Campaigning Presiential Candidates Kissing Babies....how did this start?

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I know it's an age-old cliche, but it's just such a shallow pose. And it's not just Dubya above, of course. Presidential hopefulls have been posing for photo ops with screaming infants probably since the days of Chester A. Arthur. I don't get it. Who buys this stuff? It just seems like an utter sham and a monumental waste of time.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:08 (twenty-two years ago)

They got the idea from those Nirvana shirts.

― LC, Friday, 12 March 2004 05:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Kissing babies vs. killing babies (live on TV during the convention and debates).

"I propose solve poverty via the methods of Jonathan Swift, and I've asked Emeril to help show America how."

"First a friccasee! Then BAM! Kick it up a notch!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Want some ribs?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Baby back. LITERALLY.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Although now I have the image of Justin and JC and their cohorts on that damned desert isle eating babies and getting crushed by plane drops of dead infants.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:23 (twenty-two years ago)

worst connection ever

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Fear Factor N*SYNC.

"Okay, you've got to round up these babies and eat them raw."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)

http://slithytoveland.com/media/pictures/bush_dog.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Take a bite out of crime.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:26 (twenty-two years ago)

google image searching "john kerry baby" led to this page: http://www.roswell-record.com/archives/010303/news03.html

― Stuart (Stuart), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:27 (twenty-two years ago)

That's some kinda genius. I like the idea Kerry is holding an invisible baby in his hand.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)

iron that shirt and change your tie plz!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Perhaps the invisible baby piddled on it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:30 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.royal-ts.de/mtarchives/upload/bushchasingdog.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Now to make him dance as on this thread.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I so hope there's a Chistopher Walken out there waiting to pull a The Dead Zone scenario forcing Bush to snatch a baby to guard him from the bullet.

(ok, maybe not.. but you see my point)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:34 (twenty-two years ago)

in other news

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"hmmm, maybe he could make my boots that shiny!"

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Ok seriously though, that photo could have been taken way out of context..

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean, does anyone have the videotape of this? Otherwise...

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:42 (twenty-two years ago)

he did that to sonny perdue too so i'm pretty sure it's just a standard 'haha - somebody ain't got no hair!' joke. i'm actually picturing every cabinet meeting starting with condi all eager beaver to get to something and bush 'ok but first...c'mere mr. clean!' and then rubbing cheney's head, making the 'squeaky squeaky' sound, pretending to check his teeth in the reflection, etc. EVERY DAY. and then colin powell just starts banging his head onto the table.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I think you just described every episode of That's My Bush!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:49 (twenty-two years ago)

When Ari Fleischer resigned, Bush kissed his head and there was a bunch of shit about Bush being the "imperialist king bestowing his affection to the humble servant."

― Stuart (Stuart), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Was there? That's hilarious. link?

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:53 (twenty-two years ago)

(it might be now in a long lost blog, granted)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't find a picture of that but I did find this:

http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Spring03/Martin/ariandgeorgewcap.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:56 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff05212003.html

http://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2003/05/ari_fleischer_r.html

http://www.topdog04.com/000170.html

― Stuart (Stuart), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:57 (twenty-two years ago)

god i just thought of an awful joke

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone remember the big hoo-ha over Bush Sr.'s "The brown ones" line?

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:00 (twenty-two years ago)

A second thought: That wonderful kiss on the head Ari had bestowed by Bush when he said he was leaving. You have to love the imagery there. There's something marvelously feudalistic about it: the monarch bestowing a token of his affection on the obsequious servant who has repeatedly defiled himself defending the honor of his sovereign. Somehow, one can't picture the Bush, with his new imperial pretentions, hugging or shaking hands with a second tier aide like Fleischer in such a moment.

hahahaha, jesus.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:01 (twenty-two years ago)

At least the new speaker goes straight to cocksucking, no metaphors needed.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:11 (twenty-two years ago)

http://archive.aclu.org/graphics/knussman_baby.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:16 (twenty-two years ago)

god chix just luvved him didn't they?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"mmmmm, if only we added a '2' next to your age"

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:27 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gallerym.com/pixs/photogs/pulitzer/images/boris_yeltsin_russian_elections.jpg

sigh.. if only in the U.S.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:29 (twenty-two years ago)

are you actually forgetting gore doing the macarena?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Apparently I did! (not surprisingly, given that it was GORE!)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:31 (twenty-two years ago)

pffft ... boris yeltsin dancing w/ ninotchkas is so 1999.

i wanna see putin shakin' it with tAtU.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i swear i'm starting to turn into joe klein in regards to clinton lately

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:40 (twenty-two years ago)

although god knows i'm not the only american who misses the fucker

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I miss the guy.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean, he was eloquent and whip-smart and we had relative peace and prosperity under his administration. What's not to like?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:44 (twenty-two years ago)

He looked at infants with lust in his eyes, apparently.

― Sym (shmuel), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:45 (twenty-two years ago)

:-)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Clinton was a Reaganist, in the sense that he somehow got the press to love him. As far as relative peace & prosperity.. I mean, Iraq bombings? OK City? Waco? Bosnia?...

I don't miss Clinton as much as the very happy go-lucky years he was lucky enough to preside over and be associated with.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Clinton was a Reaganist, in the sense that he somehow got the press to love him.

eh? what were you doing in 1998?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I also forgot a minor thing called the WTO protests, too.

And Clinton was a terror when it came to digital rights.. Thank him for the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Seven years out of eight were pretty good. Even Reagan got grilled one year out of his eight.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:54 (twenty-two years ago)

i mean, i can see yer points wr2 the other stuff ... and no-one's saying that clinton was perfect. but i REALLY don't see yer contention that clinton somehow made the press like him.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:55 (twenty-two years ago)

As far as relative peace & prosperity.. I mean, Iraq bombings? OK City? Waco? Bosnia?...

I did say "relative," remember.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Seven years out of eight were pretty good.

i remember it being more like eight-of-eight when it came to the press's bashing him (or giving a forum to allow folks to bash him non-stop).

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:57 (twenty-two years ago)

how much more relative is all that, really? I'm not saying I agree more with Bush's reasons for his warmongering actions as opposed to Clinton's necessarily. But to say the Clinton years were "relatively peaceful" is a bit of a stretch. Maybe peaceful in the sense that no one in America was really getting killed or worried about their lives being in danger (which is a situation that no president could have avoided on September 11th, 2001)

Eisbar: i could equally argue that Reagan was bashed 8 out of 8 years too, if I linked to the convenient stories to support that. My point being.. Clinton was a populist, similar in technique to Reagan. Not exactly. But similar.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:01 (twenty-two years ago)

To add to the first paragraph though, while Americans felt safe during the Clinton years, the same brewing tension in the world that eventually brought on 9/11 was well on its way during the Clinton years too. Terrorists trained for 9/11 during the Clinton years in fact, using trial runs of flying on the analogous flights in question. (True fact apparently, actor James Woods was on one of those flights!)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:04 (twenty-two years ago)

(which is a situation that no president could have avoided on September 11th, 2001)

Well one could raise that argument that the exiting Clinton Administration gave the incoming Bush Admininstration more than enough evidence to suggest that terrorism was going to be their biggest priority....information that the chose not to act on. As a result, you had upwards of 3,000 deaths on Bush's watch.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:06 (twenty-two years ago)

there's bashing and then there's bashing ... granted, i was a teenager during the reagan years and accordingly had other things on my mind, but i really don't remember the media giving big-time coverage to (a) rumors about allegedly shady real estate deals; (b) rumors about infidelity and love-children; (c) murdering political opponents; or (d) the left-wing equivalents of the wingnut poo-tossers who infested just about EVERY news and political show from 1993-2001.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:08 (twenty-two years ago)

You could argue that, but you could easily lose that argument. No one can prove that. If they were training during the Clinton years, and had Gore won and continued the Clinton legacy, I have a feeling 9/11 would have still happened. That's just my opinion though.

Granted, Bush's connections with Osama do make the argument more interesting...

Then again, Osama was still trying to cause damage during Clinton's tenure, if you remember the first attempt at the World Trade Center.

Well, at least you admit to not remembering things like, oh, the Iran-Contra scandal and many other things that Reagan miraculous escaped from in regards to his popularity. I can tell you though, there was definitely a small period of very anti-Reagan press.. even frivilous shit like their whole deal with astrology or whatever. Political cartoonists never had a better time in history.

Clinton and Monica was just a "too much too late" situation, since Clinton couldn't rerun for office anyway. If he could, Clinton probably would have easily smashed Bush Jr. in the 2000 election.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:14 (twenty-two years ago)

um db, osama didn't merely try to cause damage during clinton's tenure, he did cause damage. 9/11 just represented the first time al qaeda managed to kill americans on american soil. they killed plenty with the khobar towers bombings and the embassy bombings before that.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:16 (twenty-two years ago)

you are right, indeed. change "trying to cause" to "caused". Brainfart.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I don't really think the parties responsible really gave a damn who was in the White House at the time. We could've had Ruth Buzzy in the Oval Office, and they'd still have carried out their mission. But, once again, it was on Bush's watch....and there are those nagging remaning questions about Bush's ties with the Saudis and his continued determination to impede the investigation into the events of that day.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:18 (twenty-two years ago)

plus the cole bombing which happened less than a month before the election (and yet terrorism still wasn't an issue)

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:20 (twenty-two years ago)

We could've had Ruth Buzzy in the Oval Office, and they'd still have carried out their mission.

True, but then her address to the nation would have been a hearty "HEY YOU GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUYS" and Secretary of State Morgan Freeman would bring it on.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:45 (twenty-two years ago)

and spiderman would be mute for some reason

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:47 (twenty-two years ago)

that's rita moreno, not ruth buzzi.

― seventiescomediennesbär (llamasfur), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:48 (twenty-two years ago)

killjoy!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:48 (twenty-two years ago)

and spiderman would be mute for some reason

But dude, that 'schWANG-WA-WA-WA-WA' sound. (Which now that I think about it must have been what John Holmes thought was his personal sound effect whenever he burst forth, resplendent.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:49 (twenty-two years ago)

whatever HAPPENED to rita moreno, anyway? and is ruth buzzi still ALIVE, even?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Speaker of the House, MUMMENSHANZ!

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:50 (twenty-two years ago)

i just remember being so pissed with the spiderman stuff on electric co. - they made him a fucking mute and then there was the song: "nobody knows who you are!!!" everybody knows who spiderman is, he's fucking peter parker.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:51 (twenty-two years ago)

rita moreno was on oz.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:51 (twenty-two years ago)

The worst part were all those villians. Scooby-Doo could have beaten them up.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:52 (twenty-two years ago)

am i remembering wrong or did he spend a great deal of time just trying to get people to figure out what the fuck he wanted? like he was lassie?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:53 (twenty-two years ago)

His spider sense was tingling but wasn't worth a damn. You know, he had much better adventures in the Electric Company Magazine, a fine periodical to which I subscribed at the time.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:54 (twenty-two years ago)

i remember watching the spiderman cartoon in daycare and how we'd all laugh at "IN COLOR" and how in one episode he told some villain (it was in the arctic) he needed to go 'cold turkey' and how we all laffed and laffed and totally got even though we were like six cuz our parents were such druggies. and also becuz he said 'turkey'.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:55 (twenty-two years ago)

God, it's weirder than I remember. Did he actually talk in thought-balloons?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh wait, the cartoon, that's right. And the TV series and...gah.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:57 (twenty-two years ago)

spider man was the LEAST popular cartoon in my grade school!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i remember tvland (before it sucked) showed some electric company marathon hyping up noggin. and watching waaay too much of it.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:59 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah spiderman wasn't exactly the bomb in daycare either, even us six year olds could tell it sucked.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:59 (twenty-two years ago)

It could have been worse.

http://captain-america.us/captainamericatv/captv2.jpg

http://captain-america.us/captainamericatv/captv3.jpg

Thank you, Yor the Hunter/David Ryder from Space Mutiny, for letting us laugh at your stupidities. Again.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:00 (twenty-two years ago)

what cheapskates!!! a fucking motorcycle helmet?!!!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:01 (twenty-two years ago)

wait - is it just a motorcycle helmet in the comic too???

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:02 (twenty-two years ago)

what cheapskates!!! a fucking motorcycle helmet?!!!

The Jabootu vivisection is a worthy one.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:04 (twenty-two years ago)

they used to have this "contest" on channel 5 when i was a wee tot ... they had these bin full of letters after each of the 4 afternoon cartoons. one for spiderman, one for woody woodpecker, one for battle of the planets, and some other one that i can't remember. the letters were written by kids, and the host on channel 5 would take a letter out of a bin in b/w each of the cartoons and read it and the little kid whose letter was read felt so cool cause his letter was read live on channel 5. we used to be dorks at my school, we used to try to guess how many letters were in each bin -- and we figured out that way that spiderman was the lamest of the channel 5 cartoons.

― whytheFUCKdoirememberthis?bär (llamasfur), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:04 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.jabootu.com/images/cap2title.jpg

http://www.jabootu.com/images/capfake2.jpg

http://www.jabootu.com/images/capreal.jpg

And of course Saruman as Gordon Gekko:

http://www.jabootu.com/images/capcorky.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

they don't have those live action kids shows with some dork reading letters from the kids and selling shit in between the cartoons anymore do they?

ned your freaking me out

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:07 (twenty-two years ago)

My job is done! (and I need to get some sleep, good night)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:09 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.70slivekidvid.com/electra/electra2.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Dyna Girl was played by an alien from Close Encounters?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Here's Ruth...

http://www.70slivekidvid.com/lostsaucer/lsfum1.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

BUUUUUUUUUCK

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.70slivekidvid.com/shazam/shzjdtit.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

and we finally get back to the topic of kissing babies. Rooooooorrrww!

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

(GODDAMIT! x-post back to Electra Woman and Dyna Girl.)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:12 (twenty-two years ago)

SHAZAM!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:12 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.70slivekidvid.com/isis/isis.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:13 (twenty-two years ago)

work the shaft

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone please explain this one to me...

http://www.70slivekidvid.com/puff/chips.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Is H.R. Puffnstuff getting arrested for DWI here?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:14 (twenty-two years ago)

shazam! had to be the CHEESIEST show ever.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)

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