Uh Oh: Obama Lied, Now People Will Be Dying?

Okay, perhaps unfortunately in this particular case they won't really be dying, but simply pretending to be at an anti-war "die in" scheduled for the weekend. It seems anti-war protesters in Seattle feel they must protest the war now more than ever with Obama in office. And one segment of these protesters more concerned over Gaza than Iraq seems to stand out.

One might think that President Obama -- who has already promised combat withdrawal from Iraq and axed the Guantanamo Bay detention camp -- would have an uplifting, placating, put-down-the-megaphone effect on Seattle's entrenched anti-war scene. That he might mellow activists out, somehow.

Based on the roughly 100 people standing in near-freezing temperatures at the downtown Seattle plaza Saturday, the answer would be no.

Just as Roosevelt is said to have supportively told a labor organizer to go out and make him implement the policies for which he was advocating, one protester believes a story Obama shared on the campaign trail sent a similar sort of signal. Video of a past notable confrontation between these protesters and a Stryker Brigade here. The new item on current planned protests here. I wonder how long it will be - as we remain in Iraq and gear up in Afghanistan - before these folks decide they've been had?

"We're hopeful we'll see a change in attitude in the administration," said Mohammad Kaddoura, a program manager from Issaquah. He was part of the Save Gaza Campaign, which had set up a traditional mourning tent and a collection of coffins outside the Sephora cosmetic shop. "But it's too early to tell. He's still new. You can't judge a book by its cover."

Flaxhammer had been inspired by Obama's retelling of a conversation between legendary labor organizer A. Philip Randolph and Franklin Roosevelt. President Roosevelt had told Randolph that he agreed with everything he said.

 But Roosevelt ended with the words: "I would ask one thing of you… go out and make me do it." That's what Flaxhammer intends to do. Sunday, he has another protest to attend -- a die-in he helped organize with Palestinian and Arab students at the Pike Place Market to protest the suffering in Gaza.

Comments

[Lala]

I was reading this morning about NATO not being too happy with Obama's actions, Sarkozy upset about Obama wanting to talk to Ahmadinnerjacket because of his holocaust denial (there's talk that dinnerjacket is a Jew,though) and some other stuff like not putting up the defense shields in Poland and the Czech Republic.

And then I came across this shocking story -

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Report: Barack Obama's Al Qaida initiative began months before his election
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama was working with Arab intermediaries to establish an unofficial dialogue with Al Qaida long before his election as the 44th U.S. president, according to a report in the upcoming weekly edition of Geostrategy-Direct.com. ShareThis

Al Qaida has offered what has been described as a truce in exchange for a U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to the report.

more at - http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2009/ss_terror0079_01_28.asp

[mark l.]

"Sarkozy has made his criticisms only in closed forums in France. But according to a senior Israeli government source, the reports reaching Israel indicate that Sarkozy views the Democratic candidate's stance on Iran as "utterly immature" and comprised of "formulations empty of all content."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1031943.html

[mark l.]

do you think they'll just paste obama's picture over their bush posters?

it would be funny to crash the event, with replica signs that the left went ga-ga for. A small megaphone and a chant about obama being a war criminal...I'd do it if I could keep a straight face.