DU this poll!

[sandyd921]

Wedding Day Protest
While President Bush is visiting the family compound in Kennebunkport for a wedding this weekend. During the wedding, a war protest is planned in town. Is this protest appropriate?

No: 50.82%

Yes: 47.76%

Undecided: 1.41%

Total Votes: 1275

http://news.mainetoday.com/home.shtml

[GrantDem]

1. Link???

[sandyd921]

4. Just added

:dunce:

n/t

[ima_sinnic]

2. link, please!

[bigwillq]

3. is there a link?

:shrug:

[pnorman]

5. I too would like a link

althoughI may Google for it later. However, I would vote NO in this instance --- fercrissakes, it's the Freak Republic CREEPS who would do such things!!

pnorman
On edit: There's no point in replying to those who don't get it!

[JuniperLea]

7. Oh, so it's not worth protesting needless and illegal deaths?

for the sake of propriety?

Whatever!

:eyes:

Personally, I think the rat bastard should be hounded 24/7!!! And if people don't want their festivities interrupted, then by god don't invite the M**********R!




Edited to say... it's not being held at the wedding anyway... in town.

[ima_sinnic]

11. we're sposed to give the unconscionable shit-stain a pass

just because a family member is getting married?
if I could afford it I would hound him mercilessly; for that I admire Cindy Sheehan, she didn't just think about, she's been doing it.

[sandyd921]

13. What's so sacrosanct

about a wedding of the rich and privileged while our soldiers and Iraqi men, women, and children are dying?

[pnorman]

28. Reply to myself.

I had read the original posting too hastily, and had mistakenly assumed that the protest would be as close to the wedding party as could be situated. I doubt that Cindy Sheehan would do that. But in town? That's an entirely different matter! Sorry if I got too dismissive with those who responded to me.

pnorman

[FloridaPat]

6. Here's the link.

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/york/060825bush.shtml

[eleny]

8. Thanks for the link and done

The link is actually to the results. But I lopped off the last part of the url and got to the voting just ifne.

[buff2]

9. Of course it's appropriate

That little war mongering murderer doesn't deserve ONE MINUTE'S PEACE! He certainly doesn't want the rest of us to have any,does he? He should be hounded everywhere he goes! :thumbsup:

[diddlysquat]

10. done

[ima_sinnic]

12. here is a corrected link

http://news.mainetoday.com/home.shtml

the one given in the OP goes to the results, not the poll itself

[sandyd921]

14. Thanks!

n/t

[benddem]

17. can the main post be edited to put this link there?

I went to the link in the main post and it looked like the poll was over.

[sandyd921]

18. Edited with the correct link

:hi:

[rzemanfl]

15. Done. n/t

[jeff30997]

16. Done!

No: 49.89%

Yes: 48.67%

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

19. Gotta Go With No On This One.

Unless it is Shrubby who is getting married, than I think it isn't totally appropriate. Now granted, the atrocities of this administration are far greater and I know that argument will get thrown around such as "oh the wedding's more important than an illegal war?" blah blah, but we all know nothing's more important than his atrocities. That's not my issue with this. My issue is that the people getting married are individuals outside of his crimes and don't deserve to have the beauty of their wedding day tarnished. Some could say "yeah but they support shrubby blah blah blah" but sorry, I don't think being a republican, shrubby supporter or ex business partner with shrubby means that your kids and your nephews etc.. don't deserve to ever have a happy wedding.

I think they should leave this one alone.

[DemonFighterLives]

26. Nothing against the couple getting married

I don't even know anything about them. Rather ironic that AWOL and none of his family have to serve as cannon fodder. The whole clan should be shipped over even for a night of bombs falling.
:dem:

[Ms. Toad]

29. Do you have more information than I found at the links?

All I see is wedding in the same town as Bush, in the same town as protest.

I don't see any reason for the entire town to shut down just because a wedding is going on somewhere in the town (or because Bush also happens to be in town).

A protest at, or attempting to interfere with, the wedding would (in my opinion) be inappropriate unless there is something major the wedding couple has done to deserve being the target of the protest. I don't see anything suggesting that a protest directed at/interfering with the couple's wedding is what is going on in any of the links of this thread.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

30. Here's A Snip From A Washington Post Article:

"The last time he came here was August 2004 for the wedding of his nephew George P. Bush, son of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R). It took another wedding to bring the president back, the Saturday nuptials of Walker Stapleton and Jennifer Bertocchi. Stapleton is the son of the former president's cousin Dorothy Walker Stapleton and her husband, Craig Roberts Stapleton, once a partner with George W. Bush in ownership of the Texas Rangers baseball team and now the presidentially appointed U.S. ambassador to France."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/24/AR2006082401462.html

[Ms. Toad]

33. You missed the part that makes a difference,

as far as I'm concerned:

>>Antiwar groups affiliated with Sheehan plan to rally as close as they can get to the wedding at St. Ann's Episcopal Church, near Walker's Point. "Join with people of conscience to call for an end to the war in Iraq and say NO! to the Bush Agenda," reads an online recruitment pitch for the demonstration.<<

I agree, protesters should not be targeting and/or disrupting the wedding of a couple who (through no fault of their own) happen to have the misfortune of being related to Bush.

(Edited to replace the edited message with the original text so the response attached to it makes sense)

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

35. I Don't See How That Makes A Difference And I'm Not Sure What You Meant By

saying I missed it. There's no way I could've missed it as that paragraph itself describes the whole reason for this thread to begin with. That is simply describing the protest of which I'm disagreeing with the concept of. I'm not sure what you meant by it making a difference somehow, or me missing it, and I mean that sincerely.

I see we are on the same page, however, with issue of targetting the wedding in general.

[Ms. Toad]

38. What makes a difference to me

is that the wedding is the intended target of the protest.

The question (and all the links I followed) asked "While President Bush is visiting the family compound in Kennebunkport for a wedding this weekend. During the wedding, a war protest is planned in town. Is this protest appropriate?"

Without more information, my answer to that is "Yes." Life (and protests) don't need to stop just because a wedding is scheduled in the same town for the same time as a planned protest (whether or not the president plans to attend the wedding).

The article you linked to gave me the more information I needed - the protesters are specifically targeting the wedding.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

41. LOL Shame On Me For My Total Lack Of Insight There.

I totally see what you meant now, but for some reason before just simply didn't grasp the point you were trying to make. Thanks for the clarification and my apologies for my temporary ignorance. :)

[Ms. Toad]

44. Occupational hazard...

I spend my days reading things in minute detail for what is and isn't said, so sometimes I read things too carefully for casual conversations.

[Ms. Toad]

34. You missed the part that makes a difference,

as far as I'm concerned:

>>Antiwar groups affiliated with Sheehan plan to rally as close as they can get to the wedding at St. Ann's Episcopal Church, near Walker's Point. "Join with people of conscience to call for an end to the war in Iraq and say NO! to the Bush Agenda," reads an online recruitment pitch for the demonstration.<<

I agree, protesters should not be targeting and/or disrupting the wedding of a couple who (through no fault of their own) happen to have the misfortune of being related to Bush.

(Accidental duplicate - left here since a response is attached to both the original and the duplicate)

[Erika]

39. What? Bush supporters should be free from criticism

while they are getting married? That logic escapes me.

[Ms. Toad]

43. I haven't seen anything to indicate they are

Bush supporters. If it was Rumsfield's or Rove's wedding I'd probably feel differently since those two are active participants in the war and/or promoting Bush's war agenda. If you have information which indicates the couple plays an active role in/or actively supports the Bush administration's war on the world it might change my mind.

Until then, I'll think back on my own wedding which included all sorts of relatives with whom I disagree with on politics. If I had the misfortune of being related to Bush, he would have been invited. I don't think refusing to disown a member of one's family, regardless how vile that person is, justifies targeting the wedding.

[Erika]

37. To dismiss remarks against W as blah,blah,blah

proves what?

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

42. Wasn't Offered To Prove Anything. It Was Offered To Show My Complete

lack of interest in paying attention to replies that only sought to look at the situation on that narrow level.

[OhioChick]

20. Done n/t

[sandyd921]

21. Yes is gaining

Yes: 49.45%

No: 49.15%

Undecided: 1.40%

Total Votes: 1359

[Bozita]

22. Yes: 49.71%, No: 48.90%, Undecided: 1.39%

Yes: 49.71%

No: 48.90%

Undecided: 1.39%

Total Votes: 1368

[Booster]

23. Under this Administration, all protests are appropriate.

[FtWayneBlue]

24. the warmongering president must be protested wherever he alights.

Wedding Day Protest
While President Bush is visiting the family compound in Kennebunkport for a wedding this weekend. During the wedding, a war protest is planned in town. Is this protest appropriate?

Yes: 50.32%

No: 48.32%

Undecided: 1.36%



Total Votes: 1395

[DemonFighterLives]

25. Yes, anywhere this clown goes, he needs to think about spilled blood

Yes: 50.50%

No: 48.15%

Undecided: 1.35%



Total Votes: 1404

:dem:

[me b zola]

27. Hell yes!

Is this protest appropriate?

Yes: 50.95%

No: 47.72%

Undecided: 1.33%



Total Votes: 1427

[Random_Australian]

31. Yes 51%

[teamster633]

32. done

Wedding Day Protest
While President Bush is visiting the family compound in Kennebunkport for a wedding this weekend. During the wedding, a war protest is planned in town. Is this protest appropriate?

Yes: 51.64%

No: 46.99%

Undecided: 1.37%



Total Votes: 1460

[Erika]

36. done n/t

[Dinger]

40. 51.87% Yes, 46.7% No 11:10 p.m. cst

Yes: 51.87%

No: 46.77%

Undecided: 1.36%

Total Votes: 1469