The 2008 Tournament of Roses parade was, yet again, a huge success. Cindy Sheehan's "Absolute Moral Authority", not so much.
Those who spent New Year's Eve camped curbside were joined at dawn by giddy visitors arriving by car, bus and train. The city estimates more than a million people visit Pasadena during the parade and Rose Bowl game festivities.
Gail Paulson was drawn to the parade route although she is blind.
"There's a lot a blind person can appreciate at this parade. There's electricity in the air, the smell of the flowers, the clomping of the horses," Paulson, 64, of Oxnard, said as her guide dog Elton led her to a seat……
…..Two groups were protesting at the parade. Dozens of anti-war protesters led by "Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan staked out spots across from television cameras, hoisting signs reading "Impeachment is Patriotic." The protesters were booed by parade watchers sitting in the grandstand.
"This is not the occasion for this," said Mary Feichtel, 63, of Florida.
The other protest was not much of a success, either.
I watched the parade, it is more enjoyable on TV than the Macy’s parade. I saw two signs which were illegible on TV. I think “dozens” might have actually been “a dozen”.
You could get more people to show up at a tin foil hat making rally.
I was wondering how that tiger float was going over after the events on Christmas at the SF zoo.
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Well, NortonPete, AP was merely extending a courtesy towards Mother Sheehan by inflating the numbers at her protest.
Sheehan’s downfall has been precipitous. Has anyone (with the possible exception of Anita Hill) disappeared faster from being the center of MSM worship than the “anti-war mom”?
Cindy’s slide from media grace began when she started going after the Democrat Establishment. As long as she was content to demonize Bush and the Republicans, the MSM was happy to use her as a sock puppet. But Cindy got too big for her britches (as we say in my part of the country), so the MSM cut off her publicity. And to Cindy, publicity is like oxygen – needed to keep the fires of hate burning. Thus, her “movement” has dwindled to a handful.
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Would it be shameful for me to confess that I really don’t really give a big rat’s patootie what the Big Rat’s Patootie does as long as I don’t have to listen or read her or anybody running on about her?