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500-600 In Mesa:
More than 500 protest Obama's arrival | Mesa Arizona News - Mesa News - Mesa AZ news | eastvalleytribune.com
More than 500 protest Obama's arrival
GARY GRADO, SONU MUNSHI, HAYLEY RINGLE, TRIBUNE
February 18, 2009 - 9:16AM
Hundreds protest President Barack Obama's visit to Dobson High School on Wednesday.
Tim Hacker, Tribune
The presidential motorcade rolls down Guadalupe Road.
Thomas Boggan, Tribune
Presidential protestors made their voices heard in chants and signs Wednesday outside Dobson High School.
Catholics pray for Obama at vigil
The protestors, about 500 to 600 strong and growing, began arriving as ticket-holders walked in.
Mesa police set up a protest area along Guadalupe Road.
They held their signs up high: "Don't tread on me," "Spend all you want, I'll pick up the tab," "I'll keep my freedom! You keep the change!" "Free fertility drugs now." And "B.O. smells and so does Socialism."
A Gilbert woman, with a sign that said, "Fund bikini wax now," said she is entitled to the beauty treatment....
500-600? That's all you guys can muster?
Tens of millions of people have protested Bush in the past.
proof?500-600 In Mesa:
More than 500 protest Obama's arrival | Mesa Arizona News - Mesa News - Mesa AZ news | eastvalleytribune.com
More than 500 protest Obama's arrival
GARY GRADO, SONU MUNSHI, HAYLEY RINGLE, TRIBUNE
February 18, 2009 - 9:16AM
Hundreds protest President Barack Obama's visit to Dobson High School on Wednesday.
Tim Hacker, Tribune
The presidential motorcade rolls down Guadalupe Road.
Thomas Boggan, Tribune
Presidential protestors made their voices heard in chants and signs Wednesday outside Dobson High School.
Catholics pray for Obama at vigil
The protestors, about 500 to 600 strong and growing, began arriving as ticket-holders walked in.
Mesa police set up a protest area along Guadalupe Road.
They held their signs up high: "Don't tread on me," "Spend all you want, I'll pick up the tab," "I'll keep my freedom! You keep the change!" "Free fertility drugs now." And "B.O. smells and so does Socialism."
A Gilbert woman, with a sign that said, "Fund bikini wax now," said she is entitled to the beauty treatment....
500-600? That's all you guys can muster?
Tens of millions of people have protested Bush in the past.
not a problemproof?500-600? That's all you guys can muster?
Tens of millions of people have protested Bush in the past.
Thanks for the heads up on my mistaking Ravi and RD.
Let's see...Obama's been in office a month. He got the $350b right off. The stimulus/porkulus 2 weeks later. Toxic waste bill last week. Have you checked Twitter for what's happening? As someone said, conservatives aren't really big on taking time to 'protest', but they are now. Change you can believe in!
LOL
I'm going to remember this post, and I'll be asking you in a few weeks where these "massive" protests were, with tens of thousands of bush supporting wingnuts marching in the streets.
You know what? It won't happen. But, I'm sure you'll pretend you forgot you ever made this prediction.
Let's see...Obama's been in office a month. He got the $350b right off. The stimulus/porkulus 2 weeks later. Toxic waste bill last week. Have you checked Twitter for what's happening? As someone said, conservatives aren't really big on taking time to 'protest', but they are now. Change you can believe in!
LOL
I'm going to remember this post, and I'll be asking you in a few weeks where these "massive" protests were, with tens of thousands of bush supporting wingnuts marching in the streets.
You know what? It won't happen. But, I'm sure you'll pretend you forgot you ever made this prediction.
Go for it RD,
who said anything about them being Bush supporters?Let's see...Obama's been in office a month. He got the $350b right off. The stimulus/porkulus 2 weeks later. Toxic waste bill last week. Have you checked Twitter for what's happening? As someone said, conservatives aren't really big on taking time to 'protest', but they are now. Change you can believe in!
LOL
I'm going to remember this post, and I'll be asking you in a few weeks where these "massive" protests were, with tens of thousands of bush supporting wingnuts marching in the streets.
You know what? It won't happen. But, I'm sure you'll pretend you forgot you ever made this prediction.
LOL
I'm going to remember this post, and I'll be asking you in a few weeks where these "massive" protests were, with tens of thousands of bush supporting wingnuts marching in the streets.
You know what? It won't happen. But, I'm sure you'll pretend you forgot you ever made this prediction.
Go for it RD,
I'll take that as an admission that in two weeks when I ask you where these "massive" bush supporting wingnut protests where, you won't be able to answer. Because they will never happen on any significant scale.
So Annie, are you going out to protest? Will you be joining the small bands of deluded fools that are protesting that wealthy people may end up paying more in taxes while less wealthy people will still get their tax credits?Over 400 in Denver, earlier this week. As I said, over 700 in Kansas, yesterday.
Obama will run into a shitstorm if he doesn't address the growing reaction to his Chicago Way of pushing things through. The country is NOT Chicago, and he's no Mayor Daley.
Okey-dokey!
400 people, probably including the kids they dragged along. Impressive! When the left protests something important, like the iraq war or the WTO they put tens of thousands on the street.
Don't get to psyched annie. The rightwing is never into protesting in large numbers, unless its about abortion. the rightwing is too old, white, and conservative to take it to the streets
Ravi, whoops, Red Dawn, (some of you ijits sound alike to me after awhile, sorry), I'm not one to get riled up too easily. I've seen times of protests and times of calm. Watched your type froth at the mouth for years, now frothing that anyone disagrees.
Unless there are changes to this new package of sack the successful, change will come. It probably will not be what either of us have in mind. There are warnings already being sent to those who might challenge:
The New Pamphleteers: Act Worthy Of Yourselves
Oh and before flipping off the source, why not check it out?
I have a feeling you make a lot of mistakes.proof?500-600? That's all you guys can muster?
Tens of millions of people have protested Bush in the past.
Thanks for the heads up on my mistaking Ravi and RD.
Seems that many of us were writing our representatives as they screwed up. Not hard to go back and look. I for one, was busy criticizing the administration for lack of communicating, poor choices on immigration while trying to build more consensus over the war, Dubai ports, etc.I'd like to know where the wacko's were for 8 years while their taxes were poured down the sewer and the last admin got us into this mess.
this is more sour grapes from the deadenders.... they want to do to obama what they did to clinton...harass him for his entire term.
it's seems to be what they're good at... given they suck at actually governing.
Taxpayer revolt spreads as tea party goes national
February 22, 12:37 AM
by Anthony G. Martin, Columbia Conservative Examiner
The taxpayer revolt that began in Seattle as a protest against Barack Obama and his 1.2 trillion dollar pork package called a 'stimulus plan' has gone national. Now known as 'Tea Party U.S.A.,' the protests are now scheduled for dozens of cities across America, and YOU could plan one right here in Columbia, or anywhere else in South Carolina for that matter.
But first, let's get an update from Michelle Malkin, who has been following this grassroots movement since its beginning:
Im happy to report on several new protest events now on the docket.
My friend Michael Patrick Leahy of Top Conservatives on Twitter and his crew are spearheading simultaneous local tea parties around the country, beginning in Chicago, and including Washington DC, Fayetteville NC, San Diego CA, Omaha Nebraska, and dozens of other locations for next Friday.
Be sure to click on Michelle's link for the full information.
More good news has surfaced as Adam Bitely at Net Right Nation has put together a 10-step 'how to' on organizing a 'Tea Party' in your area...even if you have never done anything like this before.
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And the wonderful thing about Adam Bitely's primer on organizing tea parties is that he is offering full promotion of the event, including providing full press coverage, for any tea party held in the country. The good folk at Net Right Nation are doing this because they believe in the cause.
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Rick Santelli Rant: The Chicago Tea Party Gains a Member
February 21, 2009 07:00 PM ET | James Pethokoukis | Permanent Link | Print
Reader Pam Spears emails me:
Rick Santelli simply vented the frustration of millions of Americans who are working, continue to pay their bills and are very angry at being forced to reward the "Bad boys"(Wall street greed and homeowner greed) or the world comes to an end. Perhaps the focus should be on rewarding the prudent. The economy has slowed to a trickle because prudent people can't tell who's honest and who's isn't. That is as true of the bankers as it is of ordinary Americans. Everyday there's a new scandal in the news and so far the only accounting has been from the same senators and government entities that ignored the red flags in the past. Hardly a positive step forward.
In our household we stopped all discretionary purchases last September when Lehman failed. Our house value has tanked, and so have our 401k's. Those values are part of the larger issue out of our control and affecting the whole world. Our day to day household spending however, continues to be completely within our control.
Are we all poorer, absolutely! But it's time for the government to focus on calming and rewarding the people who continue to work to pay their credit cards and mortgages on time. Those are the customers that GM and Macy's and GE etc need to get the economy going. The paradox of thrift and velocity of money are real and needed to get the economy moving. However continuing to force banks to again loan to deadbeat borrowers and creating a huge stimulus that does not give every American an equal $$ amount only increases the angst and sends the economy deeper into the tank.
Thank you again Rick Santelli, I finally think the world heard what I've been feeling.
PS. This note applies to the rest of the world's governments also, reward good behavior.
Me: Remember the phrase "Work hard and play by the rules"?
...Did you know, for example, that the pre-arranged signal for the boarding of the three tea ships in Boston harbor was Samuel Adams announcing at a protest meeting in Fanueil Hall that "this meeting can do no more to save the country," and that planning for the event had been going on for weeks prior to that gathering?
And did you know that the price of tea would actually decrease under the parliamentary act that sparked the Boston Tea Party? Clarendon notes the significance of this key fact that is likely little known to American students today:
"At the same time, Parliament imposed a new tax on tea, but one that would be paid in London as a surcharge. The Americans would actually see lower prices on tea, but the tea they purchased would already come pre-taxed. Historian Benson Bobrick says it 'remains a noble feature of the whole confrontation that immediate economic interest did not determine [the colonists'] response.'
"And Americans didn't take the bribe of lower tea in exchange for accepting a revenue tax. In Philadelphia, ships bearing tea couldn't find anyone willing to lead the ships into harbor. In Charleston, South Carolina, the tea was off-loaded, but was stored in moldy warehouses where the product quickly rotted and became useless. In New York City, storms prevented the tea-laden ships from docking."
Would that such integrity and consistency of principle were routinely displayed by those in Congress who today claim to be friends of liberty.
Well I never made the strawman 'prediction' of 10's of thousands. However over 40 cities held such protests today; some with a few hundred, some more, several with over a thousand. Not bad for a bunch of people that 'wouldn't turn out' for anything but abortion.Let's see...Obama's been in office a month. He got the $350b right off. The stimulus/porkulus 2 weeks later. Toxic waste bill last week. Have you checked Twitter for what's happening? As someone said, conservatives aren't really big on taking time to 'protest', but they are now. Change you can believe in!
LOL
I'm going to remember this post, and I'll be asking you in a few weeks where these "massive" protests were, with tens of thousands of bush supporting wingnuts marching in the streets.
You know what? It won't happen. But, I'm sure you'll pretend you forgot you ever made this prediction.
So Annie, are you going out to protest? Will you be joining the small bands of deluded fools that are protesting that wealthy people may end up paying more in taxes while less wealthy people will still get their tax credits?
coming from a liar like you, no one should believe a word you saySo Annie, are you going out to protest? Will you be joining the small bands of deluded fools that are protesting that wealthy people may end up paying more in taxes while less wealthy people will still get their tax credits?
c'mon, who wouldn't love a protest lead by joe the plumber? A guy who took welfare, and didn't pay his taxes? I mean, that's enough irony for a whole Daily Show episode....
LOL
I'm going to remember this post, and I'll be asking you in a few weeks where these "massive" protests were, with tens of thousands of bush supporting wingnuts marching in the streets.
You know what? It won't happen. But, I'm sure you'll pretend you forgot you ever made this prediction.
Go for it RD,
Worry not...you can tell the protests are getting under the moonbat's skin...look how pissed they are right now. Why else would they put so much effort into poo pooing the numbers so vehemently.
I'd like to know where the wacko's were for 8 years while their taxes were poured down the sewer and the last admin got us into this mess.
this is more sour grapes from the deadenders.... they want to do to obama what they did to clinton...harass him for his entire term.
it's seems to be what they're good at... given they suck at actually governing.
