"The Abortion That Got Away"

My favourite sign by far at the March on Sunday was this one:

"George W. Bush: The Abortion That Got Away."

But there some other good ones, too. Here's a smattering (of the ones I remember):

Patriotic girls say it's a free cuntry.
77% of pro-lifers are men. 100% of them will never be pregnant.
Old Broads for Choice
Keep U.S. out of my uterus

One of our delegation had a hanger from a dry cleaners that read "We our customers. She had fashioned it into a hat that she wore the whole day. It was so great.

The march organizers estimated that 1.15 million people were there. I could not tell because when you're inthe middle of a crowd that big, you have no sense of scale. CNN reported that 300,000 people were there. I guess there's a lot of controversy about reporting the numbers for the marches on Washington, so offocial have stopped doing it. CNN got their numbers from the metro system: apparently 325,000 people used the metro on march day. The mall was packed, though, so CNN was clearly wrong.

On the way back, we were listening to NPR and heard a caller comment on how disappointed we were that Kerry didn't attend the March and speak to the crowd. His daughter did speak. And Kerry did speak to Pro-choice activitists in Washington on the Friday before the march. We had a debate in our car about whether he should have been there. I wish he had had the guts to address to be there and speak out. Others in the car thought he had to be more politically prudent. I wonder why it is, though, that the Republicans have no compunctions avout pandering to the far right and the Democrats seem so scared of their left-of-center supporters?

All in all, a very good day, though--that produced one very tired bush/bouche by the time I got back.

Posted by Bush Whacker at April 27, 2004 12:04 PM