Now that things are getting set, I suppose I can stop being so mysterious about The Opportunity. I’ve been invited to join John Kerry and John Edwards onstage when they arrive in Raleigh on Saturday. I’ll be one of a dozen or so veterans who will be greeting them at the airport.
I’ll admit I’ve not been the biggest fan of Kerry. There are lots of issues on which we disagree. I’m not even a registered Democrat. But Kerry has pledged to lead the country back into the fellowship of nations. And I believe America is better off looking for more friends instead of more enemies.
Details of the appearance are still being decided. I have to pass a Secret Service background check (hey, y’all!). And I’m sure there will be lots of waiting on a sweltering airport tarmac.
If things work out, though, I may just meet the next President. And the best part of all is that I won’t have to pay $25,000 to do it.
You’ll be lucky if they don’t haul you off in a straightjacket…. 🙂
… you can also pay to have dinner with Kerry as well.
I don’t much care for that sort of thing no matter who’s doing it, but just pointing out that both parties do.
*sigh* politics…
Tell them “FREE THE WEST RALEIGH THREE”!!! (Jackleg, Froshkiller & Snewf)
Thanks!
You might as well turn in your libertarian party membership card right now. bummer…
Scoot-Dogg
of back when Bob Dole was running for president. I was at the airport the day he arrived and I was working over in the general avaition area in a hanger that was owned by the company I worked for (the T1 was down.. again..) anyway, when Bob got to the airport he stepped out of his modest plane, and I don’t remember what it was only that it was smaller than what Kerry flies around in these days, and got into a car.
Well, as luck would have it something was wrong with the automatic gate so Bob was stuck behind the gate on the tarmac! It was hiarious. I ended up helping some burly guys in suits, along with an airport manager, to bypass the lock on the gate and push the gate back. Then I left. Bob did wave to us as he drove by, though.
The next closest I came to a situtation like that was being stuck in the confusion after Wallace got shot, but that’s a whole other story as we were lost in the first place (and I was quite young and don’t remember it in the first place).
-Greg
If joining the “world community” means being paid off by Saddam like Chirac and the UN, sign me up.
I could use 50 million oil contracts at $12 a barrel right now!
— Wannabee Dictator Coddler
There are a number of reasons why I’ve decided to remain a “small l” libertarian at the moment. When I get a chance, I’ll post about it.
What does that mean, dude? Are you hedging?
Not sure I understand you’re “small l” comment.
You’re a libertarian??? … I used to tell a libertarian ex-friend of mine from L.A., “All Libertarians are are republicans that smoke weed” … I don’t even know you anymore, Mark!!! 😉
GO KERRY/EDWARDS!!!
Matt
Oh, you mean like the Bush family and Saudis making money together? (Oh and aren’t many terrorists from Saudi Arabia?)
-Matt P
He said he was a small-l libertarian. Not a big-L Libertarian, i.e. a member of the Libertarian Party, but just someone who believes in liberty. There’s a difference.
-=jpp=-