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.
On C-SPAN you could see her being hauled out, Palin didn’t even Flinch, thank goodness the woman didn’t make it on stage, Palin might have field dressed her right there.
They do not inhabit the same reality we do.
Of course they dont, they are after all sharing the same brain!
“How come the media didn’t show us any of this?’
They are protecting their own.
Fox did show hwe being escorted out, only a couple second shot, with no commentary.
Probably that delegate that gave the tickets to the Code Pinko Scumbags was the Basshole Ron Paul, himself!
Amen!
They're already getting violent.
“Would love to know the turncoat who passed the tickets off...”
The tickets/passes were probably forged, which is a crime.
By saying it was a Pubbie turncoat, they avoid admitting to a crime, and spread mistrust among Pubbies.
How the hell did THAT fat, disgusting lunatic get in there?
We refer to it as Palin Madness Syndrome (PMS).
A fitting acronym.
“Who ever gave them those tickets needs to be found and kicked out of the party.”
The tickets probably were forged. By stating that it was a “frustrated republican” they avoid incriminating statements and spread mistrust and suspicion among Republicans.
In propaganda, you never stop hammering your point and every statement should be toward your goal.
My question is HOW were they able to get that close?
Fire the people not doing their job!
This is what happens when you deinstitutionalize the mentally ill...
Thanks for the post.
See also this article at Politico.com where the writer says “Why the media should apologize” for how it has treated Sarah:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13143.html
On CNBC this morning Donnie Deutch(sp)did a segment”If Gov. Palin was a product, like a cereal, how would you sell it”. It was a great piece and I would like to know if anyone captured or has a link to his segment. He had nothing but positive things to say about her. Quote “She is a lioness protecting her cubs”. Thanks!!
Thanks!
This should be a lesson to her: Never storm a room full of Republicans when smelling like a giant doobie, they’ll catch before your mission is accomplished. Also, a shower might have helped conceal her as well.
She looked like a complete skank as they dragged her out.
What a piece of vermin.
I would say that the Dims are animals but I do not want to insult the animals that I know.
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