They were out in force last night at an Obama rally at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
From the Chicago "free registration required" Tribune:
(Obama) hadn't yet gotten to his points about the Iraq war when the protesters began to chant "Troops out now!" prompting Obama to stop his talk and try to engage them.
"I hear you," he said. "We'll talk about that in a second. . . . You've made your point, so why don't you relax?"
But the protesters continued to chant, and the rest of the crowd began to drown them out with shouts of "O-ba-ma!" Someone grabbed the sign from demonstrators' hands--the protesters said later that security officers did so--and they left.
In a Senate bill, Obama has proposed a March, 2008 troop pull-out from Iraq, but for now he wants to continue funding the troops. The protesters want the funding to end now.
Obama's cut-and-run date, as you'll read below, has drawn the attention of Australian Prime Minister of John Howard.
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