SubscribeShocker: “War Protesters” Draw Small Crowd
What’s this? A grudging admission that the anti-war movement is “apathetic,” sputtering?
And from of all places, the Washington Post:
Antiwar activist Jonathan Wachtel of New York chants during a protest at Constitution and Pennsylvania avenues after yesterday’s rally and march.
War Protest Draws Small Crowd
Participants Cite Public Apathy in Low Turnout for Rally at the Capitol
By Carol D. Leonnig
Sunday, September 30, 2007; A17Hundreds of demonstrators, including students and families, rallied and marched in downtown Washington yesterday to protest the war in Iraq, complaining that the Democratic-controlled Congress has failed to do the public’s bidding and bring U.S. troops home.
From an elevated stage in front of the Capitol Reflecting Pool, a succession of speakers at the “Stop the War” rally urged Congress to stop funding the conflict and prevent more deaths of soldiers and Iraqi civilians…
The rally, organized by the Troops Out Now Coalition, drew protesters from the Washington area, Philadelphia, New York, New Jersey and elsewhere. Police in the District generally do not publicly estimate the size of protest gatherings. Yesterday’s crowd appeared to number fewer than 1,000…
Several rallygoers acknowledged that the size of the rally illustrated how difficult it is to get people in the United States to become activists, even though a majority of the public opposes the war, according to polls.
“That’s the biggest problem we’ve got in America: apathy,” said former Army Sgt. Adam Kokesh, a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. “And one-third of Americans still think Saddam Hussein had something to do with the attacks on 9/11.”
A group of George Washington University antiwar activists said they are trying to motivate their fellow students, but it’s a struggle.
“Students should be back on the streets, like they were in the movements of the ’60s,” Lara Masri said. “But there’s so much indifference.” …
Indifference? Or maybe most Americans know more about world affairs than these professional America-haters and 19 year-olds.
It certainly can’t be for lack of funding from Mr. Soros and the rest of the America-hating fat cats.
Maybe fifty dollars a day, a box lunch and a free bus trip just don’t draw the “activists” like they used to.
Or maybe the DNC has decided that these demonstrations won’t win them the White House after all.
By the way:
Doesn’t Mr. Wachtel remind you of someone?
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September 30th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
Maybe Wachtel is Islime-ick Rage Boy’s freaky cousin…
Perhaps we should call Wachtel and his slimy ilk “Wannabe dhimmi Rage Boys”
“I want to submit to our Muslim overlords and you’re not letting me!”
Those surrender monkeys make me want to puke.
September 30th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
Why would you be surprised that the WAPO is now minimizing the protesters? Hillary is now moving away from them. So - Poof! They is bad, until Hillary wants them again. Simple.
September 30th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Oh, “they is bad” was a stylistic flourish, not a grammatical indiscretion….”
October 1st, 2007 at 9:48 am
I can smell him through the internet…..vile putrescence…..
October 1st, 2007 at 10:01 am
Dhimmi Rage Boy!!! Love it, Sharps!
October 1st, 2007 at 3:59 pm
“Mom, Dad? This is Jonathan. WE’RE GETTING MARRIED!!!”
Honestly! What’s this cronic nose picker really raging about? Hey if a college football player can be suspended from play if he doesn’t meet his grades, couldn’t the same apply to these nerds?
Oh & what’s with the Bin Laden Look-a-Like Contest all about? Is that some kind of Code Pink version of Elvis Impersonators? Maybe a Marilyn Monroe straddlin’ a leaf blower in a berka (screw it. No, I don’t know how to spell it - it’s not worth lookin’ it up anyway - deal with it!)
October 1st, 2007 at 4:01 pm
In his book Ending the War in Iraq - Tom Hayden mentioned (not once but twice) that the msm is really on the side of the administration because they (Washington Post and New York Times) reported (Jan 2007 and Oct 2002) that the number of protestors was ‘less than organizers expected’ - what a crock. It is the same old drivel about the stuff this article is - since the majority of Americans are against the War - it must end - over and over again page after boring page.
For anyone to shift the blame for a anti-war (un)movement by claiming that the NYTs is on the side of the Bush Administration - just proves how pathetic this whole ‘movement’ is but then look at the leaders: 60s radicals who are what now into their 60s?, faux grieving Mother Sheehan and of course our dedicated soldiers turned anti-war mongers like Jesse McBeth.
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Locially, you can not have the majority of the people against the war and at the same time be apathetic. They either care, or don’t care. Some snow job.
How many protesters are reliving those heady days of 1968? They don’t look old enough to remember 1998!