Reply #316: damn! everybody is posting on this one. i'd better get in on it too.

[orleans]

otherwise i'm gonna feel very left out.

my 2 cents:
i love cindy! t-shirt, jeans, i don't give a damn.
even though i am aware of dress etiquette (as someone on this thread was attempting to refer to) and i realize society dictates that one should not dress casually for a formal event i say fuck it. she was busy all day and obviously she is an extremely sincere person without "airs" -- she is so sincere and straightforward about her intentions that this superficial bullshit about "dressing up" probably didn't even occur to her. she was zeroed in on the fact that she would see the man who sent her child off to die for a lie.

if i was in her situation i'm sure i wouldn't be thinking i'm not dressed up enough and if it did occur to me i probably wouldn't give a rats ass that my lack of dress-up was offending that man.

she doesn't seem pretentious to me--se seems honest, and down to earth and real. she also comes off as a very kind, gentle and mild person.

and, besides all of this--the supreme court ruled in cohen v. california (in june of 1971 where someone wore the words "Fuck the Draft" on his jacket when he was in a courthouse) that "we cannot induldge the facile assumption that one can forbid particular words without also running a substantial risk of suppressing ideas in the process. indeed, governments might soon seize upon the censorship of particular words as a convenient guise for banning the expression of unpopular views. We have been able...to discern little social benefit that might result from running the risk of opening the door to such grave results."

and with that in mind, maybe she should've just worn a FUCK BUSH shirt and they would have left her alone.