The Stranger (an extreme leftist alternative paper in Seattle) reports from a conference of Washington’s 43rd district Democrats:
There was some time to kill as multiple tallies of the delegates and alternates were done, and when the time-killer of taking audience questions had run its course and the idea of teling [sic] jokes had been nixed, someone suggested doing the Pledge of Allegiance to pass the time. (Are you listening, right-wing bloggers? This is going to get good.)
Yep.
At the mere mention of doing the pledge there were groans and boos. Then, when the district chair put the idea of doing the Pledge of Allegiance up to a vote, it was overwhelmingly voted down. One might more accurately say the idea of pledging allegiance to the flag (of which there was only one in the room, by the way, on some delegate’s hat) was shouted down.
(All emphasis original.) (Via Instapundit.)
Nice. I grew up in Seattle, just five blocks outside the 43rd district. (The 46th is not too different.) It’s sad to see how things have changed. When I was growing up, the area was reliably liberal, but still patriotic. We sent Scoop Jackson to the Senate for thirty years. Now the area is best represented by Baghdad Jim McDermott.
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