Posted on 09/07/2009 4:50:38 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
More than 1,000 people rallied today on Boston Common, shouting slogans and holding aloft banners demanding "reform now" in a show of force supporting President Obama's push to overhaul health care.
In a refrain that echoed across the grassy lawn, the crowd chanted: "What do we want? Health Care Reform! When do you want it? Now!" Placards read "Public Option = Government for the People" and "Cape Cod will not let Ted's dream die." Members of the crowd said they wanted to push back against vocal opposition to reform as Obama gears up for a major health care address to Congress on Wednesday.
"The Republicans are very organized and we want to prove that the Democrats are also organized,” said Barbara Blume, 64, of Centerville on Cape Cod. “I want to tell them that they are not in step with the American people. The American people support health care reform and we support President Obama."
A parade of politicians and organizers addressed the crowd, including state Attorney General Martha Coakley, who formally launched her campaign last week to fill the US Senate seat vacated by the death of Edward M. Kennedy.
"This is a frontier that cannot wait,” Coakley said, vowing to pick up where Kennedy left off. "We need health care for everyone."
The crowd's loudest roar came when the Democrat threw her support behind a public or government-run insurance option, which she said "will give us the competition and the choice we need to make sure we have good coverage for everyone."
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LOL “Reform Now” is the current name of ACORN.
“This is a frontier that cannot wait,” Coakley said, vowing to pick up where Kennedy left off. “We need health care for everyone.”
and we want YOU to pay for it.
Notice how many black people are in the picture? Very few, they must be a racist hate group!
They should have changed their rally to “What do we want..America to become Venezuela..when do we want it..now” that would have been more fitting for that group of turds
How very curious. Some of those signs are exactly like the ones I photographed an Jackson Mi nearly a month ago.
http://s736.photobucket.com/albums/xx2/Snappler_2009/Jackson%20Mi%20protest/?albumview=grid
ROTFL!!! Having someone else pay your medical bills is now a "frontier?" That's funny. I don't care who you are! That's funny right there.
Look at all the pre-printed signs
You are Right...They are trying to make it look like the signs were individually made. This is a totally bogus staged event.
Printed signs from a union shop....
1000 people in the heart of Boston. We’ve raised 1000 people in Broken Whistle, Arkansas against this issue. Sorr guys.
...and yet, until the Dems & Media (same thing) started making health care a "crisis", only about 5% of the people made it their top priority (see graph below). Now it's up to 20%...which shows 2 things: 1. some people really let the televison/media do their thinking. 2. It's still way below the economy (even with the daily "health care crisis" news barage)
zzzz. Pretenders.
Some people are never satisfied, but was this a Hollywood Premiere?
It’s also Boston....
I have no idea what these imbeciles are protesting for. We already have state MANDATED Health Insurance coverage and because of that “great plan” my premiums went up > 50% this year alone (after 18% the year before). When I called my insurer (Fallon) and asked “WTF?!?” they replied “It’s the mandate - someone has to pay for all those that had no coverage. You’re just one on the unlucky ones. Most have only gone up 30%”. We feel for you, but the rates are what they are.”
Also, I just scanned the picture on boston.com to see if I know any of these nitwits and whether I still have time to run down there and bitchslap some sense into one of them. Of course; no one I know (even in this commie state) would be dumb enough to go down there and protest something we already have.
In the People’s Republic of Massachusetts we have an incredibly corrupt policital system and an even more incredibily stupid electorate.
And where are the college kids who elected Obama? Boston is overrun with them!
We were at the AppleFest in Hendersonville, NC today. The Democrat Party had a tent where they were selling for $5 stupid little round stickers. Then they had a big board where you could put your little sticker. One for the govt. plan, one for reform with out govt. plan, and then the final one was, no reform. Most of the stickers were predictably on the first and there was just one on the no reform column. Further down the block the Republicans had a tent where they were selling warm, homemade apple cobbler, with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream for $3. The lines were long for the cobbler and everyone was laughing about the stupid rat tent. There’s still hope in America!!
Boston mass the birth place of a magnificent country, hard to believe where they are today.
It doesn’t have any impact. Everyone, including the politicians, know it’s astroturfing. These are union people and they are in the Democrats hip pockets anyway. It’s the average person: the Independents, Democrats, and Republicans who turn out for these things OF THEIR OWN VOLITION that is REALLY having an impact on public opinion and the politicians.
It’s like getting a Mother’s Day Card from your child that he made for you in school because his teacher had it as a project AND she had all of the children paste a photo-copied verse the teacher wrote into the card, as opposed to the card your child goes up into his bedroom with his box of crayons and construction paper and makes for you all by himself. This is why SEIU and ACORN’s astroturfing has no impact.
If they have to astroturf in MA things must be really bad...
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