Posted on 07/16/2004 7:33:50 PM PDT by paltz
The campaign trail got a bit more crowded on Thursday, as P. Diddy threw himself into the fray, meeting with presidential hopeful John Kerry and later talking with young Republicans in an effort to place young people and their problems front and center in the race for the White House.
Diddy has made a great deal of noise about his interest in making sure that urban issues are addressed in this year's election, and now he's taking those issues directly to Democrats and Republicans. The
hip-hop mogul began by meeting Thursday with candidate Kerry at the NAACP convention in Philadelphia, where Kerry had addressed the organization earlier in the day. The two met privately, but Diddy has publicly made it clear that he's concerned about issues involving the economy, education and health care.
After a quick helicopter jaunt back to New York, Diddy met up with young Republicans gathered as part of the Bush campaign's Party for the President Day. "We are here to understand what's going on with the beautiful Republican party," Diddy said as he stormed the event. "We heard y'all were strong. Y'all won the last election. We want to see what y'all are about."
The Bush supporters were happy to oblige, extolling the virtues of their party. "They let you choose how to spend your money," Bush supporter Britta explained. "They let you choose what school your kids are going to go to, and that's what you need. All you need from the government, whichever side it is, is for them to move out of the way."
As the day closed, Diddy remained firmly in the middle of the road and committed to bringing his issues to the candidates. "I am nonpartisan," he explained of his equal-opportunity ambush. "I'm gonna stick my nonpartisan foot up Bush's ass, up Kerry's ass. Republicans and Democrats, my foot is so way up your ass right now it's crazy."
hes trying to sell records
No time for National Security briefings, but time for "Puff Daddy?"
Example #27,401 as to how this country is going to Hell.
I read an article about him some years ago. Back when he was 10, 11 years old he was quite the young entrupeneur, (sorry for the spelling)..it was an old GQ. I think he was raised by a single mother also.
What the heck is this guy's name supposed to be? I see posters referring to him as both P. Diddy and Puff Daddy.
Used to be Puff Daddy, but he "changed it" to P. Diddy. Kind of like Prince, who changed his "name" to that stupid symbol thing, and finally came out of his braindead trance and switched it back to something humans could actually utter in a sentence. There's also Madonna, who now has some new goofy name (Esther?). All publicity stunts.
Nah, you just skip some Senate Intelligence Committee meetings. And some Senate votes.
And factor in the time he took to get lessons on the proper hand signals and inflections....
"OK, I think I have it now...I will try it again!
'Yes, I am down with that.'
Was that any better, Jesse?"
I recall Ice cube supporting Pataki in the last election.
P. Diddy is a Demonrat and a slave to the slavemasters of the NAALCP. I've read in the past that he is one of them. He's attempting to play both sides-he had Jenna and Barbara Bush at one of his parties-he is friends with Ashton Kutcher who said he partied and his friend smoked out the Bush twins on his hookah. There is no doubt he's a Demonrat though. Nice try, but he's a player.
Yes but he grew up in a house and has no street cred. Hence why he surrounded himself with Biggie Smalls until Biggie took a dirt nap alongside Tupac. Now he's all about making money and less rap.
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