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.
why is this woman not locked up?
from what I read here, she has commited Treason several times over...
Yes. I, too, noticed that Sarah did not even pay attention to the event.
Sorry if this was already in the thread. By the time I saw it there were over 300 replies!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7592362.stm
Nigerian anti-graft investigators have seized money raised by the head of the Nigerian Stock Exchange to support US presidential candidate Barack Obama.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said it would give the money back to those who attended a gala dinner in Lagos last month.
The EFCC said it had seized 74m naira ($630,000, £314,000), but said no Nigerian laws had been broken.
US political parties are not allowed to receive contributions from abroad.
I wish those “hockey moms” would have let loose on them. LOL!
They likely would have had to have press passes to get that close to the stage without being conference delegation leaders.
The press is getting dangerous, too. The Secret Service has to be cognizant of that fact.
I don’t call these punks protestors, or anarchists, or dissenters. They are Democratic Party operatives. This is the base of the Democratic Party. It has become a terrorist organization.
So that was an Obama croney? Has anyone heard Obama apologize for what she did? I think he should.
a majority of Saudi Arabians who attacked us on 9/11 and slaughtered 3000.
Just another cupid stunt.....
I think he said “Well, uh, um, uh, that isn’t the, um, uh, ah, the Jodie Evans that I know.”
Nor did the teleprompter "malfunction."
My apologies if others have made this observation (I just got home), but does anyone find it strange that during the most important political speech of the year a moonbat rushes the stage and the teleprompter conveniently tanks?
I'm no conspiracy theorist, but this is WAY too coincidental for me.
Can you imagine a lesser candidate fumbling and bumbling onstage when the prompter goes dark, then cowering as the nutcases start heckling her?
That was the plan, I'm sure.
Speaks volumes about Palin that none of us even knew it was happening.
I wouldn't be surprised if there was at least one assassination attempt on either McCain or Palin. Liberals want to win by any means necessary, even if it means the spilling of blood. Just understand you traitors, you will be very sorry if any such attempt succeeds.
This is a clear case of “You are known by the company you keep”.
Amazing how the leftist tactics seem to get little attention from their friends in the MSM. I think we can all imagine what would have happened had a Right-Winger pulled a similar stunt at the DNC....
Looking at their hair, they obviously wore wigs.
Well, considering who they let pass as "press" these days, I have to agree with you. Think Keith Doberman.
Most of the radical faeries, tribes of Code Pink, are transgenders/transexuals/cross dressers.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2074263/posts?page=180#180
>>>...and simply say: “Some folks just need killing”..
>>>I never realize until much later in life, just how common that expression is among Texans...
I love Texans....and Texicans.
When I lived in North Carolina, the expression was, Shoot, shovel, shut up.
Sometimes I miss North Carolina.
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