Posted on 08/13/2007 7:58:40 AM PDT by SmithL
Marghi Dutton is 90 and losing her eyesight, but nothing was going to stop her from trekking to midspan of the Golden Gate Bridge on Sunday with the anti-war group Code Pink: Women for Peace.
She joined a crowd of about 100 demonstrators dressed in hot pink hats, shirts and scarves and fought the wind to raise her sign: "Impeach Bush and Cheney!"
"My arms are aching, but I'm getting energy from the drivers - so many are honking in support," she said.
Code Pink, a national grassroots peace movement inspired by Bay Area women, organized the protest to call for an immediate end to the war in Iraq and immediate impeachment proceedings against President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
Protesters walked from the bridge to the Pacific Heights home of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., set up camp, cooked one last carbohydrate-heavy meal and began a hunger strike. About 40 gathered on some terraced steps near the senator's home, along with a half-dozen police officers.
"We have about eight people who are going to stop eating, including me," Code Pink spokeswoman Nancy Mancias said.
On Wednesday, the group plans to relocate the hunger strike to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home on Broadway, where they will urge the San Francisco Democrat to hold a town hall meeting with constituents.
Code Pink leaders believe both lawmakers should be doing more to bring the troops home and to rally other Democrats to call for an end to the war.
"Feinstein voted for the war spending bill, and even though Pelosi didn't, she's not doing enough to convince others to join her," Mancias said.
This isn't the first time Code Pink has moved into the neighborhood.
For about two weeks in March, the street corner in front of Pelosi's house was named "CampPelosi"
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Perhaps a hand gernade.....
nonono....don’t keep them AWAY from the rail! sheesh.
Looks like they NEED to go on a hunger strike.
Big let down coming for the Anti American Left coming up.
Does not matter if you elect Hillary in 2008. The second it no longer becomes an issue to beat President Bush over the head with, these same Democrats are magically going to discover why we need to stay in Iraq. It is shaping up to be the big Clinton betrayal for 2008. The same way Bill Clinton did not intend to pursue a “Middle Class Tax cut” in 1992, Hillary knows she will not be able to cut and run from Iraq.
One can argue that we should not be so dependent on ME oil, what cannot be argued is we are depended on it. Like it or not, the free flow of oil from that part of the world is a vital US National Security Interest. Our economic well-being, and thus our national security, depends on it.
Iraq sits on anywhere (depending on whose figures you use) from the second largest, to the fifth largest, oil reserves in the world. No US Administration is going to be able to walk away from Iraq. That is just reality.
Jump, Marghi! Jump!
This is news? The Pinkos have been whining about it for years.
I actually welcome impeachment proceedings.
Last time a Code Pinko went on a hunger strike for a face-to-face meeting with Joe Lieberman. He finally agreed to a short meeting - and the idiot passed out unconscious on the Senator’s floor during the meeting.
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Most of the moonbats know Hillary won't do it. But they'll vote for her anyway, and pray to Gaia that she does it anyway.
They don't really care what happens over there, but they've always been jealous that the previous generation was able to claim "We stopped the war!" and they can't.
Three million dead Cambodians, six million dead Iraqis, one million dead Israelis, six of one, half-dozen of another. They just want to pat themselves on their backs and talk about how they "stopped a war!"
They shoulda set ‘em up a complementary divin board.
But then, that’d be pollutin the Bay with BioHAZMATs, wouldn’t it?
“We have about eight people who are going to stop eating, including me,” Code Pin spokeswoman Nancy Mancias said.”
Why, holy cow, a spokeswoman who can’t even count. Is it eight or not? This woman needs another twinkie. Yes, if they were truly dedicated we would need to see proof in the form of some dead of starvation Code Pink woman. They should be sending packages to our soldiers who fight for their freedom every day. Nah, they are just a group of PINK LADIES, useless at that!
They look like they could stand to lose a few pounds anyway.
“One can argue that we should not be so dependent on ME oil, what cannot be argued is we are depended on it. Like it or not, the free flow of oil from that part of the world is a vital US National Security Interest. Our economic well-being, and thus our national security, depends on it. Iraq sits on anywhere (depending on whose figures you use) from the second largest, to the fifth largest, oil reserves in the world. No US Administration is going to be able to walk away from Iraq. That is just reality.”
Thank you. Someone else sees thru the Dems too.
Not only will our troops be in Iraq for the 2008 election, they’ll be there for 2012 too. The Dem leadership know this, and that’s why you’re starting to see and hear news from the NYTimes, NPR, etc saying as much. The last thing the Dems want is another 1968 convention, and anti-war riots should they win the POTUS.
Why are the police officers keeping them from the rail?
Ah, yes, thank you.
Need more caffeine.
shivers
Let them near the rail. Let them climb the rail. Let them jump... we will certainly change our minds and reconsider the Pinks viewpoint on Impeachment, if they decide to jump. Hear that, Hungry?
If we were ever to lose our fight with the Islamists and see them takeover our country, these swine would be among the first put in a staudium to have their heads chopped off. THAT would help them lose 10 pounds of ugly fat and they would not have miss a single meal.
Where are the water canons when you need ‘em :)
So they can't hang banners over the side.
Look out! Look out!
Pink elephants on parade
Here they come!
Hippety hoppety
They're here and there
Pink elephants ev'rywhere
Look out! Look out!
They're walking around the bed
On their head
Clippety cloppety
Arrayed in braid
Pink elephants on parade
What'll I do? What'll I do?
What an unusual view!
I could stand the sight of worms
And look at microscopic germs
But technicolor pachyderms
Is really much for me
I am not the type to faint
When things are odd or things
are quaint
But seeing things you know that ain't
Can certainly give you an awful fright!
What a sight!
Chase 'em away!
Chase 'em away!
I'm afraid need your aid
Pink elephants on parade!
Pink elephants!
Pink elephants!
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