Johnny, we liked you better when you opposed the war

[oldhen]

A prominent politico recently visited campus, to rally students to his party in light of the coming elections to US Congress. Amidst the long line of folks waiting to get in to the auditorium to hear the gent speak were a bunch of my friends holding anti-war signs. The said politico's staffers, ever vigilant for the slightest sign of a potential

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Dunno what to say!

[anonymous]

Anti-War protestors should have been the right of way into the hall as the politico himself was a proponent of the same. "I have a plan" was his famous line to get the nation out of war. Dunno what to say, when opposition is muffled down using muscle in a country that is on a so-called crusade to instill democracy in nations where it is non-existent. Really... dunno what to say...

Re: Dunno what to say!

[oldhen]

as the politico himself was a proponent of the same.

He's come a ways from his Vietnam era days of "How do you ask a man to die for a mistake".. I've yet to hear him ( or any of the senior democrats) come out and say clearly that going into Iraq in the first place was wrong..

Dunno what to say, when opposition is muffled down using muscle

I know, dissent has to be satisfied with these free speech zones..

[brokentooth]

Kerry's pro-war now? I didn't know that.

Something quite similar happened when Ann Coulter visited campus here. However, she almost got hit in the face with a pie later that same evening, which mostly made up for it. So close, so close.

Video here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Fv9xa-VxchM

[oldhen]

Kerry's pro-war now?

Kerry's still dithering on the war, trying to walk the fine line between going into Iraq wasn't so bad, but way it was handled was botched..

So close, so close.

SO close is about right, her reaction is too funny! god that woman is insufferable, wouldn't expect much reasonableness from her, but this incident to me just served as another reminder that the Democrats aren't really all that different..