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Kerry Edwards Campaign Snubs Cancer Kids
newsmax ^ | Monday, Aug. 9, 2004 9:59 a.m. EDT

Posted on 08/09/2004 7:22:45 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch

Monday, Aug. 9, 2004 9:59 a.m. EDT Kerry Edwards Campaign Snubs Cancer Kids

The Kerry Edwards campaign disappointed dozens of children suffering with cancer on Sunday when the candidates' whistlestop train tour failed to stop and greet them while traveling through a ranch where they were vacationing in New Mexico.

"The train tracks run for four miles through the ranch," complained radio host Don Imus, who runs the Imus Ranch for the kids - some of them terminally ill - near Santa Fe, New Mexico.

"We couldn't even get them to even slow down so they could wave." he lamented. The tart-tongued talker, who has supported Kerry for president since early this year, was understandably angered by the snub, telling his audience Monday that Kerry will "never get to be president if this is how he's going to behave."

Reflecting his anger, Imus derided Teresa Heinz Kerry as "Lady MacBeth" and referred to Sen. Edwards several times as "The Breck Girl."


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: breckgirl; cancer; cancercamp; caringliberals; children; edwards; imus; johnfkerry; johnkerry; kerry; ladymacbeth; longblacktrain; railwaytonowhere; snub; summercamp; teresaheinz; thebreckgirl; whistleblowoff; whistledriveby; whistlestop
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To: Howlin

Great idea! Now I have to find one.


41 posted on 08/09/2004 10:25:05 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: leadpenny; Miss Marple; A Citizen Reporter; McGavin999; JeanS; Dog; cyncooper; EllaMinnow; ...

Look at this!


42 posted on 08/09/2004 10:25:31 AM PDT by Howlin (Saving Private Hamster)
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To: InvisibleChurch

Bwahahahahahahaha. I'manass will vote for him anyway. Kerry knows that!


43 posted on 08/09/2004 10:25:37 AM PDT by gathersnomoss
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To: dead

http://www.georgewbushstore.com/kid_line.htm


44 posted on 08/09/2004 10:26:42 AM PDT by Howlin (Saving Private Hamster)
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To: InvisibleChurch
they did the same thing at KC, I believe. they must have all been terminal; li'l johnny edwards doesn't notice you if you won't be around to get sympathy from a jury in a few years.
45 posted on 08/09/2004 10:26:55 AM PDT by smonk
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To: Howlin
Kerry was in too much of a hurry to get to his next gig......

Democratic Presidential nominee Senator John Kerry (L) plays a guitar with a band after a campaign event in Jefferson City, Missouri, August 5, 2004. Kerry and his running mate John Edwards were on the first day of a campaign train trip taking them to several key Midwestern and western states with less than 100 days until the presidential election.  REUTERS/Mike Segar     US ELECTION
Thu Aug 5, 9:43 PM ET

46 posted on 08/09/2004 10:30:30 AM PDT by deport (Please Flush the Johns......)
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To: Stag

No, I'manass will still be "Kerry's ball washer"...borrowed quote.


47 posted on 08/09/2004 10:31:33 AM PDT by gathersnomoss
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To: Carolinamom
Imus' affections are easily swayed.

You're not kidding! All the same, I'm glad to see the "I-man" finally realized what a phony Kerry is - for however long his disillusionment lasts.

48 posted on 08/09/2004 10:31:37 AM PDT by mountaineer
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To: deport

After seeing Kerry in that there 'cowboy hat' I have to say that Trent Lott's turkey-feather bedecked cowboy hat doesn't look as dorky anymore.


49 posted on 08/09/2004 10:35:47 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: InvisibleChurch

He is such a dork.


50 posted on 08/09/2004 10:36:00 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache (Rush 30th Anniversary Tour Tickets On Sale Now!)
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To: blackdog

boxcar kerry...lmfao


51 posted on 08/09/2004 10:43:43 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache (Rush 30th Anniversary Tour Tickets On Sale Now!)
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To: blackdog
Liked that song a lot.

The Last Farewell


There's a ship lies rigged and ready in the harbour

Tomorrow for old England she sails

Far away from your land of endless sunshine

To my land full of rainy skies and gales

And I shall be on board that ship tomorrow

Though my heart is full of tears at this farewell

For you are beautiful und I have loved you dearly

More dearly than the spoken word can tell

For you are beautiful und I have loved you dearly

More dearly than the spoken word can tell.

I heard there's a wicked war ablazing

And the taste of war I know so very well

Even now I see the foreign flag araising

Their guns on fire as we sailed into hell

I have no fear of death it brings no sorrow

But how bitter will be this last farewell

For you are beautiful and I have loved you dearly .

Though death and darkness gather all about me

And my ship be torn apart upon the sea

I shall smell again the fragrance of these islands

In the heaving waves that brought me once to thee

And should I return safe home again to England

I shall watch the English mist roll through the dell

For you are beautiful and I have loved you dearly .
52 posted on 08/09/2004 10:44:30 AM PDT by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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To: My Favorite Headache; blackdog

53 posted on 08/09/2004 10:46:34 AM PDT by Howlin (Saving Private Hamster)
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To: InvisibleChurch

Why wouldn't they snub sick kids? They can't vote.


54 posted on 08/09/2004 10:51:39 AM PDT by freeangel (freeangel)
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To: InvisibleChurch
Back during the 1992 Campaign, the Clinton/Gore team took a Bus Tour across America. I recall during the tour, Tom Brokaw had an interview with Bill and Hillary on the bus while they were traveling through a small town.

I couldn't help but notice that during the interview you could hear Bill's voice over a PA system thanking the crowds for showing up and saying "HEY!" sporadically as if he were talking directly to various people along the route. Over his shoulder you could see crowds lined up along the street waving to the bus as it passed by unaware that the Bill Clinton they were hearing was on tape as the real Bill and Hillary spoke with Brokaw.

Another day, another Democrat I suppose...

55 posted on 08/09/2004 11:08:52 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Hatteras

OMG...I am actually floored at that. Why, I do not know.


56 posted on 08/09/2004 11:09:45 AM PDT by Howlin (Saving Private Hamster)
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To: mewzilla

I do love that song!


57 posted on 08/09/2004 11:12:49 AM PDT by eyespysomething (Shove it John and John!)
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To: Semper Paratus

OMG......he stiffed the IMAN.....uh oh.


58 posted on 08/09/2004 11:53:36 AM PDT by Dog (Edwards threatening Al Qaeda is like Pee Wee Herman threatening Lucca Brazzi.)
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To: dead; Howlin

I hope your nephew has a really good time at the ranch and that he tells you (and us) all about his stay. I understand the kids don't want to leave when their two-week stay is over. Imus has started a wonderful thing.

Thanks for the ping, Howlin.


59 posted on 08/09/2004 2:10:31 PM PDT by leadpenny
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