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General Petraeus's testimony in front of the Senate was interrupted by a man shouting “Bring them home! Bring them home!”
Whenever I see something like this, I'm reminded of a friend who while driving home from work got stuck in traffic due to protesters. He swore as soon as he figured out what they were protesting, he'd send money to the opposite side.
What did this screamer think he was accomplishing? He can't think he's convincing anyone of anything--he's not even botherlng to make an argument. He can't possibly think he's raising awareness when there were other people around holding signs, and the Senators themselves were already discussing the issue of withdrawal. He can't be stupid enough to believe he's showing public opinion when he's just one guy--and an obnoxious one at that. So what does he get out of it?
posted by LAGuy @ 12:42 AM
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They should know if you want disruptive free speech, you have to be organized such as the disciplined group of white-shirted Khaki-pantsed party operatives outside the Florida recount HQs in 2000.
Still dining out on that, are we? They had no effect except to make Republicans look bad. Luckily, as the unnecessary consortium showed a year later, Bush had won that election as long as no new laws on vote counting were created after the fact. (I'm sure this non-event will get plenty of coverage in HBO's upcoming RECOUNT, though.)
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