Oberlin (OH) asks Congress to impeach Bush, Cheney - HA!

[Kadie]

Oberlin sounds like a great place!


Oberlin asks Congress to impeach Bush, Cheney

OBERLIN (AP) — The City Council of this left-leaning college town unanimously voted to ask Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

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After the vote Monday, the audience broke into song, performing a rendition of “This Land is Your Land” that had council members singing along, too.

“Ohio is a battleground for elections and this is really sending a strong message,” Councilwoman Eve Sandberg said. “The people who took an oath to uphold our Constitution are not doing it and it’s time we asked them to.”

The resolution was brought up by resident June Goodwin, who wore an “Impeach Bush” button along with more than a dozen supporters. She helped start a petition signed by 648 Oberlin residents.

The council declared the measure an emergency, allowing the final vote to occur at its introduction. No one spoke in opposition.

more...
http://www.newarkadvocate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070522/UPDATES01/70522010

[acmavm]

1. Something so poetically just that this should come out of Ohio.

[Kadie]

4. I love this story.

It would have been great to see in person... everyone singing this Land is Your Land.

:hi:

[acmavm]

2. WTF?? Got error messages when I first tried to post so I got out, went

back to the original post, and tried again.

[Kadie]

5. I have had a couple of error messages today. n/t

[merh]

3. Go Oberlin!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFqgGpKqSsU :patriot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXEYXKaXEV8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yuc4BI5NWU

[Kadie]

6. Thank you for the links!

:hi:

[merh]

7. you are welcome!

:hi:

[kwassa]

8. I grew up there

Extremely liberal college town. Many of my family are alumni of the college.

Very untypical of Ohio, though

and yet ... Michelle Malkin is a graduate of Oberlin.

[Holly_Hobby]

9. Wasn't Oberlin

the first college in the country to admit women?

[kwassa]

10. I can never get it straight ....

Oberlin was either the first college to admit women, and the second to admit African-Americans, or the other way around. They were both first admitted in the 1830s, as I recall. Big station on the Underground Railroad, and a hotbed of abolitionism.

One of the best music conservatories in the country, too.