Bush has declined to speak at this year’s NAACP convention, just like he has done every year since becoming president. This makes him the first president since Herbert Hoover to not attend an NAACP convention. What an idiot! What kind of message does he thinks this sends? Don’t you think, in an election year, that he would be trying to appeal to as many people as possible? Of course, Kerry will be speaking at the convention next Thursday.
Archive for July 8th, 2004
IMDB news is reporting this lovely little tidbit:
Pop princess Britney Spears is refusing to sign a pre-nuptial agreement before she weds fiance Kevin Federline, because she’s “marrying him for love and not money”. According to American website Pagesix.Com, the singer’s parents are begging her to agree to a pre-nup ahead of her planned November wedding to dancer Federline - who, under California law, stands to win half her fortune if they divorce. The website claims Spears, who is worth a reported $100 million, had to buy her own $400,000 engagement ring and has put penniless Federline - who she has dated for just three months - on her payroll. Spears’ mum Lynne is also reportedly upset with the singer, because she told her assistant about the engagement before her. According to PageSix, Spears yelled at her mother, “This is my life, let me live it.”
Ummm, sweetie - you’re not marrying him for money because HE DOESN’T HAVE ANY.
AlterNet has a great article by (gulp) Arianna Huffington of all people (those of you who know me well know how I feel about this woman. Nonetheless, a good article) about why John Edwards is the perfect choice to complete the Democratic ticket. I think this will be great.
As Edwards put it during his presidential run (and will no doubt repeat many times now that he has a much bigger megaphone), “2004 is a make-or-break election because we need to create one America again. And that is the one thing George Bush will never do. Dividing us into two Americas – one privileged, the other burdened – has been his agenda all along.” If it wasn’t obvious in 2000, it certainly is now.
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Edwards has made a very successful career out of eating folks like Dick Cheney for lunch in courtrooms all across America. He’ll know exactly how to wield Halliburton like a stiletto. I give Cheney 30 minutes before he drops his first F-bomb. I can’t wait.
