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Class War Alert!
Wonkette ^
| 3/30/04
Posted on 05/02/2004 9:50:26 PM PDT by Nasty McPhilthy
Class War Alert! A Wonketteer writes to note that the bike upon which John Kerry perched for pix yesterday is, well, really expensive. We're shocked. You mean a guy with five homes doesn't ride a Schwinn? Still, we had no idea how expensive:
"He is shown riding a Serotta, a small, high quality, custom bike builder whose frames start at $1495 for the frame ONLY and top out at a whopping $4995 for the frame ONLY. Add $1000 for tires, gears, pedals, fancy shoes, Boston College t-shirt etc.
"Am I being petty? Sure, but c'mon, a man of the people dropping $3000 on a bike? Think of the Botox one could buy."
He added: "Man of the people my ass."
Well, we think this is unfair. Kerry needs a custom bike. It has to be able to carry especially, ahem, large packages.
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Actually, I've seen reports that would indicate the bike is worth more like $7000.00!
To: Nasty McPhilthy
Gee does that mean as President he might do a little spending of our taxdollars frivolously???
To: MarthaNOStewart
As someone pointed out on another thread.....that's just about what Dubbya spent on his truck.
The difference in Horse Power indicates the regulations and taxes in MA compared to TX
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posted on
05/02/2004 9:58:03 PM PDT
by
spokeshave
(It is, as it was)
To: Nasty McPhilthy
That'd make you choke on your latte, or beer.
To: Nasty McPhilthy
Well, you should know the bike does not belong to Kerry. It belongs to .....wait for this .....'his family.'
Who knows, maybe one of these days J.F.Kerry will inform us that he is not really running for presidency, but that it is 'his family' that is doing so.
I wonder when the Democrats will start doubting the ability of their champ, oops chump, to win the presidency? I really wonder when it will hit them that Kerry is a modern-day Janus ....he has two faces (and probably a forked-tongue as well).
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posted on
05/02/2004 10:05:50 PM PDT
by
spetznaz
(Nuclear missiles: The ultimate Phallic symbol.)
To: spokeshave
thanks, I missed that thread.
To: Nasty McPhilthy
While there's a lot to dislike about John Kerry, this criticism is silly and unfair. A man should be able to spend his own $7000 on whatever he likes.
To: Nasty McPhilthy
I am growing weary of the lack of vibration damping on my $150 aluminum-frame bicycle, even with front and back shocks. Does anyone have anything bad to say about a Serotta titanium 'Concours' frame? Uh, price is no object. LOL.
To: Tax Government
He certainly falls alot for the little athlete he tries to portray. Maybe he tries just a little too hard to impress - only to reveal his aging body. Gerald Ford was in better shape than this guy but the media loved to watch for his falls.
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posted on
05/02/2004 11:15:39 PM PDT
by
newzhawk
To: newzhawk
He certainly falls alot for the little athlete he tries to portray. He's just practicing for when he takes the really big fall -- for Sir Hillary Lord Rodham. When he gets up from that tumble, he'll have every camera at the Democratic Party's National Convention on him, as he bows out of the race, "for the good of the party country", and annoints her the nominee.
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posted on
05/02/2004 11:24:37 PM PDT
by
Don Joe
(We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
To: SedVictaCatoni
A man should be able to spend his own $7000 on whatever he likes.Or his wife's $7000 ;-)
I was a real bike nut 25 years ago. I just went to The Inflation Calculator and found out I had a bike that would be over $1100 in 2002 prices. It was demolished when I t-boned a guy who pulled out of a side street in front of me.
To: Nasty McPhilthy
He ain't worth the rubber!
To: newzhawk
If I were married to a good-looking, but mature heiress, and found myself secretly swooned over by a nation full of college democrat coeds, I would probably be distracting myself like crazy with experimental ferroconcrete-nanotechnology bicycles with hyperdrive.
To: Tax Government
Mature heiress, yes, but I wouldn't call Tur-ayyyy-za good looking...
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posted on
05/03/2004 7:35:41 AM PDT
by
Born Conservative
(It really sucks when your 15 minutes of fame comes AFTER you're gone...)
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