Good Exercise
Vermont prof walking 400 miles for Bush impeachment. Earth Times:
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 A Vermont college professor walked 480 miles from Boston to the nation’s capital to drum up support for impeaching President George Bush.
John Nirenberg, a 60-year-old professor from Brattleboro, Vt., argues that, with a year left in Bush’s final term, there is still time to investigate his conduct, CBS News reported Sunday.
He points to the Iraq war, the outing of a CIA agent, the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program and abuses of detainees held in U.S.-led prisons as reasons that the president should be brought before Congress.
Nirenberg wanted to meet with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to hand-deliver petitions and letters from citizens pleading for the speaker put impeachment back on the table.
He set out on foot Dec. 2 in Boston, walking primarily along Route 1, averaging 12 miles a day with posters reading “Save the Constitution: Impeach Bush/Cheney” through good weather and bad.
“The public’s reaction was fabulous. Ninety percent of those people who chose to express themselves — we are talking in terms of horn sounds on the roads, thumbs-up, a few fingers thrown in — were positive. Incredibly, people know what’s going on, even without it being a major topic of concern in the press,” he said.
Sounds like a good use of his time. as you know, I’m a huge impeachment fan. Here’s his own Web site, where the old geezer says that when signing petitions and outrage aren’t enough, you can always go for a 400-mile stroll.
Meanwhile, the town of Brattleboro is thinking globally, acting moronically with a Town Meeting agenda item to indict and arrest Bush and Our Dark Lord Cheney should they ever set foot in Never-Nevermont. Brattleboro Reformer
You’ll remember Brattleboro. Charming New England town where people were getting naked last summer. After much handwringing, that’s been banned, but don’t worry, it’ll warm up soon.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:09 pm on Sunday, January 27, 2008
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January 27th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Look at it this way. The geezer was hoofing it out on the road instead of in a classroom corrupting the minds of the young. Good place for him. I think more of them should get out and do that.
January 27th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Anything that keeps guys like that out of the clkassroom is a good thing.
January 27th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Great minds think alike I see.
Also…hopefully, I’ll learn to spell classroom correctly one of these days.
January 27th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
“Charming New England town where people were getting naked last summer.”
You ever notice how people who insist on walking around naked in public are the ones who most need to keep their clothes on?
You can call that Surls’ Law.
January 28th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Good observation Dave. Personally I never take off my clothes where anyone can see me for that exact reason.
These clowns advocating impeachment crack me up. The Dems are going to impeach the President, in an election year, for defending the country in time of war. Riiiiiiight. I know it’s the Jackass Party, but surely there are limits to its idiocy. I think not even Nancy Pelosi is that stupid.
January 29th, 2008 at 7:04 am
You mean, McChimpyhalliburton’s impeachment is NOT important enough to RUN for. You’re going to WALK. ;^)