Reply #140: Since Clark supporters have been doing those things, without the

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PR campaign, and since the war began, I can assure you that nobody objects to acts of kindness toward troops and veterans. Since I demonstrated against the Vietnam War, the American Legion and Richard Nixon when John Edwards couldn't bring himself to take a side, I can assure you that nobody objects to antiwar protests. Since nobody believes GB and Co. will bring them home, why even mention it? The objection is not to the program Edwards is setting forth for his supporters. The objection is to the politicization of Memorial Day, no matter who is doing it. Edwards is running for president, so it would be difficult not to associate this effort with politics, and we'll have to see if voters can swallow it or not. The question, on this political discussion board, is was this smart politics or dumb politics?