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donderdag, oktober 23, 2003
Kandidaten pesten
Columnist Andy Borowitz probeert van de brave campagne tot nu toe toch nog iets leuks te maken in zijn eigen column. Ik neem hem maar in zijn geheel over. Dat vult weer lekker en het scheelt een klik naar Time Online:

‘Real Mature’
Tag-team Dems go nasty in Iowa fight

The race for the Democratic presidential nomination took a nasty turn tonight as Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) and Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-MO) were caught keying the car of former Vermont Governor Howard Dean in the parking lot of the town hall in Davenport, Iowa.

THE BRAZEN ACT of vandalism occurred during a candidates’ forum in Davenport, as Kerry and Gephardt took advantage of a long-winded comment by Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) about his humble beginnings to slip out of the town hall building and into the parking lot.

The two mischievous Democratic hopefuls then used their keys to make disfiguring white scratches the length of Gov. Dean’s taupe-colored Toyota Camry.
In an official statement, Gov. Dean blasted his two rivals, saying, “Real mature.”

Political insiders say that the prank, coming on the heels of another incident over the weekend in which Kerry and Gephardt hurled rolls of toilet paper into the trees on Gov. Dean’s front yard, may be signs that the two candidates are growing desperate because their campaigns have yet to catch fire.

But Timothy Vincent, who teaches a graduate course in babyish political pranks at the University of Minnesota, says that such tactics can be surprisingly effective.

“In 1988, Al Gore dropped out of the race after Michael Dukakis sprayed shaving cream on his door knob,” Vincent says. “The rest is history.”




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