Web Search powered by YAHOO! SEARCH
08.24.2008 1:57 am

Outside the party, protesters get their shots in now

  • Email this
  • Print this

DENVER — As hundreds of media left the pre-DNC party at Elitch Gardens, a small number of protesters took the opportunity to shout their message.

Led by anti-abortion activist Randall Terry, they denounced Sen. Barack Obama for his positions favoring abortion rights. Terry explained they were taking the opportunity now for two reasons: the crush of media who weren’t rushing to the next assignment and the fact that protesters once the DNC starts will be required to mostly stick to approved protest areas.

Terry said he and his supporters also plan to get arrested Tuesday while conducting a sit-in “near the Pepsi Center,” the site of the convention hall. However, he was short on details.

And while he denounced Obama, he admitted that he doesn’t particularly like Sen. John McCain who has supported some abortion rights in the past (though McCain also now says that life begins at conception).

Here’s some video. Warning: the audio is loud.

8 comments

Comments are closed.

My grandfather ran the Democratic Party in St. Louis and was the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, but neither he nor I could ever support a political leader who favors legal abortion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Hannegan

— Bill Hannegan
2:43 am August 24th, 2008

“Terry said he and his supporters also plan to get arrested”

I’m all for people’s right to protest but to PLAN to get arrested. It seems to me if the Denver police ignore their sit-in, they are willing to escalate their protest until they get their desired result of an arrest.

— sammiejo
8:47 am August 24th, 2008

Bill, isn’t it funny how they keep telling us Biden is an Irish Catholic with middle-class roots but somehow fail to mention that he is also pro-choice?

— A CENTRIST
12:25 pm August 24th, 2008

An important bit of information that shouldn’t be left out.

— Bill Hannegan
1:39 pm August 24th, 2008

What about one who voted in favor of embryonic stem cell research, torture, the death penalty, the Iraq war, got divorced to marry an heirees to fund his political ambitions, voted against the minimum wage, immigration reform, the environment, and revels in the support he solicited from an anti-Catholic bigot?

That’s John McCain! And, McCain is STILL too ignorant to be President!

http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/08/04/15-reasons-john-mccain-is-too-ignorant-to-be-president/

— Tim Hogan
3:06 pm August 24th, 2008

Oh, and Rush says McCain supports smoking bans in restaurants, too!

— Tim Hogan
3:07 pm August 24th, 2008

As one that supports Senator Obama, I get irritated by comments like; “He married a wealthy woman to fund his political ambitions.” Given the fact that the U.S. Navy assigned him to serve as a staff liason to Congress, he would NOT need to “marry into wealth.” Democrat and Republican operatives alike would have found a way to get this person well funded, into the party line and out on the streets as a candidate. There are plenty of wide open public and political gaps on behalf of Seantor McCain to attack. We don’t need to get that dirty to beat him in November.

— LU 95
9:31 am August 25th, 2008

LU 95, you are talking to Tim Hogan. There isn’t a rational thought in his entire brain.

— Amazedbythelunacy
10:07 am August 25th, 2008