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Cindy Sheehan Watch: Anti-War Demonstrations BORE Washington
L-R: Civil rights leader Rev. Jessie Jackson, Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, NAACP chairman Julian Bond and Rev. Al Sharpton march with thousands of other pro-peace supporters through the streets near the World Bank Group/International Monetary Fund Annual Boards of Governors meetings in Washington, DC.
The ASSociated Press has Anti-War Demonstrators March on Washington.
Crowds opposed to the war in Iraq surged past the White House on Saturday, shouting “Peace now” in the largest anti-war protest in the nation’s capital since the U.S. invasion.
The rally stretched through the day and into the night, a marathon of music, speechmaking and dissent on the National Mall. Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey, noting that organizers had hoped to draw 100,000 people, said, “I think they probably hit that.”
This rally was poorly attended (mainly the radical LEFT and International Socialists) and inconsequential.
The NOT – too busy scene in Washington.
And then the excuses as to why turn-out was low.
Thousands of additional protesters were stranded in New York and other East Coast cities when 13 Amtrak commuter trains either were delayed or canceled because of an early morning electrical outage.
Cindy Sheehan, the California mother who drew thousands of demonstrators to her 26-day vigil outside Bush’s Texas ranch last month, won a roar of approval when she took the stage in Washington. Her 24-year-old son, Casey, was killed in Iraq last year.
“Shame on you,” Sheehan admonished, directing that portion of her remarks to members of Congress who backed Bush on the war. “How many more of other people’s children are you willing to sacrifice?
She led the crowd in chanting, “Not one more.”
YAWN……. BTW President Bush was out of town managing Hurricane Rita relief efforts.
Michelle Malkin has some more photos and MORE of the Washington event.
The Political Teen has video of Cindy Sheehan’s speech. I have video clips of Sheehan, Cynthia McKinney, and the death cries of the moonbats on my Treo 650, which I’ll be attempting to upload later tonight.
Kris at Reflections of a Libertarian Republican was also photoblogging the rally/march. Excellent photos and narrative.
Meanwhile, some more fair and balanced blogospherical coverage:
Jeff Goldstein dissects the MSM’s anti-war protest puffery.
LGF: What if they had a protest and no one came?
Stop the Bleating: Spinning the protests redux
Glenn Reynolds notes that the moonbats are ignoring the Kos pose.The GayPatriotWest has If Iraq is like Vietnam, how come the rallies keep getting smaller?
And Cindy Sheehan is jealous of the Hurrican Rita television coverage.
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George Galloway Watch: Galloway in Los Angeles Part I
Flap previously had George Galloway Watch: Coming to Los Angeles – REMINDER AND DETAILS.
It was the afternoon of Thursday, September 22nd, and after numerous phone calls, e-mails, flakey bloggers and friends, Flap heads off to Los Angeles to see George Galloway on his USA book tour (ending tonight in Washington D.C with the Cindy Sheehan appearing anti-Iraq War peace march).
Audio of his previous speech in Chicago is here.
Flap is late ( a relative is unexpectedly and unfortuately admitted to a San Fernando Valley hospital) for the leaflet distribution organized by the Armed Liberal but thanks to Sprint arrives (with a fortuitous on the street parking spot) shortly after 6:30 PM.
The Armed Liberal, friend and leaflets (which AL has decided not to distribute prior to the speech) await Flap on the Immanuel Presbyterian church entrance steps.
The Armed Liberal and friend avoiding the Socialist Worker’s folks who were selling their “FREE” newspaper.Flap thought that someone else would pay for my copy of the Socialist Worker rag but CAPITALISM lives – at least on the streets of LA.
The AL has purchased a ticket for Flap and we are set to enter the church.
More……… to follow……
Armed Liberal began his live-blogging thread before parenthood called.
Patterico is watching for Galloway news.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Bulworth Rips Arnold a New One
Actor Warren Beatty addresses members of the California Nurses Association, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2005, in Oakland, Calif. Beatty, a Democrat who has been mentioned as a possible challenger to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger next year, has in the past few months emerged as one of the governor’s most visible and vociferous critics.
The AFP has Warren Beatty rips California governor Schwarzenegger.
Hollywood movie star and liberal iconWarren Beatty lambasted Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at a California state nurses convention late Thursday, but insisted he didn’t want to challenge him in next year’s election.
“I have a day job,” Beatty told the more than 500 nurses at a dinner in Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. “I can make movies when I want to.”
What a Laugh!
Warren Beatty can make movies but who will go and see them.
But, he is RIGHT!.
He better keep his day job because the Governator would KICK his ass if he were to ever get past a Democrat primary election.
Beatty upbraided the governor for not criticizing Bush’s “mistaken gambles” of invading Iraq, not girding levees in Louisiana, and ignoring warnings that could have prevented the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.
Bulworth sounds more like George Galloway than a mainstream Democrat.
Other quotes from Wannabe Pol Beatty:
Schwarzenegger was governing by “show spin, cosmetics, photo ops, fake events, fake issues and backdrops,” Beatty charged.
“Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation,” Beatty said.
Of course, Warren Beatty is a radical Leftie and has absolutely NO chance of being elected to any office.
But Beatty used most of his address to rail against the Republican governor’s “year of reform” ballot initiatives in the Nov. 8 special election. Schwarzenegger is pushing several measures that would curb the power of the Democrat-controlled Legislature and the state’s powerful public employee unions.
Beatty, who has criticized the governor several times this year, called the initiatives “union busting” and “fascist.”
More Galloway rhetoric.
But Bulworth likes the PR.
Schwarzenegger’s reaction:
Schwarzenegger spokeswoman Margita Thompson said “we don’t care that much about Warren Beatty, and based on his ticket sales from the past generation, I doubt anyone else does either.”
Indeed.
Technorati Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Warren Beatty, California Nurses Association