It's just this kind of thing that makes us look bad

[underpants]

and associating with people who don't 110% agree with every single thing, real or implied, that WE ALL do well that is just counter productive. If WE can't have it all the way WE want it (since we all agree completely all the time) then we shouldn't be a part of it at all. I am taking my part of the ball and going home.

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Looking back in from the outside

Okay so this weekend I paid little attention to the news or anything like that but on Saturday I did flip around to see the March.....nothing nowhere. All hurricane all the time. That is to be expected I guess but you would think that during news recaps there would be some mention of the march, nope.

I did click on C-SPan and saw a young lady doing lost and found announcements at the rally and asking for patience "We will march soon".

Okay so almost three years ago I went to DC on October 26th to protest the war. I asked another DU'er who these ANSWER people were "Maoist revolutionaries... but hey they apparently are the only ones who can put this together" with a shrug we silently agreed that that was enough for us. The same still applies.

So I see Wolf Blitzer discussing Cindy Sheehan's arrest yesterday and he throws in something about their coverage of the march this weekend. I laughed out loud. This was only the second loudest laugh I had at the news media this weekend-on Saturday Brian Williams said "You may recall those massive traffic jams in Houston late last week" ....uh Brian that was on Friday, one day earlier not "late last week". There seemed to be NO coverage of the traffic jam after Thursday. I guess this is supposed to be the model of how to run an emergency (take THAT you Dem's in Louisiana) so no mention of it need be made.

Anyway this rambling thread will end now. Cindy getting arrested yesterday was a smart move to turn the spotlight back on the march on Saturday (see America it IS okay to speak out). As far as ANSWER goes...eh I don't agree with a lot of what they say but I would guess that most of the crowd I saw three years ago didn't either. That's not the point the point is, now, to remind people how horrible a decision the war was/how they were lied to/ and the nonexistent post war planning by those who wanted this.

One last thing. "My ticket home is in Baghdad"-lots of GIs were saying that before the war. They got sold that line and it seemed to be their rallying call. We should remind them and everyone of that.

[applegrove]

1. I agree we need to be a big tent. But communism is dead man -

it never produced anything. Can we not be discerning at all. Can we not organize ourselves and just skip it with the communism? Next time?

I also think we need to be tolerant of various views - because we are different people.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. And underpants doesn't project a bad image?

[rodeodance]

3. we have not seen all those rescues with Rita either--embedded reporters

as far as I can tell.

.....So I see Wolf Blitzer discussing Cindy Sheehan's arrest yesterday and he throws in something about their coverage of the march this weekend. I laughed out loud. This was only the second loudest laugh I had at the news media this weekend-on Saturday Brian Williams said "You may recall those massive traffic jams in Houston late last week" ....uh Brian that was on Friday, one day earlier not "late last week". There seemed to be NO coverage of the traffic jam after Thursday. I guess this is supposed to be the model of how to run an emergency (take THAT you Dem's in Louisiana) so no mention of it need be made.

[underpants]

4. I think the clear implication is that there was leadership in Texas

and we are supposed to believe that every single person were good little citizens and did what they were told to do and that that LEADERSHIP saved the day.

That seems to be the clear message here.

[Traveling_Home]

5. If we don't maintain that A.N.S.W.E.R. is wrong

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."
Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine was so fed up with the Virginian aristocracy that took
over from the British that after the American Revolution he moved to
France.

[xchrom]

6. lot's of people go to answer's protests

who have nothing to do with answer.

they are there to protest.

complain about communism all you want -- but answer gets the protest job done.

[magnetism]

7. but there is a problem with answer

They use us to get out their agenda not ours and it turns away the people that we want to attract.

[madfloridian]

8. If we feel uncomfortable watching the speeches, and turn it off

every year, then I don't expect the Democrats to be there unless they feel comfortable.

We have turned it off every year, as do our friends and neighbors here. We want to see the march, we rally every week, every Sunday throughout the year to protest the war.....but we can not bear to watch the Answer rallies on TV.

If you want to have a true protest, then get them out of the way...keep the agenda simple.