The White House and the VP residence are official residences, not someone's personal residence.
Protesting at an official residence is quite different than at a personal residence. For one thing an official residence is also a place of business and is paid for by the taxpayers. For another thing, it is often the site of official functions.
The only time when it should be acceptable to go to a personal (i.e., non-official) residence is when you're protesting something taking place at that time. Thus, if Senator Phil A. Buster is having a fundraiser at his personal residence, it's fair game to protest there during the fundraiser.
Among other reasons, the neighborhood will have the influx of contributors and you will not be interfering with their quiet enjoyment much, if any, more than the commotion from the contributors.
At times when Buster is not hosting a fundraiser, Sen. Buster and his neighbors should be allowed to enjoy the quiet of their neighborhood. To disturb a regular residential neighborhood on occasions when it would normally be quiet (i.e., no event at Buster's house) is classless and crosses a line that should not be crossed.
StandinginaDitch registered and posted an incredibly bad idea on the very first day. Other than two short replies days ago, he is gone.
I'll repeat what I said to him at #55. Keep in mind that Cindy Sheehan and her people are camping at a ditch by the side of the road.
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Is Cindy Sheehan in that same ditch that you're in? The ditch is the same ditch that Sheehan is camping next to, right?
Your choice of screen name and posting a very bad idea on the first day after registration makes it clear (now that I've caught some sleep) that you are indeed an agent provocateur.
I think you (and some others on this thread) were way too hard on Standing in a Ditch. You may think that his idea was incredibly bad, although I've seen far worse ideas lauded on this board. I sincerely doubt that he could have raised a crowd for a protest at Cindy's personal residence, so the question is moot. For one thing, she isn't even there -- so a protest would be pointless.
But BillF and others jumped all over this new poster and accused him of ulterior motives when there really isn't any evidence of that. His comments seemed sincere to me, although impractical. To jump down someone's throat because they made a suggestion you don't like on their first day is rather unfriendly. Most people lurk for quite a while and only register when they have something to say.
My comment directed at JVB was tongue in cheek, as I have stood next to him at some of those rallies mentioned and was merely reminding him of that fact. Cindy has made herself a public figure through her publicity tours, so she is fair game for protest, just as any elected official is.
Actually, at this point the news media (and the Crawford neighbors) are no longer differentiating between Cindy's crowd and the anti-Cindy crowd. They'd just like to see everyone go home.