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It went well! We had about 40 people and we did our bit by simply being there and demonstrating that not everyone in SF is pro-Sheehan and anti-American. We had plenty of American flags and patriotic placards and signs.

Halfway through, we were joined by 10-15 Lowell students who were not thrilled with the "anti-war" presentation on their campus. I spoke to one of the young men and he told me that his brother is enlisting in the military. Some Lowell graduates and SF State students (College Republicans) also joined in. They posted their after report with pics at the gatorgop website:

http://userwww.sfsu.edu/%7Ejourney/sheehan_protest.html

Melanie Morgan was inside during the Sheehan presentation and reportedly the school would not allow the GoldStar father she brought along to speak. She told us afterwards that Sheehan had been pushing the usual anti-American lies and propaganda and that sadly, she received a standing ovation from students.

In fact, a crowd of Lowell students had gathered across the street afterwards to check us out. Some looked confused, others amused and a few appeared hostile. A group of them came across the street and starting debating with some of us, but it didn't go far.

Our only "counter-protester" was a typical SF lefty Moonbat who stood across the street all day wearing an Uncle Sam mask and holding "Peace Now" type signs. He hollered unintelligible epithets at us throughout the day, but we just ignored him. Every now and then, he'd try and approach us and the cops (several of whom we chatted with later) would immediately stop him. At the very end, he'd managed to convince two young ladies to hold his signs (did he pay them?).

The best part of the whole day was when Sheehan made her exit, hopped into her brand new VW bug (or whatever they're called now), saw us and promptly did a U-Turn and went the other way!

So much for opposing viewpoints ;-)