Posted on 07/31/2004 5:47:01 PM PDT by longshadow
Thanks to an audio feed snafu on CNN at the end of Sen. Kerry's speech, in which the Democrat’s convention producer could be heard giving frantic directions to underlings, in order to assure that the American public had no doubts about the important “message” Democrats wanted to communicate to us, the pithy sound bite that will forever immortalize the 2004 Democrat National Convention/Presidential campaign rang out like the “shot heard ‘round the world” from a Boston suburb some 229 years earlier:
While arguably not quite as inspirational as the specter of a resolute Minuteman toting a musket on Lexington Green, grimly urging his fellow patriots onward while facing death at the hands of British regulars, it will doubtless reign as the single most intellectually exciting remark uttered during the 2004 Democrat National Convention, a convention constituted out of hot-air and pre-fabricated, pre-packaged, pre-digested, and pre-defecated, vacuous, sickly sweet-but-calorie-free rhetoric; a veritable “Atkins Diet” of geo-political sizzle instead of national security and foreign policy steak and potatoes. The Democrats even spent the entire week completely out of character, stifling their own internal Full Monty rage, animosity, and hatred -- not to mention their perennial “We are the World,” class-warfare, evil conspiratorial multi-national conglomerate corporation, big-government-is-great goofiness -- in order to try to sell their sycophants in the media, and the suckers in the American voting public, a Magical Michael Moore-style “Balloon World” fantasy, and it looks like they nominated the perfect “Balloon Candidate” to do it.
The box office this summer may be all about the “Manchurian Candidate,” but this election, at least for the Democrats, is all about the “Balloon Candidate” and his focus-group fantasy: a rubberized infinitely-elastic pol who can expand and contract to fit on any side of an issue, inflated with hot air and bullsh*t, and signifying absolutely nothing (save for the wanton avarice for raw power, and a visceral loathing for whomever currently wields it.)
One can only hope that the Bush campaign ought to hire people dressed in “Bozo the Clown” outfits to follow Kerry/Edwards around everywhere they go, handing out free balloons emblazoned with:
Oh, yes; let's not forget to include balloons with Kerry's picture in the “bunny” suit at NASA plastered on one side, and the Official 2004 DNC/Kerry-Edwards campaign theme on the other:
On that fateful April night in 1775, Paul Revere sounded thus the alarm that heralded to Boston, and to the world, the incipient independence of a new nation, founded on the principles of individual liberty:
And on a July night 229 years later, the Democrats, via CNN, sounded thus the alarm that heralded to Boston, and to the world, the intellectual high point of Sen. John F. Kerry's presidential campaign:
What hath the Democrats, and their focus groups, wrought? A “Balloon Candidate,” for a “Balloon world.”
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I'm waiting for that voice clip to get remixed with some techno/rave music beneath it.
Every campaign needs a "theme song" and that ought to be Kerry's!
heh-heh; very subtle.
I like it.
So subtle the dems probably wouldn't get it.....
Sometimes a balloon can be inspirational.......or the lack thereof
Those democrat balloons should be recycled and used in classrooms for safe-sex instruction.
The ACTUAL words were: "What the F**k are you guys doing up there"
Longshadow rises out of obscurity.
Which is much more appropriate to shout at their campaign stops.
:D
I think this boy's tirade was the perfect punctuation for Kerry's speech. Perfection.
Mabee that was the problem - helium. Balloon filled with helium will not come down. Only those filled with expired sKerry hot air would.
When balloons saw TheResa, they decided to stay up there rather then be showed by the rats.
This is just too - interesting - to be allowed to fade
away. This balloon thing should be able to take on a
life of its own. Tee Hee.
First-of-month bump.
I'm doing my best to keep it alive.
;-)
Worthy of note that fact that Kerry put on the "clown outfit" at NASA..... I think you're on to something.
;-)
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Another example of the dems berating the underlings. "What the F**k are you guys doing up there" is right up there with the immortal "The Son of a Bitch got in my way".
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