Dr. Who for President. Destroy the Daleks!
Posted on 08/30/2004 1:31:11 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The vast army that marched past Madison Square Garden yesterday afternoon yelling, "Bring the Troops Home!" and "Fox News Sucks!" and "Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!" were united by one great emotion: Contempt for George W. Bush. They denounced the President and all his works in blunt generic slogans and in distinctive New York-ese (my favorite: "Bush is a Tush"), and sang out "No more years!"
This chant was almost the only hint that the marchers realize it is an election year.
They hate Bush but they didn't show any love for his opponent, either. They didn't even mention him. If there was a single "Kerry for President" banner in the crowd, I missed it.
I have a hunch Kerry's campaign wasn't too upset (or surprised) by this. Their man faces two months of Swiftie ads whose purpose will be to recall young John Kerry, the anti-Vietnam radical. The last thing he needs is to get linked in the Middle American imagination with a new generation of angry young men and women.
Not that yesterday's demonstrators seemed all that angry.
Despite premarch hype, they came across as mostly good-natured, well-disciplined and - befitting a stroll up the Avenue of Fashion - rather attractive.
Volunteers in bright yellow T-shirts kept order in the ranks. A contingent of women from Chicago marched in hot pink outfits (against Bush and on behalf of "personal space for their bodies"). The procession looked at times like a Benetton ad - without the diversity.
Councilman Charles Barron (D-Brooklyn), evidently embarrassed by the paucity of marchers of color, went on WBAI to promise an anti-Bush march in Harlem later in the week.
The country, watching the march on C-Span or in highlights on the evening news, was given no cause for alarm. When the protesters chanted "What is democracy? This is democracy," they weren't lying. The demo, organized with skill and diplomacy by United For Peace and Justice, was a walking civics lesson.
Now for the interesting part.
When the march broke up in the late afternoon, a lot of fired-up kids (and some nostalgic boomers) were left trying to decide what to do for the after-party. Convention week is going to tempt them - sorely.
If they stay cool until Friday, they will be embraced by the Democrats as invaluable ground troops in the fall campaign.
If, on the other hand, they succumb to the temptations of the moment, the Democrats will disown them in a Seventh Ave. minute. Hey, just look at the videotape. John Kerry was never there.
I saw a bunch of Pro-Kerry signs, as well as Terry McAuliffe's Mission Not Accomplished signs.
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Soviet era Pravda.
Ahhhhhhhhhh...but which Dr ?
Now your talkin' !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL!!
"I fought for this country in Vietnam and I will fight for it as President"... Just don't ask about all those years in between.
"The Swift Boat Group is a front for Bush and they are lying."... but I won't prove it by releasing all of my military records.
"They are challenging my patriotism"... but they have a point so I'll just go to the next line
"and I have one thing to say.... bring it on"... my lawyers will be in touch with every TV station, book store, the publisher, FCC, FEC and whomever else to shut these people up
This reporter was blind to all of the garbage?? lewdness? arsonist burning a dragon??
Tom Baker?
It's what was beneath it, I wanted you to see.
I'm sure Kerry's official campaign people want the protestors to shut up.
The ABB crowd is decidedly not pro-Kerry. They seem united only in their visceral revulsion for the present occupant of the White House. Trust me, if Bush were gone, they'd splinter and fall back to squabbling as to who gets priority, the anti-war commies or the pro-abort feminazis.
And a stage for self-indulgent, look-I'm-on-T.V. exhibitionists.
"Old" media has them all pumped about ABB but from what I heard on the C-Span man in the street interviews, they're ignorant, clueless and self-absorbed, in other words the perfect LIBERAL voter.
Anyone with half a brain would snap out of that fog.
I mentioned this in a couple of posts yesterday. We watched C-span for an hour or two when the march was going on.
I saw Nader signs, but no Kerry signs. Probably has something to do with McAuliffe's denouncing of the protestors even before they marched. It was obviously orchestrated, the signs were passed out because there were dozens of duplicates...Kerry camp just probably didn't hand out any, in case the march turned violent.
I thought the scary looking guys were the ones in black that had chosen to cover their faces. I kept pointing out to my husband the fact that certain folks had their faces covered (wondered if the NYPD is using face recognition technology).
Later I heard on TV they had arrested some of those folks as that is the garb of anarchists.
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Women demonstrators chant slogans against President George Bush (news - web sites) as they walk through the streets of Manhattan during a protest organized by the group United for Peace and Justice in New York, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2004. (AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta) |
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