Greensburg(PA) Kerry rally disrupted

[RamboLiberal]

Note this is Dicky Mellon Scaife country, but this is NOT Scaife paper reporting.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04280/391538.stm

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At lunchtime, 13 Kerry supporters gathered in front of the Westmoreland County Court House to bang a drum, chant slogans and exchange banter, thumbs-ups, and other hand signals with passersby.

Bush-Cheney campaign headquarters is directly across Main Street. The people inside closed the windows and lowered the blinds.

A little after noon a fiftyish man ran out the front door of the building housing the GOP offices, crossed the four-lane Main Street, and grabbed Lainie Maloy's big blue Kerry banner.

"He was screaming like a lunatic, obscenities mostly," the Greensburg woman said, her peace-sign earrings swinging.

"He told us he hopes al Qaida kills us all," said Thor Strong. "He grabbed the banner and took off back across the road, dragging with him."

[Worst Username Ever]

1. I can smell the desparation from here. ahhhhh.....

smells like victory.

[Forkboy]

2. It's been all downhill for the repukes since Raygun bit it

As an aside,Thor Strong sounds like something the Hulk would say :)

[Parche]

3. protestors

Republican led Al-Kida

[whirlygigspin]

4. charming man

"They hate us for our Freedom!" don't ya know.

[AspenRose]

5. Is he related to the dude in Colorado who punched out those

peaceful "Veterans for Kerry" parade participants?

They are losing it...(isn't it great?) ;-)

[underpants]

6. Just happened to get "thrown out" the alley door huh?

Or was it he got "thrown out" but snuck back in and went through an alley door that he happened to find because he surely doesn't work there.......right?

[tech3149]

10. He had to work there

The alley exit is one floor down and not easy to find.

[Bok_Tukalo]

7. I wonder what "other hand signals" were exchanged

with passersby?

[htuttle]

8. Ever see the movie 'Falling Down'?

I fear we are going to see a lot of that in the next few months.

[RamboLiberal]

16. I got called a Communist today by a co-worker

One of the koolaid drinking Limpballs/Shannity listeners came in to the office kitchen today where I was just quietly cleaning my coffee pot and cup and started razzing me that Cheney "destroyed" Edwards. Naturally I refuted him and said Edwards was winning all the polls - he retorted with that lame ABC poll.

When I told him Cheney showed who really ran the country last night, and it wasn't the idiot in chief he called me a Communist when I was leaving. I got back in his face and told him I don't take that shit and I'm as patriotic as he is.

Felt bad for the co-worker and vending machine employee who heard this. Had a few people question what the ruckus was but thankfully nothing said by the management.

I wasn't really that mad, more amused by the jerk, but just like Dems who face his "Wingnut pundit heroes" I had to raise my voice a bit to get the point across over his loudmouth Repug talking points rantings.

[Dzimbowicz]

20. I receive the same type of treatment,

but as a veteran who supports Kerry, I'm usually called a traitor. I don't let it get me down though, as I have put my butt on the line while those who hurl the epithets are usually the typical "cheerleader" types who think the war in Iraq is akin to a televised football game. As you so aptly phrased it "they are wingnut pundit heros".

Keep up the good fight.


www.veteransforpeace.org

[ixion]

9. "He told us he hopes al Qaida kills us all,"

okay, someone want to explain to me how this is NOT giving aid and comfort to the enemy?

Why is it okay for freepers to wish death and destruction on liberals, and yet the slightest rebuttal to any of their absurd sound bytes is met with the stupid question "why do you hate Bush? Why are you giving comfort to the enemy?"

My point is that it's a stupid argument to bring up in the first place, and the GOP and neocons should be smacked down for even introducing the thought.

[graywarrior]

11. This has been building for months

A tiny little Kerry bumper sticker can send certain drivers into road rage to the point of driving you off the road, screaming a yelling obsceneties at you, flipping you the finger amoung other actions.

One of my friends here in Florida walked into a bank where a woman tried to pull her Beat Bush button right off her shirt.

They're all unhinged. Just like their two leaders. Temper temper.

[Flammable Materials]

27. Still no abuse after 4 months w/ Kerry sticker on my car.

I did get my tires slashed after I wrote "IMPEACH THE SHRUB" on the dirt on the back of my car, shortly after the start of the Iraq war.

Nothing else since. (I live in Nashville.)

On the contrary, I'm seeing more and more Kerry bumper stickers and yard signs every single day. Some days I drive home (30 mile commute each way on the interstate) and see more Kerry stickers than W stickers. Not every day, but some days.

[colonel odis]

39. i live in nashville, too, and am surprised at the number of kerry

yard signs and bumper stickers i'm seeing. seeing them in neighborhoods and on makes of cars that surprise me.

[Kurovski]

28. Where did

the road rage incident take place?

[Diana52]

24. They believe it's appropriate behavior, because...

they have a Chickenhawk, Drug-store Cowboy, Commander-in-Chief spouting things like..."you are either for us, or against us"!

eom

[ixion]

33. just because they believe it is, that doesn't make it right

eom

[FlemingsGhost]

12. Imagine what ardent W supporters are feeling these days.

Its all falling apart, and they know it. The New American Century is gonna fall 96 years short.

I imagine their behavior will become even more irrational as the anger and frustration grows. It'll be easy to spot a Republican on November 3rd. Long faces, short tempers ...

[txindy]

17. Gotta agree with that

It'll be even more hazardous to have a Kerry sticker/sign/button/shirt/etc. on Nov. 3rd. Not
that that will stop me. :party:

[republicansareevil]

13. I don't know why they let that Republican...

...slip in her talking points about other GOP offices being targeted. I think it's mostly BS, but when it's put in the story as an aside like that, people aren't going to try to find out the true story. So a verifiable event where a man coming FROM (not just TO) the building where the GOP offices are attacks a group of Dems is turned into a story about Dems attacking the GOP. How fair.

[callous taoboy]

14. BWAAAA HAAAAA HAAAA

"He told us he hopes al Qaida kills us all,"

You realize it takes many pitchers of the kool-aide to produce this reaction.

[Voltaire99]

15. Er...Thor Strong?

Either somebody gave the Post Gazette a fictitious name, or his parents read too many comics.

But yes, swearing Bush louts are very bad. This, in fact, is happening on both sides; I'm sure it's very personally satisfying for the nutty true believers, but it has nothing to do with democracy and everything to do with the slide into fascism.

[booksenkatz]

18. Awww, I guess they're sore because

their chimp don't dance and their daddy don't rock 'n roll.

Sometimes I wonder what they'd fill in the blank with if they had not been gifted with the term al Qaida? They loooooooove their boogeymen, don't they?! If so many people were not dead because of them, I'd almost think it's humorous.

[no_hypocrisy]

19. Happened b/c Kerry made a mistake: he didn't have "invitation only"

for his audience like * did this morning in Wilkes-Barre, PA.

Pick your audience and you can grow deaf from the applause.

[blue neen]

21. If the man would have been older, I'd have thought it was Scaife himself!

But he always sends his henchmen to do his dirty work.

So the Repugs are coming unglued in Greensburg, huh?

[bleedingheart]

22. I know Lainie!

She is a great supporter of Kerry. She is also a courageous breast cancer survivor! She has more spunk and intelligence in her little finger than twenty repukes.

[RamboLiberal]

29. Hey bleedingheart - that was a couple of great rallies last night

Lainie certainly has the courage of her convictions. Glad I wasn't there cause that idiot * wingnut might've been karate kicked back to his Repuke HQ.

[VegasWolf]

23. Hopes al Qaida kills all Dems. How christian and compassionate!

"Kerry has a 'chocolate chip' on his team", Limbaugh says
on his radio show after learning Jesse Jackson has joined the organization.

[Oak2004]

25. I think this is wrong to interpret as just another looney tale

There's a very serious dimension to all these tales of assaults and thefts and hackings.

These people are not the conservatives we fought 20 or 15 or even 10 years ago. Today, the right wing activists who are arrayed against us and the rest of America are believers in what is at core a totalitarian philosophy. They believe that they are absolutely right and good because their ideology tells them they are. They believe that all who disagree with them are absolutely wrong and the very incarnation of evil, because their ideology says we're evil. Because they don't have the absolute power that they crave, most of them restrain themselves from engaging in criminal behavior against us, but their restraint is tactical, not moral. Obviously, some of them can't seem to keep themselves under control. But if the lid ever came off and they were free to attack anyone who opposes them, that's exactly what they'd do.

We're not dealing with frustrated nuts here. We're dealing with would-be stormtroopers.

[bleedingheart]

26. all they need are brown shirts and arm bands and it would complete

the image I already have of them..

[RamboLiberal]

30. I never understood how so many people could so blindly

follow an evil leader ala the Nazis, till this regime.

[graywarrior]

32. In answer to where did the road rage take place

In Sarasota, on N. Lockwood Ridge Road, twice. Two different lunatics passed me blowing their horn, flipping the finger and swearing at me and yelling negatives about Kerry. Then they cut sharply in front of me and slowed down to 20 miles per hour.

Tonight there was an SUV in front of me with anti Kerry stickers all over it including Kerry lied, men died. I wanted to road rage them off the road, but my husband was driving and he is not hot headed like me.

[TheWebHead]

31. preliminary composite of GOP worker

[Mr E McSquare]

35. webhead

Now thats funny! he, he, he.

[Tight_rope]

34. LMBAO....this is too funny....the repukes are looneys!

[spinbaby]

36. Channel 4 mentioned this in passing last night

After their much bigger story about Bush/Cheney signs being defaced in Canonsburg.

[snippy]

37. How very republican. n/t

[truthisfreedom]

38. unhinged repukes

stressed-out, paranoid, and violent.

[bushisanidiot]

40. "He was screaming like a lunatic, obscenities mostly," must've been hard

not to laugh at a guy saying that shit with a kool-aid mustache on his upper lip.

heh..