AP: ‘Sparse’ Crowd of ‘Thousands’ Gathers in DC to Push Dem Agenda
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Thousands of people flocked to the Lincoln Memorial for a rally Saturday organized by labor and civil rights groups, hoping to show support for the Democratic agenda in the face of expected GOP election gains next month.
More than 400 organizations, including faith, environmental and gay rights groups, sponsored the “One Nation Working Together” demonstration on the same end of the National Mall where a month ago tea party activists met to hear conservative commentator Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin.
“We’re here to show the rest of the country that there are people who support the progressive agenda,” said Ken Bork, who came from Camas, Wash. But he acknowledged that Republicans are enjoying an advantage heading toward the Nov. 2 election that will determine whether Democrats retain control of Congress.
“There may be an enthusiasm gap, but we’re not going to know until we have an election,” Bork said. “A lot of the noise from the extreme right-wing stuff, it’s been well orchestrated by big money. But it‘s not as bad as they’re making it out.”
There were people with union T-shirts and others participants who carried banners advocating expanding Medicare for all Americans. While the Beck rally stretched well down the National Mall, Saturday’s event was shaping up to be far smaller, with sparse groups lingering around the reflecting pool and other monuments.
Some people described the event as a counter-protest to the Beck rally. Many mentioned the perceived racism
they see among the tea party-style activists, even though no one who spoke at the Beck rally neared anything approaching criticism of President Barack Obama or his race.
“He can’t get anything done. It’s just wrong,” said Shelley Casala, who came from Fort Wayne, Ind.
She said Democrats need to look at the rally, take heart and govern from a liberal platform. “Democrats are too afraid of losing their job,” she said. “We will have their back if they have ours.”
With a month of campaigning to go and voter unhappiness high, the Democratic-leaning groups sponsoring the One Nation rally hoped the four-hour program of speeches and entertainment would unify activists who are crucial if Democrats are to keep power on Capitol Hill.
Republicans are hoping to ride voter anger to victories in the November congressional elections and regain control of the House and possibly the Senate.
Organizers insisted the rally wasn’t partisan and said the message was about job creation, quality education and justice. However, the largest of the organizers, such as the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union, tend to back Democratic candidates.
A month ago, Beck and former Alaska Gov. Palin gathered near the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech to urge a vast crowd to embrace what they consider traditional values. Though also billed as nonpolitical, the rally was widely viewed as a protest against the policies of President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats.
One Nation organizers said that they began planning their event before learning about Beck’s rally and that their march is not in reaction to it.
Obama was spending the weekend at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland.
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Comments (418)
krmike
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:54pmMaybe, finally the kool-aid drinking liberals are beginning to see the light. These so called union leaders should be tarred and feathered by the membership and run out of town with our “SOCIALIST” pres in tow. Take the trash out day is fast aproaching. Remember to vote out all incumbents so we can return our nation to it’s rightful place in the world. God bless and keep America “FREE” forever.
Report Post »yankee03
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:53pmNot quite the same emotional turnout….However – Why is FOX news scared to say that the CPUSA is one of the big supporteers of this rally?? Just saying, AFL-CIO, Progressives and leaving it at that, gives a huge pass to those in America that could care less about the unions, or have no idea what a Progressive is , but f you tie the truth to this rally and tie Progressives to Communist and National Socialists, then you send the accurate picture for voters to choose from this Nov. We are at a turning point in this nation, and don’t take a low turn out today as a possible low turn out of voters or even vote tampering this Nov. We need to make the Progressive idea/ideals a thing of the past , never to return-like feudalism is today.
Report Post »CoFX
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:43pmNo doubt, Yankee. I don’t know why every conservtive news outlet in America didn;t continue to point out that this was sponsored by communist and socialist organizations. I would have been putting it out there every day for a week before and a week after this event. Fox should have led the way with stories on the sponsors – highlight a new marxist organization every day, primetime. Even some who religiously watch Fox have no idea what kind of people are involved in today’s rally.
Report Post »AZpatriotmama
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 5:44pmI agree, Yankee. To me, that was the most important point. Shouldn’t that be news, especially since the President and his government websites endorsed this rally? When was the last time a President endorsed communist rallies? Oh, and how about that Van Jones! And the respect the crowd paid to the speakers – it sounded like they were having a party in the background. The speakers had to yell to be heard.
Report Post »Axl187
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 10:15pmNo WAY !!! O’Reilly made a mockery of it on the Factor friday night.He had a spokesperson from LaRaza and NAACP on and repeatedly asked them about the CPUSA and even used the word COMMIE!! it was almost better than watching him punk Bill Maher.
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:53pmThey were there to show there are people who support the progressive agenda – just not many of them and many of those were forced to attend. Seems like this is an embarrassment to me, though the lamestream media won’t present it as such.
Report Post »Eagle07
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 6:18pmI hears one speaker say that we don’t have ro be afraid of immigrants.Well I don’t know anyone afraid of immigrants.We just don’t want ILLEGAL immigrants.Got to love the lefts spin.
Report Post »Metalist
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:52pmVery sad indeed. Poor attendance, bad audio equipment, a “DJ”? Really?
Report Post »All rhetoric, no facts or solutions. Just platitudes. US vs.THEM is all they have to go on.
Eagle07
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:09pmThats all they ever do they have no solutions just the “victim” and “race” cards
Report Post »DJR
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:52pmEven getting their bus ride free to the mall they still were not able to gather any where near the number of people Glenn did. Funny that they had 400 organizations putting this together and this is all they could gather? It shows that there are far more people in line with Glenn’s thinking than with the progressives.
Report Post »Eagle07
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:00pmfor being a “one nation” rally that was supposedly planned before Glenn’s rally they are awfully worried about Glen. And the last time I checked the conservatives were a part of the nation or are they trying to rewrite that history too?
Report Post »Nick Skywalker
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:51pmThe media will probably take pictures from the 8/28 rally crowd and show them tonight on the news and say they were taken today
Report Post »JohnLocke
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 3:42pmWouldn‘t put it past ’em, Skywalker.
Report Post »Onesimus
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 8:02pmAlready did and got busted at it because there were some Gadsen flags in the photo they were trying to pawn off as being taken today.
God bless.
Report Post »tmeyer38
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:49pmYou have to love it. They gave a rally and no one came.
Report Post »Cabo King
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:49pmwhen do the black panthers speak??? what about al sharpton and jessie??? then Hitler
Report Post »Eagle07
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:07pmsorry Cabo evem Hitler didn’t want to be there they are having him taped for the big screen.
Report Post »Teezer
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:49pmAn Al Gore of today, meaning a little kid with a lullaby-singing union mom, would hear “Look for the union buses and be sure that-you get your-free lunch…”
Ed Schultz is a doofus. A spittle-mouthed doofus.
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:47pmThe 8/28 rally was organized by a radio show host, threatened with violence from racists and extremists, and everyone had to pay their own way. Look how many showed up.
The 10/02 rally was all-inclusive for most and had the full backing of the government, unions, and hundreds of other organizations. Look how many showed up.
FAIL
Report Post »libertyisfab
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 10:32pmMhm. More like EPIC FAIL
Report Post »SnapTie
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:46pmHave you been watching ?Looking like they are spreading them out to make it look like 500,000 according to Special ED.
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:54pmFrom the beginning, I imagined people walking around asking people to spread out. It’s the kind of thing they would do… it‘s why I’ve been begging people to go down there and shoot lots of video.
The MSM is going to do some heavy editing and low camera angles. They won’t dare center on the crazies in the crowd, or show any of their signs. We won’t hear what anyone is saying either. I really hope we have people in there documenting this. This is a golden opportunity… not to smear or manipulate or be selective, but to get a real representation of the crowd. The MSM didn’t do that with 8/28, and they won’t do it here either. They’ll go from one extreme to the other, but never actually document reality.
Do you think TIME include this in the Year In Pictures? I do… it may also force them to include 8/28 as well. If they don’t, they will be 100% exposed as propagandists.
Report Post »obommanation
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:46pmnote how the leader of the free world is trowing all of them under the bus and where is the house wife of state i mean pres clinton or her husband??. funny how they know it is almost over time to back to little rock and invest in more cattle futures. why cant the dhs just round them all up and ship them to iran where they can be with those other hators of freedom.
Report Post »CameronIL
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:45pmIt looks like they are having a large turnout to me, watching the video?
Report Post »diesel71dan
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:08pmIf that is a “large” turnout what would you call 8/28?
Report Post »Contrarianthinker
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:27pmI too see people linning both sides of the reflection pool back to the Washington Monument. Why spin it? They have a good turnout.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:44pmI’ve noticed the areas of Green you would have expected people to be standing. Absence of those at the rally proves you couldn’t pay people to stand for their rhetoric, which was really intended as a hate rally against Restoring Honor.
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:41pm8/28 vs 10/02
Families driving themselves across the country vs THE MACHINE.
Report Post »Venom
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:07pmSo true
Report Post »Andrea RA
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:41pm“We’re here to show the rest of the country that there are people who support the progressive agenda,” said Ken Bork
^^^^^Well, there it is!!!!! ^^^^^
Report Post »beekeeper
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:29pmIf that’s the opposition, I’m not worried…
This crowd looks to be the size of a state university football game…
Report Post »Big Noodle
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:40pmWow, there is NOBODY there… They would have got a bigger crowd if the board of directors of the 400 commie orgs that backed this thing showed up. Also funny, the PMSNBC coverage consist of their on-air (no) talents blathering talking points at each other. They aren’t even paying attention to the nitwit speakers. How on earth could the unions totally fail to get anyone to come? Dissatisfaction with the radical union leadership by the members must be far greater than anyone imagined!
Report Post »grayrider
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:40pmThe news media will report it as hundreds of thousands.
Report Post »wingedwolf
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:04pmI can’t get shown any angle that will show “the crowd.” I‘m afraid I’m going nuts trying to figure out how many commies they actually got to come to this abomination. I notice that Dr. Alveda King did not make an appearance. I will say that makes me very happy. Dr. Martin Luther King and his dad were both republicans! I think we are all going to be very, very thankful in november! Blessings everyone at The Blaze!
Report Post »ProudConservative1
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:39pmLooks as though Ed Schultz’s “commie” rally is a FLOP!
Report Post »EthicalChaos
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:46pmI will be watching the way Ed spins this on Monday. It’s going to be epic!
obommanation
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:47pmbut i bet in hell old uncle joe is laughing his head off at these usefull idots.
Report Post »OneIfByLand
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:39pmUnions mandated attendance. They were bussed in. Sponsored by 400 organizations and all they can come up with is less than 2/3 of the 8/28 rally. It looks like Nov. 2nd is going to be a GOOD day.
Report Post »Flagwaver
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:56pmThey may have mandated and checked everyone getting onto the buses, but my friend texted me that once off the bus her and some girlfriends went on a foot-tour of D.C. She just got done with a White House tour.
Report Post »BigDog2372
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:24pmHa ha ha, that’s AWESOME F.W. “Free ride to D.C. courtesy of the Unions!”
Report Post »OneIfByLand
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 3:38pmI’ve watched the whole thing and everytime they show a panorama of the mall down toward the Washington Monument, the crowd is getting smaller and smaller. Hahahahahah Firing up the base so much they are leaving
Report Post »Power Of One
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:24pmFlagwaver – I don’t know about your friend just finishing a tour of the white house…you have to book your white house tour 6 months in advance, you don’t receive confirmation until a few days ahead of the scheduled tour, you are scheduled for a specific timeslot, and you have to submit to a background check when you originally request the tour date. She knew she was going 6 months ago?
Report Post »FFPanama
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 6:02pmPower, you are wrong. You can take the tourist tour daily. The White House tour you are referencing takes in the West Wing and other placed. The Tourist tour just goes in the back door, down the hall way, past a few rooms and paintings and out.
Report Post »wrtaber3
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:39pm300,000 to 500,000 individual citizens paid their own way to DC for Beck. 100,000(?) get a FREE RIDE from their unions? As union members realize what is going on, the union leaders better move offshore quickly. They won’t be safe in the USA!
Report Post »wingedwolf
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 3:23pmYou’re going to love this….the teacher’s union got a grant from the taxpayers to pay for buses and food! They are actually proud of it and announced it yesterday!
CatB
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:18pmWingedWolf … I want my money back! That is disgusting waste of TAXPAYER MONEY … I hope you will get the word out … how about a link I can post on other sites?
Report Post »beekeeper
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:24pmWingedwolf – please share the union web site that celebrates this…
Report Post »CoFX
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:34pmSame, Winged. I’ve searched for it, but ahven’t fond a link on my own yet. Please post if you have a minute. I’d like to start adding up how much of our taxpayer dollars went to fund this political rally
Report Post »puck30
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:37pmIt seems watching Sharpton and whoever it looks like they are reading off a Teleprompter. Anybody else notice this?
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:40pmYea they all are and the one I’m hearing now, a lady can’t barely speak with an Obamaprompter!!!!! lolk
Report Post »AmyD79
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:40pmI have noticed a good bit of them reading from teleprompter!!
Report Post »Kimberly48
Posted on October 3, 2010 at 7:45amDo you find Sharpton stuck in the civil rights era and does not realize it is now 2010 and a lot of things have changed over the decades( sorry to be off subject)? I am in my late 40′s and I have lived to see a lot of changes over the years. I don’t understand why he and people like him will not get a grasp of reality, I mean, we do have the first black president now, though he is a very bad president, he is the first minority to become president of the United States
Report Post »Again, I apologize for being off the subject but I often wonder if I am the only one that gets irritated with Sharpton and people like him, it is like a slap in the face when the positive steps that have been taken in this great country over the years are totally disregarded and unappreciated by a lot of people.
Horse Trainer in VA
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:37pm“sparse crowd” hehehe.
Report Post »I know its not a numbers contest, but its still funny
Marylou7
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:47pmYes it is!
This should be conservative’s new campaign song.
http://www.holdingahammer.com
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:39pmThey sure had no problem in the MSM mocking we millions and millions who watched and those great Americans who out of their pockets in a near depression made the trek there to show the world the so called silent Majority ain‘t playin’ no mo….. ;)
I’m gonna spend the next 4 hours mocking these people on every site I can find but in a clever not obnoxious way, their way. lolol
Report Post »PALEHORSE
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:25pmIt’s a slow tourism day on the mall.
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:35pmObama is a crazy conspiracy theorist:
http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/6286/obamablackboard.jpg
Report Post »2
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:04pmWhy didn’t BO show up?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:19pmEven he knows COMMIES are not liked by most Americans!
Report Post »hopin society
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 6:02pmso that’s what the kids call EPIC FAIL
heck as an old guy it seems to me NONE of ‘those people’ could eork the back end of a garbage truck
Report Post »hopin society
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 6:15pmhow many of them HATE “every iota of a *******”?
Report Post »ILoveGlenn
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:35pmpsssss “THOUSANDS”
Report Post »jnword
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:52pm1910 Jekyll Island Warburg,Aldrich & Co. sold the USA off to the FEDERAL RESERVE BANK owned by the ROTHSCHILDS via President Wilson! We have been owned since then to the ROTHSCHILDS. that unfortunately simple,it matters not what party is in power they just have to do what the ROTHSCHILDS tell them.
AnAppealToGod
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:53pmI’ve been watching it and all I hear is victim, victim, victim, bitc*ing, moaning, and whining.
Not inspiring at all. The only inspiring things I have heard are things that do not belong on right/left paradigm. Things like One Nation Under God. But if you are going to stick to that being the message….then why bash 8.28?? I don’t get it.
Van Jones – We can agree on getting some jobs through a responsible green movement. But we don’t need THE GOVERNMENT TO DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or to scare us with Global Warming to JAM it down our freaking throats.
A question was presented. Why are there 40 million people without jobs? An answer that accounts for a lot of that is people have become too lazy to get a job! Stop being entitled and take a minimum wage job instead of leeching off the government! If the area you live in is dangerous and you are struggling to find work there, then move somewhere else! Start over! Start fresh! WORK for it! Don’t expect it to be handed to you.
The lack of self responsibility is beyond belief.
Report Post »jkhypilot
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:57pmEpic fail!!!!!
Buckaroo
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:00pmhm, I bet W.H. Taft [who ACTUALLY WAS President in '10] would have been peeved at Woodrow if the above rant by jn had any truth to it …
Report Post »:-)
Elucidate
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:04pmAnd how many are Teamsters? Since that “had” to attend.
Report Post »Rita
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:13pmNotice how the cameras are only focusing on the back section of the mall where it looks like they crammed about 500 people. What a joke!
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:17pmWas announced there are more people there now than on the 29th
Freelancer
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:20pmTHIS JUST IN: According to FAT ED, satellite images show that this crowd has outnumbered Glenn Becks crowd…. Ummm…. Not so much Ed….
Freelancer
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:23pm@BUCKAROO Don’t pop his balloon! JNWORD has been listening to Alex Jones and since Jones said so, it MUST be true. WORD has been trying to peddle this conspiracy ever since he found this site. Ask him about your birth certificate…. He can PROVE his theory.
Lana40
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:27pmThey just said that the ‘aerial view came in and ’I have a message for Glenn Beck…….we have a bigger crowd than you did!!”
Report Post »OMG…….do these ppl really buy into the lies???
ron the veteran
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:27pmyeah nbc will claim its even bigger than the 8/28 rally. i hope they get good close ups of all of the commie lovin ********. so we know who they are and we can find out where they live to quote andy stern. we need to know who these unamericans are. get a good look folks these are the idiots who want to destroy america and the american dream.
Report Post »Cloth Stews
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:28pmJoe Madison announced from the platform a few minutes ago that the crowd has surpassed the numbers in attendance at Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor event. In all fairness to him he did say more people were there now than on the 29th which is probably true.
CultureWarriors
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:45pmThe whole idea was moronic. There’s no way they could draw the way Glen or the Tea Party can. So now they just look irrelevant. Brilliant move! There’s just not that many dolts around that support communism. Only those that are dumber than dumb. Someone should take a sign today that reads: Sorry, Welfare Office is Closed on Saturday!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UtmTALMkU4
Tell all your liberal friends that due to the high turn out of normal working people Tue, Nov 2, All Democrats should vote Thu, Nov 4! Help us spread the word so we can avoid long lines while we fire the degenerates in congress!
plunderpower
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:48pmHere it is…this is the most unenthusiastic, non-flag waving, group I’ve ever seen. If this was supposed to energize the base for Obama’s agenda, the rally itself needed energized. They can claim more numbers, but there is not a shoulder to shoulder crowd, and the union presence is readily observable. I honestly think that many of the people there have realized they have been aligned with a socialist movement that wants to remove God and change America…and they are not happy about it. Look at their faces.
broker0101
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:50pmJNWORD, You forgot the Bilderberg Group, Free Masons, the Illuminati, Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Round Table and Skull and Bones….
Report Post »wingedwolf
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:55pmIs it just me, or are they not showing this enormous crowd of people? They haven’t taken cameras off the “entertainment.” What a gathering of demolibersocialcommies. Do we have ANY idea how many are actually there?
Report Post »vanhelsing2010
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:58pmOn 8/28, you couldn’t tip over without 6 people around you being there to keep you from hitting the ground. Looks like a good game of frisbie golf could be played today on the mall.
Report Post »AstupidAmerican
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 3:08pmAll I hear is …
Report Post »I didn’t work for it
I didn’t earn it…..
Give me, Give me, Give me, Give me, Give me, Give me, Give me,
sonia
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 3:21pmthis railly is a joke…
Report Post »beekeeper
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 3:35pmIt is amazingly small – I can’t wait to hear Ed “I’m gonna burn this mutha down!“ reconciles his ”300 thousand” claims when faced with a crowd that appears to be more like 300 hundreds (30K).
The crowd looks bored, no enthusiasm, and I fully expect the areato be trashed. There must have been a better way for 400 organizations to spend the estimated $5M it cost.
Now I know why POTUS is out beating the brush to ‘get out the democratic vote.’
It’s sad to watch this…
Report Post »Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Czar
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 3:47pmI watched the whole rally on CSPAN and couldn’t help but think that 75% of the speakers are what their government would consider obese. And yet there they were demanding more, more, more. gimme gimme gimme.
sad really ..
Report Post »Barbara
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:01pmMichelle Obama should have been walking around this rally with her pamphlets on nutrition information and obesity statistics. I see more obesity at this rally than in any school I’ve been in.
Report Post »CoFX
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:26pmI hear they got roughly 88,000. That’s a thousand more than 8/28. LMAO!
Report Post »DominusVobiscum
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:52pmI almost split agut with the opening song.
Imagine
John Lennon
“Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religon too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…
Imagine no possesions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
In a brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world…
You may say i’m a dreamer
But i’m not the only one
I hope some day you’ll join us
And the world will be as one.”
I think it says it all, comrade!
Report Post »BlueStrat
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:55pmThat sound you heard?
That was the dreams, schemes, and fantasies of the Progressives for a global government and a “de-developed“ and ”wealth-redistributed” USA dying a vapid, anemic, pathetic, soul-less death right there on the Mall in Washington D.C. this Year of Our Great and Merciful Lord, the Second of October, Two-Thousand Ten, relegated to history’s dustbin of failed ideologies and dreams of tyranny by the inherent goodness of the overwhelming majority of the American People and a firm reliance in Divine Providence.
Or, if you prefer;
Divine Providence & The American People – 1
Modern Progressiveism & State-ism – 0, goose-egg, nada, the big zip-aroo, squat, the skinny doughnut, nothing, crapola…well, you get the idea. A whole *lotta* “epic fail”.
The best part?
You just -know- all those people *have to be* thinking happy-happy, joy-joy thoughts about their local and national union and party leadership and possibly, hopefully, their own perceptions & ideological beliefs on that long, loooooonnnnggg bus-ride home from that so-obviously sad, sad display. LOL!
Strat
Report Post »dressseller
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 5:20pmI wonder how CBS will spin this crowd size. …They were among the first out to publish the 8/28 crowd size of ‘87,000′ ..which was a joke because there were more than 87,000 people standing underneath those trees on one side alone right along with me.
I’m betting CBS says this rally had hundreds of thousands. lol.
Report Post »roninshaman
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 5:55pmI just want to see if I got this right. Glenn Beck called for a Restoring Honor rally. People who listened to Becks show(s) organized everything on a grass-routes level. An estimated crowd of over 500 thousand people showed up. They were energetic and polite, leaving the park in immaculate condition.
400 organizations coordinated a One Nation rally. Union workers were told they had to go. The President himself endorsed the rally. The AP says a ‘sparse’ crowd of people showed up. Those in attendance seemed to be unenthusiastic or bored.
To paraphrase the opposition, you really don’t have to be a weatherman to sea which way the wind blows.
Keep up the good work Fellow Patriots and America’s brightest days may still be in the future rather than in the past.
Report Post »fountainview
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 6:06pmjnword – you are exactly right !!
Report Post »LasVegas Lady
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 6:17pmSomeone forgot to que the geese! I watched it for a bit, but got tired of the “entertainment”. Never fear, lying about numbers or impact is not going to change the facts or the truth. WE THE PEOPLE will speak our numbers in November.
Report Post »mister0ttawa
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 6:31pmwe will surround them
Report Post »pwintherhansen
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 6:49pmlol
Report Post »TulsaYeeHaw
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 8:40pmjkhypilot
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:57pm
Epic fail!!!!!
Almost as bad as Tennessee’s goal line stand with 13 players…Oh wait, this is worse
Report Post »RGRGVTEXAS
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 9:51pmThis event looks like de ones that president Hugo Chavez holds every sunday in Venezuela; way too many red shirts
Report Post »pickgnee
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 10:23pmWatching this for 20 minutes on C-Span was all that I could stand. It was whiny and wherd and nothing that the founding fathers could have imagined Well they have had their nealy 2 years of fame let’s put them in the rearview mirror and more this country forward. PRAY, VOTE, SEEK THE TRUTH..
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 10:23pmSparse crowd:
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/7254/497c.jpg
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/4514/55887355.jpg
Compare to 8/28:
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/4460/image6814705x.jpg
Check out the “patriots”:
http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/4789/dscn4665m.jpg
Here’s an arrest:
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/3599/dscn4717.jpg
Trash in the streets:
http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/3520/dscn4679.jpg
More “grassroots” supporters:
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/5651/dscn4649z.jpg
JKN
Posted on October 3, 2010 at 6:50amWhat a flop! 400 organizations and this is all they could produce? Not quite the mainstream; these people look like the “fringe”…
Report Post »Mirac777
Posted on October 3, 2010 at 6:53amAttention AP: Two of the themes were jobs and justice. This is pretty pathetic, that in a rally for the middle class, there basically was no representation of the true working middle class.It was a farce.Jobs? Just what jobs are you talking about? Oh you mean UNION jobs where no one can be fired no matter how inept and incompetent they are right? You mean UNION jobs with 65.00 an hour salary that bankrupted the auto industry right? You mean non-productive government jobs where it takes 7 people to do the work of one right? They no more stood for jobs at this rally than Obama stands for the constitutional law in America.
Report Post »Justice>? Just what kind of justice do they mean? A big cry there was that too many people of a certain color are in prison.You know murderers and rapists.Yes they want to release these murderers and rapists so they can do it again based on the color of their skin. Social justice? How is it that the working people, supporting a bunch of lazy freeloaders is any kind of justice?
A person has to be really ignorant and uneducated to believe this rally was about jobs and justice.I have a more correct name for this rally. The Socialistic, one welfare, race-based rally for the non-productive shills and Union bosses in bed with Obama rally. Pathetic.
lillymckim
Posted on October 3, 2010 at 10:48amcheck it out a video from yesterdays One Nation Communist march on Washington supported by the Democrats and the ex DNC Chairman Howard Dean whose You Tube Video link is also posted
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkw7n9Qagu8
This You Tube Video of the One Nation Rally yesterday got about 11,700 hits the last time I looked!
and it will play well during the Elections!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XfgtHN5QDI
Report Post »Howard Deans Video of his support …another fine example of why we VOTE!!! priceless
AnOregonian
Posted on October 3, 2010 at 11:46amJN, Perhaps the “Rothschilds are in titled to a credit, as your not worthy of their investment.
Report Post »BloodSweatandTears
Posted on October 3, 2010 at 3:45pmIt’s time ordinary citizens looked into the 60-100 families that own the rights/shares of the Federal Reserve, Inc. It is a private corporation that runs in complete secrecy. If you were a billionaire owning half of the global GDP, what would you do with your money?
Report Post »Joey
Posted on October 4, 2010 at 5:03amHmmmm I’ll bet the FARM that Mr. Beck will have the TRUTH Monday night on how Small the crowd actually was. I’m betting hundreds of thousands LESS than Glenns Rally. Americans are watching and learning the REAL TRUTH from Glenn and it showed by the poor attendance from the Socialist Communists. There should have been millions there if you read into THEIR propaganda. Thank God we have Human Beings on this Planet like Glenn Beck
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