Recreate 68 splits

The Left is not only suffering the split of the Democrat Party between Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama, it seems the anti-war groups are having trouble keeping the various groups together as well (Denver Post link);

A close ally with the local war protest group Re-create 68, which is organizing for the 2008 Democratic National Convention, is severing its ties, the group told R-68 today.

Tent State University, a national group represented locally by Adam Jung, says it is having trouble organizing support and bands to perform because of the violent imagery associated with R-68’s name, and with recent heated rhetoric from R-68 organizer Glenn Spagnuolo, who has been the face of the local effort to date.

From the outset, Spagnuolo’s group has attracted criticism because of its name, which suggests for many the violence outside the convention hall in Chicago in 1968.

“We don’t feel that Re-create-68 is working well with the anti-war left,” Jung said.

Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the national group CodePink, seconded concerns over R-68’s message and image, saying she wanted to portray the anti-war message as positively as possible. But Benjamin didn’t rule out working with R-68, as long as the group’s message conformed with CodePink’s.

But, that’s what you get you base an entire movement on egos and personalities with no other goal other than making money. The anti-war left is not interested in ending the war, they’d dissipate like the groups of the ’60s and the members, especially the so-called leaders, would have to get real jobs.

They’re only extending our involvement in the Middle East with their rhetorical theater and that’s their intention. Why else would they be focused on protesting their hope for ending the war.

Category: Antiwar crowd, Politics