January 27, 2004

Senator who? We're trying to bowl here!!
Dave Barry is so reliably hilarious!
He's reporting on the Dimocrat primary in N.H. (sort of) and his coverage of a John Edwards campaign event at a bowling alley--of all places!--is too funny for words!
This definitely needs a Dave Barry "I am not making this up!" although it's funny if he is.. or if he isn't!

Into this festive scene surged Sen. Edwards, whose campaign theme is that he is going to bring America together. He stood on a platform and gave a speech, surrounded by a dense crowd of media and applauding supporters. About 25 feet away, outside the crowd, the bowlers offered their rebuttal. It was a weird kind of stereo: In one ear, I'd hear Sen. Edwards explaining how he would provide economic opportunity to all Americans; in the other ear, I'd hear: "OUR WHOLE NIGHT IS RUINED! YOU DON'T GIVE A (bad word) ABOUT US!''

But Sen. Edwards soldiered on, finishing his speech on a high note, with the crowd chanting, ''Edwards! Edwards!'' while the public-address-system person, caught up in the candidate's vision for America, announced that the police had arrived and nonbowlers had to leave the building NOW. So Sen. Edwards did not attempt to bowl, which was fortunate, as he does not yet have Secret Service protection.

As the crowd dispersed, I overheard this exchange between an Edwards volunteer and a bowler:

Bowler: Go Bush. You guys suck.

Volunteer: You shouldn't generalize. We don't ALL suck.

Bowler: Yeah, you do.

That's what's so great about the primaries: people talking about issues.

Mr. Bowler, I love you and Dave, too.
Go Bush--the Democrats do suck; look at some of their antics of late:
HOWARD LASHES OUT AT CYBER 'SMEAR CAMPAIGN'
The Donk candidate who was supposedly "made" by the Internet is now seemingly undone by it in the Granite State.
And check out the pranks by "Dean campaigners:"

Dean also said the same thing is happening over the phone, with callers introducing themselves as Dean supporters and screaming into the phone.

Sounds like teenage or preteens and is it any wonder they'd do this after Hollerin' Howard's "I have a scream" speech in Iowa?
Then, there's "Mr. Gandhi" Al Franken with the Dean campaign who body-slammed a Lyndon Larouche supporter from behind supposedly in defense of "freedom of speech" and hitting the man so hard, Franken broke his glasses:
AL FRANKEN KNOCKS DOWN DEAN HECKLER
Sounds like the campaign is getting as crazy as the candidates!
Maybe this will be fun after all.