Code Pink's Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, shown above, really double-teamed old Obie recently in San Francisco, with a fiendish nutcracker strategy. Medea said nice things about him out on the street, while Jodie handed him a big check inside:
Benjamin said she was disappointed Obama wasn't being seen outside high-priced political events.Or maybe not ever, if Obie has anything to say about it."It would have been good for the president to hear from the Bay Area, and it would have helped to release his inner progressive," she said. "We know it's there somewhere...."
Jodie Evans, a co-founder of Code Pink, paid $30,400 for a pair of tickets to [a] VIP dinner, where she presented Obama with a petition from women in Afghanistan urging him not to send additional troops. Evans said she spent several minutes discussing the war there with the president and told him that the country's women "want a place at the table" in resolving the conflict....
"Iraq was hard. Afghanistan is harder," Obama told supporters. "Iran, seeking to develop nuclear weapons, is hard. The Middle East peace process, that's hard. These are not problems that are going to be solved overnight. They're not going to be solved in nine months. They're not going to be solved in 18 months" and "maybe not in 36 months...."
It's interesting that the Woman Question is getting deployed again in connection with Afghanistan (and, of course, Iran, during the recent Hipster Revolution). Not since Zionist loon A. M. Rosenthal fired up his one-man campaign to shield the clitorides of Muslim women have we seen such an efflorescence of what you might call Imperial Feminism.
Comments (8)
Money for nothing, chicks for free...
Posted by Michael Dawson | October 17, 2009 4:14 PM
Posted on October 17, 2009 16:14
The people you run into when you don't have a lemon merengue pie...
Posted by Michael Hureaux | October 17, 2009 5:48 PM
Posted on October 17, 2009 17:48
I wonder, did she dip into her foundation grant money or just shell out the donations from her Code Pink followers?
Do you think we could pay Code Pink to stop helping?
Posted by AlanSmithee | October 17, 2009 11:35 PM
Posted on October 17, 2009 23:35
i think jodi is aging well don't u ??
Posted by op | October 18, 2009 9:34 AM
Posted on October 18, 2009 09:34
Michael Hureaux writes:
The people you run into when you don't have a lemon merengue pie...
Actually, she was nailed* a couple of years ago, as I recall, at a World Social Forum meeting in Atlanta, by an operative of the Biotic Bakers Brigade. I think this very blog may have a link to that footage, sent by yours truly.
Oh, how we laughed.
* "nailed", in its colloquial usage, meaning, in this case, "struck square in the kisser". So, all you crusty old '70s feminists, don't get your bowels in an uproar. Settle down. Light up a Virginia Slim.
Posted by Mike Flugennock | October 18, 2009 1:30 PM
Posted on October 18, 2009 13:30
Why I'd, I'd, I'd ... pie you all!
Whereupon you'd retire to the library for your brandy.
Posted by Linda J | October 18, 2009 8:10 PM
Posted on October 18, 2009 20:10
Port, actually. Port, Stilton, and walnuts. Yum!
Posted by MJS | October 18, 2009 10:12 PM
Posted on October 18, 2009 22:12
Whats that the Biotic Baker's Brigand or Baker's Without Boarders? Either way, it was a first class pie-ing.
Posted by AlanSmithee | October 19, 2009 12:16 PM
Posted on October 19, 2009 12:16