cindy sheehan poll on decidedly to the right aol now being freeped

[ooglymoogly]

do you think cindy sheehans purchase of 5 acres near crawford ranch was wise...do you think cindy sheehans protests will make a diff...of course and of course...now cindy can protest freely at the crawford ranch. link
http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/cindy-sheehan-buys-property-in-crawford/20060727133509990008

[yellerpup]

1. Done.

Seriously freeped poll.

[Crazy Dave]

2. I'm behind Cindy 110%

But it (poll) is definitely rigged/skewed to the right.

[sabbat hunter]

31. non scientific

so who cares. if it gets freeped or we hit it whats the diff?

[Prophet 451]

3. Done

Must be said though, I think the Bushistas are too arrogant and in too much trouble already for it to make much difference.

[AndyA]

4. Ugh! You should see the comments on the AOL forums about this.

Disgusting. And these people consider themselves conservatives and Christians. Jesus is not pleased with them at all. What a disgrace.

[cgrindley]

13. Jesus has been dead for nearly 2000 years

He's not thinking very much about anything.

As far as their X'ian values go, I think that Republicans would all be Hindus or Satanists if either of those represented the dominant white european religion and could be easily interpreted to justify their fucked up values.

Sure some of them probably believe, but I think that they're believing their pastors more than anything else. I think that poorly educated, reactionary ministers are probably the root of much of this wrongheadedness. You can't tell me that a female Episcopalian priest is telling anyone in her flock to hate gay people or send their children to die in Iraq.

[panader0]

5. I voted, but the odds are real long right now

Cindy Sheehan has already had a huge effect on the anti-war sentiment. The fact that assholeface doesn't have the balls to speak to her says volumes about him.

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[OnyxCollie]

7. Enjoy your stay here on DU.

Freeper.

[cgrindley]

10. I wouldn't necessarily go that far

There are people out there, moderates probably, who think she's perhaps milking this a bit too much.

I'm not one of them. More power to her. But I'd like to see other voices rise up and join in or even take over. She has become too much of an individual target as late. We need more high profile people to speak out, because the whole debate will sooner or later just be about her and not about the issues that she represents. Remember, Casey was one of many. Let's not focus on the one but the many.

[OnyxCollie]

12. "90% of people I've met" sounds suspiciously like "Some people say".

I do believe there are (many) trolls in our midst.

[cgrindley]

14. I thought that the ubiquitous Some People

was simply shorthand for Ted Turner?

[MardiGras Bandit]

11. Thanks for the warm welcome...

This is what almost everyone I meet thinks of Sheehan, and in that word. This is after I discounted people I know in various politicis forums. Most Americans hate protesters. Remember the build up to Iraq? Remember having your patriotism questioned? The majority of America equates protests with hippies/commies/etc and that leaves a bad taste in their mouths. Don't forget, this is the country that elected Bush twice.

[OnyxCollie]

15. "Don't forget, this is the country that elected Bush twice."

No, he was selected by the SCOTUS the first time, and the election was rigged the second time.

On edit: Why should you receive a warm welcome? After 32 posts, you offer your unsubstantiated opinion, in vulgar terms, toward a person whom I (and others on this board) feel is doing great work challenging the administration on their lies regarding the Iraq war. Would you be happy if she took her folded flag and shut the hell up?

[cgrindley]

17. Nonsense

If the election was close enough to steal, we fucked up. We should have buried that idiot beneath a vast landslide of votes. We should have beaten him with rusty tire irons and shock absorbers and left the asshole for dead in a ditch. We should have beaten him so bad that a recount would have been necessary to figure out if he got *any* votes at all. We screwed up with two crappy campaigns and three weak candidates (Gore is my man). We need to thump that moronic piece of shit into submission, but we didn't. We deserved to have the election stolen from us.

[OnyxCollie]

19. Are you making threats against the President?

Agent Mike is watching, you know...

I'm in Ohio, and you can't tell me the election wasn't fixed.

[cgrindley]

22. I'm not denying it was fixed

I'm saying that it should have been such a landslide that fixing it wouldn't have done the Repukes any good at all. Go ahead, steal 50,000 votes, it's not going to matter if I have a 9 million vote majority.

With the constant talk about the vote fixing, we sort of lose sight that the damn thing was way too close for comfort. It should have been a wipeout of the level that took out the Conservatives after Brian Mulroney in Canada or took out the Conservatives after John Major in the UK.

[cgrindley]

16. That's true enough

Can anyone think of a recent anti-establishment protest that hasn't been met with howls of derision but with massive public support and an immediate change in policy? It doesn't happen. If you protest in this country, people are going to hate you. Not one or two, but the majority, even the vast crowd of non-political types, merely because they hate to see any shit getting disturbed.

[ooglymoogly]

23. don't forget that this is the country that diebold, election fraud and

scotus elected king georg twice...with the help of people like you.

[TayTay]

27. The most hated protestors of all where those damned Founding Fathers

Those bastards never should have questioned King George III. What were they thinking, standing up and demanding that their liberties be ensured.

Good thing nobody remembers those pesky American trouble-makers, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin and others. I wonder how badly their patriotism was questioned.

[cgrindley]

28. Well considering

That in England the American Revolution was seen as a rebellion, and that many "loyalists" fled to my homeland of Canada, I'm thinking that quite a few people questioned the patriotism of America's founding fathers.

[TayTay]

29. Gee, where did all those stautes come from then?

The OP stated that nobody liked protestors and generally disregarded them. Hardly true, and certainly not in this country. (We wouldn't have a country without the sacred right to dissent.)

[cgrindley]

30. There's a first amendment

Because we *needed* one. It was a right that had to be jealously protected. It's not a given if you've got a powerful majority.

[Crazy Dave]

18. Do they feel that way about all grieving mothers or...

...just the ones that get a lot of media attention? Typically freepers grieve more over a stem cell than a living human being so they (90%) wouldn't know what's she's going through.

[pepperbear]

26. COOL man fuck off...

[cgrindley]

8. I wouldn't want property near Bush

Sure it's a nice protest statement now, but after the idiot's gone, what use is it? Would you want to be that asshat's neighbor nine years from now?

[Debau2005]

21. He'll probably

sell it the moment he lives office. He is not a farmer/rancher/etc. He is trying to be Ronald Reagan. All that pig farm is to him is a continous photo op!

[cgrindley]

24. I've wondered about that

Born in New Haven, went to school in MA, Yale undergrad, Harvard grad, Dad's got a house in ME.

But I'd have to figure that he's probably spent 1/3 of his life in TX. Does that make him a Texan now, or does he properly have any home? I actually see him staying on in Texas.

And good riddance. I live just outside of New Haven and I certainly don't want him coming back.

[Oceansaway]

9. done...n/t

[mike923]

20. Why would you give any credibility to an internet poll?*

[riona]

25. Anything to annoy *

although I don't have much hope that it will cause any policy changes.