In Lansing, apple confiscated as threat to Vice President!

[iconoclastic cat]

Here:

http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/news/071604_NW_da_elex.html

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Despite some rumblings from within the Republican party, every indication is that Cheney will remain on the ticket. It was a kinder, gentler Cheney at a Lansing rally. He was accompanied by his wife and Sen. John McCain.

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On a personal note, the United States Secret Service examined my briefcase on the way in. I was carrying, among other things, an apple and a banana.

They confiscated the apple, saying I could have thrown it at the vice president. But the banana made it through.
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I'd want the banana anyway.

[Rose Siding]

1. Cheney's afraid of apples but *dems* are girly men?

[mermaid]

2. Hmmmm....

I mighta asked WHY they even thought someone might wanna throw an apple at Cheney? could it be because he's such an asshole?

[Ganja Ninja]

3. I guess bananas are a conservative friendly fruit.

or only terrorists eat apples.

[Norquist Nemesis]

4. Bananas and Chimps

go together. But it's an apple a day that keeps the doctor away. It must be an SS conspiracy to get rid of Cheney.

[havocmom]

5. They have AMD! We must invade with the full force of the United States

and make Lansing safe from the pectin menace! Call out the Guard! There is fruit salad to be made!

So, are they gonna start making people go naked to see/hear the Chicken Hawk in Chief and his pet primate pretend president from now on?

[merh]

6. So, a banana cannot be thrown?

Seems to me it could be thrown like a bomarang or a ninja star???
How strange

An apple a day keeps the doctor away -

[AirAmFan]

7. Secret Service agents get hungry too!