NEW YORK (AP) It wasn't just the Republicans having the parties this past weekend. The counter-conventioners did, too.
The Imagine Festival of Arts, Issues and Ideas held a raucous party Saturday night at the club Crobar, where a giant screen beamed photos from the Iraq war including coffins carrying dead U.S. soldiers as guests danced around a man on stilts dressed as Uncle Sam. Actor Kathleen Chalfant addressed the mix of celebration and anxiety that reflects New York City's mood this week.
"I think the sense of festivity is very thin. All of us believe we're living at a time of great danger, great pain and the possibility of great disaster," said Chalfant, who is scheduled to appear Monday with Marisa Tomei in a Lincoln Center reading of Sophocles' Greek tragedy "Electra," followed by a discussion on violence, retribution and compassion.
"...great danger, great pain and...great disaster" have already occurred. I thought this woman lived in NYC? Or is she another one of these people who believes 9/11 was a made-for-TV movie?
I can tell you that Ms Chalfant was born in San Francisco in 1945.
She and her fellow strange people really and truly think that President Bush lied about WMD being in Iraq. Why on earth would he do that as a premise for invasion - knowing full well that once major combat was over, it would be reported that WMDs weren't there?
Well, I guess these folks are just a bunch of communists out for a walk in the rain tomorrow.
Oh, she's Electra - boogie-woogie-woogie...