Rough night for decked-out Dems

[babylonsister]

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/23423

Rough night for decked-out Dems
Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2007-06-08 03:56. Media

War protest sent guests at Clinton event through field, under barbed wire.
By Kevin Yamamura - Sacramento Bee

Inside a residence along the American River, some of Sacramento's most prominent Democrats rationed lamb chops and wine without their guest of honor Thursday. Outside stood anti-war protesters, a flag-draped coffin and more than 100 guests in dinner attire, all waiting for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

As a bomb squad examined the coffin serving as protest prop, the Democratic presidential candidate waited nearly two hours on the tarmac at nearby Mather Airport. Mainstream Democrats mixed with liberal activists in the street outside the home of developer Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis.

The host, a major Democratic fundraiser, was hardly amused. Not when she had to lead guests wearing high heels and loafers through a field path and then under a barbed-wired fence into her home. And certainly not when she discovered the delay caused some to leave without contributing, according to a letter The Bee obtained Monday.

more...

[Demeter]

1. Afflicting the Comfortable to Comfort the Afflicted!

I like it, in an anarchist, power to the people way.

[leftchick]

2. Right On!

I LOVE This Pearcy fellow....

<snip>

Though Pearcy's previous incidents mostly enraged conservatives, his latest protest struck at the heart of mainstream Democrats. Pearcy took issue, he said, with Clinton's vote to authorize the war in 2002 and said she "sounded a lot like the Bush administration over the last six years."

"I think in our eyes she represents the worst aspects of the Democratic Party," said Pearcy, an organizer of protests with liberal activists in Sacramento. "The Democratic Party has been so spineless."

[UNCLE_Rico]

3. That must've been the most incompetent bomb squad ever assembled...

Two friggin HOURS to determine whether a prop coffin contained a BOMB?

You'd THINK, with all the macgyver-uber-protection technology that *Co has invested so many billions on (Keepin' US safe War On Terra Fighting 'Em Over There 9-11!!!) you'd think that should've taken all of about 2 minutes to figure out.

Course, if this had been of *'s fundraisers, those people keeping * from HIS $ would've been immediately hauled off to Gitmo, tortured, and held indefinitely, incommunicado. And any that were eventually released would've been put under 24/7 FBI surveillance and put on so many watchlists they'd get full-cavity-searched trying to get into Disneyland.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. Right, bomb squad did their job superbly

if they were under orders to "inspect 'til the cows come home". If the boss is a repub, just keep inspecting the box forever and leave Clinton and entourage in quarantine at an airport. Good repub tactic.

[B Calm]

4. I heard about this on the Mike Malloy show the next day. One of

the protesters called Mike..