I read this about MoveOn’s planned protest for yesterday’s event at Xavier:
MoveOn.org, that organization supporting the campaign of Democrat Barack Obama, plans a protest today outside the New Orleans “town hall” campaign appearance of Republican John McCain over McCain’s own support from the Rev. John Hagee.
Hagee is the one who contends that New Orleans drew the wrath of God in Hurricane Katrina for a gay-pride parade that the city was planning. “What happened in New Orleans looked like the curse of God,” Hagee told a radio talk show host again this week. “In time, if New Orleans recovers and becomes the pristine city it can become, it may in time be called a blessing. But at this time it’s called a curse… It was a city that was planning a sinful conduct.”
MoveOn contends that it will protest outside the University Center at Xavier University for McCain’s 11 am appearance there, “Due to Sen. John McCain’s courting of Rev.John Hagee’s political support, and Hagee’s outrageous and offensive comments about the people of New Orleans.”
The picture above shows protesters. Wow! Great job MoveOn! Three people? They were really nice and handed out some information sheets.
Adrastos has been all over this. I really don’t see the big deal. If it was a big deal, surely MoveOn could have sent more than three people! Lighten up man! This kind of mud slinging that tries to invalidate the good work of a great candidate should be ignored. It’s unfair. (OOPS, Wrong link!) A candidate shouldn’t be held accountable for the words of his or her supporter as long as he or she condemns them. Unless his condemnation of them is LAME!
BTW–Insider info here. Jessie Jackson was on campus at the same time yesterday! He was at Xavier South speaking with students. Few people knew about it. He was kept away from the Straight Talk Express! That would have been so cool!
I watched a bit of McCain’s speech. Man, he’s boring. And he didn’t have a flag pin on either!
You can see the rest of my pictures here.
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