psst, yes, blonde hair.
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.
In West Tampa, they don’t have any expressions. Because it didn’t happen, as far as you know. You didn’t see nothing. Gun? What gun?
SSS is not exclusive to North Carolina...
I’ve lived in many sections and states and that seems to be a universal expression..
Especially here in the West — where far too many “pests” are protected species...
Blonde, really? Send more pix!
I have heard McCain has had threats but unlike Obama he doesn’t try and make hay with them.
I didn’t even know about the nuts trying to storm the stage during Governor Palin’s speech last night! Never heard or saw a thing! Didn’t even hear it reported in the press or FoxNews today!
I heard them loud and clear during McCain’s speech — and saw them too. If these Communists (let’s be honest — please!) rush the stage, and the Secret Service stops them — haven’t they committed a CRIME? If it is an “arrestable offense,” then why aren’t they UNDER ARREST?! Trespassing, disrupting a “private meeting,” perhaps communicating threats...?
Also interesting... WHy didn’t any “protestors” get arrested during the DNC? Hmmm?!? How convenient.
And why won’t BHO disown or disavow these radicals? Easy — He agrees with them. Saul Alinsky is alive and well in the campaign strategy of Barack Hussein Obama.
Three words for the Secret Service from Now On:
Shoot To Kill
Three Lesbos and a D*ldo
NBC identified at least one of the protesters who tried to interrupt McCain’s speech tonight as belonging to the “anti-war group Code Pink”.
“Co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, who were given their tickets to the speech by a Republican delegate”
Who’s this so-called “Republican”.
Haha, rock on!
Kickass post, Kickass.
CUKOOO CUKOOO....You would think America would see this radical Leftist hate and be turned away from the Rats ... but the MSM paints them as Freedom fighters.
That’s very unfair to compare Tonya Harding.
hate to break it to this maniac, but women LOVE Sarah....
this ship stuff has got to stop.....
Whoah. The cockroaches don’t even TRY to scramble in the BBC spotlight. The doublespeak is amazing.
are we sure it was her tickets?....
And he really should return all of the money he raised too. Don't you think?
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