Posted on 09/14/2009 12:39:15 PM PDT by Biggirl
On April 15 when Americans held TEA Parties across the country, President Obama said he really didn’t notice them. Knowing that there was a large rally planned for Washington Saturday, rather than repeat his feigned ignorance of the April 15 rally, the president decided it was better “to get out of Dodge”.So, rather than staying in Washington to find out what 2 million people thought about his health care plan, the president determined it was better to leave Washington to push his agenda on a friendly audience. This time his “pep rally” was in Minnesota, before an audience of 15,000.
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How many of the 15,000 were paid to be there?
Message to the Left: If you force us to repeal socialized medicine, we won’t stop there. We’ll go so far beyond that, some of you will end up on trial for treason.
I’ve lived in both cities.
The Mpls rally did not need any paid attendees or union thugs to be a success. There are 150,000+ far left liberals living within a few mile radius of the stadium. Getting less than 10% of them to show up to see their god is not any great accomplishment or sign of general population support.
But, getting much bigger numbers of honest, hard-working, usually-subdued normal Americans to show up in the almost-exclusively liberal city of Wash. D.C. is NOT a small accomplishment. And IS a sign of discontent amongst the masses.
Only 15,000?
Is that it?
No sellout?
No standing room only?
The Target Center seats 23,500 for basketball and 25,500 for concerts according to the online ticket outlet ‘Preferredseat.’
I like "President Wee Wee" better. :-)
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