"G. W. Nixon"

Shortly after 2 p.m. - hours before Air Force One was scheduled to arrive at the airport - about a dozen Democratic activists from a variety of organizations gathered with protest signs at the corner of Montgomery and Cooper roads in downtown Montgomery, about one mile from the Indian Hill home where the president was to attend a fundraiser for Sen. Mike DeWine.

The protestors - most of them from Democracy For Cincinnati and Ohio Young Democrats - struggled in a brisk wind to hang onto their homemade, hand-lettered signs with a variety of anti-Bush messages - "Got Jobs?, "G.W. Nixon,'' and one that urged less money for DeWine and more for body armor for american troops.

Marilyn Daimoff of Springfield Township waved her "Got Jobs'' at passing traffic until it blew out of her hands and straight across Montgomery road.

Her friend, Carol Danko of Springfield Township, said they came out to show the public - and hopefully, the president, if his motorcade were to pass by - "that not everybody in Cincinnati is a right-wing Republican."

"We want him to know there are plenty of us here who are against his policies, whether it is turning the ports over to Arabs, Medicaid cuts, global warminig, the tragedy in Darfur - there's no end to the issues we disagree with this administration on,'' Danko said.

A loose coalition of Democratic and left-wing organization had a second demonstration going on at the corner of Euclid and Miami avenues in Madeira, in case the motorcade passed that way.