Mayor Rocky of Salt Lake City has been making cameos on all the major news outlets lately thanks to his decision to protest the visit of one G Dubya Bush. Mayor Rocky vehemently opposes the American occupation of Iraq, the current administration's equivocation about and tacit approval of torture and the lies the lies the lies!!!! He really sticks it to the Fox "News" network during his interview despite repeated attempts to talk over him and change the subject.
I had the opportunity to meet the mayor at a Drug Policy Alliance conference in California earlier this year. I was a fan of him then for his anti-drug war stance. Recent developments demonstrate just how salty and saucy he really is. His favorite retort is quoting Teddy Roosevelt when defending his opposition to the president and current administration,
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."
If we can't have revolution, let's have Mayor Rocky in '08!
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