Kerry Saves Hamsters - Bush Blows Up Frogs

[soleft]

Isn't there something in the bible about "How you treat the least of these is how you treat me"

[22181]

1. Can someone relate the hamster story? I missed seeing the girls' speech...

[soup]

2. here's the text-

It's great to be here tonight. It hasn't been easy to sift through years of memories about my father and find those few that might best tell you who John Kerry really is. Let me just begin with one July day when Vanessa and I were kids. It's a silly story, but it's true, and it's one of my favorite memories of my father.

We were standing on a dock waiting for a boat to take us on a summer trip. Vanessa, the scientist, had packed all her animals including her favorite hamster. Our overzealous golden retriever got tangled in his leash and knocked the hamster cage off the dock. We watched as Licorice, the unlucky hamster bubbled down to a watery doom. That might have been the end of the story. But my dad jumped in, grabbed an oar, fished the cage from the water, hunched over the soggy hamster and began to administer CPR. There were some reports of mouth-to-mouth, but, I admit that's probably a trick of memory. He was never quite right after that, but Licorice lived. Like I said, it may sound silly. We still laugh about it today.

full text here:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/9276352.htm?1c

on edit: It was much better actually viewing her speech than reading the text. Don't know if there's a video.

[Catch22Dem]

3. Hampster in a cage

Falls in the lake (or some other body of water) Kerry jumps in. Pulls the cage back up. CPR on hampster. Hampster lives.

[22181]

4. That is DAMN funny, thanks! :-D

[jackstraw45]

11. And for the Bush side....

"In a May 21, 2000, New York Times' puff piece about the values Bush gained growing up in Midland, Texas, Nicholas D. Kristof quoted Bush's childhood friend Terry Throckmorton: "'We were terrible to animals,' recalled Mr. Throckmorton, laughing. A dip behind the Bush home turned into a small lake after a good rain, and thousands of frogs would come out. 'Everybody would get BB guns and shoot them,' Mr. Throckmorton said. 'Or we'd put firecrackers in the frogs and throw them and blow them up.'"

http://www.serendipity.li/wot/conover01.htm

[joycep]

5. I don't think these things are in * Bible

Apparently the pugs have an entirely different Bible from the rest of us. Maybe written by satan!

[vetwife]

6. That scripture is in the bible but don't think it was referring to hamster

Least meaning poor people, etc.

[Reciprocity]

7. THE HAMSTER DANCE

http://www.oceanbluepools.com/hamster/

[slinkerwink]

8. woohoo!

[nolajazz]

9. I love your poster!

[slinkerwink]

10. thanks!

:-)

[Th1onein]

12. Whatsoever you do to the least of my little ones you do it unto me ...

Bush reminds me, physically, of Ted Bundy. And, I believe that the man truly is a sociopath.