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[Stephanie]

To party with the Chimp. I just don't get it.











Article: The arts are the stars at Kennedy Center gala

[InvisibleBallots]

1. hey, it's just politics!

Just because they are on the opposite side doesn't mean they can't put their difference aside and celebrate a Skull & Bones reunion or whatever. Hey, Edwards is even in the Bilderbergers now, he's stepping up!

[ewagner]

2. Is there a story

to go with those photos?

many thanks...........

[Stephanie]

7. link added to first post n/t

.

[Rockerdem]

27. I hope Hillary wasn't there.

I hope she stayed away. That would send a message that she was doing things differently, and isn't partying with the enemy.

[bryant69]

3. It's hollywood. Depressing, but the way things go.

'Course I'd be interested to know if they talked and if so what they said.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[demnan]

4. Everybody who's anybody in D.C.

goes to the Kennedy Center Awards. It's kindof an "inside the beltway" thing.

Of course I've never gone, but I'm not anybody. :)

[Stephanie]

10. well it's the "inside the beltway" thing that disgusts me

it's sickening

[Rockerdem]

26. Me too

I can understand perfunctory graciousness at tradition state functions (like politely clapping at the SOTU address). That lends stability to the government over the years, regardless who wins. But hobnobbing with fascists at parties, banquents, and awards affairs where attendance is voluntary is too much. It gives ratification to the agenda of the enemy, and says "hey, these guys aren't all that bad after all."

What kind of a message does that give to those that poured their guts as footsoldiers in the election a month ago. "Sorry, suckers" is all I hear.

[InvisibleBallots]

31. "sorry suckers"

yep that's exactly what I hear too

[Cookie wookie]

37. "But hobnobbing with fascists at parties, banquents, and awards affairs"

You said it, Rockerdem!

How can we expect the half of the American people who are living in the lie or in denial to wake up if our leaders are acting like it's business (or pleasure) as usual.


At some point they've got to stop and say No: No longer will I have anything to do with these fascist traitors!

Those people have gone so far over the line now, that being anywhere they are smacks of complicity.

[fryguy]

5. wtf is the stepford wife wearing????

is she wrapped in mylar or re-cycled aluminum fish-netting?

[notadmblnd]

14. that would be the draperies from the White House Blue Room

nt

[uppityperson]

22. what's with the blue belt?

Is she reaching out to the blue states? See, I'm a uniter, time to werk together?

[Stephanie]

25. She appears to have it wrapped around her ribcage

That dress is not Empire waist, nor is it belted at the waist. They just wrapped the ribbon around wherever it would fit.

[Blue Wally]

6. It was a national bipartisan celebration

People were being honored. You show up to honor them regardless. Bush didn't necessarily agree with the thoughts of everyone being honored, but as the president, he showed up and did it out of respect. Kerry and Edwards are senators and showed up as well.

[blm]

8. Elizabeth looks great. The party doesn't belong to the dictatortot.

The damn chimp can't take away every tradition and honor.

[Generator]

9. Is that not Elton John standing behind

the Chimp? Who recently just said,"Bush is the worst thing to ever happen to America."

??? Is he being honored? Oh the irony. Elton leave the damn room. No principals nowhere, man. Does anybody have any integrity?

[Generator]

12. Whores for awards

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2004-12-05-kennedy-center_x.htm?csp=34
???

Warren Freaking Beatty???

President Bush and his wife, Laura, sat with the honorees while celebrities toasted and roasted the winners of the nation's highest achievement for the arts. Bush's defeated Democratic rival, Sen. John Kerry, and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, also attended the event.

The irony of a conservative president toasting an openly gay, anti-war rock star (John) and a liberal actor with political aspirations (Beatty) was not lost on the presenters.

Robert Downey Jr. jokingly referred to the flamboyant John as "the other first lady."

[Kazak]

19. Very strange!

:crazy:

[Starlight]

33. "Does anybody have any integrity?"

Just us, apparently. It appears that the rest of the world is for sale to the highest bidder. :grr:

[Sanity Claws]

11. That is one ugly dress.

Pickles appears particularly pasty. (Say real fast three times)

[TexasSissy]

13. This wasn't a Bush event. It was an event that lots of politicians

went to. Very ordinary occurrence.

[Generator]

17. I don't give a crap

I wouldn't be going to any event that honored ME with George W. Bush sitting at my table. But that's just me, an ordinary human being that thinks some things are more important than ME.

[TexasSissy]

53. It was the Kennedy Arts gala. That's like saying...

the artists, many of whom are Dems, shouldn't go to accept their awards because the President, whose policies they disagree with, is going to attend. We are all Americans, and American politicians and artists have to, on occasion, attend events with people whose policies they disagree with. It happens. And it SHOULD happen. I don't want a situation where no politician ever goes to any function or hearing where someone who he doesn't like will be there. That's silly. And you can't live a life or run a country that way.

[Mojambo]

15. Why oh why can't the working class connect with these politicians?

:shrug:

[tjdee]

16. Hasn't Laura worn that horrid thing with the cheapo blue ribbon before?

WHY does she have such bad fashion sense?

Oh, maybe because she uses the same designer as her mother in law who is 23809423790240398423089 years old.

Hot.

[HEAVYHEART]

21. I just noticed that!

That damn ribbon does not go with the dress at all! :wtf:

[tjdee]

24. I KNEW there was another gold dress.

There are, in fact, two very similar gowns. The one with the ribbon (blue, or green?) I can't find, but here is another one.

I don't think older women should wear bows. One thinks of Sally on the Dick Van Dyke show.

[comsymp]

47. Yeah, I remember it, too -

IIRC, the consensus was that the blue thing was her bathrobe belt.

[HEAVYHEART]

18. Those pictures make me sick.

I know I know.. it's politics. I just hate seeing them all happy and shit, with the chimp in the same room. x(

[Pachamama]

20. Sigh, the first few photos of John & Teresa and of Elizabeth & John, are

what I pictured for January 20th and the inaugural ball photos we would be seeing....

Then I look at the Chimp in Chief and Pickles and I think to myself "How can it be?"

And if I allow myself to have a "People Magazine" moment - WTF is Pickles wearing? It looks like one of those plastic blue ties that you get at the OB GYN office to tie your gown around you while you wait for the Doctor to come back for an exam! (Sorry I couldn't resist - she just does not know how to dress)

[SammyWinstonJack]

23. Life's good among the rich and powerful

Oh and famous. :puke:

[greenbriar]

28. Can't that fughead ever put his hand over his heart

or does he not have a heart???

[SammyWinstonJack]

29. You answered your own question

:evilgrin:

[donheld]

30. i'd like to kick you in the nuts

why for do you have to post pictures of * do you like looking at him?

[Stephanie]

32. donny, donny, donny...

I don't have any nuts!

[slutticus]

38. LOL

OK. That made me laugh. And I needed it after seeing those pics.

[graywarrior]

34. No need to applaud, just rattle your jewels

They have "functions" and we're all dopes in the dope show.

[T.Heinz-Kerry]

35. I tried to bring in some squeeze packs to step on at em!!

Just kidding but that woulda been perfect!!

[ebayfool]

44. Now that paints a picture, would be fun! n/t

[Stephanie]

49. Mrs. Kerry! How nice of you to drop by!

Love the white dress, and how did you enjoy seeing Laura again?

[Booster]

36. For God's sake, people; these are the Kennedy Lifetime

Achievement Awards. The Chimp just happens to be the pResident at this time and that's unfortunate, but would you really turn down this award, or not go in support of the people receiving it? I'm sure most, if not all, of these people wish Kerry were sitting where the Chimp is, but to turn down the award or not support the people who receive it wouldn't accomplish anything - do you really think the Chimp would give a shit if you decided not to show up to spite him? Give all of these people a break on this one.

[BurtWorm]

39. Why not send letters of congratulations?

Look at how evil that bastard looks in the box. He gives me the creeps.

[paulk]

40. party with the Chimp?

They attended a DC function that Bush also attended...
That's not "partying with the Chimp."

DU has just gone off the deep end lately.
What a waste of bandwidth.

[Stephanie]

50. Dear Paul

Lighten up.

[paulk]

51. dear stephanie

I'm sick of the constant Dem bashing lately here on DU.

I just don't get it.

We are are own worst enemies, and it's why we lose elections.

[Stephanie]

52. Well if you see my post as Dem bashing you are quite sensitive

If they had asked me, I would prefer that Kerry and Edwards appear in Ohio to fight for my vote. Or at the Conyers hearing tomorrow. Or Volusia County. But instead they opted to put on black tie and clap for Bush in his Presidential box. I guess good sportsmanship doesn't mean that much to me in the face of fascism. If it were me I think I would have come down with the flu that night.

I still support Kerry. I'm still sporting his pic. But I'm also still in a rage and I wonder why he isn't.

Also, Laura looks like a Christmas tree, which I thought everyone should see. I guess you are not that into bad fashion.

[medeak]

41. can anyone say Elisabeth looks great?

think that's a wig...but she looks terrific.

[HEAVYHEART]

46. I think that IS a wig.

But she looks beautiful in it..

[saracat]

42. And don't forget Elton!

[Used and Abused]

43. Instead of partying w Bush, he should be fighting to get the votes counted

Why is Kerry partying when he should be making sure that all of our votes are counted? Anybody But Kerry, 2008!

[PopSixSquish]

45. It's the Kennedy Center Honors

That's the John F. Kennedy Center in case anyone missed it

Link -

http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/specialevents/honors/

Past honorees
http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/specialevents/honors/history/home.html

Should Kerry/Edwards never show up to something in Washington again where Republicans might be? That's going to be a little hard to do.

[Xipe Totec]

48. Quit clouding the issue with facts

:evilgrin: