UPI DC DISSENTERS: Tens of thousands of protesters in front of the Capitol slam President Obama's health-care reform plan yesterday.
Posted on 09/13/2009 11:47:09 AM PDT by GVnana
An army of seething protesters took to the streets of Washington, DC, yesterday, slamming the president's health-care plan and ranting against runaway government spending in the largest demonstration since Obama took office.
The roiling crowd of tens of thousands, waving posters of Obama with Hitler's mustache or with makeup depicting the president as the villain The Joker from "Batman," began their protest near the White House on the National Mall on the cold, windy afternoon.
UPI DC DISSENTERS: Tens of thousands of protesters in front of the Capitol slam President Obama's health-care reform plan yesterday.
Brandishing signs that said, "ObamaCare makes me sick" and "I'm not your ATM," they marched to the base of the Capitol where they gathered and chanted "We own the dome!" the Washington Post reported.
They also screamed "You lie, you lie!" and "Pelosi has to go!" referring to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
"My grandkids are going to be paying for this. It's going to cost too much money that we don't have," said Richard Brigle, 57, a Vietnam veteran from Paw Paw, Mich.
The gathering was organized largely by the conservative FreedomWorks Foundation, led by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey.
But a smattering of smaller groups from across the country were also in attendance, participants said.
"This isn't some right-wing conservative agenda," said Adam Moore, 30, of Rochester, Minn. "This is a true grassroots movement."
"Our history is decorated by those who endured the burden of defending freedom," Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) told the crowd. "Now a new generation of patriots has emerged. You are those patriots."
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At least the Post came up with their own lead and headline!
Is it just me or do you simply not trust someone who claims “they can’t stop us”?
Which proves the MSM dictation takers are just plain lazy!!!
From pictures of what I've seen and comparing it to Obozos inauguration, I'd say the numbers are comparable to that day.
Damn their eyes...the sick puppets!
"They" being the American people. Unbelievable!
Get used to it. The mantra that was organized on the internet is “tens of thousands” of “right wing whackjobs” accompanied by a photo or two of people with the confederate flag or something.
What's not to trust?
“......crowd of tens of thousands...”
What happened to the million plus?
I am so fing tired of their lies!
“We came unarmed this time”
What? And "seething protestors"?
The next protest needs to be around the NYT communist headquarters. Show up early, And stay for a few days, prevent them from delivering their communist propaganda, and stay until demands for a judicial inquiry into the media bias, intentional election tampering and suppressing of negative Obama information, conspiracy to destroy U.S of America and it's constitutional republic are met.
Next, JFK airport, until Obama produces his birth certificate.
Has anybody remarked on the INTENSITY of emotions that Resident (Pres_ent) Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., or Barry Soetoro, or Mr Michelle Robinson, or Sock-Puppet, supposedly the son of an out-of-control teenager and a Kenyan exchange student, is able to evoke, both positively, as happened in the summer of 2008, and now, just a scarce year later, the really NEGATIVE responses?
Oh, he still has his partisans, and most of them would sooner have their tongues pulled out and sliced off, than to utter a word of criticism of their idol. But a few are being peeled away, and once they have seen the clay feet upon which Obama stands, those few (but growing in numbers) join the chorus of condemnation, as the outlines of the monstrous changes forecast for America become apparent.
America is swiftly being turned into another Zimbabwe, or even another Haiti, with its strongman rule and suppression of dissent. Except this dissent is just a little too big to suppress, and the strongman is not all that well established just yet.
In July, there was a compliant Congress. But since then, they had gone home and discovered why people should not whack hornets’ nests with sticks.
Astroturf, my sore - eye. This is REAL grassroots.
And notice NONE of the other protests anywhere else received any mention from Obama commie media. This adds up to millions of people on a single day across the entire country that the Lying Times thinks it can ignore and make go away.
We sent a message. Obama skipped town, didn't he? He runs from the hen house when his chickens come home to roost!
They are all using AP sourcing — and the AP is no friend of conservatism.
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