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I'm just wondering where you guys were last election. Maybe we can meet at the polls next year instead of Washington.

A lot of this group probably were at the polls.

I question the accuracy of the headline. I am sure there will be a few conservatives in the crowd but I doubt if they will be anywhere near a majority. Based on what I have seen and heard on the internet and in the town halls, the crowd will be a motley collection ranging from salt of the earth conservatives who are genuinely worrried about the future to the farthest rightwing wackos imaginable--birthers, Birchers, deathers, Tenthers, WACLs, teabaggers, neo-cons, etc. ad nauseum.

Most will have spent way too much time getting themselves worked up by listening to the professional hatemongers that populate the internet, talk radio, and Fox. They disrupted town halls like a bunch of two year olds that did not get their way or their nap. I predict another collective temper tantrum of colossal proportions. Maybe a few will finally vent their spleen and get all the ugliness out of their system. Maybe the real conservatives will look around at all the wackos and nutjobs and realize they are hanging around with the wrong crowd.

It would be nice if people of good will could focus on finding common ground and building a common future instead of mindlessly following the pied pipers of hate who delight in tearing our country apart.

Lots of supposition there...try the decaf.

Dick Army, who wrote the pamphlet on how to disrupt, distort and disinform the public at Town Hall Meetings, heads the blanket organization these other groups are rallying with. And, their premise is wrong.

If the government had more closely monitored and regulated the financial markets, we would not have peered over the brink of a global financial meltdown. The notion prmoted by conservatives, that the markets can best regulate themselves --- that big business works best with little regulation --- that big business can be trusted to do the right thing was a lie and almost destroyed the US economy.

These poor lemmings on the buses to Washington have drunk the Kool-Aid and cannot understand or choose not to understand how necessary the government intervention was to the stabilization of the world economy. They continue to believe in a "trickle down" approach that didn't work for Reagan and hasn't worked for all the years since.

The Times They Are A Changin'!

If McCain/Palin/Joe the Plumber had won the election we would be in the midst of the Second Great Depression instead of emerging from a terrible recession with the stock market up some 50% since March.

And, this emergence is because the administration acted swiftly and courageously to pump capital into the markets. The infusion of capital into the banking industry is already paying dividends for the government and the intervention into the auto markets was as much for national defense as for saving the companies.

It's difficult to understand these necessities when you insist on believing the earth in flat and that science is some sinnister force to be resisted and that the government is lurking behind every bush trying to confiscate you AK 47..

How many of you wonderful people have watched Fox News for more than five minutes ?
P.S. My girlfriend Nancy in SF Calif. calls me a Right Wing Domestic terrorist. So I guess I is one.

Minority Mathematics:

"you just never know how a congressman may react if you have 500,000 angry people show up in Washington"

True, but if you have 30,000 angry anti-tax, anti-black, gun nuts show up, you've just got 30,000 anti-tax, anti-black, gun nuts.
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"The mass media is going to have to pay attention when you’ve got a million people, or whatever it turns out to be, marching. You can’t say that didn’t happen,”

A million people DIDN'T happen.

I've often wondered but now I'll be the first to ask: Why do we have the right to an attorney but not the right to healthcare? Answer: Because lawyers are the one's that make the laws.
Has anyone that has ever spent anytime in a courtroom ever noticed all the BS and waste that goes on. Let's have judicial reform and really save the taxpayers some money that can be spent on healthcare.

Tens of thousands! This major lie is so very typical of today's media. I attended the rally in Washington on 9/12, and there were between 1.5 and 2.0 MILLION of us there, from ALL 50 states, not the "tens of thousands" lie coming from the media hacks. There were also 90 rallies in 45 states taking place simultaneously taking place! Roads were shut down due to the crowds, including the interstate. There were so many people that the staging area, Freedom Plaza could not contain them, so the march down Pennsylvania had to begin early.

The crowd was supposed to be contained on the Capitol grassy areas, but they filled quickly and and the crowds spilled out for blocks, filling the Mall, where we were told we could not be, and inquired as to where they thought we could have moved to. We let them know that "we own this Mall, " and besides there was no place else to go except back up Pennslvania Ave, where many did go. People besides filling the entire grassy area, shoulder to shoulder as far as one could see, and the Mall, and the Reflection pool and, were jamming Pennsylvania Ave for many blocks back toward the Washington Monument!

After a few hours we needed to move from the spot we'd occupied to stretch our legs. People were everywhere as we walked toward the White House. People were everywhere asking, "where are you from?" There were literally thousands of homemade, many of them very clever and very topical, but you in the corrupt media decided to focus on the few that could have been termed inappropriate! It's who you are and what you do! That is why you are becoming less, and less relevant. You have an agenda which does not include the truth. You will soon be overwhelmed by us real Americans, just as will the corrupt Washington politicians who mock us, where gorging themselves on our tax dollars, while ignoring our wishes.

Mr. Gibbs said that he didn't know who we were. That's the problem. He and his boss, and his congress DON'T know who we are, but they are going to find out. That goes for you media shills also!"

Finally, for you brainwashed fools who are not afraid of the truth go to the C-Span coverage of the event and take a look at, and listen to the people there. Of course most of you wouldn't recognize real, patriotic Americans if you saw them on video! You would also likely be offended by the many patriotic songs featured at the event.

The mindless comments from the usual suspects who had NO clue as to the nature of the event are typical of the sick, twisted left who despise true Americans who love our country. The best part of the long day was that there wasn't a single liberal in the massive crowd. That's why there were no incidents that required the police to intervene!