Posted on 04/19/2012 1:25:41 PM PDT by Syncro
Once again they came to chant and sing, and chant and sing they did. It was a typical sea of matching t-shirts—a favored strategy of intimidation—along with their placards of “solidarity” and profane signs. They scattered four giant inflatable rats throughout the crowd, with a gargantuan cardboard cut out of Governor Scott Walker standing out, as well.
Presidents of the AFL-CIO, Michael T. Carrigan of Illinois and Phil Neuenfeldt of Wisconsin, got the crowd riled up, along with the help ofTeresa Haley, President of the Springfield NAACP. But Pastor T. Ray McJunkins of the Union Baptist Church and President of the Faith Coalition for the Common Good and William McNary of USAction stole the show.
McJunkins delivered an energetic address he closed up metaphorically with the story of David and Goliath, ultimately declaring:
Excerpt, read the rest at Big GovernmentWe are the Davids …and you may be a big giant, a big goliath, but David had 5 smooth stones that brought Goliath down … all he had was stones and a sling shot, and I just wonder out there among us, how many of you came with your sling today? … Load your slings up today when we leave here, putting a smooth stone of equal rights at the collective bargaining table and throw it at Goliath … And Goliath will come down, Scott Walker we send you back to Wisconsin as David did Goliath, we cut your head off and go back into town, singing a new song!
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Your Dad sounds like a fine fellow. They don’t grow em’ like they used to.
Hope you don’t mind, but I copied your tagline. It’s been on my mind lately.
You must not have seen the latest polls which show Walker not only in the lead, but pulling away. Once PPP, Quinnepiac and the rest stopped polling every Tom, Dick and Harry and switched to "likely voters" Walker took the lead.
It's still a long way to June, but Walker's doing his job and set Wisconsin on the right track. Employment in WI is picking up, and it's showing in other economic activity (read that: sales taxes.)
The #1 way to know a state's economy has turned around, is when sales tax receipts pick up. Wisconsin's are going up, Illinois are going down.
Yea the Godless dems aren’t too familiar with the Bible.
They just make things up using names they are familiar with from their days at Sunday school.
brilliant!
I posed the question to freepers on another thread, and the consensus then was that Walker would be very, very lucky if he made it!
of course, as we approach each election, we should always remind ourselves: most freepers are full of crap when it comes to electoral predictions!
Me, I’m a poll man first and foremost, so that is great news!!!!!!!!!
Bookmark this one.
Makes me think twice about ‘buy union’ and Made in America label also. Made by who, in America?
These communist/mafia vermin?
Since they are using scriptural images, I’ll offer one...they would crucify a good man and elect unto themselves a political Barabbas(who was a robber just as Democrats are!)!
Ah, the sweet sound of “civility”
Not at all the credit belongs to Edmund Burke.
I have friends in Wisconsin and here's what they've been telling me: Walker's opponents are very VERY vocal and they're trying to make it appear that recalling him has tons of support. The commercials have stopped mentioning Unions trying to get the "regular folk" to buy into the recall effort. It's not working. Walker's supporters are quiet, flying under the radar because they don't want to be intimidated by the union thugs. There have been a number of reported cases where folks who supported Walker and had signs in their yards had their cars & homes vandalized. So the public support of Walker may be harder to find, but it's there, and it's starting to show in the polls.
Remember Nixon's "silent majority?" It's getting ready to play out in Wisconsin.
At least this is what I'm being told by friends who live up there. My only experience with Wisconsin is driving through it on my way to our family's cabin in the U.P. I don't venture off I-94/I-43 much during my trip, so I can't speak to yard signs, billboards, etc..
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