[Seattle-editorial] Proposal: Weekend Roundup of Bush and Dean Visit

[Gentry Lange]

As usual, to read a clean version... it's online on my site currently:
http://www.art13.com/gentry/rants/demos.htm. Images were submitted to our
site, or linked by the photographers to our newswire.

Gentry
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Title: Protests in the Northwest
Subtitle: The people take to the streets


<p><a
href="http://www.idixon.com/pages/recent16.html">http://www.idixon.com/pages
/recent16.html</a>
  [Suggested Image 1]</p>
<p><a
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=31982&amp;group=web
cast">http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=31982&group=webcast
</a>
  [Suggested Image 2]</p>
<p>Over the weekend, protestors came out as expected to welcome President
Bush
  to the Northwest. In stark contrast to the impeachment of President
Clinton
  for lying about a blowjob, where only a handful of Republicans and <a
href="http://www.perkel.com/politics/moonies/index.htm">Moonies</a>
  really cared. The call for impeachment of President Bush for lying about
the
  reasons to go to War in the State of the Union has people literally
marching
  in the streets to demand President Bush's immediate <a
href="http://www.votetoimpeach.org/">impeachment</a>.</p>
<p>The McCain-Feingold act has <a
href="http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030818-035315-1280r">helped
  the President raise money</a> by raising the personal limit to $2000,
thereby
  increasing the <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/106981.html">influence
of
  the wealthy</a> on political campaigns, and he wasted no time in
Washington
  State proving it. Trying hard not to be outfought for pulling in the
dough,
  <a href="http://www.deanforamerica.com">Howard Dean</a> swept through town
this
  weekend in an attempt to go head-to-head with Bush's fundraising machine
by
  travelling to 8 cities in 4 days. Aprroximately <a
href="http://blog.deanforamerica.com/archives/001209.html">15,000
  people packed Westlake</a> to hear him speak.</p>
<p>While <a
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=31897&amp;group=web
cast">progressives
  are worried</a> that Dean may only be <a
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=31895&amp;group=web
cast">American
  Empire lite</a>, can any one really say that actually having the worse of
the
  two evils isn't a whole lot worse? With less than a year before the
primaries
  start, no 3rd party candidate has emerged to challenge the two-party
duopoly.</p>
<p><a
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=31976&amp;group=web
cast">Seattle
  Protest Photos</a></p>
<p><a
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=31939&amp;group=web
cast">On
  Street Interviews</a> from weekend activities</p>
<p>Hunts point <a
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=31910&amp;group=web
cast">audio</a>
</p>