Posted on 08/29/2010 3:36:41 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Tens of thousands can sure make a dent in an election!
When I hear the networks call Sharpton’s gathering the “Hate Whitey” rally, then I’ll believe there is accuracy in media.
We were there as well, and I agree, at least 400+K. It will be interesting to hear/see what Beck comes out with as his group's official total, if it is around 550K it won't be a surprise to me at all.
It was a very meaningful and motivating rally all in all, we are very happy that we made the commitment to attend awhile back and followed through. There isn't a better way to spend an unusually beautiful (weatherwise for August!) Saturday in DC, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Patriots, honoring our Country's finest both living and deceased, and celebrating the Almighty's Power and Strength!!! Simply Awesome!
I was particularly moved by the many that mentioned the need to finally honor our Vietnam Vets and Welcome Them Home, including the closing prayer by the severely wounded Vietnam Vet that is now a pastor, his words brought tears to my eyes and tens of thousands of others in the crowd.
Great pic!
Thanks.
Let’s give the so-called media credit. They could have reported “more than one” and been correct.
Sorry I was not there... I am 10,000 miles away but I was there (like millions of others) in spirit, vision and hope!!
I beg to differ, November.
We just got back from the Rally, Two large vans were rented out for what started out as 16, turned out at 12 in two rental vans. Left Friday night about 6:00pm, Got into a traffic jam from hell at the metro park and ride in Washington. The lines going in were literally going around the block and up the street, and cars were parking on both sides of the street for blocks in all directions. We finally got to the Smithsonian stop were we walked out to the mall. The Martin Luther King event was right in front of us. they were broadcasting Martin Luther Kings speech from what looked like a large tapestry I;m guessing this was Mr Sharptons? not many people hanging around this area, just walking straight for the rally. Right before we went in to the entrance, (he had a banner going over the side walk,) there was a guy with a bull horn harassing every on he could saying he was ashamed that you folks are going in there, all he got back was God Bless you man, I loved it! just before we got in, we could just hear the end of Avda? King,s speech. She was the main reason I wanted to go.
When we we got up towards the Washington monument the real crowds began. found a place where a couple of our more elderly ladys could set up there chairs and a base camp of sorts. My wife and an other great patriot lady went to see how far we could make it in. There were patchy but solid seas of people from the Washington Memorial to the World War 2 memorial. When we got to the World War II Memorial, the wall of people started. We went through the memorial, and people were standing on top of all the forward facing walls.we waided in. toward the reflecting pool. it was rough going from there still slight movement in the crowd, but very slow. porta pottys lined up the side walk behind the reflecting pool, we could see the reflecting pool, but just barely, but you could see the other side of the reflecting pool, solid mass of people, a police scissor lift at the edge looking out over the crowd, lots of police in barricaded isle going down to the pool. that slowed down traffic and made little stationary islands in places. and the jumbo trons set up at the edge of the pond. We finaly got to where we could see the stage directly, but no one was moving any further from there. got to see Glen preechin to the choir! Literally, as he got to the point of introducing the Black Robed Brigade. they all came out, came up on stage with him, 240 pastors,preachers, and Clergymen of many different faiths, saying the one thing we can all agree on, is to seek your answers from God. Told the story of the author of amazing grace saying it was a perfect song for the bag pipes, that he was a slave ship owner who became reborn. and led the fight with the abolitionists. The Bagpipes then came in, and after marching in and joining the Brigade with amazing Grace, it broke out with singing and every one I could here around me in the crowd, you could here the echoes from behind us, just sent a chill down my spine. It was totaly moving when were returning back to the metro later that day, heard some one told him (ya ya, I know) park service was reporting 1.9 million. but I gotta tell you this, i went last 9/12, and I would have put that one at 1.5 to 1.7 million. This one was easily double last year.
Sorry if this is rambling, but I quite literally haven’t slept for more than about 4 hours since Friday morning at 3:00 am
They opposed the English government, and they opposed an all powerful government, but dared to envision a government of limited and enumerated powers that ruled via consent of the governed.
Absolutely FRiend! If you can catch one of the replays on CSPAN or see it via this collection of YouTube videos online you can see it all.
Well, if they needed any proof as to just how "deflated" the Tea Party had become, they got an eyeful yesterday. Doh!
And even worse still, to see over half a million motivated, disenchanted activists screaming for Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin talking about America turning back to "God"...
...you just have to know that Libtard heads are spinning today, ready to explode like that guy in the movie "Scanners." No, the Dembiciles are having a hard time finding their "happy place" today.
LMFWCAO!
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Yes, the voting revolution to destroy the traitor Democrat Party and “Hate America” POTUS Barack Hussein Obama is alive, growing, highly energized and quite well!!! Folks, (all Americans of all Stripes) get out and vote on November 2, 2010 to rid America of the Democrat Party and POTUS Barack Hussein Obama!!! “REMEMBER NOVEMBER!!!!
From the point of view of Traditional America calling this crowd ‘anti government’ is a slur. But from the point of view of Obozo and his minions it is DEAD ON ACCURATE.
Whether Beck meant to or not he isolated (froze)the president and charecterized him in the extreme negative with yesterdays rally. We now enter the beginning of the beginning. The psycho in the whitehouse is foaming about now...
Powerful !
That’s what the bleepin Stasi stenographers said about the DC tea party rally last Spring - their crowd estimate -
“DOZENS OF DOZENS”
All the journolists do is talk to themselves and send their paychecks to the DNC. Works for me.
If the 500,000 crowd estimates are accurate, and having been there, I believe they are, that means that 1 out of every 620 people in the United States attended the rally.
You're right, that's a lot of intensity
For everyone at Beck’s rally.. there are probably ten+MORE that would liked to have been there.. CSPAN must have had record viewership..
Yah, same here. I’m working hard to make a little extra for this election cycle.
Awesome Nanomaker. I would have loved to have been there.
Amazing Washi. Thanks everyone for the reports from the rally.
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