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 you’re 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 Beck’s 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, can’t 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 ...
“Hateful crackpot”? What am I missing?
I was going to put a bumper sticker on my car saying, “I can see November from my house” but I thought, do I really want these people to start thinking about the election if they are not conservative?
Let them sleep.
Smaller!!!! Look at the photos. Beck drew over three times as many as the 100K Man March.
you’re not missing anything, but Mr. Lane, the author is. perhaps a brain?
I know I was not the only person there with an Ivy graduate degree. If O wants to get into a pissing contest with conservatives over academic qualifications and valid documentation, he'd better quit now.
I know that I always think very highly of people I refer to as anonymous masses.
Lesson worth learning. There will never, ever, be an assemblage in Washington, DC that equals or surpasses the MMM numbers. Never. That number of 400,000 will always stand as the largest assemblage ever. And don't you forget it, Cracker.
The Washington Post I understand. The Leftist media, sure it makes sense. The Obama White House, what else did we think? The Leftist/Marxist internet sites, of course.
Here on Free Republic? I can’t believe the hand-wringing. That’s what baffles me. We honestly do have some certifiable idiots here.
Louis Farrakhan at the Million Man March in 1995, The crackpot?
A liberal's view of a liberal gun nut... liberals are the gun nuts. Just like when they like to picture us shining our guns. Idiots? No, Jungian projection... Liberals live in a world of shining phallic symbols of potency fantasy, fantasizing about what kind of crazy people conservatives are... it's hillarious in many ways. I suppose it must detract from Obama the Zero shining his anus for a new performance in defeatism and beating/hurting America everyday in the name of the 15 min opportunity of "peace talk" he is going to get, which, after that, it's going to be bubye for good... the emos of America will get the help they need to slit their veins or throats, in the case of Islamic hubris.
I think *his* goat has been gotten.
Instead of the superior air Charlie was going for with his condescending dismissal of Beck and 8/28 he sounds very small, confused...and skeered!
Washington Post: “Farrahkan Good, Beck Bad!”
Should read “Why Obama doesn’t get Glenn Beck or the American people”.
Because TOTUS hasn't explained Beck to him yet.
Because TOTUS hasn't explained Beck to him yet.
“(and rather smaller) assemblage that gathered at the behest of Glenn Beck”
...this dipsh*& can’t count. We beat the “million man” march 10 fold. (20 fold if you use the actual Park Police numbers before they were threatened to increase)
It’s not just Glenn, Imam Obamah doesn’t get AMERICA !
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