Hollywood Stars Turn Out for Kerry
That's what the L.A. Times says, anyway. Last night's event in Los Angeles was a financial success, netting $5 million for Kerry's campaign. Still, it didn't do much for the Democrats' reputation as hipsters. Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond performed a duet, singing "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" for the Dems' heavy hitters:
Wow, that's a pretty hard act to top. Maybe the Republicans could get Frankie Valli and Petula Clark to sing "Feelings" at their next event.
Streisand soloed, too, singing "People"--for our younger readers, that's a song she recorded about forty years ago--but with new, really clever lyrics:
Rumsfeld, we must get rid of Rumsfeld/He's the spookiest person in the world…. This war we're lost in/Don't ask what it's costing/What's a trillion or two to rule the world?
That'll sway some votes for sure. Only someone better tell Bush to cancel that sovereignty handover.
The night consisted of the usual Bush-bashing, to an extent that apparently embarrassed Kerry. The Times reports:
At the end of the concert, Kerry sought to end the evening on a more positive note. While agreeing there is much frustration with the Bush administration, he added: "We're not just motivated by the things we don't like. We're motivated by the things we love."
Yes, like power.
Reuters reports that the Bush camp has responded to the latest madness by putting out a new video that attacks Kerry's "Coalition of the Wild-Eyed." Reuters seemed somewhat mystified:
The implication the Bush campaign appeared to be trying to leave was that some of the main boosters of Kerry's presidential campaign are filled with rage and perhaps a bit kooky.
The Bush ad includes a brief clip from a MoveOn.org video in which an image of Adolf Hitler morphs into President Bush. The Kerry campaign seized on this for a bizarre retort to Bush's ad: "The Kerry campaign said it was 'unfortunate that George Bush thinks it's appropriate to display images of Adolf Hitler on his Web Site.'"
No word on how Kerry feels about MoveOn and its anti-Bush ads.
