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Alexandra Kerry: Dad Gave Hamster CPR
NewsMax .com ^
| 7/30/04
| Carl Limbacher
Posted on 07/29/2004 9:33:18 PM PDT by kattracks
Would-be first daughter Alexandra Kerry revealed Thursday night that her father's habit of saving men overboard didn't end with his Swift Boat rescue of fellow Vietnam veteran Jim Rassman. In a bizarre recollection, Alexandra told the Democratic Convention crowd how the family waited dockside one summer day to embark on a trip, when the cage housing her sister's hamster "Licorice" tumbled into the drink. "My dad jumped in, grabbed an oar, fished the cage from the water, hunched over the soggy hamster and began to administer CPR," the Kerry daughter told the audience. "There are still to this day some reports of mouth-to-mouth, but I admit it's probably a trick of memory."
Actually, the textbook definition of CPR is mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, though what techniques may be appropriate for hamster rescue is anybody's guess.
Too bad Sen. Kerry didn't have his trusty 8mm camera along to reenact his hamster heroism for posterity.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dncconvention; hamsterhero; hamstersavior; kerry
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To: null and void
Hi, Nully.
Sure you can be President..or a fireman...
61
posted on
07/29/2004 10:06:04 PM PDT
by
celtic gal
(just a thought...)
To: kattracks
They don't call them DemoRats for nothing. Kerry actually saved a rat.
62
posted on
07/29/2004 10:06:18 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
(The war on terrorism is not for the weak!)
To: wai-ming
Yes it lived but I think it was handicapped after the near drowning...silly girl for putting a wee little hamster in danger..where was PETA when that hamster needed them?
63
posted on
07/29/2004 10:07:04 PM PDT
by
celtic gal
(just a thought...)
To: Charles Henrickson
The only way kerry will get in the Oval Office is if that cannon he's in shoots him there!
To: ValerieUSA
You're right. No real person takes a hamster for a boat ride.... unless they intend to drown it. What a ridiculous lie Sure they do....just like how Boston aristocrats show up with orange hunting hats at games....
65
posted on
07/29/2004 10:07:44 PM PDT
by
Dan from Michigan
("If you want a little peace, sometimes you gotta fight" - Sammy Hagar)
To: celtic gal
Ummmm, actually, I can't be a fireman.
(Although I did teach firemen First Aid once upon a time)...
66
posted on
07/29/2004 10:08:09 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Freedom is written with blood on the streets, not with ink in congress.)
To: GeronL
67
posted on
07/29/2004 10:08:17 PM PDT
by
cinFLA
To: kattracks
Good for him, I'd do the same thing for my kid's hamster. I don't think it qualifies him to be president of the U.S., though.
68
posted on
07/29/2004 10:08:28 PM PDT
by
GB
To: singletrack
Barney has also tried the mouth to mouth while the hamster was up..........Hey did I just see Richard Gere at the convention?
To: kattracks
Hamster: "You idiot! You're supposed to use your
mouth!"
70
posted on
07/29/2004 10:09:21 PM PDT
by
Rastus
(Forget it, Moby! I'm voting for Bush!)
To: cinFLA
I hope it gets around. I can e-mail one without the photodump stamp.
71
posted on
07/29/2004 10:10:01 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(geocities.com/geronl is back)
To: cinFLA
LOL. Thats what you did... =o)
72
posted on
07/29/2004 10:10:24 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(geocities.com/geronl is back)
To: Critter; celtic gal; Lijahsbubbe; mikrofon; martin_fierro
To: Toespi
Aside from the fact that its hard to imagine someone jumping into the water and THEN grabbing the oar! So where was the oar? And, if he was in the water why didn't he just dive for the sinking creature? LOL! Sounds like one of Clinton's stories!
74
posted on
07/29/2004 10:11:31 PM PDT
by
MistyCA
(For some...it's always going to be A Nam Thing!")
To: Rastus
LOL
75
posted on
07/29/2004 10:11:33 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(geocities.com/geronl is back)
To: ValerieUSA; GeronL; wai-ming; Clemenza; cyborg
Consigliere to the Gambino crime family:I'm tellin' ya "Fat Tony", if day acks ya who put da "whack" on da hamster, ya say: "I never heard a no 'whack' on no friggin' road-dent-seeya." Dat's what you say. Capeesh?
76
posted on
07/29/2004 10:12:11 PM PDT
by
The Scourge of Yazid
(Paid for by the Palestinian National Authority. Actually paid for by those infidel devils. Shussshh!)
To: krb
Is Alexandra the film lady with the see-through dress? If so, I'd really like to give her CPR. I know she's Kerry's daughter and all, but dayum she's well built (all butterface though)...Suggest you get a load of antiobiotic shots before touching that excuse for a lady. I'd avoid her as a lepper. Prancing around with no underwear in a see-though outfit, presenting herself as a prostitute is not my style of a lady.
77
posted on
07/29/2004 10:12:59 PM PDT
by
Cobra64
(Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
To: jws3sticks; All
78
posted on
07/29/2004 10:13:30 PM PDT
by
hookman
To: The Scourge of Yazid
79
posted on
07/29/2004 10:13:37 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(geocities.com/geronl is back)
To: Charles Henrickson
80
posted on
07/29/2004 10:13:55 PM PDT
by
MistyCA
(For some...it's always going to be A Nam Thing!")
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