also, the 300k estimate is pretty interesting....considering that an aerial view photo was taken to count the crowd - that photo only yielded 87k +/- 9k
On Aug 31, 2010, at 2:18 PM, G Money wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Sam <[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. > > 300K is a pretty small sampling of Americans......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. > > 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). > > 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. > > Did you listen to any of the speeches at the rally..and what was your > impression? > > -- > No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown > In the end there is one dance you'll do alone > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:326405 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
