Kerry and "Moby"
Posted on 09/21/2003 7:34:51 AM PDT by Gothmog
Boy, those Howard Dean supporters just won't give John Kerry a break these days - even at a Bruce Springsteen concert.
We found this blog on the Mass. for Dean Web site.
``Did I tell you I got in Fenway on Sunday night? 10th ROW!!!!!!!
``You'll never guess who I was sitting next to . . . John Kerry. I never once considered voting for him, but I wish I had a video camera on me to show the world how much of a lame-(expletive) he was at the concert.
``You have to be dead if you're not shaking your (expletive) at a Springsteen concert . . . , and Mr. Kerry was standing like a statue the WHOLE time with his arms crossed. Barely a smile crossed his lips.
``AND, during `Into the Fire,' (a pretty moving song about 9/11) he took the opportunity to walk around the crowd and shake people's hands. As if they were all there to see him.
``He held his hand out to shake mine and I looked at him and said, `Are you crazy? Springsteen is 20 feet away from me and you think I want to shake YOUR hand? Besides, I'm voting for Dean anyway.' ''
Sounds like ``no retreat, no surrender to us.''
Dean's Yankee background
Dean made some news this week railing against Kerry for, he said, wrongly labeling him a New York Yankees fan.
New York native Dean admitting loving the Bronx Bombers as a kid, but said he switched to the Boston Red Sox and was now a die-hard fan.
Problem is, that Yankees love is apparently just a little hard to let go.
Asked by a Vermont newspaper, Seven Days Vermont, about his childhood hero, the paper reported that Dean ``fired back instantly'' that it was ex-Yankee catcher Elston Howard, the first black Yankee.
He then offered the following:
``He had the same name as me and he played catcher, which I did in third grade. The great Yankee team of 1961 is still the best Yankee team ever, with the possible exception of 1927.''
Doesn't exactly sound like a convert to us.
Possible campaign anthems
It doesn't really count as news, but the wags at the Bay State GOP have provided us with another gem of a yuk-yuk press release.
Seizing on presidential wannabe John Kerry's recent fund-raiser with angst-ridden musician Moby, the GOP claimed it got its hands on a ``previously unreleased set list'' for the show.
Kerry's alleged theme songs - all taken straight from actual Moby albums - include:
``Everything Is Wrong.''
``A Season In Hell.''
``All That I Need Is To Be Loved.''
``Help Me To Believe.''
``If Things Were Perfect (the sans Howard Dean remix).''
And, our personal favorite, ``At Least We Tried.''
How about me?!
More bad news for Kerry.
When Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino campaigned in New Hampshire earlier this month, he wasn't raising money on behalf of his U.S. senator. Instead, Menino traveled to Manchester to boost his fellow mayor, Bob Baines.
Menino knows Baines from the U.S. Conference of Mayors, where Baines was economic policy chairman when Menino was president. Baines was victorious this week in a primary.
No word on when - or whether - Menino is going north for the sputtering Kerry campaign.
No-confidence vote
Maybe he's sleep-deprived, or presidential politics is causing him to lose his mind, but North Carolina Sen. John Edwards treated us to a fun memory lapse at a recent New Hampshire event.
Fielding a question on whether he would support legislation forcing all vehicles to get 40 miles to the gallon, Edwards first pounced, ah-ha fashion, and touted his recent vote for ``exactly what you just said.''
But then the questioner asked if he was sure it was a 40 mile-per-gallon rule, and Edwards started to get fuzzy and backpedal: ``I'm doing this from memory, I think I'm right, I'll check it to be sure.''
Finally, an aide piped up from the sidelines, loudly reminding Edwards, ``You did vote for that!''
``Thank you, thank you,'' Edwards said as the crowd broke into applause for the aide. ``The answer is obviously yes, since I just voted for it recently.''
Glad we got that straight.
Oops! I didn't mean that site
You gotta give it to Massachusetts Democratic Party Chairman Phil Johnston - when he makes a mistake, at least it's a big one.
This week on the radio, Johnston was given the opportunity to plug the party's Web site.
Philo's response: ``www.massdems.com.''
Problem 1: the state party Web site is massdems.org.
Problem 2 - the biggie: the dot-com site is, you guessed it, porno city.
Wonder which one Phil has bookmarked in the office?
Facts just get in the way
Speaking of Johnston, he kicked into wild-eyed overdrive on the occasion of the recent Boston appearance of Republican U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft.
Hyperventilating over Gov. Mitt Romney's public appearance with the lightning-rod federal lawman, Johnston skewered Romney for standing with the author of the ``indefensible'' Patriot Act.
Earth to Phil - Our records indicate most of the Bay State's all-Democratic congressional delegation voted for the ``indefensible'' Patriot Act, including liberal lion Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, presidential hopeful Kerry and five out of the 10 U.S. House members.
Personal is political
How do our ``full-time,'' $53,000-a-year state legislators pass their time?
Some of them write extremely important e-mails, like the following sent out by Rep. Pat Haddad (D-Somerset) last Monday.
``Dear Colleagues,'' it began, ``I am in the market for tickets to Sunday's Jets/Patriots game. If there were four available it would be great but two would do. My brother is visiting here from England where he has lived for the past 28 years . . . The poor thing has not been to a real football game in all those years . . .''
Your tax dollars at work.
That's what's her name
Fame is a fleeting thing, as politician-turned-TV reporter Shannon O'Brien can attest.
Dining recently at a Brockton restaurant, O'Brien caught the attention of a waitress who thought she recognized the former Democratic gubernatorial candidate.
``She kept saying, `Don't tell me, I know you're someone famous, don't tell me,' '' O'Brien related in an account in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.
``Finally she got it. `I know, I know, you're Jane Swift.' ''
Ouch.
Barf, he's got his pandering down pat.
Dean's favorite player was probably Whitey Ford, but he'd lose several million votes if he said that....
LOL!!
Did he answer the most important question?
Does he wear boxers or briefs?
BTW.. I heard that Kerry in a Viet Nam vet. Is that true?
Kerry and "Moby"
Sounds like the obnoxious little twerp changed the lyics a tad. Kerry still thinks it's the early '70's. And if Kerry's in a glory daze, Dean is simply in a daze. I wonder why Kerry didn't try to jump onstage and jam with Springstein? FOFLOL...guess the music wasn't to his taste.
I've heard rumors...when will he come out and tell us if it's true?
I think Kerry, like Gore, really doesn't like interacting with people at all on a personal level. He only does it reluctantly because he HAS to in politics. I know somebody like this. No smiles. Humorless. And hates talking to people. Fortunately for him he is not in politics but his personality is very much like Kerry's.
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