{"id":4661,"date":"2009-09-13T14:54:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T21:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=4661"},"modified":"2009-09-13T14:54:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T21:54:10","slug":"what-is-to-say-about-some-5-or-6-digits-of-people-descending-on-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/09\/13\/what-is-to-say-about-some-5-or-6-digits-of-people-descending-on-washington-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"What is to say about some 5 or 6 digits of people descending on Washington DC?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Up to two million people marched to the U.S. Capitol today, carrying signs with slogans such as “Obamacare makes me sick” as they protested the president’s health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending.<\/em>
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\nTens of thousands of people converged on Capitol Hill on Saturday to protest against government spending<\/em><\/p>\n

The contradiction is RIGHT THERE IN THAT ARTICLE<\/a>!!!<\/p>\n

Is it worth looking<\/a> around<\/a> at<\/a> the signage<\/a> and crowd<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Maybe.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe not<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Nineteen out of 20 signs were hand-made. My favorite was “Stop spending our tacos. I love tacos.” The most popular were variations on “Don’t tread on me,” “You lie,” complaints about Obama’s “socialism,” warnings about the 2010 elections, references to the deficit or big spending, critiques of Obamacare, and (especially) cracks about various czars (including not a few that equated czars with Soviet Communism). Godwin’s Corollary was satisfied on multiple occasions, including “Hitler gave great speeches, too,” “the Nazis did national health care first,” and someone comparing Obama’s 2009 with Hitler’s 1939 (alas, we didn’t get to ask him whether America was about to invade Poland). Michael Moynihan did have a nice chat about George Marshall with the fellow holding a sign saying “McCarthy was right.” There was an “Obama bin lyin,” “Feds = treason,” “Birth certificate,” and “Glen Beck for president.” Greatly outnumbering such things were references to the constitution, taking our country back, and so forth.<\/em><\/p>\n

Okay. Watching the video<\/a>, I see two signs right off the bat worth noting. The “WWHD” sign and the “Stalin Called — He Wants His Policies Back”. The “WWHD” sign is informative, only inasmuch as I’ve seen this striking argument from the Freedom Works head — Dick Armey– and yesterday in the National Review blog\u00c2\u00a0— “Source for all that these guys”<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0–\u00c2\u00a0and then spotting the counter-veiling Hitler stuff.\u00c2\u00a0 The “Stalin Called” is interesting because we’re just sort of merging everyone into one pile. I suppose we have in Obama a one man renewed Germany — Russia Pact?<\/p>\n

… Also… Wait. What’s that sign? Ohmygosh, it’s a Giant Photo of Sarah Palin!!!<\/p>\n

As media events go, Obama has rebounded a bit since August.\u00c2\u00a0 To feed the media, you have to spit out counterveiling events so you get “your side” into the same story.\u00c2\u00a0 Hence, Obama runs over and has a rally in Minnesota.\u00c2\u00a0 It is for Obama “On the job Training”, I suppose, hiking up that learning curve.<\/p>\n

… Then again, the larger war protests of the 2002 – 2003 era were downplayed in the media compared to this — Front Page here, some pages in for them.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s a double-edged sword to this thesis<\/a> working here, I gather… note for sake of partisan comparisons: the giant photograph of Sarah Palin, and note:\u00c2\u00a0name a \u00c2\u00a0politician that might’ve been spotted in one\u00c2\u00a02002’s crowds?<\/p>\n

Regarding the whole “9\/12 Movement” of one Mr. Beck, one major organizing force standing behind these things, the stated purpose for Glenn Beck around which to: “bring us all back to the place we were on September 12, 2001. The day after America was attacked we were not obsessed with Red States, Blue States, or political parties. We were united as Americans<\/em>.”\u00c2\u00a0 This is malarkey.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s “Unity” as defined by that.\u00c2\u00a0 I find this paleo-conservative’s <\/a>defense of Beck off point, only partially fine with regards to the “From his perspective” I try to strive for in these types of cases.\u00c2\u00a0 9\/12 — the date most conducive to perpetuating the War State and the Security State (Patriot Act).<\/p>\n

I’m part of the 9\/13 Movement.\u00c2\u00a0 That would be\u00c2\u00a0an extra day\u00c2\u00a0to line up some\u00c2\u00a0“Upon further reflection”, “Upon further perspective”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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