{"id":16063,"date":"2009-12-13T10:22:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T15:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=16063"},"modified":"2009-12-13T10:22:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T15:22:51","slug":"anti-war-movement-has-petered-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16063","title":{"rendered":"Anti-war movement has petered out"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The anti-war crowd had a protest yesterday at the White House called the “No You Can’t” rally. It’s gone virtually unnoticed by the media (and unnoticed by me, too – I was pimpin’ my crib yesterday). Despite being headlined by the most famous of the moonbat ranks, even the LA Times<\/a> wasn’t impressed by the 300 participants;<\/p>\n

“People are burned out,” explained the rally’s organizer, Laurie Dobson. As she and other antiwar activists struggle to remake their movement, they also acknowledge there are obstacles.<\/p>\n

“We’re fighting a harder fight right now,” said Dobson, who said antiwar efforts had been upstaged by the battle for healthcare reform and had been hampered by the bad economy. She and others also acknowledge a certain awkwardness: Activists now find themselves up against the same politician many of them helped elect.<\/p>\n

“The peace movement has a new adversary in front of them,” said Tom Hayden, a former California state senator who was a leading critic of the Vietnam War. “He’s intelligent, speaks the language of the peace movement and is trying to reach out to the center-left of the country with his message. It’s much more formidable to argue with Barack Obama than it was with Bush or Cheney.”<\/p>\n

Hayden said many of the activists who once used antiwar protest to convey their contempt of President George W. Bush have been reluctant to criticize Obama, who, while he was a candidate, made much of his opposition to the war in Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some media outlets<\/a> are pumping up the numbers of protesters to 1500, but even on Matthis Chiroux’ Facebook page World Can’t Wait admits to only 300;<\/p>\n

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So Brower is still tossing shoes – that’s so last year, Elaine. But that’s kind of the story of the whole peace movement, isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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