Posted on 09/03/2008 9:46:21 PM PDT by kristinn
One of Barack Obama's elite fundraisers from the anti-American group Code Pink attempted to storm the stage last night during Republican vice presidential nominee Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's acceptance speech at the GOP convention in St. Paul.
Jodie Evans, one of a group of about 500 top financiers who have bundled tens of thousands of dollars for the Obama campaign was seized by the Secret Service after she had made her way to side of the stage and and started to yell at Palin.
The Washington Post reported on the incident:
10:45 p.m. A pair of Code Pink activists just got to the very edge of the stage and were a moment away from apparently running on stage, right by the Kentucky slot on the floor next to a host of McCain's most senior staffers.
Secret Service men grabbed them at last minute and literally dragged them out.
--Paul Kane
Evans has bundled between $50,000 and $100,000 for Obama as well as contributing the maximum $2300 to Obama's presidential primary campaign. She co-hosted Obama's breakout Hollywood fundraiser at the start of his campaign in February 2007.
As a bundler, Evans has been given perks that include regular briefings by top campaign staffers on policy and private meetings with Obama and his vice presidential candidate Joe Biden.
Evans is infamous in conservative and military family circles for publicly endorsing the terrorists in Iraq against the American soldiers who toppled Saddam Hussein and have fought to keep free Iraq from falling to the hands of Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups and nations.
Evans has worked with state sponsors of terrorism including the governments of Castro's Cuba and the the late Saddam Hussein. She has also met with Venezualan dictator Hugo Chavez and has professed her "love" for him.
Evans has led Code Pink's campaign against the Marines in Berkeley where the group has called the Marines "assassins" and Evans herself has compared the Marine recruiting center in Berkeley to a porn shop.
Code Pink issued a press release a short while ago bragging about their attempt to disrupt Palin's speech:
Co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, who were given their tickets to the speech by a Republican delegate who was frustrated with the Republican party and Sarah Palin, caught the attention of Palin with their banners and shouting about 15 minutes into her speech. Palin stopped talking for a moment to turn to look at them.
After another moment, security then grabbed Benjamin and Evans and escorted them one at a time out of the St. Paul Xcel Center, where they were held until the end of the Palin’s speech and told they would be arrested if they tried to reenter. They were told they’d committed an arrestable offense but they were not charged.
“Sarah Palin is not a woman’s choice,” said Jodie Evans, co-founder, moments after being released. “That’s it.”
CODEPINK is a nonpartisan women’s peace group. They vehemently oppose Palin’s pro-war, anti-environment, anti-choice positions. More details to come. For questions, please call Jodie Evans at 310-913-4821.
Obama has rejected several requests from troop support groups that he renounce Evans for her support of the terrorists in Iraq.
the article makes the reference.
this is also an issue for the credentials committee. The have the ability to decertify a delegate.
Didn’t see it last night on Fox, but when I was watching it this morning again with my fiancee on Youtube (a CNN version) I saw someone being led out.
They are Freaks.
Good. Then we can shoot 'em.
Where is the Ohio National Guard when you need them?
I kinda wish she would have gotten near Sarah and watched the can ‘o whoop ass that she would have done to that Commie maggot.
What did we expect from the party without class.
I would prefer to see the SS use duct tape or muzzles. Getting bit is an infection risk.
If true, I want to know who this person is.
“Co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, who were given their tickets to the speech by a Republican delegate who was frustrated with the Republican party and Sarah Palin...”
Inside operatives.
Re: On C-SPAN I did see that POS Medea Benjamin being escorted out by a couple of policemen
I have a hard time believing that everyone in that hall has neither heard or, nor seen, Medea Benjamin.
Whoever gave those tickets away should be shown the door.
I saw that during Greta’s re-airing of the speech!
LMAO!!!!!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.............
I saw that as they were dragging her off giving the peace sign.
Which shows you nothing is going to phase this woman. She is a God send.
I saw them dragging one woman out.
“....However, it might just be ignorance. These people know nothing of military or security procedures and thought, so they may have believed that no one would be at the stairs waiting for troublemaker. To think of that beforehand would be impossible for a reactionary...”
I believe Evans knew EXACTLY what would happen, and she got part of her wish - the camera swung to her for a microcosmic moment so she could get her image and her psycho “cause” broadcast to the world.
The communist Code Pink freaks are dangerous, disoriented, and demented (sorry for the alliteration) people with a psychopathic hatred for all things good, decent, and American.
My opinion - if they get close to ANY of our people again, they should be DROPPED immediately - by any means necessary.
This is war; our side better start acting like it. Sheehan Benjamin, Evans - they’ve visited with enemies of our country (Hugo Chavez, Castro) and others, and openly support them - why isn’t that Treason? Where are the law enforcement agencies?
Again - they mess with ONE of US, they mess with ALL of us.
Y’know, I was flipping around the radio dial to listen to some of the convention speeches enroute from Baltimore to Delaware. I ran across this thing called Pacifica radio.
Ever heard them? They make Air America sound patriotic.
The commentator during Romney’s speech remarked on the Reifensthal quality of the convention hall. The commentator panel smirked that Romney wasn’t chosen because he owns 4 houses and McCain owns 8-10 houses and it just wouldn’t do to have a ticket that has two people who own as many as 20 houses...
Today, they were saying people in Minneapolis were decrying all the police in riot gear and the Police State that had invaded their city. Those same people never appear to draw the conclusion as to why riot gear and lots of police are necessary.
They do not inhabit the same reality we do.
Obama’s True Side: Freind and Associate, Supporter and Enabler to ALL CODE PINKOS and William Ayers!
Obama HUSSEIN is Just as Big a Terrorist to America as Saddam HUSSEIN was before Our Great President George W. Bush sent him directly to HELL!!!!
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