Oh, This is Why Mike Castle Won’t Meet His Constituents…
I had to bump this back up because we have to just let the fact that the NJ ran this giant picture on the front page of the local section. That is a huge breakthrough.
Is it possible that the Brahmins of Basin Rd. are starting to get it? The entire “I love Bush” sash is readable above the fold. This is a stunning development.
Jason adds: I love this The News Journal photo by SUCHAT PEDERSON. On the print edition you can read teh post-it that simply says “WTF” as clear as day.
Representative Brian Baird (D-OR) met with his constituents and was lambasted for 2 hours by a series of speakers overflowing a high school gym.
For more than three hours Monday night, Rep. Brian Baird was verbally flogged by hundreds of his constituents for no longer supporting the quick withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
The verbal floggings will continue until the troops come home. It looks like this is how a man takes his beating.
Also – the rally is getting really good heavy rotation play on WDEL.
Tags: Bush's FUBAR War
Did he have an Iraq Summer visit from AAEI?
Oh. I’m sorry. He couldn’t have. He’s a Democrat.
My bad. I forgot AAEI doesn’t actually care about Iraq, only about defeating Republican incumbents.
“defeating Republican incumbents” is how we got a Dem majority willing to introduce withdrawal bills in the first place.
After we defeat a few more obstructionist Republicans we will be able to actually PASS some bills.
Weak. I give your comment 1 out of 7 possible points.
Baird only fell for the Bush dog and poney show last month.
Castle has been slamming the Bush Kool-aid for five years.
Why 7? You have some kind of anti-10 bias?
You’re nothing but an anti-Tennite.
One thing the WNJ has done is misrepresent the number of people on Rodney Square for this event.
I was at the live blogging table with Mike Matthews and Neil Oleson when the journalist walked up to Neil for an interview.
Mike and I had just done a survey of the crowd and came up with an estimate of 300 or so.
The article reports “over 100 people” which has been rapidly reduced to “a meager 100” by the idiots who populate the web forums there.
*sigh*
I have maintained all along that the focus should be on our entire congressional delegation in calling for a timetable for withdrawl.
I agree that ignoring the DEMs weakened the case but it still remains that Castle is a pretend moderate just as much as Carper is a pretend Democrat. They both need to be tossed out of office.
If you think the NJ low-balled it wait until Celia files her story. (She was present, I think according to a note at DWA)
She’ll say that it was two homeless men and a woman walking her dog.
Jack Markell stopped by early in the evening and I thanked him for having the courage to show up at a peace demonstration. He replied that it was the right thing to do and that he had to be there. He had another meeting to attend but he said he wished he could have stayed longer.
Of course, Karen Peterson was there, but she’s always on the right side of issues. Dover’s conscience! She’s got more integrity in her little finger than some of these guys ever had in their entire bodies.
Oh, Ellen Lebowitz sang to us and it was awesome. What a voice, what a talent! An what a nice person.
Believe it or not, I put up the “WTF”… thought it was a nice refresher from the typical “Mike Castle is a lying, stealing, killer and deserves to be arrested, I hope that your giant house burns down” paragraph squeezed into a post-it.
Mat –
You are my hero. Will you sign my copy of that picture?
The picture is too good to be smitten by my chicken-scratch John Hancock, Jason. I’m just fascinated that it was actually noticed.