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Tuesday, May 25th, 2004Tonight my brother Aaron and I attended the Candidates Kickoff Reception hosted by Mitt Romney for the state Republican Party. Thanks to my great Governor Mitt Romney, new life is being injected into the State of Massachusetts. Lt. Governor Kerry Healey spoke first, followed by Governor Mitt Romney, who then introduced special guest, RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie.
Romney was great. He’s really done a great job trying to help make Massachusetts a two-party state again. He spoke about the general election as well, with some great cracks about John Kerry which really got the crowd going.
I got to meet and shake hands with Healey, Romney, and Ed Gillespie. I’d never met Ed Gillespie before, but back in January he posted a comment on my other site, Blogs For Bush, which was my first indicator that the RNC was aware of Blogs For Bush.
When Gillespie came off the podium to meet and greet everyone I was one of the first few people he encountered, when he came to me and shook my hand, I said, “You might know who I am, I’m Matt Margolis.”
Gillespie smiled and said, “Oh yeah, of course!”
“Yeah, I run Blogs For Bush.” I said, just to make sure.
Of course, I didn’t have to remind him, he told me he thought the site was great and that he appreciates what I’m doing.
I didn’t get have much of a conversation with him, there were lots of people wanting to meet him, shake his hand, some people wanted autographs. I did get a photo with him, which I’ve posted here:
It was great to meet Mr. Gillespie, and it felt good to know he’s aware of the work I’ve done in putting together Blogs For Bush.
.After the crowd around him got bigger, Aaron and I went to meet up with Gov. Mitt Romney. As I shook his hand I told him, “We’re going to take back Massachusetts,” and he replied, “Absolutely we are.”
The Republican Party in Massachusetts is going through a revival, thanks to Mitt. Hopefully, we’ll be seeing some changes in the state in November. When the country reelects George W. Bush in November, we’re also going to take the Ass out of Mass.
F-ck you, Hillary
Tuesday, May 25th, 2004Sometimes the lousy bitch just can’t keep herself from making an ass of herself:
Re-electing President Bush will mean a loss of freedoms and “create an America we won’t recognize,” Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is telling potential Democratic donors.
In an e-mail appeal distributed by the Democratic National Committee to help Sen. John Kerry’s presidential campaign, the former first lady said “the stakes in this election are incredibly high.”
“If they get their way, you and I will be living in an America governed not by our hopes, but by our fears,” Clinton wrote. “We’ll be living in an America where we see our freedoms diminished when they ought to be embraced, our rights restricted when they ought to be strengthened.”
Democrats were spewing the same crap 4 years ago… Clearly, Hillary has gained no sense of political decency, but then again, this is Hillary we’re talking about. It sounds like she’s trying to make some sort of parallel to the PATRIOT Act… If that is the case, then I find it hard for that bitch to critcize since she voted for it.
But hey, if dead people can vote for Hillary, I guess she can vote for the PATRIOT Act and then disavow that vote.
The fat trap opened some more:
“The Bush-Cheney campaign has blown $70 million on negative ads, but it is still tied in the polls with John Kerry,” Clinton added.
Unfortunate for her, she’s wrong… the ads had a real impact, and the recent analysis of the latest polling from Matthew Dowd, chief strategist for the Bush campaign, shows that Kerry really isn’t doing as well as Democrats would like to believe.
The Bush campaign has yet to comment on Hillary’s stupidity.
But I have a comment for Hillary: F-ck you!
NOTE: Yes, her comments really pissed me off because of her blatent disregard for reality. I’d offer more calm and collected arguments in this if I wasn’t so fumed…
We Aren’t At the Cannes Festival Anymore, Toto.
Sunday, May 23rd, 2004Perhaps hoping to get a Michael Moore-type standing ovation, E.L. Doctorow, “one of the most celebrated writers in America” was nearly booed off stage while delivering the commencement address bashing George W. Bush and “effectively calling him a liar.”
Booing that came mainly from the crowd in the stands became so intense that Doctorow stopped speaking at one point, showing no emotion as he stood silently and listened to the jeers. Hofstra President Stuart Rabinowitz intervened, and called on the audience to allow him to finish. He did, although some booing persisted.
Doctorow, who spent virtually all of his 20-minute address in Hempstead criticizing Bush, told the crowd that like himself the president is a storyteller. But “sadly they are not good stories this president tells,” he said. “They are not good stories because they are not true.” That line provoked the first boos, along with scattered cheers.
“One story he told was that the country of Iraq had nuclear and biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction and was intending shortly to use them on us,” he said. “That was an exciting story all right, it was designed to send shivers up our spines. But it was not true.
“Another story was that the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, was in league with the terrorists of al-Qaida,” he said. “And that turned out to be not true. But anyway we went off to war on the basis of these stories.”
Those lines provoked an outburst of boos so loud the “Ragtime” author stopped the speech. Rabinowitz approached the podium and called for calm. “We value open discussion and debate,” he said. “For the sake of your graduates, please let him finish.”
Some students and most of the faculty responded with a standing ovation, and Doctorow resumed speaking. He attacked Bush for giving the rich tax breaks, doing “a very poor job of combating terrorism” and allowing the government to subpoena libraries “to see what books you’ve been taking out.”
Many parents and relatives were livid over the address, saying afterward that a college graduation was not the place for a political speech. “If this would have happened in Florida, we would have taken him out” of the stadium, said Frank Mallafre, who traveled from Miami for his granddaughter’s graduation.
Bill Schmidt, 51, of North Bellmore, shared the outrage. “To ruin my daughter’s graduation with politics is pathetic,” the retired New York Police Department captain said. “I think the president is doing the best he can” in the war against terrorism.
I know the liberal contigent will cry foul, crying “freedom of speech” and all that… But this isn’t about freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is not the right to be heard, and to use a commencement ceremony to spew political rhetoric ruins it for the graduates, the families, and essentially everyone besides the liberal faculty and the anti-war hippie contingent of the student body.
E.L. Doctorow had to learn the hard way that a commencement ceremony is not the Cannes Festival. When I graduated college two year ago, I would have been really aggravated if the keynote speakers (we had like 4 for some reason) made political speeches. Commencement speeches ought to be filled with the usual fluff about the “real world” and the “next chapter of your life” and all that jazz.
E.L. Doctorow ought to be ashamed he ruined the whole affair for a lot of people.
John Kerry: Hypocrite and Asshole
Sunday, May 23rd, 2004John Kerry has shown (again) what a real hypocrite and asshole he can be. When President Bush took a spill on his bike while riding on his ranch.
President Bush suffered cuts and bruises early Saturday afternoon when he fell while mountain biking on his ranch, White House spokesman Trent Duffy said.
Bush was on the 16th mile of a 17-mile ride when he fell, Duffy said. He was riding with a military aide, members of the Secret Service and his personal physician, Dr. Richard Tubb.
“He had minor abrasions and scratches on his chin, upper lip, nose, right hand and both knees,” Duffy said. “Dr. Tubb, who was with him, cleaned his scratches, said he was fine. The Secret Service offered to drive him back to the house. He declined and finished his ride.”
Bush was wearing his bike helmet and a mouth guard when the mishap occurred. Duffy said he didn’t know exactly how the accident happened.
“It’s been raining a lot and the topsoil is loose,” the spokesman said. “You know this president. He likes to go all out. Suffice it to say he wasn’t whistling show tunes.”
This article gives on quote by Kerry which was appropriate:
Earlier this month, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry took a spill from his bicycle while riding with Secret Service agents through Concord, Mass., about 18 miles north of Boston. Kerry fell when his bike hit a patch of sand. He was not injured.
Told about Bush’s mishap, Kerry said, “I hope he’s OK. I didn’t know the president rode a bike.”
However…
A current byte on Drudge says the following: “President fell off bike Saturday.. Kerry told reporters in front of cameras, ‘Did the training wheels fall off?’… Reporters are debating whether to treat it is as on or off the record… Developing… ”
Having fallen himself earlier this month, Kerry was really being quite a jerk with that comment. Someone with a little class would have made a joke about how they both had fallen off their bikes, instead of making a politically motivated jab at the President.
UPDATE: Jettison at Blogs for Bush has some thoughts on the whole thing.
The Bush Twins in Vogue?
Sunday, May 23rd, 2004Now that the first Daughters have graduated from college (Barbara from Yale and Jenna from the University of Texas), what’s next? First up: a taste of the spotlight. The two have already sat for an interview and photo shoot for Vogue—the first of many interviews they’ll do this summer. Then, after a European vacation with friends, the twins will return to Washington to work for Dad. They have their choice of jobs: pitching in at the suburban Virginia HQ, helping at a field office or perhaps hitting the campaign trail. The president is elated about their deciding to join the family business, but are the Bushes nervous about the increased scrutiny of their daughters? “You bet,” says one White House official.
Sweet!
Trying to Connect The Dots On Kerry’s So-Called Energy Policy
Saturday, May 22nd, 2004If you really tried to connect the dots on Kerry’s so-called energy policy, you’ll be flipping and flopping all over the place…
“There are two reasons why we cannot be asleep at the wheel during this current energy crisis,” Kerry said in the weekly Democratic radio address. “First, soaring energy prices are putting our economy at risk and second, our dependence on Middle East oil is putting our national security at risk. But it doesn’t have to be this way.”
In the short term, the Massachusetts senator said, the United States should divert oil being used to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and bring it to market. The White House says, though, that would have only a negligible impact on pump prices. Kerry also said the country’s leaders should demand that Saudi Arabia and other oil-producing nations increase supply.
He said his long-term strategy as president would include investments in alternative fuels and new technologies that are more fuel-efficient. He said he would establish tax credits to help make fuel-efficient cars more affordable.
Okay, so Kerry wants to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, but strongly opposes drilling in ANWR? In fact, Kerry voted against ANWR exploration seven times.
Kerry’s position on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is equally as ridiculous. Back in February of 2000, he opposedtapping the reserves, calling a release ‘not relevant. It would take months for the oil to get to the market,’
Kerry also missed a 2003 vote (which he also claimed he would have voted against) on an Energy Bill that included several renewable energy proposals.
These flip flops and inconsistencies prove that Kerry doesn’t have a clue about what a good energy policy is, and he cares more about politicizing the issue, rather than creating a good sound policy for America.
Cosby Got It Going On Dawg. Word.
Friday, May 21st, 2004I was going to write about this, but Aaron at Pardon My English got to it already, so just read what he wrote…
Kerry’s Alleged Online Fundraising
Friday, May 21st, 2004Blogs For Bush has the scoop on some strange online fundraising patterns going on at JohnKerry.com
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