On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:18 PM, G Money <[email protected]> wrote:
>> You are correct. >> >> Who told you he did? >> >> Anyway, what about the 300k plus this past weekend? Do they represent >> wing-nuts? >> > > The first paragraph of the article you cited....equated Obama's ignoring > Beck's rally to his supposed track record of ignoring the people. I'm just > saying that's a bullshit comparison. Beck isn't the people. He has ignored the people so ignoring this large crowd expected. I think you are looking for something that wasn't said. > 300K is a pretty small sampling of Americans...... I don't think they said ALL Americans. Remember when Obama was campaigning large crowds meant something to you. Now...not so much. > but that is a huge group > to get together in one place, at one time. I wouldn't care to cast a single > slogan over all of those people. I know of a few people who were drawn to > the message of supporting the veterans, people who saw the rally simply as a > "USA! USA!" rally. Good > I imagine people were there for all kinds of reasons...and yeah, some of > them were probably wing nuts....perhaps even a fairly large minority of them > were (Beck seems to draw them in). Yeah, MSNBC did a show about a wing-nut that went. I linked to it. > I didn't listen to one minute of the rally, so I can't give my opinion of > what went on there. My only real issue with the platform for the rally that > Beck laid out leading up to it was this idea of "taking back America".....I > don't feel the country has been stolen. So i dunno what he's talking about > there. That sounds like kool-aid speak to get people riled up. Looks like it > worked. Why would you say you know nothing about it and then label them as lemmings. That really sucks. You have such an ugly superiority complex. Maybe Kansas is making you bitter. You might be a clinger. > Did you listen to any of the speeches at the rally..and what was your > impression? While I was sick on the couch I watched about an hour of it. It seemed to not be about politics and more about accepting religion. Any religion. About uniting as a proud people and against being labeled as haters and racists. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:326404 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
