DC Anti-War Protest Pictures
As promised, here are a few of my favorite pictures from today’s anti-war protest in Washington, DC (you can also check out the full gallery for lots more). Click on any picture to see a clearer version.
I don’t get this one at all. A giant robotic NAZI Hillary Clinton? What message are they going for here? Also, who’s first choice at an anti-war protest is to attack Hillary? Sure, she voted for the war, but there’s clearly bigger fish to fry. It makes me wonder if this was a right-winger who mistakenly showed up at the anti-war protest thinking it was the pro-war protest.
There were a lot of 911 conspiracy people at the event today. It must be very discouraging to try to throw a real, legitimate, anti-war rally, only to have your message undercut and rationality brought into question by the conspiracy wing.
Finally, a group that everybody can get behind.
The Ron Paul people were extremely well organized at the event. They outnumbered any other candidate faction by an order of magnitude. They were pitching him as the only candidate who voted against the war and against the PATRIOT Act. I was forced to wonder, though, whether any of the people who were supporting him were registered Republicans and/or able to vote in the Republican primary? Drawing support at the anti-war protest isn’t going to do much for you during the primaries.
This one shocked me. I have to imagine this was a real minority opinion.
And finally, I have no idea what these signs are supposed to mean (that was actually a common theme at the protest), but I like them!
September 15th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
There was an episode this season (or was it in the movie?) where Lisa Simpson was President in someone’s dream/flash forward sequence. And just like Jed Bartlett, her on screen presidency was far preferable to reality. (Of course, I can think of many fictional characters, a variety of plants, and a good number of inatimate objects that’d do a better job than Mr. Bush has done…
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September 15th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
If it’s from this season (or any of the last nine seasons) I probably haven’t seen it. Whatever, I’d be proud to say that Lisa Simpson is MY President.
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September 15th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
Wow very interseting.
-tom
Ron Paul Media
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September 16th, 2007 at 5:41 am
I’m thinking that a lot of people believe that Hilary is part of the neocon agenda and expect her to be a major candidate in the elections. You should really go to politicalcompass.org and learn the differences between Right Left, Authoritarian & Libertarian, people always get them confused. I’m a Middle Libertarian voting for Ron Paul, registered as R just to vote for him. Interesting to find out that I am Libertarian, people always call me right wing LOL.
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September 16th, 2007 at 5:47 am
Ha, I’m actually fairly comfortable with the right, left, authoritarian, libertarian split. It just seems like Hillary makes a low-priority target for the anti-war crowd. I understand their annoyance with her, but if I were them there’s a laundry list of people I’d make robotic-NAZI dolls out of before her.
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September 16th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
A giant robotic Nazi Hilary Clinton … that’s just kinda weird …
I think the word is starting to spread to Ron Paul supporters to register Republican so that they can participate in the primary in their state. I am impressed by how Paul has been able to draw support from the liberals, conservatives, libertarians and independents.
Thanks for sharing the pics!
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September 17th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
doesn’t “libertarian” just mean “i don’t want people to spit on me when i tell them i’m a republican?”
also, that lisa-as-president episode ain’t so bad (comparatively). it’s from 10 or 11, i think and features the classic lines:
“you pay now! now!”
“what happened to you, china? you used to be cool.”
“hey, china still cool! you pay later! later!”
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September 17th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Libertarian can also mean, Republican but pro-drugs and pro-prostitution. At first people on the left want to spit on you, then people on the right want to spit on you, then everybody’s sort of just confused.
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October 29th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Hillary is likely to be just as pro-war as Bush. It’s natural to attack her at anti-war rallies. Everybody already hates Bush. It’s vital for the anti-war crowd to get out the word about Hillary being just as bad. The worry is that there won’t be an anti-war candidate running at all.
Incidentally, the Ron Paul group was probably predominantly registered Republicans, no matter what they looked like. It’s a major Ron Paul tactic to go recruit and register -new- Republicans at events like these.
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October 29th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
It just seems exceedingly unlikely that you’re going to be able to register anyone as a Republican at this type of anti-war rally. It’s just not the right crowd for it. Good on them for trying, but I think it’s a fool’s errand.
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