CODE PINK: Shame on McCain, Shame on Obama

As the Senate is about to vote on the bailout bill intended to relieve the current economic crisis on Wall Street, Code Pink protesters gathered today on the hill to rally against the bill. “Taxpayers revolt” was the theme of the rally, which included both women and men protesting against the bailout bill that the House choose not pass. Now the Code Pink ladies hope that the Senate will follow the House’s example and not pass the bill. “It’s time for the Senate to hear the voice of the people,” Medea Benjamin, cofounder of Code Pink and leader of the protest group.

The Code Pink rally started off outside Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) office in the Russell Senate Office Building, making statements to the media that the bailout bill should not be passed in Congress before entering the Senator’s office and demonstrating by lying on the floor shouting “BAILOUT? OVER MY DEAD BODY!”

After leaving the Russell Senate Office Building the rally continued at the Hart Senate Office Building were the Code Pink protesters wanted to find out whether Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) would support or reject the bill. After a similar demonstration outside Obama’s office, the protesters announced to the media that the Democratic presidential nominee will most likely vote “yes” to the bill. “If he votes for this bill he’s betraying the America people,” Benjamin said.