Are Marches Pep-Rallies? (was Antiwar Protest Largest Since '60s)

Dennis Perrin dperrin at comcast.net
Thu Oct 31 20:24:41 PST 2002


David:


> Once again, I'd love to see Chuck doing more than criticizing what
actually
> exists, taking the anarcho-punk "too cool for Foghat" approach.

Don't diss Foghat. "Slow Ride" is a damn good song (can you see the gray in my beard?).


> It was also funny to watch, from the other angle, as Dennis Perrin, a
> Democratic Party liberal from what I can see, criticized the march in a
> similar manner, though along more pragmatic lines: i.e., neither this
march
> nor anything like it will stop the war. As usual, it takes the more
> conservative folks to point out the glaring holes in the left/liberal
> idealists' "logic," so strictly along those lines, he is actually correct,
> albeit for mistaken reasons.

And I'm usually mistaken for the correct reasons.

Jeez -- A Dem lib. Thought I had rightwing redbaiting warmonger nailed, now this!

DP



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