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Bush forsakes Longhorns for Johnnies
That’s why President Bush apparently has switched his loyalty from the University of Texas Longhorns in favor of a small college football team in Minnesota, a once reliably Democratic state that he has high hopes of winning this year.
| A man’s gotta do what he’s gotta do, especially when he’s running for a second term in the White House. That’s why President Bush apparently has switched his loyalty from the University of Texas Longhorns in favor of a small college football team in Minnesota, a once reliably Democratic state that he has high hopes of winning this year. |
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| “Hitler does better among Jewish voters than Zell Miller does among Democrats.” — Pollster Frank Luntz, explaining the fierce negative reaction of John Kerry supporters in a focus group he conducted during Tuesday night’s debate when Vice President Cheney mentioned the Democratic senator from Georgia The team is the Fighting Johnnies of St. John’s University, a school that claims Rep. Mark Kennedy (R-Minn.) as an alumnus. Kennedy joined Bush on the stage at a Sept. 16 rally at a baseball stadium in St. Cloud, Minn., a few miles from the St. John’s campus, along with Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) and John Gagliardi, coach of the Johnnies. Gagliardi, who last year became the winningest coach in the history of college football when his team won the national small-college championship, met Bush last fall when he was honored, along with a group of other NCAA championship athletes, at a White House ceremony. He was leaving the stadium after the rally when two Secret Service agents intercepted him and escorted him to the bus Bush was riding in. “He came out and greeted me,” Gagliardi told The Hill. “He thanked me for being there and asked me how our season was going, and said he hopes we win another national title. He was very cordial, and I was very impressed.” Gagliardi said he told Bush that after winning his first national title at St. John’s in 1976, the Benedictine monk who was president of the university told him, “‘John, we love you.’ When I said what if we lose, he said, ‘John, we’ll still love you, but we’ll miss you.’ The president said it works the same way in politics.” Goss’s stance on Haiti: Less military, more humanitarian Former Rep. Sam Gibbons gets ready to wed again Sen. Hollings: I’d vote against my own bill Helen Dewar’s admirers line up for her retirement reception Fact-check this: Web site sets it straight Maybe Vice President Cheney should have done a better job of fact-checking before his debate with Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.). Responding to Edwards’s criticism of his former employer, Halliburton, Cheney suggested viewers consult the web site “factcheck.com,” which he said was “an independent website sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania, [where] you can get the specific details, with respect to Halliburton. ... There’s no substance to the charges.” Cheney apparently was referring to factcheck.org, a site run by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, which points out misleading and erroneous claims made by both campaigns. The Annenberg site pointed out that Cheney got its name wrong “and wrongly implied that we had rebutted allegations Edwards was making about what Cheney had done as chief executive officer of Halliburton.” “In fact,” the site continued, “we did post an article pointing out that Cheney hasn’t profited personally while in office from Halliburton’s Iraq contracts, as falsely implied by a Kerry TV ad. But Edwards was talking about Cheney’s responsibility for earlier Halliburton troubles. And in fact, Edwards was mostly right.” To be fair, the site also noted Edwards had “implied that Cheney was in charge of the company when it did business with Libya in violation of U.S. sanctions, but that happened long before Cheney joined the company." Geoff Earle and Josephine Hearn contributed to this page. |
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