Scenes From Today's RBC Hillary Protest

[babylonsister]

Scenes From Today's RBC Hillary Protest


Howard Dean may hope that the "healing will begin today," but two blocks away from the northwest Washington Marriott where the DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee is meeting right now to try to figure out Florida and Michigan, the Hillary protesters are occupying an utterly alternate (and healing-free) universe: a universe in which one of the big lawn rally's speakers yells that the Democratic Party no longer is in the business of "promoting equality and fairness for all"; in which a Hillary supporter with two poodles shouts, "Howard Dean is a leftist freak!"; in which a man exhibits a sign that reads "At least slaves were counted as 3/5ths a Citizen" and shows Dean whipping handcuffed people; and in which Larry Sinclair, the Minnesota man who took to YouTube to allege that Barack Obama had oral sex with him in the back of a limousine in 1999, is one of the belles of the ball.

"They almost made me cry this morning when they told me to get out of there," the blond Sinclair--who's looking roly-poly and giddy in a blue-and-white striped shirt with a pack of Marlboros protruding from the breast pocket--says, referring to several nervous protest organizers who tried to evict him when he first showed up at the rally site early this morning carrying a box of "Obama's DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS: Murder, Drugs, Gay Sex" fliers. Since then, though, he goes on, "I have been totally surprised by the reception I have received!"

He's not kidding. Clusters of people in Hillary shirts ask to take their photo with him, one woman covered in Clinton buttons introduces him to Greta Van Susteren, and he estimates he has handed out 500 fliers. "You could improve your credibility if you downplayed the gay sex and focused on the drugs," sagely advises one Hillary supporter with auburn hair and elegant makeup. But in this universe, Sinclair's credibility doesn't seem to be suffering too much. In fact, he's treated nearly as well as he might be at a meeting of the Vast Right-wing Conspiracy. In the thirty minutes I stand with him, only one woman expresses disgust at his fliers and his willingness to chattily discourse on whether Obama is "good in bed."

Earlier, he claims, he even got to take a picture with Charlie Rangel. "I love him!" Sinclair chirps, though, it must be said, not as much as he loves Lanny Davis.

Has it come to this? We tend to assume the Hillary camp's hot rhetoric--that Obama's less ready than McCain to be commander-in-chief, that the DNC in Florida is like Mugabe in Zimbabwe--is studied, purposeful, that they can't really believe it. That may be true at the Lanny Davis level, but by the time it trickles down to Hillary's most grassroots supporters, it becomes deadly serious.

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http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/05/31/scenes-from-today-s-rbc-hillary-protest.aspx

[TwilightGardener]

1. They're not Democrats. They might think they are, but they're not--they are

members of a cult.

[boobooday]

2. Larry Sinclair . . . ugh - ugh- ugly

You would think, of all people, Clinton supporters would reject this kind of bullshit, dragging out the tawdry, desperate attention-mongers in order to smear an opponent.

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, eh? It's the only thought process I can imagine. Those who watch the right know that they have nasty, filthy (similar!) smears they would have used on Clinton, and Obama NEVER went anywhere near them.

[babylonsister]

4. Isn't this disgusting? If they're Dems, I'm in the wrong party. nt

[Cheap_Trick]

8. don't worry babs..

THEY'RE in the wrong party. The sooner they're gone, the better.

[jaxx]

3. Sad isn't it?

And their leader sits in PR suggesting it'll go to the convention.

[Yael]

5. And here we have the dark underbelly of our country

Sad little people.

[Yael]

6. I can't wait for the pic of Charlie Rangell and Sinclair to hit the internet

I wonder if Rangell even knew who he was posing with?

[buff2]

7. Obama is going to be our next President

They better face it and get over it. I am a former Hillary supporter,but I am doing the right thing...I'm supporting Obama now.

[DCKit]

9. What a freak show.

It was a good day to stay in.

[Yael]

10. (Large pic) -- Sinclair with Rep. Conyers

Hot off the presses from hcf.net

Edit -- WAY too large.

I resized and uploaded:

[babylonsister]

11. Looks like John Conyers to me, but UGH! nt

[Yael]

12. It is -- I went with their lable.