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Jeb Bush gets rude welcome
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | October 7, 2006 | Ervin Dyer

Posted on 10/07/2006 5:05:02 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, in town for a fund-raiser for Sen. Rick Santorum, had a close encounter with a large group of anti-Republican protesters as he was making his way to the Duquesne Club, Downtown.

It was about 4:15 yesterday when Mr. Bush met up with the protesters near the corner of Liberty and Sixth avenues. The protesters were marching to join other pickets already gathered in front of the exclusive club, a little more than a block away at 325 Sixth Ave.

Protesters said Gov. Bush blew them a kiss, acknowledging the crowd of about 30 chanting pickets that was made up of United Steelworkers and members of Uprise Counter Recruitment, a tour traveling through 22 cities to support anti-war efforts.

The protesters came closer.

"Jeb, go home," they shouted.

(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: jebbush; pittsburgh; santorum
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To: petercooper

Thanks for posting the Star Wars bar scene! LOL


41 posted on 10/07/2006 6:10:54 AM PDT by JaguarXKE
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Things are beginning to get out of control with these so called "free speech advocates". I'm afraid things are gonna get worse before they get better. Nothing a good old fashioned civil war can't solve. Since the dems don't believe in guns, it shouldn't take but about three minutes to take them down and mop it up.


42 posted on 10/07/2006 6:19:21 AM PDT by dmw (Aren't you glad you use common sense, don't you wish everybody did?)
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To: 1curiousmind

No you didn't get what I was saying. Actually the author hit the nail right on the head. These people weren't there to protest a specific issue, they were there to harass the guy because he's a Republican politician,and as far as I'm concerned people like that can go suck a lemon,or something else !!!


43 posted on 10/07/2006 6:21:52 AM PDT by Obie Wan
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To: A.Hun

Let's see, no arrests were made, and the scene out in front of the club was, according to the article, peaceful. Where was the violence you speak of?


44 posted on 10/07/2006 6:30:29 AM PDT by dmz
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To: petercooper

That photo could have been taken in 1968, what with all the "Black Power" salutes going on.


45 posted on 10/07/2006 6:32:54 AM PDT by Disambiguator (If the Democrats were a stock, I would short them.)
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To: dmz

Instead of just cornering Gov. Bush, you would prefer they beat him up?

If the security was called, and indeed used tasers twice, the threat of violence was there.


46 posted on 10/07/2006 6:34:18 AM PDT by A.Hun (Common sense is no longer common.)
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To: cripplecreek

No..the steel union killed the steel Industry...kind of Ironic..dont you think?
I live in Pittsburgh, and the unions run this freakin town. and they ran it right into the ground.


47 posted on 10/07/2006 6:41:23 AM PDT by Yorlik803 ( When are we going to draw a line a say"this far and no farther")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Unions = Organized Thugs


48 posted on 10/07/2006 6:45:06 AM PDT by Peter W. Kessler (Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
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To: 1curiousmind

what do you expect for the Putz Gasbag...
This rag leans so far to the left that it isnt even funny.
And did I see a bunch of SEIU t shirts. These are the people who think that Janitors should make 30 dollar an hour for mopping floors. The SEIU is the most commie union other than the CWA.....
SO much for free speech, eh


49 posted on 10/07/2006 6:48:40 AM PDT by Yorlik803 ( When are we going to draw a line a say"this far and no farther")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The fact that the LEFT would take down a homosexual with a "fake but accurate" scandal story only speaks to how unhinged the democrat party has become.

Democrats are just plain nuts. REALLY nuts.


50 posted on 10/07/2006 6:48:49 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Yorlik803

A half trillion dollars in loan guarantees to the chinese steel industry didn't help.


51 posted on 10/07/2006 6:57:06 AM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: Rb ver. 2.0
"protesters said Gov. Bush blew them a kiss"

That's my tactic whenever someone flips me off when I'm driving.


That's probably a safe option. But if you really wanna make them mad, try holding your hand like it's holding an invisible microphone, moving it toward and away from your mouth, with your lips forming the letter "O". It seems to annoy most short-fuse type guys. ;-)
52 posted on 10/07/2006 7:24:03 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
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To: cripplecreek

Pres Bush supported the steel industry with tariffs that cause him to lose some support and this is the thnx his family gets


53 posted on 10/07/2006 7:28:46 AM PDT by italianquaker (Democrats and media can't win elections at least they can win their phony polls.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Protesters said Gov. Bush blew them a kiss, acknowledging the crowd of about 30 chanting pickets that was made up of United Steelworkers and members of Uprise Counter Recruitment, a tour traveling through 22 cities to support anti-war efforts.

Love it. ;-)

54 posted on 10/07/2006 7:32:08 AM PDT by Allegra (Super Elastic Bubble Plastic!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Welcome to Pittsburgh Jeb! - Da'burgh is home to some of the best union goons in the world.


55 posted on 10/07/2006 7:40:15 AM PDT by pittsburgh gop guy (Be not afraid...)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

30 people hardly seems like a "large" crowd.

Anyway -- sounds like the usual reant-a-mob types that are bussed from city to city.


56 posted on 10/07/2006 8:17:50 AM PDT by BenLurkin ("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
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To: Obie Wan

I understood that point exactly. I was just echoing that not only the "protesters" but the "journalist" himself sees being a conservative Republican as something worth protesting. It doesn't take a specific issue. Remember, the author was the one who called them "anti-Republican protesters."


57 posted on 10/07/2006 9:43:10 AM PDT by 1curiousmind
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To: 1curiousmind

They are 'bout to become Islamicized! :-)

"become"??????????????????
All that's missing is the burning of cars and the throwing of jars of gasoline.


58 posted on 10/07/2006 10:43:13 AM PDT by Joan Kerrey
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To: Joan Kerrey

Aren't the analogies between the Islamofascists and the liberal/socialist/Democrats interesting?

Both hate America, seeing it as a "colonial/imperialist" power.

Both believe that the success and quality of life in America are undeserved and the result of some criminal action against other people in the world, i.e. anti capitalism.

Both hate Bush.

Both have "unimpeachable" fundamentalist beliefs that believers cannot stray from. Ever.

Both seem to riot at the words of "infidels" and attack same.

Both have leaders that are "infallible" and vitriolic.

Both have memberships largely composed of angry, ignorant, weak minded people, usually burning an effigy of the President, and easily swayed by persuasive (read that as "loud") leaders to protest some entity (see Bush, Isreal, westernism, capitalism, democracy etc.)

Both hypocritically defend free speech only when it is they who are doing the speaking (see "infidels")

I wonder if we can just group them under Islamoliberals? ;-)


59 posted on 10/07/2006 6:11:33 PM PDT by SpinyNorman (The ACLU empowers terrorists and criminals, weakens America, and degrades our society.)
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To: Allegra

"Uprise Counter Recruitment"...code name for "Rent-A-Mob."


60 posted on 10/08/2006 8:36:33 PM PDT by toothfairy86
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