Posted on 08/31/2010 12:04:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Not every American who marches behind a hateful crackpot is a hateful crackpot. The peaceful, thoughtful throng that assembled for Louis Farrakhan at the Million Man March in 1995 -- including a young Barack Obama -- proved that point. Notwithstanding some commentary, I tend to feel the same way about the much different (and rather smaller) assemblage that gathered at the behest of Glenn Beck in Washington last Saturday.
Certainly, if youre president of the United States, the most prudent course is to draw a distinction between the leader and the anonymous masses and treat the latter with at least feigned respect -- even if, as in the case of Becks rally, most of them despise you, none of them voted for you and none of them ever would vote for you. Whatever you do, show that they, and their loathsome leader, cant get your goat.
In that sense, I thought President Obama struck the wrong note in answer to a question about the rally from Brian Williams of NBC News.
The president started off okay, acknowledging that Mr. Beck and the rest of those folks were exercising their rights under our Constitution exactly as they should.
But then he fell back on an abstract analysis eerily reminiscent of his notorious cling to guns or religion riff from campaign 2008:
I -- I do think that it's important for us to recognize that right now, the country's going through a very difficult time, as a consequence of years of neglect in a whole range of areas. Our schools not working the way they need to, so we've slipped in terms of the number of college graduates, you know?
(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...
He takes “million man” at face value. Probably knows better, but it fits his plan.
You just have to know the quality of his asinine ramble is going to get better with each syllable.
Who cares if the kenyan gets Beck or not? He’s a Marxist, so who gives a sh&# WHAT he thinks? Maybe on November 3rd he’ll understand the screen door that’s rapidly coming at his little, skinny, worthless ass!
“Smaller!!!! Look at the photos. Beck drew over three times as many as the 100K Man March.”
I lived on Capitol Hill during the Farrakhan march. The difference between the two was the shop owners didn’t close during the Restore Honor gathering. They did so early and with extra protection during the 100k Man March. BTW, remember Farrakhan jumped the idea from the Promise Keepers. But instead of focusing on individual responsibility he turned it in to race. Its what they do.
You know, really, these stupid MSM articles get more viewers from being referenced on FR than they do via native circulation.
Shows lack of logic from the get-go.
Uses a "hateful crackpot" as an example that not everyone who marched at the behest of his fellow traveler Farrakhan was a hateful crackpot.
Liberalism is nothing if not a maze of contradictions and lack of logic.
So this is the kind of dribble that accounts for journalism these days?
Does Barack Hussein Obama JUNIOR OBEY God about taxes and insure that 80 percent or
Does Barack Hussein Obama JUNIOR OBEY God about other religions and not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works:
but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
... make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me:
for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.?
Does Barack Hussein Obama JUNIOR encourage us to humble themselves, and pray , and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways?
Or does Barack Hussein Obama JUNIOR work according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience?
He most certainly is VILE. Is he not?
Not from me they don’t.................
Charles Lane is just another dopey leftist trying to spin the ‘Restoring Honor’ rally into something he can mock in an oblique manner by mildly disapproving of Obama’s comments on it - which were inane, as usual. The left doesn’t ‘get it’ and doesn’t want to - so they never will. So be it. Despite their megaphone (via the media) they are a minority population in America and, one hopes, will become a minority in congress very soon.
Keep fooling yourselves, lefties. Tell yourselves it was an "assemblage" of, say... 1,000 people at the most, and all the pics were doctored. Oh, and tell yourselves all the attendees wore white sheets... it must be so, because to oppose 0bama, they MUST be racist! They MUST be!....
The comments sections was full of comments by sick sadistic white liberals. The morons win and they still cannot control their crazies.
This is the Washington Post.
Don’t ever expect to find a bi-partisan story there.
They have Kool-aidn in their water coolers and they drink it by the gallon.
Coes anybody actually buy this rag?
Don't ever expect to find a bipartisan story there.
They have Kool-aid in their water coolers and they drink it by the gallon.
Does anybody actually buy this rag?
Zero doesn’t “get it,” and neither does the author of this article.
Unbelievable...almost. So Beck is a hateful crackpot, but NOT Calypso Louie....he’s the salt of the Israel hating, white hating, US hating, whacko Muslim earth!!!
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