Reply #1: Oh geez, found another one

[LittleClarkie]

Like a little campaign chronicle. What do you guys think. Can I get away with these in GD? This one was called: Kerry Fair Report, part deux

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I went back to the State Fair today, to see how the Democrat
Party booth was doing and to see if I could help. It was Veteran
Day at the Wisconsin State Fair, and the booth was full of
Veterans for Kerry. I'm happy to say that this time the Democrat
booth was quite stocked with buttons and bumper stickers, both
Kerry/Edwards and Veterans for Kerry. I bought $10 worth at 50
cents a piece. I wanted a t-shirt too, intending to add "Family of"
to the Veterans for John Kerry slogan, but they were in relatively
short supply, so I didn't press the issue. They should go to actual
veterans.

It was interesting to see the Vets for Kerry by the other veterans
booths in the middle of the fair. They hadn't been invited to set up
a booth, so they were congregated right by one of the booths that
had a ton and a half of anti-Kerry literature, mostly relating to his
anti-war stance and his work in normalizing US/Vietnam
relations. They were an enthusiastic and friendly bunch, happily
shaking my offered hand and talking about what Kerry had done
to save lives with his efforts to end the war sooner. Some were
older, some were clean cut, a couple others where quite the
psychedelic relics in action.

I also wandered over to the Republican booth, which was
stocked to the gills with all manner of yard signs, t-shirts, buttons
and the like. I picked out a "No Flip/Flops in the White House"
button and put it next to my Kerry one. Alittle later on, I wandered
over again to see if the booth had any issue papers on Bush. No,
not really. Just one brochure, which I took. The Kerry booth at
least excelled in that regard. They had literature on Kerry's
stance on veteran issues, health care, the economy and such.

On this second visit, the person manning the booth noticed my
buttons. "Hey wait a minute! You've got a Kerry button and a
flip/flop button! What are you doing, fence-sitting?" I commented
that Kerry was not the flip/flopper I was referring to. I wish I would
have had my list of Bush flip/flops to rattle off, but I didn't, so I left
it at that. I won't be doing that again until I'm more prepared to
back it up. Even so, I loved the reaction I got. Definitely an
attention getter, and using their own button, too. Hee hee!

In other news, anyone else feel like they're going to have an ulcer
by November? I do. I'm not used to this stuff. I'd better pace
myself, emotion-wise, or I'm never gonna make it.

Little Clarkie, reporting for duty

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