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October 21, 2007
McCain "All Tied Up"
At the debate tonight the quote of the evening goes to John McCain. Quiping about the failed attempt by Hillary Clinton to earmark one millian dollars for a Woodstock music museum to commemorate the 1969 festival he said:
"I wasn't there. I'm sure it was a cultural and pharmaceutical event. I was tied up at the time,"
McCain earnied a standing ovation for the not-so-veiled reference to his five-and-a-half year confinement in a Vietnam prisoner of war camp.
The Woodstock museum — officially called the Museum at Bethel Woods — is due to open next year. Bethel is the town in upstate New York where organizers eventually put on the three-day Woodstock Music and Art Fair, featuring Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Band and others.
When Schumer and Clinton trumpeted the $1 million earmark for the museum back in June, she said in a statement that it would "continue to promote education, the arts, culture and tourism in the region."
Billionaire Alan Gerry is the force behind the project. He and his family have contributed almost $30,000 to Clinton and a committee headed by Schumer dedicated to electing Democrats to the Senate.
Gerry is a longtime major political donor. The contributions — $20,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and $9,200 to Clinton's presidential campaign — came just days after the earmark was inserted into the legislation.
Read the story on FOX
Posted by Post Scripts at October 21, 2007 08:07 PM
Comments
Common now, you're not suggesting a Quid Pro Quo, are you? Anyway, when the museum opens, tell your friends not to buy the Blue Acid tabs from the gift shop. They're bad! (I know an obscure reference which only the older among us will get)
"She said in a statement that it would "continue to promote education, the arts, culture and tourism in the region."" (Not to mention the lining of her pockets.)
Since when did overflowing portable toilets, hepatitis and body odor constitute the "arts” and "Culture?"
Oh wait, I get the culture part, like in a Petri dish, right?
Posted by: John Freitas at October 25, 2007 04:47 PM
Since when did overflowing portable toilets, hepatitis and body odor constitute the "arts” and "Culture?"
Now John, You know it was the naked mud bathing that represented "art"...that and the "trips" that only the "tripper" could enjoy..."art" for the navel gazer.
You nailed it on the culture part...sadly it's still spreading!
Posted by: Tina at October 25, 2007 08:48 PM
Yep, Tina, Woodstock set in motion the developing of a culture you can't get a shot for.
Posted by: John Freitas at October 29, 2007 08:38 AM