Posted on 09/25/2012 3:01:42 PM PDT by pabianice
Dear Friend,
Yesterday I enjoyed a busy day in Massachusetts on the campaign trail with Elizabeth Warren -- and the enthusiasm for her is palpable -- and building.
Let me underscore two things very quickly: one -- Elizabeth's campaign needs to keep growing its people-powered energy and that means we need your help, and two -- I want you to know why I'm so committed to this race.
Donate to Elizabeth's campaign today.
As I said in Somerville yesterday morning, I'm not making a case against anyone. I'm making a case for someone -- and that someone is Elizabeth Warren. I'm not telling anyone how to vote. Folks in Massachusetts make their own decisions.
But there is something that I can do because I see it and live it every day: I can take my everyday view of the Senate and paint a clear picture of the Senate you want vs. the Senate you risk having in January.
This race is bigger even than the two candidates -- it's a fight for the Senate itself. It will decide which party holds the majority and sets the agenda in the United States Senate.
Donate to Elizabeth's campaign today.
The vote in Massachusetts in November will decide the outcome of the first and single most important vote cast in the Senate in January: the vote for the Majority Leader of the Senate -- and the vote to choose the Chairs of the Committees. That vote determines what comes to the floor and what doesn't -- a vote that will decide whether the middle class gets a shot at fair tax reform or has the Ryan budget jammed at us. Whether Obamacare will survive. Whether new financial rules will disappear and we return to the policies that got us in trouble in the first place.
It matters whether the environment committee is chaired by a climate change denier.
It matters whether we have a Judiciary Committee Chairman who opposes Roe vs. Wade, and will block President Obama's judicial nominees.
It matters whether we have key education, health, labor, Medicare, and Social Security committees in the hands of Chairmen and Chairwomen who believe in those priorities -- or whether it's going to be controlled by a Republican Party that this year is nominating candidates who actually -- and these are their words -- compare student loans to "Stage 3 cancer," or a Budget Committee Chairman whose only gripe with the Ryan Budget -- and again these are his words not mine -- is that "Ryan’s plan doesn’t make large cuts fast enough."
That’s what’s at stake. Donate to Elizabeth's campaign today.
Some people call that "inside baseball" -- I call it facts. And facts matter.
I'd hate to think that we'd reelect President Obama on the same day that we'd turn the Senate over to a majority that would do from the Senate floor what we’d never give Mitt Romney the chance to do from the White House.
This is a race I care about deeply in the state I love, and it'll greatly affect the Senate which I revere.
Elizabeth Warren is a fighter -- and she'll be a great Senator if you can dig deep and help her get there.
Please join us today -- and let's go win this election!
John Kerry
I interpretted your comment, as refering to Kerry having to scout ahead for Reblicans before meeting with Warren.
I interpretted your comment as refering to Kerry having to scout ahead for Republicans before meeting with Warren.
I hate my computer.
Yeah, the Cherokee hunter was supposed to be a surrogate for Kerry. It was a riff on Warren’s professed heritage, combined with Kerry’s fantasies about himself as a great warrior. Like most visual jokes; it doesn’t bear much explaining.
Woo-Woo Warren
Maybe you could loan her your lucky hat from Cambodia, Francois.
A Cherokee Indian princess, Princess Bowels, lived in a teepee on the reservation.
One day she received a letter from the state division of highways that said that they were going to build a freeway and it would go right through where her teepee was located and she would have to move.
She was very upset about this because her ancestors had lived in that exact place for many generations.
She decided to go into town to talk to someone and get them to change the route of the freeway.
She arrived in town but didn’t know where to go so she asked someone for directions to the local office of the highway department. She was told to go three blocks straight ahead then turn left for two blocks and it would be on the right.
She went three blocks straight ahead then turned right and went into the building on the left. It was a drugstore.
The druggist asked her if he could help her and she replied. “I am native American Cherokee princess. Bowels no move!”
“Oh,” said the druggist. That’s no problem. Take a tablespoonful of this twice a day for a week.” he said, as he handed her a bottle of light intestinal lubricant.
One week later she returned. “Hello,” said the druggist. “Did that medicine work?”
“Bowels still no move! My friend is senator, war hero.” she said.
“Well, well ... Did he happen to serve in Vietnam?” asked the druggist. “Never mind, it appears that we will have to use something a little stronger. Take this four times a day for a week.” And he handed her a half-gallon bottle of heavy mineral oil.
One week later she returned. “Hello again,” said the druggist. “How are you doing?”
“Bowels still no move! I take classes in mail, am lawyer now.” said the Princess.
“Oh my goodness!” said the druggist. “This really calls for something drastic. This is the most powerful treatment for constipation on the market. Take it eight times a day for a week.” And he lifted a gallon bottle of industrial strength castor oil laced with laxatives on to the counter and handed it to her.
One week later she returned. When the druggist saw her he asked, “Bowels move?”
“Bowels have to move” said Princess Warren. “Teepee full of shit.”
What’s really pathetic is there are morons who will actually eat this crap up.
Kerry’s day spent with Warren:
9 am to 12 noon: They went buffalo hunting with bows and arrow.
12 to 1: Ate buffalo stew
1 to 3: Practiced smoke signals
3 to 5: Work on skinning animals and bead work
Read the disclaimer at the bottom ;)
if their web site will accept a penny from a CC donation it costs um 20-30 cents a transaction.
Give um that buck 1 penny at a time.
Faux-a-hontas was her name,
Such a sorry sight to see.
And the truth? It was not in her,
Tho’ a senator she wanted to be.
Faux-a-hontas loved Affirmative Action,
With a love big as the sky.
Yes she loved the gub’mint money,
With a love that wouldn’t die.
She couldn’t make it on her own,
To the Harvard job she eyed.
The way was just too hard she moaned,
But she got it when she lied.
In the cloisters of old Cambridge,
She was safe from prying eyes.
When she tried to leave the college,
They uncovered her disguise.
“I am a Cherokee maid” cried she,
“See my cheekbones, hear my tale.
How dare you commonfolk doubt me!”
But she complained to no avail.
The commonfolk did hue and cry,
“An imposter, not a Cherokee!
She made it up, she told a lie,
No indian maid is she.”
Yet on the river bank we see,
Faux-a-hontas stands so bold.
“It’s not a lie!” she screams her plea,
“If you believe it when it’s told.”
Hey, Kemo Sabe, that could add up to heap big wampum, too!
Yeah I read it before posting. Still doesn’t explain why they bothered to Sharpie the numbers.
Great pic of VERY early Pittsburgh...(Ft Pitt)
Most people don’t need the connection between sKerry and horses explained either.
This woman needs to get back to her “home” in Bridgewater for evaluation.
Horse face Kerry — it took a while, but I got it.
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