing himself on many key issues will weaken the Democrat, but the real point is to soften him up for two more deadly attacks likely to follow.

First, the flip-flop ads are designed to make Kerry appear too weak to lead America through the tough challenges of terrorism at home and abroad. Attacking a candidate for reversing himself on key political issues is the best way to make him appear weak, indecisive and vacillating.

When I worked for President Bill Clinton, the Republicans tried the same tactic, constantly citing his frequent reversals on issues to demonstrate weakness. Their barbs were very effective and led to a White House policy of never, never, never reversing a stand on anything.

(Sometimes, White House staff liberals took advantage of this axiom to leak word that Clinton was about to take a liberal position so as to foreclose him from doing anything else for fear of it seeming to be a flip-flop. During the welfare-reform debate, after Clinton had privately decided to sign a waiver to let Wisconsin move ahead with the work requirements and time limits its Legislature had adopted, some White House staffers leaked that he had decided to veto it instead. Terrified of seeming to flip on the issue, Clinton eventually backed off the Wisconsin proposal but then signed a national welfare-reform law. )

Bush wants to show that Kerry is too weak to lead the nation as a wartime president. It is no accident that Bush is opening his paid media campaign by reminding voters of his strong stance in the months after 9/11. He wants to raise the saliency of terrorism as an issue and to up the ante for the strength required of a chief executive. The flip-flop ads are his way of doing it.

By showing the Democrat as a man who can be pushed first one way and then the other by political winds, he shows him to be far from the strong, decisive leader America needs.

The flip-flop attack is also designed to prevent Kerry from responding to the other key line of Bush attack - that Kerry is too liberal for mainstream America.

By criticizing Kerry for changing his position constantly, the Bush campaign hopes to stop their opponent from wriggling out of his previous liberal votes and views. Once the public is alert to the chance that Kerry will change his mind, it becomes harder for the Democrat to explain away his votes and to move to the center under Bush's fire.

Now, when Bush moves in for the kill and accuses Kerry of opposing the Defense of Marriage Act or appropriations to fund the Iraq War, the Democratic candidate will find it harder to spin his positions and to move to the middle on these issues. When he tries, voters will repeat to themselves the Ronald Reagan criticism of Jimmy Carter: "There you go again."

By showing Kerry to flip-flop, Bush sets him up for the real charges - that he is too weak and too liberal to be president.

Conventional wisdom says that this election is going to be close, a replay of 2000. It need not be so. If Bush runs aggressive national advertisements, hammering at these themes, he can put this race away by the end of the spring.

We must remember that Bush's father trailed Mike Dukakis by 17 points in the months before the conventions. Until Bush Sr. ran negative ads, it seemed that the Massachusetts governor would be Reagan's successor. Kerry's bubble may prove to be just that fragile.

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[ALOHA RONNIE]

.

"Why did CLINTON refuse 3 Offers from the Sudan during the 1990's to send us OSAMA bin LADEN before he could hit us hard after CLINTON left the White House..?" =

Question we asked outside HILLARY's June 2003 Booksigning in Pasadena

Question we're still asking as CLINTON has his own June 2004 Booksignings.

.

[IPWGOP]

Here’s a Bush v Kerry fuppet you can print out and wear to annoy liberals. (A 'fuppet' is a finger puppet). They also can be used ‘free-standing’ for desktops. Just copy, paste and print. It should automatically printout the right size:

click here for more FUPPETS

Here’s a Schwarzenegger v Kerry fuppet you can print out and wear to annoy liberals. (A 'fuppet' is a finger puppet). They also can be used ‘free-standing’ for desktops. Just copy, paste and print. It should automatically printout the right size:

click here for more FUPPETS

Here's a pair of John Kerry “Flip Flops” fuppet you can print out and wear to annoy liberals. (A 'fuppet' is a finger puppet). They also can be used ‘free-standing’ for desktops. Just copy, paste and print. It should automatically printout the right size:

click here for more FUPPETS

Here's an Uncle Sam “Tuff Stuff” fuppet you can print out and wear. (A 'fuppet' is a finger puppet). They also can be used ‘free-standing’ for desktops. Just copy, paste and print. It should automatically printout the right size:

Click on the picture to give Hillary the finger:

Click on the picture to give Bill the finger:

Click on the picture to give Kerry the finger:

Click on the picture to give Michael Moore the finger:

Click on the picture to give Gore the finger:

[RonDog]

LOL!

Thank you, IPWGOP...

...for those marvelous "Fuppets!"

[Mister Baredog]

We may very well be in for a 4-year or an 8-year round of Kerry-nomics

NOT A CHANCE, IMHO.

[RonDog]

See also this SHORT EXCERPT from the AFP (aka "Agence Française de Presse") article posted in Australia's Daily Telegraph:

Stars come out for Kerry campaign

By Marc Lavine

June 26, 2004

US Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry today harnessed star power to fuel his campaign, with diva Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond singing his praises at a rare gala concert.

Superstar and arch-Democrat Streisand, 62, performed with crooner Neil Diamond for the first time in 24 years as a galaxy of Hollywood celebrities rallied in Los Angeles to raise cash for Kerry's White House bid.

Streisand and Diamond sang their 1978 hit duet "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," bringing Kerry around $US5 million ($A7.17 million) in proceeds from the show at Los Angeles' Walt Disney Concert Hall, news reports said.

The two music icons were the concert's top draws, but country star Willie Nelson and comedian Billy Crystal also performed, while heart-throb movie stars Robert de Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Affleck were in attendance.

Streisand, who is famously coy about public appearances, retired from public performances in 2000 but has appeared to sing at Democratic Party fundraisers since then.

The mega-star wattage may help put Kerry, who urged the audience to back him, back in the headlines in a week which has seen his campaign eclipsed by Democratic ex-president Bill Clinton's new tell-all book.

The sold-out event certainly helped bolster the politician's coffers ahead of the November 2 election in which he hopes to unseat US president George W Bush.

The 2,000 elegantly-clad audience members paid up to $US25,000 ($A35,850) a head for their tickets to the show, one of two star-studded events that the Kerry camp hopes will raise up to $US10 million ($A14.33 million).

A second fundraising concert is scheduled at New York's Radio City Music Hall on July 8 featuring movie star Whoopi Goldberg, musician Jon Bon Jovi, the Dave Matthews Band and Mary J Blige.

Traditionally liberal Hollywood is seen as an important and highly visible spoke in the support network of Democratic candidates, but the reason for the star presence at today's concert was far more prosaic.

"They allow Kerry to raise a lot of money and that's what tonight's show is all about," University of Southern California political scientist Sherry Bebitch Jeffe told AFP.

But outside the music-filled concert hall, anti-Kerry protesters hit a sour note.

A group of Bush supporters picketed the shimmering building, praising Bush for his leadership in the war on terrorism and the improving economy and lashing Kerry's visit to California as a "pessimism and misery tour..."

I understand that this quote was from the "official" Bush-Cheney '04 press release, but I do not recall anyone at OUR FReep using it.

Perhaps the "French media" chose to mail in their report...

...rather than risk actually TALKING to any of us. :o)

[RonDog]

On the expensive $700 Flipper Costume, I had a Flipper show up for a Freep here in Harrisburg, PA. Of course, I was in shock with the welcome help. It was some young men/women from the Pennsylvania State RNC.

We had a talk about the Flipper Costumes and it seems many RNC State Committes are getting them for use in their area.

So ALL, check in with your State RNC Committee and see if they have purchased one...

See also this SHORT EXCERPT from www.buffalonews.com on 6/27:

"...Unlike New York, the Keystone State remains very much in play for both Kerry and President Bush. A poll just released by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute shows the Bush-Kerry race dead even across a border just 90 miles from Buffalo. The poll showed Kerry with 44 percent, compared with 43 percent for Bush and 7 percent for independent candidate Ralph Nader. That compares with a 44 to 41 Kerry lead and 6 percent for Nader in May.

"Pennsylvania is living up to expectations as having one of the closest presidential battles in the nation," said Clay F. Richards, assistant director of the poll based in Hamden, Conn. "Ralph Nader clearly is cutting into Sen. Kerry's vote, leaving him in a dead heat with President Bush."

Richards said New York union members seeking presidential action couldn't pick a better venue than Pennsylvania. Though Democrats dominate the big cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, the GOP remains a potent force in other areas of the state. And many are unionized, conservative "Reagan Democrats" who must be wooed by Kerry.

"He needs good old labor folks to go down and help him out," Richards said. "These are the Democrats who have made Pennsylvania the swing state it has been for so many years."

Republicans are by no means ceding the action to Kerry forces. Josh Wilson, political director for the Pennsylvania Republican Committee, said 35,000 volunteers have been assigned in all of the commonwealth's 67 counties. He said 64,000 new Republicans were added to voter rolls since January...

...and campaign workers display an inflatable dolphin called "Flipper" at every Kerry appearance to highlight the senator's "flip-flops" on various issues.

"I would not hesitate to say that this is an unprecedented grass-roots effort," Wilson said. "If they're doing it, you know we're doing it..."

[kcar]