Her Dying Wish: To Oust Bush (obituary)

[Rowdyboy]

New Otleans: Gertrude M. Jones didn't want flowers or cards sent when she died. She wanted to ger rid of President George W. Bush

The 81 year old womans obituary asked...(more)

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usdeth083531426nov08,0,1382149.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines

I pledge $25 to Wesley Clark, above and beyond what I intended to give him, in Ms. Jone's behalf. Whoever your candidate, please give him or her something (if you can) to honor this fine lady.

I told my partner this morning after reading this, should I die unexpectedly in the next year, please do this for me.

[Kolesar]

1. And if I die before I wake

I pray George Bush is the next God takes
(gotta take Cheney, too, Lord)

[Rowdyboy]

2. So then we get Hastert

then Ted Stevens, Powell, Rumsfeld and (God forbid!) AssKroft

[Kolesar]

3. Aaah, then we better use the ballot box

A few letters to the editor would not hurt in the meantime.

[MessiahRp]

4. Same thing happened here

http://www.madison.com/captimes/opinion/column/nichols/55218.php

Even the obits are going against Bush
By John Nichols, Capital Times
August 21, 2003

Buzz Davis laughed a good hard laugh.

"Oh, I would have loved to know that lady!" exclaimed the Stoughton activist and former Dane County supervisor.

Davis was talking about Sally Baron, who passed away Monday in Stoughton at age 71. Baron did not make a lot of news in her lifetime - she was busy working and raising six kids - but she went out with a message that warmed the hearts of Davis and a lot of other small-town Wisconsin progressives.

No one should slip the mortal coil without raging one last time against the dying of the light. And so Sally Baron did.

"Memorials in her honor can be made to any organization working for the removal of President Bush," reads Baron's obituary in today's editions of The Capital Times.

When I read that line, which her family decided to include in the obituary, I didn't need to see another word to be sure that Sally Baron was a native Wisconsinite rooted in the working-class progressive politics of this state.

And so she was.

EDITED BY ADMIN: COPYRIGHT

[Rowdyboy]

5. That is so neat...

Thanks for the link

[latebloomer]

6. Isn't that the lady

who said Bush was a "whistleass"?

[mandyky]

7. No, the whistle ass lady was

Sally Baron and she was from Wisconsin

[ShaneGR]

8. Is this the whistle-ass lady?

Or a new one?

[grasswire]

9. a new one...

...and this is the fourth thread on Gertrude Jones.

Keep it alive!

[Myra]

10. Very kewl

Hey, dead people can be a powerful voting demographic.
They made all the difference in elections a few
decades ago when Chicago was notorious for casting
thousands of votes...from dead people. A Chicago
style casket had voting mechanisms installed.
Horizontal voting booths. Or so the old joke goes.

Anyway, the wise candidate will have the proverbial
big tent policy welcoming voters of all types:
rich/poor, white/people of color, men/women, dead/alive.

:evilgrin:

[Don_G]

13. Don't Forget Asskrap

After all, it is hard to lose an election to a corpse.

[Myra]

14. Good point!

The fine people of Missouri favored
a dead (murdered) candidate over a
mummified confederate officer.

[janx]

11. The really sad thing is that she was probably an old IKE

republican.

Not many of those around anymore. Bless their hearts.

[robsul82]

12. That was famous down here...

...in New Orleans, yeah. In the Times-Picayune, whole deal. I remember some people thought it was "inappropriate."

Later.

RJS