Comedian Al Franken makes pitch for Kerry

[JoFerret]

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/9647166.htm

OTTUMWA, Iowa - Comedian and liberal radio talk-show host Al Franken launched into his trademark biting satire as he staged a pre-emptive campaign stop on John Kerry's behalf a day before Vice President Dick Cheney is to appear in the same southeastern Iowa town.

"He's going to announce tomorrow that if Iowa goes for Kerry, al-Qaida will hit Ottumwa with a nuke," Franken said in a telephone interview with the Associated Press. "He'll say that increased chatter says that if Kerry wins, terrorists will hit Iowa, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, Florida and any state in which the Democrats pick up a Senate seat."

Cheney told supporters in Des Moines last Tuesday that, if Kerry were elected, the United States was in danger of getting hit by another terrorist attack. The vice president sought to clarify his remarks on Friday, saying in an interview published in The Cincinnati Enquirer: "Whoever is elected president has to anticipate more attacks."

Franken, a Minnesota native, spoke before about 200 people from a city park gazebo in the heavily blue collar community with a Cargill meatpacking plant and a John Deere farm implement factory.

Southeastern Iowa counties have some of the state's highest unemployment numbers, and Franken assailed the Bush administration's job record.
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[Pirate Smile]

1. AQ is coming for the swing states, damn it, if you don't vote right.

[olddem43]

2. Oh my god! - I live in one of those. Will they especially target

Dem neighborhoods? Or is it possible they will go after individual
Kerry voters? We are all very afraid now. Thanks for the warning Unca Dick.

[2Design]

3. Yes BushCo Terrorist will target dem neighborhoods to make

sure they get no money, jobs, or other 'goodies' - all of those will only go to rethugs

[Sputnik]

5. Tbogg had the funniest translation yet of Cheney's remark

"Nice country you got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it."

Does anyone doubt that's what he was really saying?

Cheney him. He's a Dick.

[Born Free]

7. I'm voting for Kerry and got severe diarrhea

I nver put the two together, I was wrongly blaming the Chemotherapy, but now I know, it's from supporting Kerry

[Rose Siding]

4. "We'd all be hunter gatherers"

Oh, man. That guy can crack me up.

[DeepModem Mom]

6. kick

[DaveSZ]

8. Vote Kerry, get herpes!