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The Place Where I Happen To Be today is, happily, only a few blocks from The Place Where Bush Will Be Later. So, during a break, I strolled out there to scope it out.
People are lining up to get in already, in a line ten people across and several hundred yards long. (It's a big venue.) Across the major street are several hundred protesters.
The line to get in is quite the family-centric mix, with lots of parents with their kids, all carrying little plastic flags, and sporting B-C stickers.
Then there's the line of heavily-armed police and soldiers, on the curb. Big black cars, Humvees, jeeps, trucks - quite the military display.
The protesters are all yelling and chanting and waving signs that have a fair preponderance of obscenities. Likewise, their chants contain the same. You can see parents on one side looking quite uncomfortable as their little kids are assaulted by the "F**K Bush" chants.
As I walked by, one kid asked his mom "why are those people yelling those words at us?"
Mom said "they're Democrats, dear."
So, I wonder if people go to such protests and yell obscenities because they think such conduct has persuasive value, or . . . why? Frankly, if I were on the fence, seeing that kind of conduct would make me lean towards choosing differently than the protesters, simply because their behavior would seem to speak to the merit of their cause, and to the thoughtfulness of their response.
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