Not much to say - I am exhausted - except it was a blast, it was awesome to meet some Kossacks, I have confirmed that we are supremely cool people, RenaRF is a great, laidback, effective organizer, and for each conservative there are at least 5,000 liberals/progressives/Democrats/leftists in this country, at least according to the attendance of this protest. I'll accept that.
Not too much new here but some good pics. Best of what I got.
My thoughts:
It was a great day, typical protest, and i hope this gives Congress the kind of energy or confirmation or strength they need to really do something to stop this surge and reverse course in Iraq...
All the celebrities, if you want to support what we are doing, march alongside us and be quiet. Let's hear from about five people: the march organizer, Leslie Cagan, who needs to stop talking in caps, Al Sharpton, because he can get a crowd motivated, a veteran, an Iraqi/Iraqi-American/Arab-American/Muslim, etc., and someone to finally just say "let's march."
George prefers baby pootie. "That's the interesting thing about being president."
Who says Democrats don't have any good ideas?
pine, lindailurk (my newly registered friend Linda), my friend Amanda, Stacey from MoveOn.org, missreporter, nhcollegedem. We wanted to see the human IMPEACH sign in front of the Washington Monument, but I doubt they got it together. They had a fraction of the people they needed. Oh well.
Liberate us from the shrub.
My friend Amanda and Timroff. We had fun snarking away as we queued up.
Dem in VA repelling the conservative counterprotesters (not really).
Cheney's a lot taller in real life.
I think zeroooo won the prize for most orange with a bright, long shawl.
Radical Cheerleaders of DC. "The B is for Bodies, the U is for unique, the S is for safe sex, george you know all the kids are freaks! The H is for Human Rights and the M for My! The F is for feminism waving you bye-bye! George Bush...you motherfucker." (To the tune of JJ Fad's "Supersonic")
I hate emo, but this emo kid was a good egg.
nhcollegedem and missreporter...notice the layers have been shed. the weather was warm and so were we after walking for hours.
nhcollegedem and RenaRF. All happily exhausted, a bunch of us sat around and chatted for a bit before we all left to return to our desktops and laptops.
Peace...I'm out.
Had a great time everyone. Hopefully we will not have done this in vain.