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February 28, 2004
AN INSPIRING SIGHT
I cribbed this story from Marine's Girl, but frankly I found it so inspiring that I had to repeat it here. Dumya showed up in Kentucky yesterday to try and make Democrats seem as scary as possible while deflecting attention from his utter failure as president and his far right wing agenda. He was met by more than 1000 protesters - though Bush's Soviet Secret Service managed to keep them at least half a block from the President (can't let Dumya see how many people are angry with him, can we?). Among those protesters were grandmothers and retirees - one of them even in a wheelchair!
"Ada Hoekstra had been a Republican for decades after she emigrated from the Netherlands in 1949. But she said the GOP became too conservative, prompting her to switch parties in the early '90s. Yesterday, her grandson and granddaughter pushed Hoekstra in a wheelchair while she held a small sign accusing Bush of lying to gather support for the war against Iraq.
"He's screwed up our country," said Hoekstra, 81. "He's screwed everything up. The No Child Left Behind Act, the environment, everything."
An 81 year old grandmother in a wheelchair showed up to tell Bush just what she thinks of his presidency. That's not just inspiring; it's damn heroic. And she wasn't alone. The story in the Louisville Courier-Journal citted at least four other grandmothers who'd shown up to jeer George Bush. Man, when even little old ladies in Kentucky hate you enough to show up in late February and tell you so? Tells me you've screwed up the country real good, George. T-minus 217 days and counting until we Fire the Liar.
