Blatant Reality

Yesterday, MoveOn.org conducted over 200 different protests around the country to protest McCain receiving contribution from oil companies. I just happened to live by one of these protest so I headed over to check it out (and hope for something interesting to happen). This particular protest took place at the Shell Station on the corner of Skinker and Delmar (aka The Loop) which, I might want to add, is arguably the most liberal place in town.

 

And that fact got me thinking, what’s with Liberals protesting on their home turf anyways? Isn’t the point of a protest like this to get their ideas out to people who don’t already know/agree? Or do Liberals just like to protest in these areas so they can feel good about themselves when every other person who drives by honks their horn in support? Feel free to answer below.

 

Anyways, nothing really interesting happened but here are some picture I took of the event that I thought you might enjoy.

 

Here is one of the typical liberal cars that parked in the gas station parking lot as the owner of the car was out on the curb protesting. For those of you not from Missouri, the far left bumper sticker in the window is for Sam Paige, a democrat running for Lieutenant Governor and the middle is for Jay Nixon (no relation), a Democrat running for Governor.

 

This is the protesters lining the sidewalk in front of the Shell Station. They weren’t that active (aka no chants) and basically the protest was an hour and a half of them talking and commiserating about how bad McCain is and how wonderful Obama is.

 

Another protester who would yell at the cars driving by that McCain is a puppet to the oil companies.

 

Here is a sign that one of the protesters dropped on the ground. I never did check to see if it was picked up (I’m guessing it was but wouldn’t that be ironic)

 

And then we have the parents who dragged their children out to this event.

 

Mom on far left with her two kids.

 

Now for the group shot which was taken just as they were finishing. The group never did look like it ever reached the 49 people that had pledged to show up.

 

If you want to see the flier that they were handing out it can here see here(front) and here(back).

 

As you can see, the protest was pretty boring as I hinted at before because nothing really happen. Some people honked their support, some people flicked them off, and some people just plain ignored them. However, there were no verbal fights that you sometimes see at these kinds protests. Once again, I blame the lack of “action” on the fact that they held this protest in friendly territory.

 

Why didn’t I stir up some trouble? Well first off, I didn’t want and physical harm to come to my camera if things got ugly and secondly, I just don’t like picking fights. They left me along so I left them alone.

 

In all honesty, the main reason I didn’t mess with them is because they were attacking McCain on his energy policy and, the fact is, McCain has yet to prove to me he actually knows what he is talking about on this topic. What could I even attack them on since I don’t even believe McCain is going to do right by us with regards to energy? Is he going to be better than Barack, most likely, but that really isn’t saying much.

 

Anyways, if anyone else went to one of these things and they saw a little more action, please leave a link below.