Posted on 07/10/2004 3:28:31 AM PDT by kattracks
[snip]Monitors showed Kerry, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, laughing through much of the concert. Afterward, he told the audience that the performers "conveyed the heart and soul of our country." His only quibble was with Goldberg's repeated references to Edwards as "Kid." Kerry said his 51-year-old running mate, who is nine years his junior, is "a man."
Yesterday, Kerry touted his campaign's positive cast, telling a crowd at another fund-raiser, "John and I didn't run one negative ad against each other or any of our opponents all through the primaries and we haven't done a negative ad against George Bush, because we think Americans want real solutions for real problems."
The Radio City event prompted a sharp rebuke from the Bush-Cheney reelection committee, which noted that Kerry attended the concert despite saying earlier on CNN's "Larry King Live" that he had not had enough time to get an intelligence briefing. The administration warned Thursday of Al Qaeda plans to attack the United States and offered to brief Kerry. Kerry's campaign said he has scheduled the briefing for Sunday.
"It is a great example of John Kerry's priorities that on the day he said he did not have time to receive his intelligence briefing on threats to America, he found time to attend a Hollywood fund-raiser, filled with enough hate and vitriol to make Michael Moore blush," Bush-Cheney campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt said.
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Later, during a conference call with reporters, Tad Devine, a top Kerry communications strategist, grew animated when asked whether the campaign would release a tape of the event, as the Bush-Cheney committee requested. Doing so might violate copyrights and licensing agreements for the entertainers who performed -- and allow the Bush campaign to use the tape in commercials against Kerry and Edwards, a campaign aide said.
"The hypocrisy of them making a call like that is almost unimaginable," said Devine, adding that Bush and Cheney restrict access to their own campaign events. (In fact, the administration's practice is to let reporters into all fund-raisers except those in private residences. While reporters were invited to the Kerry concert, they were forbidden from recording.)
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just another bad decision by kerry: failing to actually br presidential
He allowed it to go to the gutter
I don't get it .. the dems FORBID the media from recording their event .. and the media just stands there and takes it.
How long do you think it would take for the media to be all over the airwaves condemning the REPUBS for NOT ALLOWING THEM TO RECORD a repub event.
The media really is a bunch of groveling scum.
danke ////////////////////////// sweet, sweet, sweet!
They had the younger children after their son died in a tragic car crash. With "Hormone Shots"
The age of the two little ones make it evident that they took a risk of Down's Syndrome by having babies when she was in her late 40s and early 50s. It could be that the little ones are adopted. But, you gotta admit; the two little ones are cuties.
People like the Edwards do not RISK Downs Syndrome. They test, abort and try again. Or they do it in dishes and test em before implantation.
I have a six year old at age fifty......I love her dearly but it was the dumbest thing I ever did.
It's not an issue for me; my parents were 42 and 40 when I came along. Just curious about when / how long they've been married, is all.
I am confident that it involved medical intervention. Such things are not uncommon these days. I have a hard time seeing how they are bad things. One possible ethical difficulty might be the process of culling excess twins, as sometimes happens with fertility drugs. But there is no reason to think that happened in this case.
These are beautiful children who appear to have loving and supportive parents. They are certainly well cared-for. They are one reason to like John Edwards. Not enough, in my case, to get me to consider voting for him, however.
I'm surprised that tbe Boston Globe even called the Kerry campaign on their lie. Good for them.
I'll bet they already have. If this event had been a success, you know they'd be showing the footage.
Melloncamp is used to doing concert fundraisers such as "Farm Aid".
Maybe they called this concert fundraiser for the Johnson brothers "Kool Aid".
LOL!
Nice........ thanks! Patti Ann Browne and Heather Nauert from FoxNews belong on a Christmas card. They are darling and well-spoken. Thanks again.
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