Blocking Dummy(Kerry Fumbles Ohio Football,Also JF'nK Revives Busing for attendance)
The American Spectator ^ | 8-3-04 | The Prowler
Posted on 08/03/2004 10:36:47 AM PDT by hope
LOST FUMBLER If John Kerry loses Michigan, he will probably blame it on his joke writers, then Woody Hayes and the mighty Ohio State Buckeyes. But he only has himself to blame. He should have used that several-decade gap between his job in Vietnam and his job of running for president boning up on his knowledge of sports. The Prowler has documented several examples thus far, and over weekend Kerry really goofed up.
To get his Ohio rallies up and rolling, Kerry used a set of jokes to open his events. In Bowling Green, his shtick went something like this:
"If you elect me and my running mate, John Edwards, we are going to give you the courageous leadership you need. We'll take the tough positions, the courageous positions, the tough stands. But there's one tough position I will not take: I am not going to choose between the Falcons and the Rockets" -- this is a local reference to the well-known rivalry between Bowling Green University and the University of Toledo.
"I will say this," he added. "There is nothing better than Buckeye football, period!" Kerry used this set piece several times in Ohio, to great effect, never mind the waffling with the generality of "Buckeye" football. Was he talking Ohio State University specifically? Or just football in the state in general? Only Kerry knows. But then Kerry dug a huge hole for himself. On Sunday and into Monday, Kerry hit Michigan, where he attempted to use the same Ohio jokes. Clearly, the sports humor has to be taken out of his hands before he really embarrasses himself.
Ohioans may be "Buckeyes" but "Buckeye football" is one word, for one team. And if those folks in the M-word had any balls they'd have taken him down. Let's see him mention Wolverine football on his next jaunt to Columbus.
Screw UofM and Kerry.
Ann Arbor is a leftist, hippie town, through and through. They INVITED that scumbag to speak his trash and lies and he paid them back appropriately.
Doug, you have no idea how much I detest that MSU song, and the so-called 'Buckeye' song! When you champion: "Cheer-Cheer for old Notre Dame", we'll be friends again! Aw-crap, we're always friends, pal. Stay well, bud...............FRegards