I thought these were funny. Friends who went say it was very exciting to hear all the great speakers. These are from the 2 nights and 3 days of the convention. Dean spoke Friday night. Obama was the keynote speaker on Saturday..thus avoiding picking a favorite from the ones running in 08. Edwards was there as well, but I don't see him quoted here.
Remember the GOP slant is obvious in tbe article...but funny never the less.
Republicans are target at Democratic convention
It wasn't exactly open mic night at the Chuckle Hut, but Democrats floated more than a few one-liners aimed at Republicans and President George W. Bush during their convention last week at the Walt Disney World Contemporary Resort.
We went to the convention so you didn't have to, here are a few samples of the Donkey humor:
Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Karen Thurman seized on the Disney motif, saying she met many folks walking into the convention.
"We ran into the former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. You know: Goofy!
"Then I ran into Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff: Pinocchio!
"And even Cruella De Vil, who I ran into when I was checking in, remarked to me that even she couldn't vote for Katherine Harris."
Howard Dean didn't scream, but he did mock President Bush's efforts to boot undocumented aliens from the country.
"I say, if the president can't find a 6-foot-4 Saudi, (Osama Bin Laden), he's not going to find" - we presume he was going to say "undocumented aliens," but he was drowned out by applause.
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama was the main speaker and won the audience over with this opening line as he praised the large conference room filled with party loyalists: "I feel like Katherine Harris. I can't count all the Democrats."
We were busy meeting deadlines and missed this crack from Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, a millionaire who co-founded cellular phone giant Nextel. Courtesy of FL Politics blog: Warner told the crowd in his opening lines to keep their cell phones on. When he heard the rings that most find annoying, he said he heard "ca-ching."
And reporters were also the targets of at least one barb. Gubernatorial candidate Rod Smith was bemoaning the use of standardized tests when he attempted to draw an analogy to the difficult Law School Admissions Test.
"I don't know if you took the LSAT," he said to a roomful of reporters before pausing. "Well, I know you didn't."
Several thousand were there, at least over 2000 in the evenings...and up to 3000 if you include the conferences.
http://www.ocala.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051219/NEWS/212190314/1282/news02Edited to fix link.
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