So, my 8 year old son comes in with an old, home made VHS that was in the garage... HOLY SHIT!

[QueenOfCalifornia]

No it wasn't porn... It was far, far worse than porn... it was



The 2000 Bush inauguration - I kid you not. We put that debacle on video. I was horrified but it brought back this memory - THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF PROTESTORS! Somehow I had forgotten this But free speech was not to be - they fenced off the protestors but all was not lost...they were throwing eggs! Egging the chimp. It was bee-u-tee-ful!

[Frustratedlady]

1. AND, they were right. I remember the Bush family trying to act like they didn't see them.

If anyone came by in the parade where there was a really positive greeting, or if it was a Texas unit, they came to life and were happy. Otherwise, they stuck their elitist noses in the air and put a false smile on their faces.

Gosh, that seems so long ago.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

2. It wasn't long enough

ago... I mean I want these 8, long years to be nothing more than a bad dream that we can collectively wake from....

My son was so cute...

He said

"Mom, look what I found... It says "2000 Bush Inauguration" You have the idiot on an old VHS tape. You have your own, home made tape of the chimp!"

I love that kid!

[Buzz Clik]

3. And how much of that showed up on the national media?

[lonestarnot]

6. I actually saw eggs flying on MSM!

[Buzz Clik]

9. Seriously? I refused to watch the inauguration, so I was unaware.

[lonestarnot]

16. Hell yeah! I broke the fucking TV shortly afterward! Clicker and all!

[Ilsa]

24. I saw them also! The media would sometimes cut away from

those shots to show us something else.

If it had been a perfectly beautiful unseasonably warm and clear day in DC, Shrub still would have had to ride in a car with the windows up for his protection. They couldn't risk a stroll down Pennsylvania Ave. because he was already hated so much.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

25. Yep

no walking your chimp that day

[LibDemAlways]

8. None. But isn't it

gratifying to know that the media's come around and atoning for past sins by providing fair and balanced coverage of this year's presidential campaign, focusing on the issues that matter and treating all candidates equally? :sarcasm:

[Buzz Clik]

11. oy.

[Mabus]

4. It may be some of the last remaining evidence from the 2000 election

that not all of us folded and/or accepted the SCOTUS decision. There are many of us who believe that the 2000 election was the most important election in US history.

I blame the media. They helped the GOP create the Bush mythology and they have been responsible for helping to defeat the Democrats and fair elections.

[lonestarnot]

5. How can you forget egging the chimp n chief? Most glorious moment of his entire stolen

8 years? :toast:

[QueenOfCalifornia]

10. It will be 8 years

by the time he is gone.

I had so many distractions - My son was born in '99, my daughter in 2000 - I was very politically active too but...

Yes

I had forgotten the glorious egging of the limo. I am going to transfer the VHS to DVD and post it on YouTube... Just the egging part.:evilgrin:

[lonestarnot]

15. ewwweee post a link pretty please! I must save!

[QueenOfCalifornia]

17. will do

someone is borrowing our VHS to DVD recorder (Nice machine) when they give it back I am making a copy...Mmmmmm eggs.

[VP505]

28. Don't just copy it

make a clip of the egg throwing to post on YouTube, bound to be a hit.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

34. See post #17 eom

[ColbertWatcher]

38. You must post on YouTube...

...make sure it is in response to any video for "Recount" that HBO movie.

Get lots of hits.

And be sure to tell us when it's up!

[QueenOfCalifornia]

39. very good advice

I need a manager....:hi:

[Captain Angry]

7. I'll never forget watching that inauguration...

And listening to the jackass doing the commentary explain to the home audience that Bush and his party weren't showing the sign of the devil, but the "hook 'em horns" or whatever from Texas.

Man that was an awful day.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

12. I got drunk

and cried.

Kidding - I just had a glass of vino - I was breast feeding at the time. I did cry though.

[kestrel91316]

14. I think I cried and threw a few things......

[RaleighNCDUer]

13. explain...that Bush and his party weren't showing the sign of the devil, but the "hook 'em horns"

Gee, the press was lying for him even then --

[TlalocW]

20. I burnt a flag

Just a small one in my house, but then I emailed the pictures out to a lot of conservative friends who got royally pissed at me.

TlalocW

[QueenOfCalifornia]

23. one question...

why do u hate Amerika?


:sarcasm:

[Wizard777]

18. Hail to the thief! 9/11 changed that national subject real quick.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

26. sure did

and we get to hear about it all the time - 9/11 - we were saved by Bush and the Mayor of NY

[kentuck]

19. Did you see the DU banner in the crowd ?

That was when DU got started.

[catzies]

22. YUP! I REMEMBER SEEING IT ON CSPAN!

Been here from well, if not Day 1, then certainly Day 2.

[CottonBear]

33. Does anyone have a picture of the now famous DU banner? n/t

[alphafemale]

21. I was struck by how god awful gloomy the weather was.

I mean it was near noon and it was just dark and dismal. It was like nature itself was reacting to the breach of what was happening. A chill ran through me and I turned to my husband and said something on the order of.:

"This isn't just going to be a mistake. He's going to cause and do some horrible things we can't even imagine at this point."

[fishwax]

27. Sometimes it's hard to believe it was so long ago

Just eight and a half more months to go :woohoo:

[SpiralHawk]

29. And the corporate media pretended the protest never happened...

So sad how low they have descended...No longer serving the public or the ideals of journalism...the republicon-owned media is national disgrace.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

30. The eggs thrown at the limo are in Fahrenheit 911.

I remember that from the movie. I don't recall seeing it on TV. Michael Moore pointed out that lots of citizens were NOT happy.

[galledgoblin]

36. yeah, that's where I saw it too

[HughBeaumont]

31. Kind of looks like the 2005 Cornauguration.

Same kind of day too. Gloomy and overcast. Even the heavens hate the Failure Fuhrer.

There were five layers of police a mile long, and yet somehow a snowball made it to Cheney's limo. BOY you should have seen them cops scramble. They pepper sprayed a group of hundreds with a fire hose. You had to go through a massive security check upon entry (you should have seen all the produce they confiscated. Could have made a farm market out of it).

The Bewsh supporters were SO ridiculous. These people aren't worthy of being exhibited at a ZOO. They couldn't speak coherently, spouting talking point upon talking point, rightwing catchphrase after rightwing catchphrase. It was sickening.

[orleans]

32. i recently had to kill my vhs of kerry's concession speech.

i've about had it with all this shit. and these fucking politicians. and now, today, i read that open letter to hillary about the clintons and monsanto. it's really pushing me over the fucking edge.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

35. It was pretty

pathetic.

That's for sure.

[Senator]

37. Hundreds?!? -- Try Over 30 Thousand -- Largest Since Vietnam

Even the "organizers" underestimated, as there were just as many people "on their own" as those attending official organized events. We circled the (formerly) Supreme Court city block, three deep. That was over 10K alone.

The streets were littered with nothing but protesters. It was rare to even see a "supporter." Nearly empty bleachers lined the parade route (well, it was drizzling) and they held the only non-protesters. Except for the overflowing "free speech zone" section - one raft of bleachers, anywhere near TV cameras was secured for ticketholders only.

They spent weeks (and huge sums) planning their ego-protection operation:

For the most part, activists called yesterday's protests a success, saying they had managed to get their message across despite some of the most stringent security measures taken by police at a presidential inauguration. More than 10,000 officers from 16 law-enforcement agencies, including the Secret Service, the U.S. Park Police, and the District of Columbia's police force lined the streets beginning at dawn.

Even afterward, protesting continued locally everywhere he went. They finally gave up and started just taking him to military bases. It has been the same since the very beginning.

This never-elected, never-legitimate war criminal has never been able to do a simple public appearance.

Scalia can pout "So There!" and Cheney can snarl "So What?!?," but there will never be common agreement that he was ever a real US president.

===

[QueenOfCalifornia]

41. I wondered about that

when I wrote the OP but wasn't sure. I wish I could edit to change the numbers.

Whenever we see Al Gore here on Gilligan's Island, we call him President Gore - we saw that horse shit happening and watched as the Supreme Court appointed that ahole...

Oy vey!

[high density]

40. Speaking of old tapes, I have a partial audio recording of the Gore vs. Perot NAFTA debate

I found it a few years ago. It is similarly horrific.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

43. Perot was right

"Hear that giant sucking sound?

That's NAFTA"

[Echo In Light]

42. The guy holding the big LORD HELP US sign is a striking image

[krispos42]

44. kick