Ashton Kutcher Stumps for Kerry-Edwards

[Thrill]

DUBUQUE, Iowa - Ashton Kutcher, stumping for Democrat John Kerry and John Edwards in the actor's home state, said Monday that he and others who voted for President Bush (news - web sites) in 2000 "got punked."



"I voted for him because I thought he was like me. I thought he was a good old boy like me," Kutcher said, speaking before Edwards took the stage in Dubuque.

But Kutcher, 26, said Bush has proven him wrong. And he had a message for the president: "You're not going to fool me again."

Just then, a man in the audience yelled "You got punked!" Kutcher is the host of the MTV show "Punk'd" in which celebrities are the subjects of practical jokes.

"Yah, we got punked," the Cedar Rapids native said. "I'm here to take responsibility for my mistakes."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041026/ap_en_ot/people_ashton_kutcher&cid=487&ncid=1963&sid=96378798

[deadmessengers]

1. Ewww.

Endorsements like that we don't need.

[Cha]

4. That's not true ..we need young and old..

cute and not so cute!

Ashton is a hometown boy who made it big..and we CAN use him!!

[mzmolly]

12. You kiddin?

:evilgrin:

And, hey he's from Iowa and can help with the college crowd. ;)

[Cha]

2. THis is sooo Cute you guys!

Poor thing voted for bush in 2000 when he was 22 and naive!

But he's here in his hometown of Iowa making AMENDS!! :yourock: Ashton!

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. Where is he from? He uses the term "Good Ole Boy" "Like Me".

I welcome his vote and support, but I am wondering where this phrase came from.

[Viking12]

5. Iowa iirc

[Cha]

6. Like down home on the farm,.type "boy"..

evidently not limited to the South:D

EDIT~Yeah, like he says ..he's from Cedar Rapids, Iowa!

[sonicx]

7. i think what he means is...

in 2000, he thought bush was a 'regular guy' and gore was an 'elitist'

[Cha]

8. Yeah, that what his 22 year old

Iowa boy mind thought!:)

[PoliticalJihad]

9. Help ( FLU VACCINE (Hoax message)) about Edwards

I just got the following from 2 different people:

Does any one know facts to counter this, and I'll start responding. I know some of what this says is plain wrong (Chiron is a U.S. Company, not British).


Subject: FLU VACCINE

How the vaccine works:

Influenza vaccine is produced by growing the virus in eggs. The virus is
killed and processed to create the vaccine, which is given by injection
under the skin. The body then produces antibodies to the virus over the next
two to four weeks. If the immunized person then comes into contact with the
influenza virus, the antibodies attack and kill the virus before it has a
chance to cause infection. The vaccine contains the 3 most likely strains to
be active during the "flu season"

Why the shortage:

Almost half of the nation's flu vaccine will not be delivered this year.
Chiron, a major manufacturer of flu vaccine, will not be distributing any
influenza vaccine this flu season. Chiron was to make 46-48 million doses
vaccine for the United States. Chiron is a British company. Recently British
health officials stopped Chiron from distributing and making the vaccine
when inspectors found unsanitary conditions in the labs. Some lots of the
vaccine were recalled and destroyed.

Why is our vaccine made in the UK and not the US?

The major pharmaceutical companies in the US provided almost 90% of the
nations flu vaccine at one time. They did this despite a very low profit
margin for the product. Basically, they were doing us a favor. In the late
80's a man from North Carolina who had received the vaccine got the flu.
The strain he caught was one of the strains in that years vaccine made by a US
company. What did he do? He sued and he won. He was awarded almost $5
million! After that case was appealed and lost, most US pharmaceutical
companies stopped making the vaccine. The liability out weighed the profit
margin. Since UK and Canadian laws prohibit such frivolous law suits UK and
Canadian companies began selling the vaccine in the US.

By the way...the lawyer that represented the man in the flu shot law suit
was a young ambulance chaser by the name of John Edwards

[Ariana Celeste]

14. !!! I recieved that, too!

From a Freeper "friend" who agreed to stop talking politics a couple weeks ago, but she sent me this the other day and I don't know how to counter it either!

[atre]

17. I'm calling bullshit

Lexisnexis doesn't return any story in any way similar to this... Nothing outlining Edwards' most notable cases mentions anything like this...

It never ceases to amaze me how utterly dishonest Republicans are.

[pamela]

18. This might help...

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/flushot.asp

[PoliticalJihad]

19. Thanks

Thanks Pamela,
The link you provided was just what I was looking for.

[muchacho]

10. cool

Now we need to get him to punk Bush.

[hightension]

15. ahahaha

I was thinking the same thing.
Maybe getting Rush all strung out again, and have him chopping some lines in a hotel room, on election night......

[TheWebHead]

11. boy, Ashton's never going to be able to smoke pot

with the Bush twins again after this...

[Chelsea Patriot]

23. Is it true he caught a social disease from Jenna? Like McCain did?

[Fed Up]

13. I went to it!

Edwards was on fire, just one M-80 after another. Wow, that place was noisy. I've never been to a political rally before. The audience was really into it, they were rocking.

Ashton Kutcher was great.

Joe Biden & Tom Vilsack were there too. And the nun who came on first really ripped into Shrub calling him immoral for the all the innocent people killed in the war....and regarding a busybody she saw at church, "don't you lecture me" that Catholics can't support John Kerry. She was great.

BTW, I live in Illinois, not Iowa, but I just could not pass it up.

Annoyed C-span didn't have it but 6 TV cameramen were there. I'm sure all of Iowa saw it.

[cynatnite]

16. Nice to see Demi's boy toy out stumping n/t

[kaitykaity]

20. Gratuitous photos.

Way to go, Demi. Way to go.

[Arkana]

21. Kutcher's one lucky SOB

If I got Demi Moore when I was only 25, I'd be feeling lucky too.

[magnolia]

22. Yeah...

Former husband Bruce Willis is a republican...right?

[MsTryska]

24. Awww......he just made me love him a little more....

as logn as he keeps his clothes on, anyway.