I hear the screech of the American Freedom Eagle, she is awake, angry, has her talons drawn.
Beware! Those who threaten her now.
Posted on 09/12/2009 12:58:24 PM PDT by Askwhy5times
The 9-12 Tea Party rally in rolled into Washington, DC today. The crowd size estimate is now 2 million. President Obama ducked out and went to Minnesota for the day. You would think a true leader interested in UNITY would address our Patriots in person.
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I say we surround the WH for a week or two.
Someone has got to Kiss Franken’s a$$, to push the agenda
The original rant by CNBC's Rick Santelli
It was this very rant by Santelli that became the genesis for the entire Tea Party movement.
Yes. Armed.
I hear the screech of the American Freedom Eagle, she is awake, angry, has her talons drawn.
Beware! Those who threaten her now.
Huge crowd, yes. But not two million.
We were there and have seen a lot of crowds on the mall for inaugurations, July 4th festivities, marches, etc. Two million would not fit on the Mall in its two mile stretch.
Best estimate from experience? - 200,000 plus. For those familiar with the Capital and the Mall, the crowd filled the Capital west lawn, the area around the Grant reflecting pool, and west to Fourth street. It started encroaching on another group’s permit west of the Grant statue. It could be another 100,000 to 200,000 because they were forced to spread out along the sides of the rally because of the permit limits and the loudspeakers’ range.
It was a very large crowd, far beyond expectations, but too many groups inflate the numbers (mostly libs). It was NOT “tens of thousands” as the CNN NBC crowd are trying to say, but more like hundreds of thousands. BTW, the DC or Park Police do NOT make estimates, so anyone saying so is wrong.
Not bad for a rally organized by amateurs with no coordinating megalith like unions or the NAACP. Just real people. Almost ALL of the thousands of signs were handmade, not the fancy pre-printed ones handed out by liberal groups like MoveOn and SEIU.
And they may not report it but the people who need to know, know the significance of this. They also know they need to extrapolate those numbers.
I bet the "war room" is active this weekend.
200,000 conservatives protesting = 20,000,000 liberals protesting.
It’s not in our DNA and if you don’t realize what it takes to get us off our butts you’re already defeated.
Excellent point.
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