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Mistakes Were Made
Rich Galen Tuesday July 27, 2004
From Boston, Massachusetts
The Democratic National Convention
Mistakes get made at national conventions. Let me share a few of them with you today:
First: As 27,359 of you e-mailed me to point out, Senator Abraham Ribicoff did not represent Massachusetts. He was a Senator from Connecticut. I knew that. It slipped through.
Second: The Washington Post, posted the following headline yesterday, July 27, 2004, proclaiming its special section on the 2004 Democratic National Convention:
Notice anything at all wrong with the year in that headline?
Third: Sunday night Theresa Heinz Rodham Kerry was giving a speech to a bunch of supporters. After the speech a reporter from a conservative newspaper outside of Pittsburgh (site of Ms. Heinz Rodham Kerry's plantation) asked her if she had, indeed, called her husband's political opponents "Unamerican," she told him to - and this is a quote - "Shove it."
The speech, and I am not making this up, the speech was on "civility."
Senator Kerry, when asked what he thought, said, "I think my wife speaks her mind appropriately." Observers here believe Senator Kerry may have recently re-read the pre-nup.
I want to sell tickets to the debate between Theresa Heinz Rodham Kerry and � Dick Cheney.
Fourth: Kerry's handlers thought it would be a swell idea to have him drop in at Fenway Park Sunday night to throw out the first pitch:
Reporters were told they couldn't tell their editors the plane diverting from its trip to Florida for security purposes. That was what reporters were told on the trip with President Bush last Thanksgiving.
Thus the Kerry campaign found a security equivalence between traveling to Boston and traveling to Baghdad. And the press corps bought into it.
Kerry's pitch, according to the Boston Globe, "came up short, skidding into the dirt before home plate and bouncing off the chest of his catcher, 23-year-old Massachusetts National Guardsman Will Pumyea."
He was booed.
Fifth: Kerry's own Little Buddy, John "Gilligan" Edwards, has decided to return some $44,000 in questionable campaign contributions. Why is this a mistake? Because he didn't decide to do it until now when he knows every contribution from every trial lawyer to every one of his campaigns will be scrutinized.
Someone much wiser than I once said, "Integrity is doing the right thing even when nobody's looking."
Obviously, Edwards thought doing the right thing about those donations was somewhat less important when nobody was looking.
Fourth: The Democratic Party spent yesterday morning explain some comments by the wife of Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack in an op-ed piece written several years ago in which she said:
"I am fascinated by the way some African-Americans speak to each other in an English I struggle to understand."
From the Boston Herald, "Vilsack wrote that southerners seem to have "slurred speech," and "the only way I can speak like residents of Pennsylvania and New Jersey is to let my drjaw drop an inch and talk with my mouth in an 'O' like a fish."
Mrs. Vilsack, by the way, will be speaking to Convention delegates, some of whom are from the South, some are from New Jersey, and some are of Color. For those who are from Pennsylvania, and might feel miffed about that fish-mouth thing, we wonder whether Mrs. Heinz Rodham Kerry will tell them to � you know.
Finally, Christy Vilsack's husband was introduced by Rosa DeLauro, Congresswoman from Connecticut (not, as you might have thought, Massachusetts), during the opening session DeLauro mispronounced Governor Vilsack's name, and said he was not from Iowa, but from Ohio. People from Connecticut. Can't unnerstan' a thing they say.
To misquote a memorable line from the movie "Cool Hand Luke." Still shovin' it, boss.
On the Secret Decoder Ring Page today: The Catchy Caption of the YEAR and another batch of Mullfotos from Boston.
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