Kerry Blasts Bush's Daytona 'Photo Op'

[DoYouEverWonder]

Yahoo News

WAUSAU, Wis. - A confident John Kerry launched a full-throttle attack on President Bush's economic policies, mostly ignoring his Democratic rivals on the eve of the Wisconsin primary. Howard Dean's campaign shed another top manager and John Edwards vowed to press on no matter how he fares Tuesday.

Kerry, who has a commanding lead in the race to oppose Bush this fall, chided the president for taking time out Sunday to attend the Daytona 500, saying the country was bleeding jobs while he posed for a "photo opportunity." Bush had donned a racing jacket to officially open NASCAR's most prestigious event in front of some 180,000 fans.

"We don't need a president who just says, `Gentlemen start your engines'," Kerry said. "We need a president who says, `America, let's start our economy and put people back to work."




Looks like it's time to take the gloves off. As they say, may the best man win. I am very glad that Kerry is going after W for his photo op/political stunt yesterday. This was right up there with the Mission Accomplished Stunt and the Thanksgiving Turkey stunt. Bu$h just continues to show the world what a jerk and miserable failure he really is. GO GET 'EM KERRY!

[lancdem]

1. I, too, am glad to see Kerry

doing this. That Daytona appearance was pure politics.

[madmax]

2. Thata boy, John!

Never, ever miss an opportunity to point out the phoney photo ops and relate it to an important political issue. :loveya:

Now give me my Clark man and I'll love you for life.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

3. Imagine the impact of seeing this on TV in mideast OPEC nations

:puke: and Iraq?
Not that Kerry would say so here in deference to the NASCAR loving public but it is still pretty shameful as far as the world goes.

[DeepModem Mom]

4. Dem campaign ad pics? Flightsuit, turkey, AF1 over Daytona....

Country goes to hell, while Bush photo-ops. Bring it on, Kerry!

[diamond14]

10. and fashionable 2001 home-made lilac Butterick jacket (pics)

laura wearing the EXACT same lilac jacket shown in 2001 below...at a NASCAR race track !!....




laura's 2001 fashion highlights on Betty Bowers web page

http://www.bettybowers.com/fl2.html

laura bush* quote from exclusive fashion interview with Betty Bowers (laura's close friend and confidante):

"A true lady is always worried about showing up in public in the same outfit as someone else. Avoid this potential problem by completing your Liz Claiborne stretch slacks with a Butterick jacket you can make yourself using fabric from an old lilac bridesmaid's dress."

[dArKeR]

36. I like people who pay attention to details! My contribution sniper towers:

See on the right top, those 2 towers! When I went to De Anza College to see Reagan, back when, the SS or Military Intelligence, had scaffolding towers set up with 2 guys holding riffles. And they weren't trying to hide the fact either. (I've got pics somewhere.) Anyway, I'm wondering if that's what those towers were used for?

[kodi]

33. bush in a flight suit holding a turkey, next to a nascar, on a carrier

photoshop anyone?

[DeepModem Mom]

41. Great idea, kodi! Photoshoppers?

[Cronus Protagonist]

60. Well, I got this one....

"FUCK BUSH" Buttons, Stickers & Magnets

[fearnobush]

5. How many millions of Tax dollars were wasted in this Chimp

campaign photo opp. I gues they figure if Nascar fans can't vote for a Elitist AWOL draft dodger, they they might support a fellow fan?

Idea, Lets have Kerry go to bike week this spring in Daytona. He could ride in on his hog with his band of brothers.

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. I don't even mind that he went to the race

It's the flyby and grandstanding that pisses me off.

[myomy]

6. As Kerry says "Bring um on".

.

[Malva Zebrina]

7. we do have a stunt prone presidunce

that is for certain. WE also have a stunt compliant first lady who shows up is stupid, ill fitting clothing to support her stunt prone husband, NO MATTER WHAT.

What a bunch of stunt people who have nothing else to rely upon but their
stunts.

Jesys chreeist he looks awful in this one.

He is bloated looking and fat looking and it mentions Laura

==excuse me but where is Laura in this photo?




"President Bush (news - web sites), left, and first lady Laura Bush, background left, greet home schooled students who came out to wish President Bush a happy President's Day as he arrives at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Monday, Feb. 16, 2004. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Malonson ) "

They are looking more and more like cartoon characters and it is getting more and more obvious that they both are playing a part, neither of which is particularly gifted at doing so.

We are NOT convinced, Pickles and George.

I do believe that with photos like this, this couple, complete with the vacant, rictus smiling, do nothing unless you are told, Laura who killed her teenaged lover, will bring them both down.

Americans, on the whole, do not subscribe to this type of fakery. I believe that.

Even freepers have to see this stupidity and this propaganda for what it is.

It is an insult to all intelligent and discerning Americans.

Ugh, he and his rictus smiling, ill dressed Stepford compliant wife are absolutely horrific.

What will we do when they propel their progeny, their two, late conceived twins, onto the lying stage to promote violence, war and killing?

I hope we can do something to point out the shallowness of all the b
ush family and their evil ways

[fishnfla]

8. Another boob shows up at a sporting event

quick, call the FCC

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. LOL, this is bigger than Janet's tit

don't ya think?

BTW: Smelts? Personally, it's scallops up in Steinhatchee that I'm waiting for.

[fishnfla]

15. been to Horseshoe Beach plenty of times

catching scallops. Lots of fun, until it comes to cleaning them.

The smelt thing is from my youth, hope for the onset of spring after a long winter (smelts run late March).

[lancdem]

12. LOL

Good one!

[sallyseven]

14. And on top of it all

he got booed by the NASCAR dads. Most of them. I hear the drivers are all rich do they must love bush.

[DeepModem Mom]

43. Good one, fishnfla!

[Hubert Flottz]

13. These Bush Inc. propagandists never do anything original!

KKKiller KKKarl will not miss a huge photo op like a second Nuremberg Rally! But the Boo birds were out at Chancellor Chimp's Party Rally I heard! Even Hitler didn't get booed at his photo ops! Bush isn't even a good dictator!

[diamond14]

18. Chancellor chimp's rally at NASCAR....hitleresque....complete

with standing on a BIG christian cross...posted on OUR White House web page ASAP....

[Twillig]

29. you have misinterpreted that pic.

It shows that *'s yellow streak follows him everywhere.

[diamond14]

31. LOL!!!

[DeepModem Mom]

42. Brilliant, Twillig!

[sleipnir]

16. Image if Kerry had gone after * these last three years!

Wow, we might not have had a war with Iraq, a 500 billion $ deficit, lost overtime rights, No-Child Left Behind, etc, etc, if Kerry had actually stood up to * in the Senate. But, he didn't, he voted for * policies 65% of the time.

Man, Kerry's timing couldn't reek more of political opportunism.

[Bake]

19. OH for cryin' out loud!

The man IS running for President, ya know? If he weren't criticizing Smirk you'd be whining about his pink tutu. Now he IS criticizing the President, and you call it opportunistic. Excuse me, but Kerry (for one) and many other Dems HAVE been critical of Smirk from Day One. Some people are just never satisfied, and it's usually the frickin' extremists.

Kerry has the national platform now, as the front-runner and presumably the Democratic nominee. He by GOD had BETTER be criticizing Bush EVERY DAMN DAY!!

Bake

[Malva Zebrina]

22. I will vote for Kerry

as most will even though they have their doubts. It is a vote to get an evil man, Bush out of the office he captured, but did not win, and who took his country to two wars, both of which have beenfailures. He is also an idiot who loves dressing up in costumes and performing on stage for extravaganzas, such as the ost recent appearance at Daytona.

Ugh--stop this insanity. We are a vast , rich, and powerful country who virtually controls what goes on in the rest of thw world. Do we need a stupid assed, ignorant, pretender who knows nothing stealing elections and do we need to put up with the likes of him and his fatassed, rictus smiling Stepford "whatever he says is OK" wife?

No way and we know it. It is really an embarrassment that this stupid assed, ignorant and virtually incompetant, photo op loving, man was ever even in contention. It is the enormous amounts of obscene money that has enabled an idiot to run and be in charge of this enormously powerful countrym, and that has got to stop. We are murdering people because of this.

This "money" that has propelled a stupid man, an incompetent man, has caused the deaths of thousands of people. It happened under his watch and he is responsible for it. If it continues,and he is elected by the majority who condone this slaughter and killing and invasion under lies, then I would suggest that every man look out for himnself, because those who do not have this money will be the slaves of those who do.

[DoYouEverWonder]

20. Yes, it's a shame

but if he did, he certainly wouldn't be heading towards the Democratic nomination.

A year ago the Bu$h controlled media would have destroyed him and gotten away with it. Sometimes you've got to know when to hold them, and know when to fold them I suppose?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

17. Has anyone noticed?

He seems to have aged in the last few weeks what took Clinton 8 years. But still same smarmy asshole expression in his face.

[Unknown Known]

21. Ben Afflect kissing *'s ass...

Another turncoat whore pretending to be a real man!

[Voltaire99]

40. It will be easy to avoid Ben Afflect movies now

Of course, it was easy before, too. ;-)

[ronnykmarshall]

59. Where's Ben Afflect in that pic?

[dArKeR]

23. Why not go further Kerry? "I will not fund raise, take a vacation,

campaign... while our children are in a foreign land being killed. I will not fund raise, take a vacation, campaign... if our ecomony/manufacturing are not running on all cyclinders and our unemployment is above 4%. I would never smile or joke in the White House while any of our children are being killed in a war overseas. I don't see any place for laughter while parents' children are dying daily. Because you elected me to do a job. Not to kiss my own ass trying to convince you that I'm doing a good job. That job for ass kissing is the conservative media Whores such as Robertson, Falwell, Fineman, Russert..."

If I can't become President of the United States, I'd settle for Kerry's speech writer.

[dai]

24. Is anyone else...

...imagining Caligula at the chariot races?

[jab105]

25. Good for him...

He needs to blast away every single nosense photo op that Bush does...every single one or we lose...The republicans know how to market them...and that is all they know how to market!!

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[nannah]

27. to encourage recreating with fossil fuels is irresponsible!

It is incredible to me that people in leadership roles in the US continue to push recreation that relies on continued supplies of cheap oil.

In WA state there is a big push to build a race track. Likely scenario, track built at taxpayer expense opens the first year oil and gas prices triple.

[LostInTheMaise]

28. What is the ratio of oil used for delivered goods vs recreation?

Do you have the numbers? Is it 10000/1, 1000/1, 100/1 or worse?

[nannah]

30. the issue isn't ratio between recreation/delivery

our dependence on cheap fossil fuels extends well beyond transportation. We rely on cheap fossil fuel for our electricity, food production, plastics, fertilizers, pesticides, heating, the list goes on.

[leQ]

32. never mind taxpayers paid for the whole 'official' trip

i'd like to know just how do they draw the line between 'official' and 'campaign' designations? does campaign without fundraising get to be 'official'? is this codified anywhere?

[Virginian]

34. He'd better not use pix from Sunday in Campaign

That was MY tax dollar he used to fly down to Daytona and have his motorcade do laps on the track before the race. That is campaigning on MY dollar and I don't like it.

He sure is getting a lot of free air time lately. At this rate He won't have to dip into his war chest for TV ads. The networks are giving him a new ad every Sunday. He can use all the money he has raised for dirty tricks.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

35. We paid for it.

the ass.

[progressivebydesign]

37. THIS is why I didn't want our primary season destroyed!

All Bush, All the Time.. 24/7 Bush from the moment Kerry is annointed the nomination without having to set foot into the convention, until the actual convention. We democrats are a boring bunch.. can't even build excitement in a primary. No wonder no one votes anymore. Bush will have daily lameass photo ops.. now that no one cares about the Democratic nomination. STUPID move on the DLC and the DNC's part... slam dunking the primary season.

[moondust]

38. Presidential motorcade doing laps.

That's as goofy as it gets. The kind of inappropriate opportunism only a Hitler-like turkey would consider doing. How embarrassing.

And certainly not official business the taxpayer should be billed for.

[RememberWellstone]

47. Just like the carrier landing.

He is sooooo good at wasting tax-payer money...and noone says anything about it. The party that spends. You'd think America would get sick of this flaunting...too bad Bush did'nt fall in front of the cameras in the pits.

[pinniped]

39. But, but, but...

"The White House described AHOLE'S overnight trip to Florida as nonpolitical, meaning that taxpayers -- not Bush's re-election campaign -- will pick up the tab."



Lying sack of shit's been campaigning non-stop and has a 200m war chest but we still end up footing the bill for this jerkoff.

[DoYouEverWonder]

46. You would think that if the people who protect the pResident

where really concerned about his security, he would taken off and landed at an undisclosed location?

Remember all those shoulder fired missiles that al Qaeda had supposedly stashed all over the country? Seems like no one is concerned about those anymore if getting W a good photo op and giving the crowd a cheap thrill is more important.

[Virginian]

49. Is that a real pix of AF1? (and other questions.)

Is that a real picture of Air Force One, or is it PhotoShopped.
The nose is up like it is taking off. Did he really leave before the race was over?

How expensive are NASCAR tickets? I guess they vary. I heard the tickets to Darlington were $300. Not exactly a price easily paid by the average man.

With the noise of the track and the noise of a plane taking off, do those people still have eardrums?

[DoYouEverWonder]

50. No it's a real pic.

I think because of the zoom lens that the plane appears larger and closer than it really is. However, one of the runways for the Daytona airport is right behind the race track.

As to your second question, yes Bu$h didn't stick around long after he got the pics he needed for his photo op. Air Force 1 took off within a couple of hours after the race started.

Just another example of Bu$h daily abuse of power.

[gimme a break]

52. He didn't stay long at Kitty Hawk either

The Marine 1 choppers took off from Kitty Hawk shortly after his speech.

[DoYouEverWonder]

54. He didn't even stay for dinner on Thanksgiving

with the troops.

He purposely rubs his arrogance in everyone's face at every opportunity. It makes him feel impotent.

[gimme a break]

51. I'm not trying to support Bush here, but

in this particular picture, it's AF1 taking off. It has to take off at this angle behind the stands. The airport is right there. Normally, you don't see a lot of planes taking off or landing during a race. Especially since 9-11. Over sporting events there's a no fly zone now. So basically everything gets shut down during the race.

Lots of private planes fly in there too. Car owners and some drivers fly while equipment and teams come in by truck and bus. Most tracks are build as close to the airport as possible. Or you have a short hop from the airport by helicopter, like in the case of Tony Stewart when he races in the Indy 500 in the morning and flies to get to his NASCAR race that afternoon. He usually only has a 30 minute window to get to the next race.

I missed the beginning of the race so I couldn't comment on grandstanding then. But, I saw the take off that was just an average take off.

[DoYouEverWonder]

55. Apparently the grandstanding with AF 1

took place when they were flying into land at Daytona. I heard that AF 1 didn't go straight in but banked around so the stadium got a good view and then went in. If that is true, then this stunt was a blatant abuse of power by W, especially during an election year. Not to mention the security issues. Wasn't it only a few weeks ago we were at Orange Alert?

[gimme a break]

58. I didn't see it.

But, I would like to know if it was for the crowd or was it to line up for the runway they were using.

[Fla_Dem]

44. Kerry does not want to piss off the NASCAR crowd

he better get advised that NASCAR draws as much of a TV audience as the Super Bowl, but on a weekly basis. Having 10's of millions of voters thinking they are being stereotyped is not a good thing.

[DeepModem Mom]

45. I hope Kerry's remarks are not seen as dissing NASCAR fans...

I think Bush uses these groups, like NASCAR fans, just as he uses our soldiers, as backdrops for his own political purposes.

[gimme a break]

57. You can't just lump

NASCAR fans into a group. I think a lot of NASCAR fans get aggravated over the term NASCAR dad. I am a NASCAR fan. I am not a "NASCAR dad".

Why do we (as people in general) have to try to lump people into groups? None of us like it. Those neocons. Those left wing liberals. Those homosexuals. Those fundamentalists.

You label someone and you risk alienating them. When you assume all women are pro-choice you make a mistake. When you assume all African Americans will vote Democrat you make a mistake. When you attack Christianity and it's symbols you alienate many liberal thinking Christians and swing them toward a Republican vote. When you go and say something like you don't need the southern votes you tick off a lot of liberal southerners. If you quit pandering to groups and make the case for ALL people that's when we can make a difference.

Another problem with labels. Once you label someone, that's how you think about them. That's how you treat them. And that's how they'll vote. Instead of telling a group how wrong or stupid they are how about telling them what we can do to make their lives better.

[ArkDem]

48. Kerry is in touch with the common man.

He has much more in common with the working class than any Bush will ever have.

[gimme a break]

53. Heck, the Daytona 500

had better commercials than the Superbowl.

[La Resistance]

56. The NASCAR appearance was very unpresidential

but, of course, what has * done that is Presidential?

Those types of appearances are for B-List celebrities, not a president. Just horrible whoring for votes.

[Virginian]

61. He even orderd a NASCAR outfit to play dress up in.

I'm surprised he didn't arrive dressed in one of the fire proof jumpsuits the drivers wear.