Hey Sam...Glenn Beck does not represent "the people". On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/545505/201008301904/Ignoring-Glenn-Beck-and151-And-Us.htm > > Ignoring Glenn Beck And Us > > Grass Roots: The president says he didn't watch any of Glenn Beck's > "Restore Honor" rally on the National Mall. That's not surprising. > Democrats and the White House haven't been listening to the people for > awhile. > > Whistling past the political graveyard looming for his party in > November, President Obama dismissed the crowd gathered to hear the Fox > News pundit, telling Brian Williams of the NBC Nightly News, "It's not > surprising that someone like a Mr. Beck is able to stir up a certain > portion of (the American people) ... " > > He dismissed this crowd just as he and his party dismissed the "angry > mobs" that descended on health care town meetings wanting to know why > their government no longer wanted to hear their voices or seek out the > consent of the governed. Those people were also said to have been > "stirred up" by political opponents and conservative talk radio. > > This genuine grass-roots movement was dismissed as "astroturfing" by > House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others. But their anger did not have to > be manufactured. It was a quite natural response to a government that > is bankrupting their children and grandchildren as it spends money we > don't have on things that don't work. > > "Mr. Beck" didn't manufacture the people on the Mall. He merely has > given them a voice and a focal point, and a reminder that we are > endowed with inalienable rights from a higher authority than any > gaggle of senators and representatives. "We the people" assembled on > the Mall, not an angry mob stirred up by rabble-rousers. > > The movement that met on the Mall and had coalesced into what became > known as the Tea Party comes from different parties and, despite what > the so-called mainstream media say, different ethnic groups and > nationalities. They have one thing in common: They are tired of being > ignored. They are opposed to the kind of arrogance that convinces a > president that maybe he just didn't make himself clear enough and he > only needs to make more speeches in a perpetual campaign to get it > through our thick skulls. > > It is the kind of arrogance that Pelosi demonstrated when she said > we'd have to pass health care reform to find out what's in it and that > government needs to intervene between a patient and a doctor. People > are tired of votes bought through Cornhusker kickbacks and bills > written behind closed doors that are voted on without being read > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:326385 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
