20 things Sen. Kerry taught us (while in Seattle) /Seattle Times

[icymist]

Twenty things I learned while John Kerry was in Seattle:
1. John Kerry served in the Navy during Vietnam.

2. Congressman Jim McDermott thinks President Bush is a "deserter." He said so at a Kerry fund-raiser at the Tractor Tavern.

3. Kerry's national security speech at McCaw Hall felt like the way you'd want a presidential campaign to be. It was serious and in-depth.

4. Blasting Bachman Turner Overdrive's "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" over the P.A. system — at the Opera House! — after a serious and in-depth speech on national security has a tendency to take away from the solemnity of classic rock.

5. Blasting BTO after a $1,000-per-head Westin fund-raiser worked better.

6. The Kerry campaign is hoping to do for "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" what the Clinton campaign did for "Don't Stop" — take a mediocre song from the low years of rock 'n' roll and play it so often it rings in your head like tinnitus. Should a guy critical of outsourcing make his campaign theme a song by a group of Canadians, b-b-b-baby?

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[wyldwolf]

1. one comment

Is this writer from the "All Rock music sucks unless it's from 1968-1971" camp?

mediocre song from the low years of rock 'n' roll?

When were the high years?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

2. High years?

>When were the high years?

Heh heh. Nobody can quite remember them...
:)

[mitchtv]

3. I remember when..

Pat Boone stole Fat Domino's "Blueberry Hill". The day Big Bopper, Richie Valens, and Buddy Holly were lost in a plane crash. The day the music died.the formative years. Is it Allen Freed who first used the term Rock n roll?.the concerts in the Panhandle. THE Avalon ballroom and Fillmore. The Rock n Roll shows at the Brooklyn and NY Paramount's

[Hand]

5. Wow....

Do you remember the battle of Bunker Hill, too? :silly:

You're right about Alan Freed, BTW. I remember that, too. Bob Dole and I were swapping war stories at the time... or was it Sergeant York???

[Robin Hood]

4. lol.

hehe

[JI7]

6. mcdermott defended kerry on the congressional floor

that day when republicans violated the rules by attacking a senator by name on the congressional floor.they attacked his protesting the war and voting against some weapons systems. mcdermott got up and brought up bush never showing up and other things bush did. the republicans pretty much shut up after that.

[progressivebydesign]

7. I SO wanted to see Kerry in Seattle!

But it was raining cats and dogs on this side of the Puget Sound, and the Tacoma Narrows Bridge just would not cooperate with me that morning! :cry: