Posted on 07/30/2004 6:59:09 AM PDT by clintonbaiter
The trick for those on stage was to imply Bush was a liar and a draft-dodger and a war criminal but not to claim outright that he was the new Hitler and enjoyed drinking the blood of Iraqi babies.......
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The ABB crowd is so pathetic in their hatred for Bush and blind to anything else, they'd put the Devil himself in office regardless of the consequences. It's a damn shame that they can vote. Thank God for Mark's tireless efforts.
Umm, I think I heard some crackhead girl last night say she saw Kerry give a hamster mouth to mouth.
Does that count?
I'm not sure what the deal with Steyn articles is, whether or not we can post the whole thing. If so someone might as well grab and post it.
John Edwards's . . . message doesn't resonate because it boils down to: if I can do it, you can't. But here's some government programmes instead.. . . That's the essence of this convention: a condescending media congratulating a condescending leadership for effectively communicating to a condescending governing class their plans for everyone else.
As my mama used to say, "If you can't think of anything nice, don't say anything at all." Which is pretty much what all of the 'Rats did.
O+ is my favorite....It has a nice, fruity bouquet....
"O+ is my favorite..."
Uh, oh..........
The Dem's already put the Devil himself in office, his name was Bill Clinton. They still worship him and feel that Kerry is an acceptable alternative.
Considering Kerry's past, I would not be suprised if Bill and Hillary don't have enough Private Eye, or FBI file info on Kerry to make sure he stays in line.
We need a big win to give W the mandate, lets vow to work hard to get him there.
Every mornin' on the Hill you could see him arrive
Standing six-foot-four, weighing one-twenty-five
Kinda' scrawny at the shoulders and lacking a spine
And when he spoke at all, it was mainly to whine
(Big John, Big John) Big Bad John
Nobody seems to know what's in John's soul
His 'beliefs' are based on the latest poll
'Though he'll say what it takes to get your votes
It's the leftist agenda that he really promotes
(Big John, Big John) Big Bad John
Some one said he came from Boston town
Where he joined the Navy and gained renown
'Earning' three purple hearts and one bronze star
The home folks said, "This boy will go far"
(Big John, Big John) Big Bad John
Then came a day back in '71
When he renounced all the medals that he had won
Then turned against his country and his Navy friends
And sold them out for his own selfish ends
(Big John, Big John) Big Bad John
He appeared before Congress and on left-wing talk shows
Giving aid and comfort to America's foes
It was clear to see whose side he was on
Some say he helped cause the fall of Saigon
(Big John, Big John) Big Bad John
He claims to be for the working poor
Yet he owns 5 mansions from shore to shore
He never had to work a day in his life
'cause he learned it helps to have a wealthy wife!
(Big John, Big John) Big Bad John
Now he wants to be our next President
and Commander-in-chief of those he resents
The American soldiers who fight and die
To give him the freedom to tell us his lies
(Big John, Big John) Big Bad John
Thousands have sacrificed their young lives
To help ensure that our nation survives
A vote for Kerry is a slap in the face
To all the brave soldiers that he's disgraced
FADE (Big John, Big John) Big Bad John (Big John)
Lost in space, the senator who would be president
By Mark Steyn
(Filed: 30/07/2004)
'The embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world," declared Ted Kennedy in a moment of Revolutionary War nostalgia. Or he would have done, if he'd managed to stick to his text. But, in a strikingly erratic performance even by his standards, what actually emerged from the Senator's lips was: they "fired the shirt round the world".
That sums up better than anything what the Democratic Party's been trying to do this week for its Presidential candidate: fire the stuffed shirt round the world, put a rocket up a guy who seems weighed down by his own self-importance and project him into the stratosphere. All the star speakers through the week were the equivalents of those bits of the rocket that boost you up into space and then fall away, leaving just the little capsule up there. And, who knows, if they boosted him up high enough, maybe nobody would notice just how little there is to John Kerry's little capsule.
What was the message of John Kerry's Democratic Party this week? According to vice-presidential pin-up John Edwards, they want to bring an end to "the tired, old, hateful, negative politics of the past". That was bad news for rank-and-file Democrats, but the party bosses meant it.
That's why you weren't allowed to wear your BUCK FUSH T-shirt up at the podium. The trick for those on stage was to imply Bush was a liar and a draft-dodger and a war criminal but not to claim outright that he was the new Hitler and enjoyed drinking the blood of Iraqi babies.
In the normal course of events, you avoid saying unpleasant stuff about the other guy by saying nice things about your guy. But, aside from a few by now over-familiar references to his four months in Vietnam, nobody seemed to know anything nice about John Kerry.
Including his wife, who steered well clear of anything warm and personal and instead gave one of those speeches only the truly mega-loaded can give - when you've been rolling in it so long nobody's able to tell you you're a flaky windbag no matter how long you go on or nutty you get. Floundering for a cause with which to rally the citizenry, the Democrats eventually found one: themselves.
"Our greatness is also measured by our goodness," declared Howard Dean.
"I've seen it in the people I've met and their desire to take our country back for the American people. I saw it in a college student in Pennsylvania who sold her bicycle and sent us a cheque for $100 with a note that said, 'I sold my bicycle for democracy'."
Really? John F Kerry's bicycle cost $8,000. Why doesn't he sell his for democracy? If you throw in the designer French T-shirt buttock-hugging lemon-hued lycra shorts, you'd probably be up around an even 10 grand. When Howard Dean and John Kerry and John Edwards talk about "change", what they mean is you send these bazillionaire grandees the 100-dollar bill and they'll keep the change.
What did that co-ed cutie get for her 100 bucks? Presumably she sent it to Governor Dean because he was anti-war. He lost to Senator Kerry, who at that time was for-and-against the war, in the same way that he's for-and-against abortion and for-and-against gay marriage. But he seems to have come down, Iraq-wise, on the "for" side of the ledger.
He'll be spending a little more time ineffectually chit-chatting with Kofi and Jacques and Gerhard, but other than that his Iraq policy is sounding more like Bush's every day. That college kid ponied up her $100 and isn't getting a lot of "change".
There's a narcissism about the tone of this convention which cuts to the heart of the Democratic Party's problem: they don't believe in anything except their monopoly of goodness.
That's why poor boy-turned-trial lawyer John Edwards's supposedly "appealing biography" is appealing only next to John Kerry's. Instead of marrying his money, he sued his way into it.
But his message doesn't resonate because it boils down to: if I can do it, you can't. But here's some government programmes instead. Edwards's very condescension to the downtrodden masses confirms middle-class liberals in their sense of their own virtue.
That's the essence of this convention: a condescending media congratulating a condescending leadership for effectively communicating to a condescending governing class their plans for everyone else. John F Kerry should enjoy it while he can. Electorally speaking, he'll lose his shirt.
This story is going around the internet:
John Kerry, while campaigning out West, visited an Indian reservation and spoke to quite a large audience. He went on and on about what he was going to do for the Native Americans, "free everything for everybody" and, of course, reminded them that he was a "Viet Nam hero....with three Purple Hearts.....once save a man's life, blah, blah, blah."
After Kerry finally shut up, the chief came forward, thanked him for coming and presented him with a plaque enscribed, "JOHN F KERRY is hereby presented the WALKING EAGLE AWARD". After which, there was a round of applause and the chief escorted Kerry to his waiting Limousine.
Later, a reporter asked the chief, "Just what is the meaning and history of this 'Walking Eagle Award' "? The chief replied, "The walking eagle is so full of crap......he can't fly!"
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