A thread of the most insane of your demented lot trying to figure out why.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9243049stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-02-10 04:48 PM
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I hate to say this, but this 'One Nation Rally' is a disaster.
The attendance is way below expectations.
The organization is terrible.
George Clinton and Parliament? Okay.
Every interest group sends up someone to hump their cause. There's no organized effort at all. It appears that we are divided on everything.
Don't shoot the messenger, but we look really, really bad.
It is an embarrassment.
That's the best we can do?
Honestly, I think progressives and liberals look bad because of this.
What exactly is the point of this rally? We're just going to be vilified in the right-wing press for it. It's a loser. The teabaggers and the media are going to have a field day with this.
One Nation?
We sure didn't come off like that today.
I hoped for something much more. It was AWFUL. I'm embarrassed, frankly.
Am I wrong here?
To be sure, I praise those who made the effort to go there. I'm really sad that you wasted your time.
And for the poseurs like a certain fat redhead egotistical radio host who promised much more than he could deliver, thanks a pile.
Wow, what a disappointment. Can't we do better than this?
I sure hope people get out and vote, but nothing that happened today gives me any confidence that enough Dems an independents will turn out.
There, I said it. Flame on. We're really in trouble here.
I expect for telling the truth, this thread will be locked.
proud patriot (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-02-10 04:52 PM
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3. Wow , I got the exact opposite feeling from it
I feel energized and inspired . The unity of the different groups was beautiful IMO.
I was dancing in my living room to bringing in the funk .
That would make you an idiot.
kentuck (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-02-10 04:55 PM
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6. No doubt, if it had been pushed by FOX News and Sean Hannity...
for a couple of months continuously, there probably would have been a larger turnout? But there was nowhere near the same publicity. True, Democrats have many varied interests. Tea Baggers are against government and Barack Hussein Obama.
Even with freebies your ilk is too lazy to do anything.
KoKo (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-02-10 05:55 PM
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68. Yep...Repub owned Koch/Murdoch/Wall St. Media promoted Tea Bag "gathering"...but Dems don't have any
Edited on Sat Oct-02-10 05:55 PM by KoKo
folks pushing this. Labor and others were told to have a "low voice." That there was labor there at all is a good thing...but when you are told to "cool it" you aren't going to get the publicity this should have gotten. MSNBC did cover it...to be fair...I didn't check CNN because I rarely watch them.
Ed Schultz was promoting it on his radio show heavily. But, without funding for a blitz of the media and a split Dem Party...most folks would seem to prefer a comedian's gathering over the "regular folks" like Black Church folks who are trying to send Obama a message and labor which is torn.
The publicity sucked...because we just don't have a Murdoch, Koch Bros., Mellon-Scaife and many Big Guns on Wall St. promoting..
What a mess. I was proud to see all those people out there though! For that number of people to get on buses or drive to be there says there's something going on that could be built upon. Maybe more "staying power" than "Tea Party/Baggers" for the long haul ahead.
At least we should hope.
Ya think that maybe every socialist or communist group in the country signing on dampered some of the half sane from associating?
nc4bo (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-02-10 04:55 PM
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7. Well to be honest, the teabagger rally wasn't all that imho.
Bunch of crazy crackers whose attendance was constantly being exaggerated by media.
Of course we didn't have any crotch burning, fake eyeglass wearing fools like Palin on parade either.
A lie is a lie fool.
EFerrari (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-02-10 05:17 PM
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36. Well, it's okay if we disagree on this.
I think, with respect, that you are wrong.
This was an important meeting for the progressive movement and the real big tent.
There is this: the progressive movement in this country is going around the corporate media. That may be the single most important thing we can do right now. And from the looks of the speakers' roster and the media at the event, we have a great deal of continuity with key players.
Today was an impressive display of unity and continuity.
Let's see how we do.
Once again Beth you prove yourself to be as stupid as one can be.
We on the right didn`t care or even take note of this,you marxists are lamenting or fantasizing about turnout numbers...the pics tell the tale.
hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-02-10 05:26 PM
Response to Reply #28
46. It wasn't hyped as some rebirth of MLK's I Had a Dream Speech
or the second coming of Christ... Was your expectation along the lines of the Beck Teabagger's moment? There were more people there today, from what I have heard reported, but no, it was not hyped the same way and as usual, the press has not covered it at any degree close to that which they do for the Teabaggers.
Make yourself BELIEVE!!
Quantess (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-02-10 05:02 PM
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14. It couldn't possibly make us look worse than the Beck rally made RWers look.
They won that prize.
Wrong.
stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-02-10 05:52 PM
Response to Reply #59
66. Okay.
How many?
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6911YX20101002
Denise Gray-Felder, a spokeswoman for the organizers of the rally, estimated that 175,000 to 200,000 people attended.
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Now, we had people who GUARANTEED a turnout of 300K +.
Looking at the pics, I doubt it was 1/2 even the optimistic estimate by Ms. Gray-Felder.
It just amazes me that so many here can't look at this objectively.
It didn't meet expectations.
Why do people go to such lengths to deny that?
You are not long for the world.
Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-02-10 05:08 PM
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22. Well, I'm here and it was successful.
But I wasn't expecting too much. I think the message was not clarified enough.
There were as many if not more people at the height of the day as were at the Beck rally.
I'll be here for the Colbert and Stewart rallies, too, and between the two/three of them, the Beck rally will fade to nothing, and maybe that's the best we can expect.
In other words...
"Damn this thing sucked"
pa28 (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-02-10 05:08 PM
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23. Don't seal up the doors and turn on the gas just yet.
We have a month before the election and the public is just now starting to pay attention. What happened today was just a predictably lame rally that will be forgotten by everybody, including the critics, in a day or two.
Hope and change dude,proved right before...oh wait a minute
old mark (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-02-10 05:16 PM
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35. The thing was we got almost zero publicity and coverage by the MSM.
Maybe we should start paying some of the networks under the table like the GOP does and things might be a little more "fair"...
On the other hand, the thing was to get Liberals/Democrats to vote, and I hope we are doing that...and I don't give a damn if the GOP is aware we are all voting or not, in fact I'd love it to be a surprise when they lose again.
mark
Perhaps because it was endorsed by every socialist/communist organization in America there is...you couldn`t have paid a politically aloof media lib to mention it.
EFerrari (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-02-10 05:24 PM
Response to Reply #35
43. We got almost zero publicity and it didn't matter.
Imagine if the corporate media ignored one of our events and nobody noticed.
They are making themselves obsolete.
Had to check,yep...you are still the stupidest person on the planet.
NewEngland4Obama (241 posts) Sat Oct-02-10 05:20 PM
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38. Sounds like the Republicans are getting scared. So far its
been pretty good!!!
We are all so scared we are laughing,bank it.
ProSense (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-02-10 05:46 PM
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63. "The attendance is way below expectations."
"It is an embarrassment."
Tens Of Thousands Of Progressives Rally At The Lincoln Memorial For Jobs, Justice And Education
Teamsters March on Washington for Jobs
‘America is One Nation and We Signify that Nation’
WSJ:
The U.S. park police didn't release crowd numbers, in keeping with the agency's policy. The event permit called for 100,000 people, and rally sponsors paid for Washington's public transportation system to open early Saturday morning. As of 1 p.m. the crowd had filled, but not packed, much of the National Mall.
Links in the post are regarding less then hoped turnout.
Lurking DUmmies a word.
You had your shot and even with bussed in whackos you could not match what the conservative movement is.
See your fate in the pics posted at different places and be afraid.
Be very afraid.
