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CodePink Faces Tough Odds For Public's Attention (As delegates at DNC Convention!)
KFMB-TV CBS 8/Associated Press ^ | August 25, 2008

Posted on 08/25/2008 10:32:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Kelly Jacobs will be wearing dresses made from a "peace flag" every day at the Democratic National Convention. As a delegate and a CodePink activist, she'll don bright pink earrings, shoes and backpacks - and hundreds of peace and pink-colored buttons.

"There's no getting away from the peace message. It's on my neck down to my waist," said Jacobs, 49.

The Mississippi activist, who is a delegate for Hillary Rodham Clinton, is one of about 20 CodePink women attending the Democratic convention. They probably won't be disruptive inside. But CodePink members outside the Denver convention are planning to stage parades, protests, concerts and other theatrics - anything to keep the anti-war message alive.

These are hard times for peace activists. Despite CodePink's flashy costumes and willingness to disrupt campaign events and congressional hearings - sometimes facing arrest for it - the women are finding it more difficult to maintain public attention on the Iraq war.

Americans are now focused more on the gasoline prices they're paying, declining values of their homes and other economic issues. The ups and downs in a highly contested presidential election also have edged Iraq off the front page and evening newscasts most days.

"We do feel to some extent that these elections have sabotaged our peace actions and messaging because ... the media is completely focused on the two candidates,"

(Excerpt) Read more at cbs8.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2008dncconvention; codepink; democrats; election; elections; iraq; mccain; obama; peacecreeps
Please read the whole article at the link... I think this article tells you where the heart of the democratic party is at!
1 posted on 08/25/2008 10:33:04 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"These are hard times for peace activists."

There IS a difference between anti-war and pro-communist.

Code Pinko
By Jean Pearce
FrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, March 26, 2003

Like any other group, Communists come in a lot of shapes, sizes and colors. This time they’re wearing pink, they’re on the nightly news, and more than anything, they want the mothers and grandmothers of America to identify with them. ..."

http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/Read.aspx?GUID=BF17F7E4-09C6-4525-8358-CDA0EEBACE71

2 posted on 08/25/2008 10:43:37 AM PDT by ETL (Lots of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the ObamaRats at my Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Kelly Jacobs will be wearing dresses made from a "peace flag" every day at the Democratic National Convention.

I hope there are several of them, for the sake of those near her that would like to breathe something other than her stinky dress.

These libs don't give a hoot about personal hygiene....I guess they have become immune to the stench.


3 posted on 08/25/2008 10:45:55 AM PDT by capt. norm (Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.)
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4 posted on 08/25/2008 10:48:07 AM PDT by Pistolshot (NObama/Biden - The Bloviators.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Is she the Code Pink delegate in the bottom left of this picture?


5 posted on 08/25/2008 10:50:50 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Could anyone gather an uglier group of women if they tried ?

I thought the Code Pink lesbians were upset with the Hildebeast because she wasn't committed to pulling all the troops out, the day after the election.

Whew, if someone's looking for a cure for sex addiction, stick the guy in with this group for about a month. That should turn anyone off sex for quite a while.

6 posted on 08/25/2008 10:56:27 AM PDT by Beatthedrum
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To: Pistolshot

Is that a man on the left?


7 posted on 08/25/2008 11:04:18 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Bill Dupray; DemonDeac; mtngrandpa; xmission; Doctor Raoul; rstark56; navyguy; TigersEye; 3IDVET; ..
PING!
8 posted on 08/25/2008 11:12:29 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Barack Obama: In Error and arrogant -- he's errogant!)
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I loath these communist, traitorous, ugly, stinky, pink hags.
9 posted on 08/25/2008 11:32:28 AM PDT by mickey finn
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I hope America watches the DNC convention. This is going to be the biggest collection of kooks and freaks assembled in one place in history.


10 posted on 08/25/2008 11:49:28 AM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They “don’t have the b.lls” to interrupt the DNC with their theatrical signs and actions like they did the General Petraeus hearings in Washington DC.

There are some delegates in the DNC convention that are moms of soldiers and won’t put up with Code Pink. I met one of those Blue Star Mom’s at the Troop Victory Rally at Pioneer Park Sunday. I gave her one of our signs that she wanted.

Mom’s of troops are tougher than Code Pink.


11 posted on 08/25/2008 12:58:51 PM PDT by mtngrandpa ( Fighting the Insurgency at Home)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

12 posted on 08/25/2008 1:58:19 PM PDT by smokingfrog (He that lives upon hope will die fasting. - Ben Franklin)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"We do feel to some extent that these elections have sabotaged our peace actions and messaging because ... the media is completely focused on the two candidates," Stuck in the "me, me, me" of childhood.
13 posted on 08/25/2008 4:05:37 PM PDT by oneamericanvoice (Support freedom! Support the troops! Surrender is not an option!)
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To: Pistolshot

Alternative signs as used by our brave FREEpers at Walter Reed each week (although they did this as Burma Shave signs)

If something stinks on the street
You can be sure, it’s Code Pink


14 posted on 08/25/2008 4:09:27 PM PDT by oneamericanvoice (Support freedom! Support the troops! Surrender is not an option!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
Dems give Michigan and Florida full voting rights

15 posted on 08/25/2008 4:21:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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Gee, I wonder if it’s just the MSM not bothering to point out their presence?


16 posted on 08/25/2008 4:23:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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