Well, the long awaited day finally arrived to Drive Out The Bush Regime. They are really building up a head of steam with these annual events. I predict that it will only take two more annual protests before Bush is driven from office in early 2009.

I went to the Olympia, Washington protest first and frankly I was disappointed by it. At 1:00 pm, three hours after it started, there was still less than a hundred people, and nearly half of that were the organizers. Here is a wide shot.

And no, I didn’t cut out any of the crowd. Of course, they did have lots of spray paint and markers.

And speaking of paint, check out this truck.

 

Heck with Bush and Cheney, he wants the whole government gone. Frankly I could go along with a complete flush of congress, if we could finally get rid of characters like Ted Kennedy, J. F. Kerry and Byrd. But tempting as that is to dream about, we should probably stick with our tried and proven method of orderly elections. 

The Olympia protest organizers website said:

We have 1000 orange rain ponchos with IMPEACH and BUSH OUT NOW - to give away FREE to first 1000 people!

They turned out to be “free”, but only with a strongly suggested donation. Bummer.

Remember Lt. Ehren Watada?

Here is a fellow with an interesting perspective on Communist Cuba. He forgot to add “0% Dissent” and “Trains Run On Time”.

And the perennial socialist candidate Aaron Dixon had a table, naturally (the guy in the background is with another group).

Of course, there were the obligatory “Bush is Hitler” and “Bush is the Terrorist” smears. How original.

However, in the “priceless” category, nothing compares to letting your little girl play with an umbrella like this.

Yep. It says “Bush Kills Children”. Nice.

From the Olympia protest, I valiantly fought my way up to downtown Seattle using our liberal utopian transportation system. I hear that it was a larger protest, about 300-400 people, but by the time I got there at dusk it was pretty thin. But the 9/11-was-an-inside-job crowd was still there.

There was more flag abuse.

And the award for the most passionate sign goes to:

Sheesh!  I like the GEICO Gecko…

Not to be outdone by Olympia, Seattle also had an impressive vehicle.

That’s all folks. Just think, I do this so you don’t have to!

The full gallery of pictures is here.