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Thread #97480   Message #1966582
Posted By: George Papavgeris
13-Feb-07 - 06:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: The march on DC for Impeachment 3/17/07
Subject: RE: BS: The march on DC for Impeachment 3/17/07
As a total (but interested) outsider, I am a little confused. On the face of it, this march will be asking for Bush's impeachment, yet the fact that it is being organised some 3 months in advance (this thread began in December) indicates not so much an urgency to right wrongs, but rather an opportunity for voicing opinions - not the same thing at all. So I wonder - is this for real, or is it a harmless venting opportunity, a complaints-fest?

It's the lack of spontaneity that foxes me. An outrage that takes 3 months to organise rightly gives rise to concerns such as Lonesome EJ's: is this simply a hate-driven event dressed up as outrage?.

Don't get me wrong - I am no friend of GWB's politics, policies, decisions or actions. But an honest outrage would have had the streets seething within hours; not planning a march in 3 months time.

Do people honestly believe that this is going to change anything? Because from this distance, I have to be honest - as a grass roots reaction it seems a poor substitute for a vote.

But I hope I have it wrong, and I am ready, even willing, to be corrected.