So far, the march and rally in NY today has been peaceful.
Joan Johnson, a Republican delegate from Islip, New York, said the demonstrators were exercising their rights. ``If you were to protest against Saddam Hussein when he was in power, you would be dead,'' she said.
This always makes me mad. Why do the Bushies say things like this? To try to make us feel guilty for our Constitutional rights? To encourage us to be grateful that we can excercise those rights? Maybe to be grateful that Bush hasn't taken the rights away yet, but to caution us "out-of-the-mainstream" people that we're treading on shaky ground? Pulllease....
Foy Jolley, a delegate from Cheyenne, Wyoming, said he had no fear of the protesters or of being in New York.
``I will not be deterred by a threat of hostile action here,'' said Jolley, 64, a retired department chief of the Wyoming State capitol police and a U.S. Air Force Vietnam veteran. Speaking in the lobby of the Sheraton New York Hotel & Tower at 53rd Street and Broadway, Jolly said he supports Bush ``150 percent.''
Jolley said he refused to bring his wife, Cheryl, a Democrat, with him. ``I said, `I am not paying your way here to protest against my president.'''
Way to smack down your wife, dude. (Or do you smack her around as well as refusing to bring her with you on vacations?) She's obviously much smarter than you are if she's not planning to vote for "your" president who is busy going to war under false pretenses and killing your fellow soldiers.
And does that extra 50% of your support mean that you are working with Diebold to rig the election so that Bush gains the White House by shady means for a second time?
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