912: AMERICA AWAKENS IN 2009
INDEPENDENT AMERICAN MOVEMENT FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION
Posted on 09/17/2009 4:50:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I went to the DC tea party with some trepidation. The anti Obama racist rhetoric of Dr Yeagley had me preparing for the worst. Of course I know AOW and Frogburger are not racists, but at any large gathering there is the possibility of the lowest common denominator.
I marched with friends and checked the signs and could not find one. The protesters were well behaved and polite. About the only off the map talk was the focus on the birth certificate. In an ideal world Obama submits his birth certificate to the document lab and reasonable people live with the results. President Biden using a martyred image of Obama ( disqualified by a fake BC) would produce more extreme leftist legislation than Obama.
Of course many of us pointed to the bug eyed commies Bush= Hitler bit. This was in reference to the war on terror. Frequently the same Commies call 9-11 the Reich stag fire. When a person says Hitler was a great speaker too, this is to point out Obama is a populist loony. There is nothing racial and given the messiah talk and iconic photos a few grains of truth.
Obama pointed to a post racial America. Indeed if America is to be considered post racial than Obama must be subjected to the same treatment as other presidents. I will point out that we do understand the vile history of comparing Blacks to Apes. Such a attack would indeed be racist, especially given the history of this type of comment. Yet historically one can see Ape Lincoln and Bush portrayed as a Chimp.
The special history of Blacks makes some satire problematic. If Obama is portrayed as a con man, this is another stereotype and would be racist. We can not ignore our history when we respond to dreadful policies.
The Tea Party was on message and not cluttered with extraneous themes like your average so called Peace Protest. When I visited those farce Protests I either see the US flag burning or the dreaded Pseudostinian flag. What does the cop killer fraud Mummia Abul Fraud Jamaal or Poultry abuse have to do with Peace anyway.
Maybe it is time for a different type of activism. The theme should be "There is No Free Lunch". The Obama talk of imaginary savings and crony panels is smoke and mirrors. Of course tort and insurance form goes by the wayside.
We are more divided than ever before and much of it lies at the feet of the media. Yet big media is dying with the exception of Fox that offers something different.
The Duck seems to think I quoted the number 2,000,000. I was claiming a very lowball 200,000 and that is way too low. The people were still arriving as others left.
The Tea Party movement still needs star power. However, if a comedian were to entertain us with poignant satire it would lose some of its down home appeal.
The Tea Party People do need a better logo than the Marxist clenched fist. How about an empty wallet.
I bet it really irritates the left that a million + conservatives can march on DC and not one of them gets arrested.
You want to find loonies—take a White House tour.
“Tens of Thousands”
Yeah. I suppose you could use that figure. 1.2 million is, technically, “tens of thousands.”
Look, it wasn’t 1.2 million. It was more like 300,000...and that’s ALOT of bodies.
You counted?
Because I’ve heard estimates up to 2 mil.
So, unless you counted, don’t act like you know.
I’m citing Glenn Beck, who listed different numbers from different sources. National Parks put it at over a mil.
I was there...And I have eyes.
All the reputable sources that I’ve heard say it compared to the inauguration:
Of course, there are lots of leftists who claim it numbered “in the thousands,” but they are not credible or reputable. They are liars.
1.2 is what I’m sticking with.
We’ll never really know. Just anecdotally, I was standing with a guy who was at the inauguration and he said there were not nearly as many people as at the inauguration. That makes sense because all the Dems in the area came out..LOL!
That is a funny response.
Protests tend to have some shrill unhinged voices. I went looking for these shrill voices and did not find them.
The people I spoke to were indeed well mannered, employed and articulate.
I never expected to find any of my blog posts here. I mostly read and enjoy the interesting articles.
This is true, I did not find any loonies. I found well behaved people who see America headed in the wrong direction.
I was quite surprised to see this material here.
I don't understand this one. I grew up in "the deep south" and I am unaware of this stereotype. I would imagine gypsies and maybe the Irish or French would meet the conman stereotype more than a Kenyan.
Freudian slip. I think he meant Abe Lincoln, but the mistake is pretty funny in context.
The more reasonable lefties know that had this crowd decided to storm the various government buildings, nothing could have stopped them. It was a conservative army that took Washington for the day. It could have been and still might become a complete take over.
If they are smart, they will radically abandon their radical leftist agenda of the radical leftist Kenyan/Malasian/Hawaiian mystery man.
Can someone translate this into english for me.
It was more like 300,000That's just where I put it -- 250,000 to 300,000. OTOH, we'll never know how many people finished the march only to disperse when they arrived at the mall, simply because the PA system was so woefully inadequate.
It was a massive showing, for sure, and I'm proud to have been there.
Yea, I don’t know..I wound up on the main lawn and people just piled in on all sides of the lawn...nobody was leaving there..but I don’t know what was going on down Pennsylvania Ave. Nonetheless, it was a FREAKING LOT OF PEOPLE!
The stereo type of the Black man as a hustler or a con man is in our popular culture. It goes back to familiar characters
such as Rollo of Sanford and Son, Huggy Bear on Baretta and Kingfisher in Amos and Andy. It makes satire along this line very problematic.
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