Nina led the Kucinich group with her stroller and baby Elmo, his mouth covered with a Kucinich bumper sticker as mute condemnation of the silencing of the Congressman when networks removed him from recent presidential debates.
I asked her why she was marching with the “Kucitizens,” and she responded, “The media is destroying the democracy that it should be protecting! Barring Dennis Kucinich from national debates is so sad and so unfathomable—it is propaganda, like we experienced in oppressed East Germany where I grew up.
“My Elmo is a beloved American puppet, and children all over the world love him and his friends, and so to me, he stands for America, the land of the free and the home of the brave! But what I witness in the US today, is the fragility of America’s precious democracy – and so, I bring Elmo to the rescue, with his spirit of joy and optimism!”
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The procession had a lively start with Snotty Scotty and the Hankies, …
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… an assortment of bikes, …
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… NORML superhero Marijuana Man in cape and tights, Howdy Krishna, Tequila Mockingbird, a winged Shetland pony, nearly all the fishnet stockings in captivity, …
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… and, naturally, the Pope.
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The Doo Dah Grand Marshall, the incomparable Reverend Billy of the “Church of Stop Shopping” led the parade in a pristine white, polyester leisure suit. Hair pumped up to alarming proportions, he warned of the coming “Shop-acolypse” and quipped, “The higher the hair, the closer to God.”
Royalty included HRH, Queen Naughty Mickie, attended by a bevy of zaftig and bespangled belly dancers. And what respectable revelry would be complete without a bona fide sighting of Elvis? Doo Dah offered a diminutive, elementary school-aged, Hispanic version of “The King”, complete with sideburns, cape, and white satin bellbottoms.
Doo Dah, indeed, had it all:
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