Posted on 10/24/2004 9:37:40 AM PDT by badpacifist
Edited on 10/24/2004 10:12:14 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN OCT 24, 2004 12:00:01 ET XXXXX
FEW DOZEN TURN OUT TO HEAR ROSIE O'DONNELL ELECTION PREACH
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Rosie O'Donnell addressed a nearly vacant CLUB OVATION Saturday night in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida during a get-out-the-vote rally for Dem presidential hopeful John Kerry.
"You know, there's only like, you know, maybe 38 of us here and maybe we can just like tap a keg and put on some disco, and totally party," O'Donnell deadpanned.
The debacle came one night after only a couple hundred came out to see Cher rally for Kerry at Miami Beach's CROBAR disco.
"There were supposed to be thousands of people here tonight. I'm not sure why that didn't happen, obviously the people putting on this thing were just not very good at it," an embarrassed Cher explained to the crowd.
A top Florida Democratic party official dismissed the weak back-to-back club turnouts as any indication of voter enthusiasm for the Kerry candidacy.
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Rosie endorsed Kerry's assertion in debate that America needs to pass a "global test" before acting in the world.
"The best part to me in the entire debate was when John Kerry said we have to pass a global test before we enter into a war. And you see George Bush got all nervous because frankly the word 'test' terrifies him," O'Donnell said to scattered chuckles.
"He never passed one at Harvard or Yale, but whatever. But there is a global test. It's the global test of decency, of humanity, of integrity. That's what our country stands for as we lead the free world. Let's take back our country. Let's elect John Kerry."
Rosie said the Bush Administration's actions go "against the foundation of what our country was built on," giving example of Administration telling the "United Nations we would ignore their doctrine and their resolutions."
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Rosie continued: "Every single thing this White House has done goes against the foundation of what our country was built on. For us to tell the United Nations we would ignore their doctrine and their resolutions, for us to say that we will not adhere to the Geneva Convention during this war. We are America, we are better than that. We were built on the foundation of freedom and truth and equality for all people. And the rich, corporate, horrible, horrible people who have been destructing and ruining everything this country was made on has been really unbelievably damaging to all of us spiritually, emotionally, monetarily."
Rosie advised the audience to ignore any and all media in last days of the election race and to keep telling themselves "Kerry by a landslide!"
"Just remember this, don't believe the media in these last nine days. Tell yourself every day when you wake up and every morning when you have a worry or a doubt or whether you believe FOXNEWS: Kerry by a landslide. Because America knows the difference between genuine and junk."
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Finally, Rosie spent an inordinate amount of time at the end of her speech cracking jokes about THE VIEW co-host Star Jones, suggesting that the daytime diva's weight loss was not the product of "diet and exercise," but of plastic surgery:
"Star Jones is my body double. She's getting smaller every day. I'm telling you ladies, it's diet and exercise. [Rosie pauses giving disbelieving look, then makes popping noises as she motions around her body implying plastic surgery] No problem, [singing] 'I believe in dissolution.' Okay, that's fine. She's alright. She's married to some guy, it's fine. Ah huh. Yeah. The thing is -- it's fine, it's alright, leave it. What do I care? I don't even watch TV in the day... He is a cute boy. And I'm gonna leave it there because I see that camera rolling. And all the Kerry thing will go away and it'll be 'Rosie O'Donnell Attacks Star Jones!' And in the Enquirer it'll be 'Crazy Lesbian Goes Insane At A Kerry Rally.'"
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Think about this fact:
This woman wants you and me to pay for government-bought turkey basters (ie, fertility clinics) that we were otherwise going to spend on our children's shoes, a necklace for our wives, or paying bills to heat our home in the winter.
She is absolutely disgusting, and that most people don't see it is an outrage in itself.
I'd love to not show up for that event.
I think the "Kerry landslide" wishful thinking is turning into a pathology. Notice how Bush "has the edge" in Colorado and Nevada, neither of them huge in electoral votes, while Kerry is given Michigan, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania (two of them good sized, one very good sized).Electoral Vote Predictor 2004: Kerry 253, Bush 254There are 18 new polls today, mostly in battleground states, but no states switched sides there. However, a change comes from a most unlikely location. A new poll in Hawaii shows the race is tied there. If it is really true, this is very bad news for Kerry. He was supposed to win easily there. Of course he could fly out there this week for some much needed vacation time and call it campaigning, but I doubt that he will. As a result of Hawaii becoming a tie, Bush now takes the lead in the electoral college, 254 to 253. Talk about a tight race where every vote counts.
"Votemaster"
The New York Times has a story today saying that both campaigns have abandoned 39 states and D.C. and are putting all their efforts into 11 states. These states, worth 135 electoral votes, are Colorado, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire and Ohio (which Bush won in 2000) as well as Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin (which Gore won in 2000). My best guess is that Michigan, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania and going to go for Kerry and there is little Bush can do now to prevent that. Bush has the edge in Colorado and probably Nevada, although his promise to bury all of the nation's nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, which some experts feel is geological unstable, could still hurt him there.
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent
LOL!
Always blame the other guy.
Who would want to listen to Rosie O'Dumbbell. She did it at a comedy club. Last place you would want someone doing a lecture on politics.
The President will be campaining in Council Bluffs, IA., on Monday, October 25th (right across the Big MO river from Omaha). Tickets to the event at the Mid-America Center are sold out. Estimated to be approximately 11,000 people attending. There were long lines for tickets all week long, with people even standing in the rain to get them. It did my heart well to see so many who wanted to go see and support their President. I think we're gonna win this one.
It will be the fault of the organizers when the Kerry voters do not show up on election day. The poor turnout won't be Kerry's fault, just like it isn't Cher's or Rosie's fault that no one wanted to hear their lies in Florida.
Many actors graduated from college with a degree in drama -- that and $1.25 will get get them a 20 oz. soda from the local 7-11.
Cher is educated very well...uh huh. Read this impressive quote from the other night. A grammatical monument if there ever was one.
Cher warned moveon.org clubgoers to fight Bush, before "it's too late":
"All the gay guys, all my friends, all my gay friends, you guys you have got to vote, alright? Because it would only be a matter of time before you guys would be so screwed, I cannot tell you. Because, you know, the people, like, in the very right wing of this party, of these Republicans, the very very right wing, the Jerry Falwell element, if they get any more power, you guys are going to be living in some state by yourselves. So, I hate scare tactics, but I really believe that that's true."
"I think that as Bush will, if Bush gets elected, he will put in new Superior Court judges, and these guys are not going to want to see gay pride week."
Cher declared that Abraham Lincoln "looks like Kerry on a crappy day."
How about running her down with a tank:0)
Long ago, I found it in some European mag.
you could almost say they wereSPECIAL folks.All 38 of them!
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As I recall, Rosie only briefly attended college. I doubt Cher even got her H.S. diploma. I'm wondering if either of them ever commented on the academic record of the man they voted for in 2000, the man they think would have led this nation better in the post-9/11 era; that would be Al Gore, who barely earned a bachelors degree and flunked out and/or dropped out of two graduate programs.
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent
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