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Snowball fight erupts during president’s healthcare message
The Hill ^
 | 2/5/03
Posted on 02/05/2003 7:21:54 AM PST by Gothmog
President Bush was in Grand Rapids, Mich., last week to unveil the administrations health-care reform plan. 
I wish people who think hes inarticulate could have seen him talking without notes, said Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-Mich), who accompanied the president on the trip from Washington on board Air Force One. 
Meanwhile, outside an estimated 500 pro- and anti-Bush demonstrators clashed in a savage snowball fight. 
There was about 10 inches on the ground, reported Ehlers, so opposing forces had plenty of ammo. 
By the time order was restored, several demonstrators were arrested. But Ehlers, a professor at UC-Berkeley in the 1960s, wasnt impressed. 
Nothing like a Vietnam protest, he said of the melee, in which outnumbered Bush supporters routed their opponents, according to one participant, by using better target selection and superior firepower.
TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: commiesbathe; hairyunwashed; youthagainstsoap
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    Way to go guys in MI!
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posted on 
02/05/2003 7:21:54 AM PST
by 
Gothmog
 
To: Gothmog
    Nice! By the way, I can't remember if Gothmog was "lord of the Balrogs" or "hammer of the underworld."
To: Gothmog
    Nothing like a Vietnam protest, he said of the melee, in which outnumbered Bush supporters routed their opponents, according to one participant, by using better target selection and superior firepower.
 The real secret to victory was the lefties' aversion to water, frozen or otherwise...it's too much like bathing. 
-Eric
 
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posted on 
02/05/2003 7:24:35 AM PST
by 
E Rocc
 
To: Gothmog
    ~ SNORT
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posted on 
02/05/2003 7:30:03 AM PST
by 
Drango
(don't need no stinkin'  tag line)
 
To: E Rocc
    Now, THAT'S FUNNY.
To: Eric in the Ozarks
    Next time, give 'em guns!
To: Puddleglum
    Hah! Nice memory, most people have to look it up. Gothmog was the son of Melkor/Morgoth, truly the leader of the Balrogs, the Captain of Angband (Sauron was only Morgoth's wimpy lieutenant) and he did have a fell hammer. Killed some snotty elf-lord with it.
In Return of the King, Sauron's weak minions named the giant ram they used to knock down the gates of Minas Tirith "Gothmog."
I Rule, ha ha ha.
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posted on 
02/05/2003 7:44:40 AM PST
by 
Gothmog
 
To: Puddleglum
    And I just now remembered who Puddleglum was. Seen any giants around while looking for eels?
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posted on 
02/05/2003 7:46:13 AM PST
by 
Gothmog
 
To: Gothmog
    Great, now the left will be calling for snowball control.
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posted on 
02/05/2003 7:46:25 AM PST
by 
sticker
 
To: Sangamon Kid
    Last time we got a good snow I went looking for my spud gun but couldn't find it. Wonder if I can shoot 4 " snowballs without melting them first.
To: E Rocc
    "outnumbered Bush supporters routed their opponents, according to one participant, by using better target selection and superior firepower"
This is priceless ...!!
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posted on 
02/05/2003 8:15:20 AM PST
by 
CyberAnt
( Yo!  Syracuse)
 
To: E Rocc
    "...it's too much like bathing."
LOL. Hey, conspiracy folks - is this some kind of connection with France? Or just some lefty psychic undertone?
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posted on 
02/05/2003 8:44:24 AM PST
by 
Green Kayak
(polemics of the hairy unwashed)
 
To: Gothmog
    Is a slushball considered a WMD?
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posted on 
02/05/2003 8:46:13 AM PST
by 
Green Kayak
(Hey, that one had soap in it!)
 
To: Green Kayak
    It depends. To peaceniks, a slushball thrown by an American at an Iraqi is slaughter. A slushball thrown by an Iraqi at an American is justifiable retribution against an omnipresent oppressor.
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posted on 
02/05/2003 8:58:03 AM PST
by 
Gothmog
 
To: Gothmog
    "By the time order was restored, several demonstrators were arrested. But Ehlers, a professor at UC-Berkeley in the 1960s, wasnt impressed.
  
 'Nothing like a Vietnam protest,' he said of the melee..." Very telling. His only point of reference.
 
To: Gothmog
    So...I guess that's the only way Iraq can win: if Hell freezes over...
To: Howlin; JohnHuang2; MinuteGal
    in which outnumbered Bush supporters routed their opponents, according to one participant, by using better target selection and superior firepower. Pulled from the article for your reading pleasure!
 
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posted on 
02/05/2003 10:17:41 AM PST
by 
piasa
(Courtesy of the right-winged bluebird of happiness!)
 
To: Gothmog
    Snowball fight erupts during presidents healthcare message 
 AWWWWW i missed it!!! damn!!!
To: MotleyGirl70
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posted on 
02/05/2003 10:54:18 AM PST
by 
Dog Gone
 
To: Dog Gone
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