Posted on 01/20/2005 10:16:48 PM PST by ambrose
Posted on Thu, Jan. 20, 2005
At low-key parties and swanky soirees, Democrats gather to mourn
BY JILL ZUCKMAN
Chicago Tribune
WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Elisabeth Reiter slept late, avoided the television and then donned her Kerry-Edwards baseball cap and her Kerry-Edwards fleece jacket to meet her campaign friends at the Front Page, a smoky watering hole in Dupont Circle.
"Is this a particularly bad day for you?" a man asked the former press advance aide as she sat down at the bar.
"Yeah," said Reiter, her face a picture of sadness as she sipped a beer.
As Republicans partied across the nation's capital Thursday, Democrats here and around the country marked President Bush's inauguration in their own defiant, sorrowful ways.
There were, of course, anti-Bush demonstrations in several major cities. But for many, the grieving was more private, either in bars or an array of "mourning parties" and "bawls" that Democrats held at their homes.
At the Tune Inn on Capitol Hill, Carrie James wore her John Kerry for President T-shirt and drank Bloody Mary's with a couple of friends.
"I'm not going to let the festivities upset my day," insisted James, an unemployed veteran of the Kerry campaign staff.
After their second straight razor-thin presidential loss, many Democrats, with no apparent coordination, arrived at the idea of marking the Inauguration Day of their nemesis by gathering together for events that were sad yet darkly humorous.
"Well, it's gonna be a rough day on Jan. 20," said Naomi Lubick's invitation to her neighbors in Takoma Park, Md. "Maybe it will rain. Why not spend the evening in the company of like-minded folks, close to home? We'll have a supply of liquor and snacks. We'll also have a big vat of spaghetti in which to drown our sorrows."
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["I'm not going to let the festivities upset my day,"]
What a statement.
This is even more pathetic than I thought.
boo....hoo...... not!
;^)
Sigh.
It's funny how they think losing one election is the end of the world. If they really believed Bush is this bad, they'd be fleeing the country with all they could carry. I guess it's fun to pretend you're living in a virtual reality game with some evil dark lord in charge. If you really did, wouldn't you leave?
Does the D in DU stand for Dungeons and Dragons?
"Yeah," said Reiter, her face a picture of sadness as she sipped a beer.
I'd have thought she needed something a bit more potent than beer to drown her sorrows. Arsenic would do the job just fine.
I don't know but there's plenty of room.
Good one.
Any margin...for their candidate.
These Democrats will have more to mourn after election day 2006!!!
Let their freedom prevail. This is the majesty of our Free Republic.
As for me, I am as happy as I can be that President Bush is hanging around for four more years.
These people deserve every bit of the pain and fear that they are feeling.
Now they know how WE used to feel, and often still do.
They deserve far more payback for what they've done to this country than they've yet experienced.
If they had any brains at all they wouldn't be wondering why they lost the presidency but rather, why they keep losing seats in Congress.
The article is laced with references to bars and drinking. DUers openly talk about being on either prescription drugs or recreational types. For the 8 years that we had Clinton, I don't remember ANY Freepers behaving this way. These peoples lives and happiness depend on winning an election?! That's a serious number of mentally ill Americans.
Democrats are so screwed up.
They party at funerals and the mourn at parties.
Yet victory of principle, strengh, and perseverance, leaves us to nevertheless accept responsibility to suffer the fools that dwell amongst us.
Is this not our way?
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