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Marc Morano

CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
Posted October 11, 2004

Protester Says She Prefers 'Serial Rapist' to George Bush
Radical, certainly the word for it

Coral Gables, Florida (CNSNews.com) - A protester declared Thursday evening that she would rather vote for a "serial rapist than George Bush" during a rally just outside of the University of Miami campus where the first presidential debate was held. "I would vote for a serial rapist [rather] than George Bush," said Elizabeth Mercedes in an interview with CNSNews.com several hours before the debate began.

"I am very scared if [Bush] gets elected again, very scared," said Mercedes, who identified herself as a Democrat. Hundreds of anti-war activists and supporters of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry lined the roadway leading to the debate site with signs and banners.

This is not the first time that protesters have linked voting and/or President Bush to rape. On September 1, a featured performer at a National Organization for Women rally in Central Park during the GOP convention in New York City accused President Bush of having "savagely raped " women "over and over" by allegedly stealing the 2000 presidential election.
At that New York rally, poet Molly Birnbaum said from the podium, "Imagine a way to erase that night four years ago when you (President Bush) savagely raped every pandemic woman over and over with each vote you got, a thrust with each state you stole."

For more of the story go to: http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewPolitics.asp?Page=\Politics\archive\200410\POL20041001a.html

© Marc Morano 2004 Reprinted with Permission

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