Posted on 08/25/2007 12:44:16 PM PDT by kristinn
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine --Even though President Bush wasn't in town, hundreds of anti-war protesters including Cindy Sheehan marched by the Bush family compound on a scorching, muggy Saturday.
"This is really energizing to be with people who want this war to end," Sheehan, who lost a son in Iraq, told the cheering crowd. "We can't put our signs away and sit on our couches. We have to press Congress to end this war."
Activists from a number of states came to a local school to begin a two-mile march to the Bush summer home at Walker's Point. Along the way some pounded drums, chanted and carried signs and banners with slogans such as "Don't Pay for this War" and "Care for Vets."
Police gave no official crowd count, but other observers estimated that at least 1,200 demonstrators turned out. One of the marchers, Alice Copeland Brown of Canton, Mass., said about 3,000 people were there.
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Organizers had previously hoped to draw as many as 10,000 protesters to the rally, but the day's heat in the 80s, humidity and threat of severe thunderstorms may have kept the numbers down.
Observers said verbal skirmishes with some of the counter-protesters broke out along the march route, but no violence or physical confrontations were reported. As many as a few dozen counter-protesters were said to be in the area.
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I also told him if folks are committed to the cause, the weather won't stop them.
The media has been trying for six years to gin up a Sixties-style antiwar movement. Now they're offering typical summer weather as an excuse there not being one. Sheesh.
What did they say in reply?
I was just in Kennebunkport on Wednesday. I’m pretty sure that the only success this clown posse had was to annoy the blazes out of all of the people trying to enjoy the last week before Labor Day in that nice little seaside town.
He heard me out. He didn’t say whether or not there would be a change made.
Thank you Kristinn. I’m so happy to hear about a low turnout. I have been sitting here all day stressed that I couldn’t be there.
Somehow I doubt it, AP isn’t fooling anyone regarding their bias, and I don’t think that they care.
Bangor is also having it’s annual Folk Festival. Reporting on the turnout at the Festival is good. The weather isn’t keeping anyone at home.
They ignored me.
so the anti war crowd that is so concerned about the troops in the 100 degree heat of iraq couldn’t turn out because it was in the 80’s?
what a surprise the democrats surrendered
Haven’t heard anything from the Eagles, but from the brief mention in the article it looks like they had their fun.
Yes it does. I can’t believe they tried to blame the weather on low turnout. Everyone is out running around.
Doesn’t hurt to let them know we’re on to their bogus reporting.
That’s true. It hits them right in their credibility.
but the day’s heat in the 80s...
is outright frosty compared to Florida, and I do believe that means they are a bunch of stooges up there.
Even sitting in the copy office, busy fabricating the news.
Sure hope some Eagles take pictures of the pigsty mess these “civic” minded (retarded in adolescence) protesters leave along their trail/wake.
“I hate protesters! All they do is make a lot of noise, accomplish nothing but leaving a lot of trash for others to clean up, and ruin peoples weekends.”
Maybe, just maybe, there are fewer useful idiots running around America than in the past.
Shouldn’t Crazy Cindy be out “fundraising” or campaigning or something? She’ll never beat Pelosi by hanging out with a bunch of maggot-infested, old hippies up in Maine. Maine is a long, long way from California.
“You can support the troops and not support the war,” said Anne Chay, whose son is serving in Iraq.
Yes, and we know how they(libs) supported the troops upon their return from Vietnam. I’m so tired of hearing this BS line.
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