Still more progress...?

I've written a couple of posts about the country slowly becoming aware of BushCo's failures and lies and here is the latest example from deep in Red State country, Salt Lake, Utah. It would appear that not all Rockys sound alike. Remember Rocky "I just wish the President could have another term in office" Vaccarella? Well, meet Rocky Anderson...

A crowd of thousands cheered Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson for calling President Bush a "dishonest, war-mongering, human-rights violating president" whose time in office would "rank as the worst presidency our nation has ever had to endure."

The group - including children and elderly and some hailing from throughout Utah - then marched to the federal building Wednesday to deliver a copy of a symbolic indictment against the president and Congress for abuse of power and failure to uphold the U.S. Constitution.

With their signs labeling Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld the "axis of evil," calling the Iraq war a "mission of lies" or comparing the invasion of Iraq after Sept. 11, 2001, to invading Mexico after Pearl Harbor, the estimated 1,500 to 4,000 protesters hoped their demonstration at the Salt Lake City-County Building sent a message about the reddest state in the country.

"If they [the Bush administration] lack support in Utah, my God they're in trouble," the Rev. Tom Goldsmith of the First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City told the lively gathering between protest songs and banner waving.

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Looking around the spectacle, Ruth Dunn, of Tooele, summed up the day: "This is what democracy looks like."

If this keeps up, you couldn't blame a guy for feeling hopeful, could you?