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On the Ground at the “One Nation” March

Hundreds of buses streamed into the nation‘s capital in Saturday’s early morning hours, bringing thousands of liberal and progressive demonstrators to the National Mall for the “One Nation Working Together” rally — an event meant as a hopeful counter to conservatives’ recent resurgence in America.

Your loyal news staff at The Blaze was on the ground to get an accurate picture of who showed up, what brought the various labor, special interest and ideological groups together and what kind of message they hoped to send to the rest of America with their collective voice.

I arrived at the scene this afternoon to find a steady flood of people walking away from the Lincoln Memorial only halfway through the scheduled rally program. I soon learned that they all had buses to catch–most had arrived in town this morning and most would leave before the sun began to set.

Within minutes one becomes quickly acquainted with the landscape’s color scheme: red shirts = CWA union members; light blue shirts = teachers union members; dark blue shirts = auto workers; and, of course, the infamous purple shirts of the SEIU.

On the Ground at the “One Nation” March

Color-coded activists

With crucial midterm elections just a month away, the message of today’s rally was clear: conservative policies such as endless war, racism, pollution, hate and division have hurt the country’s working people and voters have had enough. By and large, today’s message was about finishing the “change” they started with the election of President Barack Obama in 2008.

The first people I spoke to were a captive audience, waiting patiently in the long lines for the restrooms. Two teachers from New York told me about how their union — the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) — had arranged their transportation to Washington for the march, an event they learned about from their union leadership. When I asked what message they hoped to send with their attendance today, they insisted that the nation’s public schools are failing students because of a lack of funds.

Earlier in the week I spoke to AFT spokesman George Jackson who stressed that the teachers union became involved with today’s “One Nation” rally as a way to “bring people together” from all different backgrounds. “There is a concern about where we are as a nation,” Jackson told me,” a recognition that we need all ideologies — not liberal versus conservative — everyone has an idea to offer.”

While he said the AFT was looking forward to “a great march,” Jackson declined to comment when I inquired what commonalities AFT felt it had with other groups endorsing the march, including Communist Party USA and Planned Parenthood. According to Jackson, AFT sent 200 buses of members “from across the country” to Washington today.On the Ground at the “One Nation” March

Making my way toward the Lincoln Memorial from the Washington Monument I bumped into four men having a spirited discussion about Fox News. One of the men — a member of Brooklyn for Peace — was eager to share his thoughts with me. “I would not go near Glenn Beck, he’s a total idiot,” he said. “So is Sean Hannity; they don’t tell the truth. And Fox News — or as I call it ‘Fraud News’ — because they don’t tell the truth, they lie.” When I asked him if he had a preferred source for his news, he condemned the “corporate-owned media” and replied, “Jon Stewart and, uh, Stephen Colbert. And the internet.”

After speaking with a group of people from Boston working with Jobs With Justice-affiliate City Life/Vida Urbana –a Boston-based group that opposes mortgage foreclosure “any place, anywhere, anytime,” I asked a group of health care workers what they thought of President Obama‘s plans to reform the country’s health care system.

Three SEIU members from United Health Care Workers – East out of Brooklyn, N.Y., had mixed opinions about “Obamacare,“ calling the plan ”good and bad.” They praised expanding health insurance to low-income individuals, but lamented that it was “more than enough” to extend children’s coverage to age 26. “They should have [coverage] until the age of 21,” one man told me. “After that, they should be out of the house and working.”

The SEIU members also weighed in with suggestions for education reform and condemned charter schools for their “demands” on children. “They put too much (sic) strong demands on even on little kids — four years old — they want them to have concentration like they are in concentration camps,” one woman told me.

Overall, the three SEIU members all gave the Obama administration a “thumbs up” for job performance. “The only ones who are going to give a ‘thumbs down’ at this point are the tea party Republicans; they’re dragging down his ratings,” they told me. “Just let him do his job.”

Further down the Mall I came across a gentleman encouraging marchers to”Stop Ryan!” John Heckenlively is a Democrat running to unseat incumbent GOP Rep. Paul Ryan and says he made the trip from Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District to meet like-minded people. To grab the attention of passersby, Heckenlively and his campaign assistants asked them to help him defeat Ryan, “Glenn Beck’s best friend in Congress.” In this crowd, it seems, Glenn Beck’s name definitely draws attention… of the negative sort.

On the Ground at the “One Nation” March

John Heckenlively

Heckenlively condemned Congressman Ryan’s “Roadmap” budget planned, which he characterized as an attempt to privatize Social Security. When I asked him how he would help solve the shortfalls facing the entitlement program, he responded: “We‘re assuming there’s a serious problem which there really is not. Social Security is solvent until 2037 if we do absolutely nothing. So, all you really need to do is fairly modest changes in the system — things like raising the cap — and Social Security is solvent for the foreseeable future.”

I wished Heckenlively a safe trip back to Wisconsin and continued toward the front of the rally where I met a 40-year veteran teacher from Lima, Ohio. As a member of the National Education Association (NEA), the educator speculated that “oppression” from “corporate greed” brought marchers to Washington Saturday. “Trying to take pension systems away, trying to make jobs lower-paying than normal, shipping jobs overseas — it all seems like a ploy to further the cause of the rich,” she told me. Like other teachers I met at the rally, she insisted the schools needed better funding and the property tax system for funding local schools was “unfair.”

At this point I had spoken with dozens of individuals and walked about three miles. I parked myself on a bench to take in the scenery of the bright autumn day, but it was interrupted by the noticeable presence of trash scattered about the grounds.

On the Ground at the “One Nation” March

Garbage at the World War II Memorial

Rally signs and water bottles littered the area and trash cans spilled other refuse out to where passing pedestrians kicked it down the sidewalk.

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On the Ground at the “One Nation” March

The marchers left the Mall today in a condition that paled in comparison to the pristine scenery left behind by 8/28′s “Restoring Honor” crowd.

As the small remaining crowd dispersed, I noticed this man:

On the Ground at the “One Nation” March

Hmm… Faith, Hope and Charity. Where have I heard that before?

After striking up a conversation, I learned this Silver Spring, Md., resident also attended the “Restoring Honor” rally on 8/28 and came to Saturday’s march because he thought it was “important to see the other sides and come to my own conclusions.“ When I asked him what ”conclusions” he came to today, he said, people seem to be divided “emotionally.”

“I think there are some fundamental things going on in our country right now economically that we have to come together on, I don’t care what your political viewpoint is. But my sign and me coming here is more than just being political,” he said.” It’s just a way for me to get engaged with how people are feeling… the message is universal.”

Comments (132)

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  • nosycophant
    Posted on October 3, 2010 at 4:27am

    Heckenlively ir the MAN!!!!!!!! YEeahhh BOoooy!!!

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  • nosycophant
    Posted on October 3, 2010 at 4:11am

    I bet those union bosses skipped out went to the Hood and picked up some of DC’s finest rock and went back to the WWII memorial and imbibed mmm thats what I was told mmm mmm mmm

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  • UlyssesP
    Posted on October 3, 2010 at 4:11am

    My Dad would be PISSED!!!
    Look how they treat Our Flag.

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    • ufrightenme
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 5:30pm

      Your dad would be right to be pissed, but it’s a picture of a flag, not a flag, and it does not need to be burned because it hit the ground. I wish more people understood that wearing a picture of a flag on a “Made in America” (made in China) tee-shirt is not patriotic, wearing the flag, was considered an act of rebellion. I don’t know what wearing a tiny photocopy of it means, but it is not an act of patriotism.

      And by “they”, I suppose you mean liberal people, of which I consider myself one. I hope you understand one day that no one is less patriotic because they are not for the same things that The Blaze is for, no matter what you have been told. I value my country and it’s symbols, although I admittedly place more importance on the things that matter, like what those symbols mean. “Liberal” used to mean people who liberally interpreted the constitution (because many were for some form of gun control). These days, that seems to have switched, and people who used to be conservative (meaning conservative interpretation of the Constitution) are the ones calling for the oppression of people (gays, etc.). I only wish that people wanted to uphold the Constitution and Bill of Rights the way these were intended to be. It’s my flag too.

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  • Maximus
    Posted on October 3, 2010 at 3:26am

    Thanks for posting those photos and reporting, Meredith! I, too, was at the Restoring Honor Rally, and after it was over, I helped distribute large trash bags in areas where the trash cans were overflowing. Most of the trash was water bottles. When I put out the trash bags, many people came up to me right away to help fill them up. What a difference a rally makes!

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  • David Foxfire
    Posted on October 3, 2010 at 2:45am

    “They should have [coverage] until the age of 21,” one man told me. “After that, they should be out of the house and working.”

    Out of the house and working? Where at? I doubt there’s much of a housing and job market for them to go to. Besides, kicking your children out at their birthdays seem like something this man’s curvature image of a conservative family would do, wouldn’t it?

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  • JoeinTX
    Posted on October 3, 2010 at 2:42am

    The trash is job security for their union brothers in the sanitation department.

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  • AngryTexanFromAmarillo
    Posted on October 3, 2010 at 2:40am

    Someone needs to update wiki with info on these 2 rallies nothing about either one of them.

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  • Mikee T
    Posted on October 3, 2010 at 1:58am

    There you go………..classless, stupid, arrogant progressive misguided liberals………what do they do ? Trash the mall……predictable……. Springsteen would have been there lest a much needed face lift operation, I think…….lol…… I consider these people traitors…..plain and simple…

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    • ufrightenme
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 5:50pm

      Who is a traiter? Me, because I think money doesn’t trickle down from the rich to the poor? By money, I’m not talking about your tax dollars, trust me, I’m not see any of it where I am. I am talking about the lack of tax dollars being paid by the very people who are profiting off of policy (Cheney). Whatever media you watch whether it be Glenn Beck or Rachel Maddow, it really doesn’t change the fact that this division between what I think and what you think is an effective way to divide a class of people who are not filthy rich, and make them fight amongst themselves. Someone has convinced you that you have more in common with Glenn Beck than you do me. And if Glenn Beck was who he claims to be, you might be right. Or if you went to Harvard, like Beck, you might be right. What tends to divide us (the right and left political parties) is religious and moral ideals. People can talk about the economy, and foreign policy, and whatnot, but the truth is, most of what separates us politically stems from a core belief that what isn’t approved of by church, should be outlawed by government. So who wants big government? No me. Nor do I want another persons value system to be imposed upon me. So who is the traitor? the one who believes in keeping a separation of church and state, or the one who thinks tax loopholes should be available only to those people making more than a six figures a year? The one who thinks people should be kicked out of the military, and subject to searches based what they look like, or the one who wants to stand up for the rights of others, not just my own?

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  • supercapo
    Posted on October 3, 2010 at 1:55am

    The difference between the two rallies is astounding. And it’s the pictures of the litter that truly amazes me. I was at 8/28. I saw for myself the complete lack of litter. More than that though, there was an amazing feeling that lasted most the weekend. There was a feeling of happiness, peace, and courtesy. The people that left the Mall at 8/28 left it better than they found it and left better than they’d come.

    Based on what I’ve seen of the 10/2 rally… it would be insane to describe it with any of the things I wrote above

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on October 3, 2010 at 1:52am

    Jobs Jobs Jobs seem to be a revolving message, with all the unions there, I‘m surprised they didn’t have a message, come over here and sign up for a job, we need more people to fill the jobs we have.

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  • cheezwhiz
    Posted on October 3, 2010 at 1:40am

    @ N37BU6
    Excellent

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    • Deutscher
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 3:51am

      Heycheese-guy
      Remember calling me pathetic? It takes a real man ( assuming u r one) to call people names via anon posts.
      I have a some questions for you back at the NASA post

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  • Quasimofo
    Posted on October 3, 2010 at 1:26am

    Since there seems to be a “controversy” over the numbers, lets just wait until November and there will be a clearer accounting :-)

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    • jaazman1
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 4:32pm

      November, november, november is coming, can’t they hear it, i just am counting the days so i can throw out the trash, plus i got a bigger trashcan waiting for 2012,for the biggest trash in 100years bigger than w.Wilson or fdr,plus any dumpster just isn’t big enough to clean out the rest of that trash which was icumlated gets clean out with him. Amen

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  • N37BU6
    Posted on October 3, 2010 at 1:20am

    I saw Glenn Beck there taking garbage out of the cans and strewing it everywhere. Then he started taking pictures. I approached him, but when he saw me he threw sand in my eyes and ran away.

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    • IndianaUSA
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 2:20am

      Wow. Did the tears of joy wash the sand out when you got to hear Ed speak? How about Van?

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    • N37BU6
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 9:40am

      @INDIANAUSA

      It was mostly the blood shooting out of my eyes that did it.

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  • N37BU6
    Posted on October 3, 2010 at 1:16am

    http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/3899/12345ts.jpg

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  • MESO71
    Posted on October 3, 2010 at 1:15am

    I did notice that at one time, they did have a fairly respectable gathering. but I was amazed and even a bit shocked as to how quickly they left long before the end of the rally. Their message has no substance, I was almost sorry for them when I saw how quickly they disbursed. when I saw the supposed “entertainment” I truly felt sorry for those that stayed.
    Really??? This is the “Liberal Left” they should have had the greatest entertainers that can be bought!!!

    To the “Right”… We are winning… The Giant is awake… And the radicals are running scared… Stay the course.
    Love God, and love this nation founded in the Name and respect of God!

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    • captquest
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 1:25am

      You bet, and good point about entertainment, where was Dave Mathews and Springsteen?

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  • FROTPODP
    Posted on October 3, 2010 at 1:14am

    “ONE NATION COMPLAINING TOGETHER”
    An exercise in tedium, to the point of pathos.
    I watched to the point where I saw a man in a cowboy hat waving a communist flag.
    These poor people are terminally pathetic.

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  • Chett
    Posted on October 3, 2010 at 1:08am

    I confess I don’t know much about charter schools, but isn’t it a choice? What if they do push the kids (most could use a little push, its part of being a kid) if you don’t like, don’t send your kids. I also confess I figured a lot of these folks follow along because the lack basic civics and economics education – but if thats true of the teachers I am scared.

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    • CatB
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 3:23am

      You want teachers to work hard and push students to learn? …. facist! ROFL

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  • cheezwhiz
    Posted on October 3, 2010 at 1:00am

    When I asked him if he had a preferred source for his news, he condemned the “corporate-owned media” and replied, “Jon Stewart and, uh, Stephen Colbert.
    ==========================================
    I’m sure this guy thinks Col Sanders is a combat veteran of the Battle of the Bulge too :D

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    • jaltman1
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 1:17am

      HA HA HA HA HA HA! Great one!!

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    • CatB
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 3:22am

      Oh my goodness … ROFL

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 12:42am

      Dude, great comment. I keep posting about the same content and then seeing yours. We’re on the same page!!

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  • joseph Fawcett
    Posted on October 3, 2010 at 12:57am

    Thank you, thank you so much for this report. I think you did a great job and I appreciate it. I hope you do more and more stories like this. All you did was show up and ask questions and let people anwser for themselves. I am more than convinced of the truth of the matter from your report. It is not about the speakers that and what they are saying, it is about what the actual people are thinking and doing. Again thank you!

    Hope you can take a view of my artwork on my website. I could use the exposure to boost my website position. I am a new professional american western artist, http://www.josephfawcettart.com hope you enjoy my work, and thanks!

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  • AMERICA4EVER
    Posted on October 3, 2010 at 12:55am

    These people have no conscience.

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    • Mirac777
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 7:57am

      It boils down to the theme of Socialist Saturday: Give us more of those hard-earned tax dollars so we can continue to trash this country and move forward with our Socialistic agenda. These people had to be begged, bribed and bullied to come to this rally. That is really sad. Social justice? IE; Give jobs to people based on race instead of qualifications. Give jobs to Unions so they can bankrupt the country and everything they get near like the Auto industry.Give more money to the inept teachers who are turning out college students who cant read and write at a 5th grade level. On and on with the stupidity of these people. Its endless. Sooner than later, the tax dollars will be outnumbered by the welfare class, then who they going to beg from? You can only pick so much fruit off of the tree. This socialist utopia depends on the people being too stupid to understand this. Sad.

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  • cheezwhiz
    Posted on October 3, 2010 at 12:52am

    The SEIU members also weighed in with suggestions for education reform and condemned charter schools for their “demands” on children. “They put too much (sic) strong demands on even on little kids — four years old — they want them to have concentration like they are in concentration camps,” one woman told me.

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    they want them to have concentration like they are in concentration camps,”

    Huh ?
    Whiskey Tango Foxtrot !!
    Is this what Obamites think concentration camps were …where people went to concentrate for math and spelling ?
    Do these thugs stare at cartons of orange juice because it says “ concentrate ” ??

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    • IndianaUSA
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 2:07am

      Lmao

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    • Tucsonan
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 2:29am

      Charter schools are successful because they expect alot out of the kids and the majority of kids perform very well when challanged. Yes, there are some that can’t handle the work and most likely it is those kids that do not have the support at home to help them through it. Charter schools are privately owned, not a part of the government controlled school unions. I have a friend that has her two children in charter schools and they can run circles around my children. I am unable to do the Charter school because of the fact that the only one near my house has no after school care and I am a full time working mother. I would have to rely on my 11 year old to take a city bus and hang out somewhere by herself for several hours.

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    • Druhand
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 2:44am

      Ohhh, that’s funny!!! :)

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    • Axl187
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 2:59am

      lmao too !!

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    • CatB
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 3:21am

      ROFLmao

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 7:58am

      No, that’s because they have the “union” mentality. Slow down, don’t work so hard to produce or management will expect more from us, they will hire more union workers if they think it takes this long to produce one item. We can‘t expect them to want their children to have any kind of work ethic when they wouldn’t recognize it if it hit the in the head. Lazy (and in some plants – beer drinking, pot smoking) and with no ambition to be anything more than they are and expect the kids to follow in their footsteps. Basically, Rudy.

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    • N37BU6
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 8:13am

      No, no, no… everyone knows they made concentrated fruit juice.

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 12:37am

      @ Cheezwhiz: WHISKEY, TANGO, FOXTROT!!! LMAO!!! I love it!!

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  • jaltman1
    Posted on October 3, 2010 at 12:50am

    {I just shamelessly copied my own comment from another article here on The Blaze, but I just have to say it again in this forum! Forgive me…}

    We were in DC for the REAL Rally, and believe me, the 8/28 no-litter-left-behind thing wasn’t just one or 2 shots of clean, green grass after the crowds dispersed… (although those litter-free photos from 8/28 do speak volumes!)

    We left the WHOLE TOWN cleaner, fresher, and more inspired than it was before we got there.

    DON‘T MAKE US GO BACK THERE AND SHOW YOU AGAIN HOW IT’S DONE!

    (OK, OK, DO make us! Just give us the date – we’ll book our hotel RIGHT NOW!)

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    • joseph Fawcett
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 1:01am

      I love your comment, I have been to DC many times. I wish the whole city could be cleaned up. It is total moral depravity. I saw the low life of DC when I was there. I pray that it can be cleaned up from the trash that is left there by humans and the human trash that is so immoral that it is unspeakable.

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    • jaltman1
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 1:07am

      OK, wait a minute. Was I too harsh about the trash thing?

      I apologize. :o( I do feel badly about that.

      I get it now – THESE participants are used to the handful of people they work with who have one of those, um, what to do you call it? Yeah! A WORK ETHIC to come behind them and clean it up FOR them!

      Except those people were at a different rally…

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    • jaltman1
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 1:16am

      Sorry, Mr. Fawcett!

      That comment probably didn’t make sense, but I didn’t see yours before I hit “send” on mine – I was simply still running my mouth, and I thought I was only running it at myself!! I’m so embarassed…

      This is what I love about the 8/28 rally and the messages that have flowed from it – personal responsibility and accountability is key. I’ve always been one to pick up litter ANYWHERE I found it, but I tell you since 8/28 it’s on my radar now more than ever.

      So for now, sure, I’m picking up the litter of MANY other people. But perhaps it will be contagious and over time I will have less to pick up. And litter pick-up is just one small piece of the puzzle… it’s a 1,000 piece puzzle and every piece is significant.

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    • Chris G
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 1:22am

      My only regret about 8-28 was the Congress wasn’t in session & WE couldn’t have marched & surrounded the Capitol while we were there.

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    • Super68
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 3:14am

      I’ll be there too with the wife and my two boys

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    • loveoursoldiers
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 8:15am

      I was in DC for 8/28 and did a lot of walking around. I was shocked and appalled at how DC is full of litter.
      WOW..Looked like I imagine a third world country to look. I thought to myself.. what a gorgeous city and what a shame that people just drink their coffee and eat whatever and drop the cup and wrapper…. lazy, classless and clueless. This went out in the fifties with the “don‘t be a litterbug’ and ‘Suzie Spotless’.Don’t they have union workers picking up trash there? or are they just too busy making signs and going to communist rallies?

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    • soarpatriot1116
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 8:28am

      jaltman1….we are going to go back to D.C. On November 2nd! We’ll clean up that mess real good!

      vote…save America. God Bless America.

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    • drbage
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 10:20am

      The probably couldn’t find any non-union people to pay sub union wages to clean up their mess and chant the obligatory slogans. When you compare the two rallies they are indicative of what each group wants to do to the country: this one to trash it, 8/28 to clean it up and throw out the trash.

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    • mamawalker
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 5:06pm

      JALTMAN1…So true…I watched people who were waiting hours to get on the Metro pick up trash, not from our event, but just trash left by people living in DC. I lived there for a short time and many people there are pro-government because they are dependent on it. They walk into a job and get 18 days paid vacation a year as well as many other perks. They all have a hand out – give me more, they say! I said on 8-28 that what would have been a remarkable ending to that glorious day would have been for all of us there to turn and march to the White House and then to the Capital building. Even though the mainstream media downplayed the event, that would have made it harder for them to ignore! We can save that one for 8-28-12, right before we take back the White House!!!

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 12:35am

      I posted a comment about the trash on10/2–over on HuffPo (after the Blaze did the “compare and contrast” photo and linked Huff Po) and after I commented on the trash left behind, some liberal poster simply replied: “Job creation” as if the trash left behind actually HELPED our economy out by putting people to work cleaning up garbage.

      Wow.

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  • copperstatekid
    Posted on October 3, 2010 at 12:47am

    I watched about 1 1/2 hours of this rally and the crowd, although spread out was not as numerous as the 8/28 rally and Ed Madison got the date wrong and the crowd estimate and his satellite reference. The speeches were lame, especially Harry Belafonte trying to compare the teaparty to being nazis. He didn’t say nazis directly, but he implied it by making reference to some nazi terror occurance. I can’t remember the name of it.

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    • BehindBlueEyes
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 6:45am

      Harry Belafonte is one banana shot of a fruit salad. He is truly nuts and would be much happier in Cuba or Venezuela.
      “Come Mr. tally man tally me bananas”

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    • Mirac777
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 7:47am

      I agree, Belafonte is deranged, thoroughly brainwashed by the Goebbels-Socialist media propaganda we have in America today.It is funny, that with all his money, and America being such a rotten place, why doesn’t he move to his beloved communist countries his views show he loves? Because he is a confused pathetic bigot and hypocrite! Thanks to American values and prosperity this man wants for nothing in his life! Yet here he is trashing Patriots and true Americans for standing up for the America that made him richer than hell. Pathetic.

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  • patriot4ever
    Posted on October 3, 2010 at 12:40am

    I watched part of this thing on msnbc…it was sickening how the ‘journalists’ portrayed this farce. had to change the channel before I threw up! NOTHING like 8/28…that day was truly Blessed.

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  • Large Eagle
    Posted on October 3, 2010 at 12:37am

    Great – How about coming together on cleaning up your own freaking mess. They can’t even clean up after themselves and to think the undecided have a problem understanding the difference between Beck attendee’s and the bused in drones.

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    • staythecourse
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 1:11am

      Thanks Meredith for going your eye witness account. I especially enjoyed the other story too where it shows them using a photo from the 8.28 rally to report today’s events. Thanks to all at the Blaze, for showing the truth!

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    • Chris G
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 1:17am

      They still didn’t surpass the 84,000 that CBS said showed up @ the 8-28 rally, did they?

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    • cruisemates
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 3:10am

      CNN is such a joke. They do a report where they say “looks like a pretty significant turnout” – but you KNOW if they had seen a BIGGER turnout than Beck they would have been saying so -non-stop. They would have had Paul Begala sneering in our faces. The photo montage on CNN is hilarious, stoned-out hippies, hateful signs, empty bleachers, bored faces, spread out people trying to fill in vast empty spaces, pre-printed signs handed out by astro-turf organizations. Sad, sad, sad.

      Come on CNN – do some REAL reporting for a change. Stop trying to “sell us” a version of America we don’t want. We like the Constitutional freedoms we already have; Less government, a FREE press, entrepreneurialism, a thriving economy and pride in who we are.

      We love Fox, but we are hungry for the rest of the media to start reporting on the real America. It is obvious that for all the bluster, bragging and bullying these are not the people with the answers to America’s problems.

      Oh and Ed Schultz? Rick Sanchez called. He wants to buy you an Old Milwaukee.

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    • H2OBoardem
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 10:41am

      I guess the local Trash Collector’s Union will be demanding stimulus funds to hire more workers. Hey, aren’t these the same people who demand you bring your own bags to the grocery store so there will be less trash in the local dump? Maybe that’s why the trash was left everywhere. They felt they were in their local dump, Washington, D.C.

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    • Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Czar
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 8:58pm

      excellent article! More please

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 12:24am

      “they want them to have concentration like they are in concentration camps”

      Thats the quote of the day right there!!!!!!!!!!!! LMAO.
      Does she think people in concentration camps were “concentrating” on being good school students?

      Sheez.

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 12:30am

      I can see how people who get their news source from Stewart, Colbert and the likes think Beck is a liar. These people are not checking things out for themseleves but being fed liberally-biased stories meant to discredit Beck, Hannity, Fox News, et al.
      What these people need to do, is question with boldness ALL news outlets and check things out for themselves. Get both sides and form opinions.
      I imagine most people that watch Beck, Hannity, OReilly, Fox News…. have also seen Stewart, MSNBC, ABC, etc and have decided who tells the truth and who doesn’t.

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    • Eagle07
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:17am

      They were waiting for the Government to clean it up for them.Or at least tell them to clean it up.You know they can’t do anything on their own without the Government.

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    • Protoham
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 11:28am

      I am sure there is a UNION that does that. We carried out trash out on 8/28.

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