Ashcroft and Pat Boone both sang the National Anthem, 76 GOP

[Wickerman]

convention. The GOP has the most interesting bedfellows. :eyes:



:rofl:, I found this on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4578169091&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1


Description:

Order of Business for the 1976 (31st) Republican National Convention in Kansas City MO Missouri. Publishe for the Republican National Committee. All orders of business for the entire convention. I most enjoy the folks chosen to sing the National Anthem. John Ashcroft, candidate for the Attorney General of Missouri (pre "As the Eagle Soars" days, I'd guess.) (monday the 16th), Princess Pale Moon of the Cherokee Nation (monday the 16th, eve), Gordon McRae (Tues the 17th), Gloria Loring (Wed the 18th), and for the Pat Boone fans, Pat opened nomination night (thurs the 19th). 8 pp pamphlet.



oh, and Gordon McRae, too!


And who, exactly, is Princess Pale Moon? i don't really know, but recalled some oddness so, here are a few items I found...

http://www.arc.org/C_Lines/CLArchive/story_web00_07.html
Impostors At the Helm

Princess Pale Moon is the personality behind the American Indian Heritage Foundation (AIHF), the charity that sent the unwanted beef liver to Alaska. Pale Moon claims Native ancestry and says she created the organization so that young American Indians wouldn't have to feel ashamed--the way she supposedly did--about their heritage. The only problem is that no records support Pale Moon's claim to be Native American. She's not registered with any federally recognized tribe and was actually asked to leave the 1992 World Expo in Spain by U.S. intelligence when it discovered she was a fraud.

"We remind her that we don't have any royalty," says Vernon Bellecourt. "They've always got to be 'princesses' or something or other. It's a white woman masquerading as an Indian and, of course, she has some Indians on her board to give her a cover."

Pale Moon has nonetheless had a great deal of success as a Native American spokesperson. She sang the national anthem at two Republican conventions and has raised millions of dollars for Native causes. Unfortunately, those causes are often aimed at her own self-promotion. Of the $197,000 AIHF spent on programs in 1998, $24,566 was spent on "TV and public appearances to present cultural values and to educate the non-Indian public of the aspirations and needs of Indian people," according to the charity's 1998 IRS filings.

http://www.maquah.net/AhnishinahbaeotjibwayReflections/1991/1991-11-20_Wub-e-ke-niew_column.html

http://users.pandora.be/gohiyuhi/frauds/frd0082.htm

[SammyBlue]

1. That picture of Pat Boone

makes metal heads like me cringe.

[Wickerman]

2. the ultimate in missing the point, eh?

:rofl: