Tiny Crawford Braces for Dueling Rallies

[norml]

Tiny Crawford Braces for Dueling Rallies
From Associated Press

CRAWFORD, Texas -- This one-stoplight town of 700 residents near President Bush's ranch braced for thousands of visitors today, most in a cross-country caravan for a pro-Bush rally and others to support Cindy Sheehan's anti-war demonstration.

More than 3,000 people were expected at the school football stadium for a pro-Bush rally, the culmination of the "You don't speak for me, Cindy!" tour that started last week in California.

It would be the largest counter protest since Sheehan started camping out off the road leading to Bush's ranch Aug. 6, soon after his Texas vacation began. She vowed to remain unless he talked to her about the war with Iraq that claimed the life of her son Casey and more than 1,870 other U.S. soldiers.

The pro-Bush caravan was coordinated by Move America Forward, a group led by former Republican California Assemblyman Howard Kaloogian and Sal Russo, the strategist who in 2003 launched one of the two simultaneous efforts to recall California's then-governor, Democrat Gray Davis.


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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-082705iraqprotest_wr,0,4432731.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[salin]

1. hehe Times doesn't fall for that "grassroots" line

funded by republicans for republicans to create an image of republicans.

[The Witch]

2. They expect 3,000 people?

Tell me this is, how would he say it, a misoverestimation...

There must be more than 1,000 people at Camp Casey, right?

Oh curse that I am not there right now ;_;

[TahitiNut]

4. Well, an 'expectation' is merely a "premeditated resentment."

:toast: Here's to schadenfreude - looking forward to their resentment. :evilgrin:

[shaniqua6392]

3. 3,000 people for Bush

and a few hundred for Cindy. Yeah, right. That is why every time we see pics of shrublovers there are about ten people or less. I want to see pictures of these 3,000 that are expected for Bush. God I hate the media.