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| Video: It's Official: Democrats Name The Donkey: "I believe Shadow is a democrat" |
| 2008-01-31 |
| HT Weasel Zippers DENVER, Colorado, Jan. 28 (NBC) -- The mascot for the Democratic National Convention was picked Saturday night at the National Western Stock Show in Denver, Colorado. Denver is the home of this yearÂ’s Democratic National Convention. Sixteen-year-old Cody Morris' donkey, Shadow, was one of ten donkeys competing for the honor of representing the party. "I believe Shadow is a democrat," Cody said. Most Jackasses are In the end, a donkey named Mordecai was named the winner. Mordecai is from a farm in Fairplay. Sure it's not named, Hillary? He will likely make a few appearances at the Democratic National Convention, which starts August 25 at the Pepsi Center. I put up a history of the Jackass-Democrat-Copperhead history on the Coon Lake Beach news page. |
| Posted by:Icerigger |
| #6 Well good for the Dems. At least they've got one thing they can put under the "Accomplishments" column... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-01-31 11:47 |
| #5 Forgot to put the link: Thomas Nast, a famous political cartoonist, came to the United States with his parents in 1840 when he was six. He first used the jackass in an 1870 Harper's Weekly cartoon to represent the " Copperhead Press" kicking a dead lion, Cartoon Here Symbolizing Lincoln's Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, who had recently died. Nast intended the jackass to represent an anti-war faction with whom he disagreed, but the symbol caught the public's fancy and the cartoonist continued using it to indicate some Democratic editors and newspapers. Our Media today still continues the Jackass Tradition: |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2008-01-31 11:41 |
| #4 Watch out Mordecai the Donkey... Kieth Ellison may be around. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-01-31 11:07 |
| #3 I was on hand at the 1976 Boy Scout Jamboree in PA, as a security guard. One afternoon, I was admiring their current mascot donkey, named "Pedro", who had a small wooden fence pen. It was there that I learned that Pedro had two problems. Now Pedro's first problem was that, for a donkey, he had short legs. But this was more than made up for by his other problem, his extra large male equipment. So much so, that "at half staff", it was not just possible, but likely, that Pedro would literally, step on it. And this was all the stimulation that Pedro needed. I discovered this when, sitting on Pedro's fence, I saw these two local zoftig teenage girls, wearing hot pants and gauzy tank tops, visiting to troll for boys. Well, the girls decided to tease Pedro about his equipment, making sport of the poor, dumb animal. Well, Pedro noticed their attentions, and promptly gave them something more to gawk about, exhibiting more than an ordinary amount of his pride. This made them all the more cruel with their taunts, and they drew close to his fence. And then Pedro stepped on it. This was all Pedro needed, and so after some tense negotiation, he proceeded in more or less direct fire mode, to make an effort to paint both girls. They both screamed "Ewwwww!", in an outraged manner, most of which I didn't see because I was laughing so hard that I fell off the fence and bonked my head. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-01-31 10:11 |
| #2 I hope he shits all over the stage, on camera. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-01-31 09:21 |
| #1 Shadow? I take umbrage at the name. |
| Posted by: Penguin 2008-01-31 09:19 |
