TOWN & COUNTRY: Bush unites Seattle and its subrubs | The Stranger

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TOWN & COUNTRY
by Sandeep Kaushik


Ryan Schierling

It takes a special sort of person to bring people together across the vast cultural divide that is Lake Washington. Give George W. Bush his due. He really is a uniter, not a divider.

The first thing I notice when I roll up Cleo-patra Place NW, a little side street in Ballard is the profusion of red, white, and blue in front of the house where Diane Carleton and her friends are whiling away a Saturday afternoon holding a bake sale. There's a large American flag fluttering from a flagpole fastened above the porch of the sky-blue 1923 Craftsman bungalow, and smaller flags adorn a long rectangular table set up out front at curbside, a table piled high with treats concocted by Carleton and her friends. Even Carleton's pigtails are tied off with Mylar-shiny red, white, and blue ribbons.

There are more than 30 MoveOn bake sales taking place in Seattle today, the latest venture of the 1.7 million-strong, left-liberal, Internet-organized grassroots political organization that initially formed to oppose the impeachment of Bill Clinton--a few more, I am told, than are being held in Manhattan. Carleton's "Ballard Bakes to Oust Bush" sale is but one of more than 1,000 "Bake Sales for Democracy" taking place. The organizing rhetoric is sharp and satiric--this, the MoveOn website informs us, is the grassroots' response to the $95 million Bush has collected just from his corporatist enablers donating the maximum $2,000 contribution.

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1. Yep - Soon EVERYBODY Will Hate Bush!!!!

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2. Do you think

God really spoke to the shrub* and told him to piss off all the smart people!!!!:puke: DUBYA starts with DUH!!!
And God said unto the Bubba's " Y'all stay here and play dumb till I get back"