Posted on 08/01/2004 5:19:17 PM PDT by stockpirate
When John Kerry, John Edwards and their wives descended on a Newburgh, N.Y., Wendy's restaurant on Friday for a "light" lunch with the common people, it was all just a photo op.
Team Kerry-Edwards had already ordered their real lunches - consisting of five-star gourmet food from a tony local restaurant - with instructions to have the haute cuisine ready for pickup after the top Democrats ditched Wendy's.
"A member of the Kerry advance team called Nikolas Restaurant at the Newburgh Yacht Club the night before and ordered 19 five-star lunches to go that would be picked up at noon Friday," MidHudsonNews.com reported on Sunday. "Management at the restaurant, which is operated by CIA graduate chef Michael Dederick, was told the meals would be for the Kerry and Edwards families and actor Ben Affleck who was with them on the tour."
After tossing out their cheeseburgers and chili, Kerry and Edwards feasted on shrimp vindallo, grilled diver sea scallops, prosciutto, wrapped stuffed chicken and steak salad.
The meals came to about $200, MidHudson News said.
Yeah, but when you pass it along and can't back it up from any other source, it gets downright embarassing.
I thought I read that Tur-aaaayyy-za pointed to a picture of chili while in Wendy's and asked the clerk "what is that?", and then ordered it.
Just what I was thinking. I am always disappointed when I get excited and then see that it is from NewsMax. I have found them to be very unreliable.
True enough. That's why I create fiction.... ;)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1182498/posts
You can't expect these multimillionaires/billionaires to eat common grub with the rifraff! F'cryin'outloud! Why do you think they worked so hard to get so rich???
Actually its the Pubbie's job to take RNC donations and buy their won 5 star lunches with the money. How else do you envision we get such clever Ad pieces that they deliver.
If I was to take a guess .... Hell no
This was nothing more than a photo-op, pure and simple.
And, I might add, that it was a photo-op that went awry when JohnF'n approached the marines.....
I wish this middle class American could afford to eat Nikola's.....and I live in Newburgh!
Writing a letter to the editor at your local paper is a good way to get the word out about these jerks.
Maybe for you, small insignificant person. But for us, it is the delight of merchants to simply bask in our glow. Pay for our meals, indeed!
I also called them this morning - but the waitress said it was 160 meals - and they were 2 and 1/2 hours late picking it up...
http://johnkerryquestionfairy.blogspot.com/
Oh, gosh. I feel soooo terrible. All the time, thought they had the kids to use them as campaign props. Must make the older girl feel real adequate.
Next you're going to tell me that the Kerry girls donated their looks to bosnian orphans.
Most cool!!
I guess I didn't press the manager I spoke to hard enough.
Pray for W and Our Troops
LOL, I got one of the waitresses - I asked if the Kerry people were gracious, and she said "I'm just glad it's over"! I love wait staff, they'll tell you like it is...
The 125 lunches were fore the press and the peons...the 19 gourmets were for the ELITE!!
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