Cindy Sheehan arrested before SOTU

[estranged4life]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

OMIGOD, your new sig is priceless.

thought about using this one but didnt want to "offend" anyone:

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by estranged4life

thought about using this one but didnt want to "offend" anyone:

No one ever got to the bottom of that one, so to speak

[GypsySorcerer]

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

It seems like a thousand days - till you'll be gone

[Rickypt]

I think the best part of the Sheehan thing last night is that the number 2,245 is all over the news today. The number of dead U.S. soldiers is often told, but by being part of a controversial T-shirt, the number can't be ignored today.

Other great thing is that Sheehan is getting so much publicity on a day that should be all about Bush's speech.

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by Rickypt

I think the best part of the Sheehan thing last night is that the number 2,245 is all over the news today. The number of dead U.S. soldiers is often told, but by being part of a controversial T-shirt, the number can't be ignored today.

Other great thing is that Sheehan is getting so much publicity on a day that should be all about Bush's speech.

Yep!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sadly, it is somewhat eclipsing Coretta Scott King's death, but that will be reborn as a newsstory in a few days when her funeral happens.

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by Rickypt

I think the best part of the Sheehan thing last night is that the number 2,245 is all over the news today. The number of dead U.S. soldiers is often told, but by being part of a controversial T-shirt, the number can't be ignored today.

Other great thing is that Sheehan is getting so much publicity on a day that should be all about Bush's speech.

You're right! I hadn't thought about that number getting into the mainstream press that way. I mean, I temporarily forgot that most people don't know the number. Maddow said the other day that 90% of the media is owned by 5 companies, and they are all conservative. That was a good reminder of what we are up against. We need a cable channel! That would be a start since if it ain't on TV it didn't happen.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you for that.

[BTFLCHLD]

One day after Cindy Sheehan was arrested for wearing an anti-war T-shirt to President Bush’s State of The Union address, Capitol police have dropped her charges and apologized. Sheehan, whose son Casey died in combat in Iraq in April 2004, was removed from the House gallery Tuesday night after unveiling a T-shirt that read: "2,245 dead and how many more?” – a reference to the number of US service members killed in Iraq. In a statement, Capitol Police Chief Terrance Gainer said Sheehan should not have been arrested. President Bush began his speech shortly after she was removed.

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