Kerry pushes economic issues on trip through southern Ohio ("Can I get me a hunting license here?")

The Cleveland Plain Dealer ^ | 10/17/04

[saigon]

Old Man Cooper told this reporter that Kerry "shure gots some purty lips!!!"

[holymoly]

Cheney responds, ''Big time!''

My memory is probably failing me, but wasn't Cheney's response "Major Leage"?

[GoldwaterBooster]

You know that's an idea. If the shot gun kicks back and injures his shoulder, maybe that would qualify for another Purple Heart?

[adc]

You hit the nail on the head. It's too laughable to be real!!

[SGCOS]

Gin, White Raisins and shotguns.

A lethal mix.

[Toidylop]

could've fooled me...

[tobyhill]

"well is Kerry or Bush going to win OH
i am hearing some bad things up here"

Snatch the pebble from my hand and it will be time.
May the force be with you.

[Miss Behave]

I don't think he was mocking. I think he was geniunely trying to fit in. Which just proves how condescending he is!....

There is nothing *genuine* about this man. He was trying to fit in (for their votes) by choosing his words very carefully--using grammar that he knew to be incorrect. It shows a particular consiousness which, in effect, IS mocking, as well as being condescending.

[foolscap]

What is a "Clymer"? Is this like a rabbid dog, or what?

The term Clymer goes back to the 2000 election. At a rally where Bush and Cheney both appeared they notice a certain gentleman journalist with the last name of Clymer. I have forgotten his first name. There was an open microphone and the Bush and Cheney were having a discussion about this fellow. One of them said something like "Oh, there's Mr. Clyer that guy's a real assh**e" It got picked up by the press who made a big to do about it. Since that time when someone wants to call someone an assh**e they use the word Clymer instead.

[SAJ]

Not having been present at the press conference, I cannot directly contradict you on this point. Both our information is second-hand, but, there were **numerous** threads here on that amusing little episode, and I shouldn't wonder but that a bit of searching in spring/summer 2000 wouldn't turn up a word-for-word transcription.

FReegards!

[Moose4]

All I can think of is that scene from "National Lampoon's Vacation" where Chevy Chase is driving through the bad neighborhood and stops to ask for directions, in that suburban clueless whitebread way of his...

"Excuse me! Holmes!"

}:-)4

[xsmommy]

hey jagoffs, yunz got huntin' licenses like good ole F'in got himself?

[No Surrender No Retreat]

Kerry is out there hunting for snipe. A real hunter from the rice paddies of Viet Nam. Bush/Cheney 2004

[rwfok]

My memory is probably failing me, but wasn't Cheney's response "Major Leage"?

President Bush called Clymer a "Major League @$$#*!&"

[No Surrender No Retreat]

Oh Hell!! No!!!! we won't accept anything from that Ma. Chump. We hold him in disdain for being in America and a sad-sack excuse for a US Senator. Bush/Cheney 2004 Let's Roll

[norwaypinesavage]

"John Kerry was an obstacle to flu vaccine production as recently as last year when he opposed the Health Act to encourage vaccine production," Bush spokesman Steve Schmidt said.

Stephanie Cutter, Kerry's communications director, said the senator's opposition to the bill was based on the bill's liability protection for vaccine makers."

This is all news to me. It seems that these two facts should be shouted to the world.

[midftfan]

This guy is embarrasing to watch. Talk about the ultimate in pandering. Oh yeah, I'm supposed to believe in the sincerity of a patrician snob from Boston who walks into a store in blue collar southern Ohio and asks for a hunting license. These staged "I'm just like regular people" routines are hilarious.

[stevio]

Gee, he talks like one a me. He gots mine vote.