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tomm2thumbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 10:08 PM
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Countless Thousands & Thousands at Atlanta Anti-Health Care Rally... NOT
Edited on Sat Aug-15-09 10:13 PM by tomm2thumbs
 
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A glimpse of the overwhelming support for the anti-health care movement in the heart of the south - Atlanta. Why if I didn't know better, I'd guess you'd have more people show up if you said 'free clean underwear' - which is saying something. Dick Armey sure knows how to draw a crowd.

Another good shot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMgTc-k0CcU

Come early - gonna be massive turnouts.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 10:13 PM
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1. Such charisma
and the message of "No We Can't".
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targetpractice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 10:15 PM
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2. Armey sounds drunk. n/t
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 10:33 PM
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7. Well, that , or he needs to pull the gin-soaked cotton balls out of his mouth . . .
There must have been . . . hundreds of people for this particular rally.

:eyes:
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targetpractice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 10:46 PM
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12. I'm trying to decipher what he said at 0:55...
I think it's...

"Governmmment shhhould have the sssenssthe and ressschpect for citi-shhhzenree to practissss sssseriouth adult ressschrtraint."
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snake in the grass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 11:20 PM
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19. What a lush!
You know he was having a good time! He sounds worse than the Boner and that's saying something.
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targetpractice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 10:20 PM
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3. Bwahahaha! That second video...
You can feel the disappointment from that lone woman with the red balloon... :-(

I suppose they were playing the music to drown out the sounds of the breeze, birds, and crickets.
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pattmarty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 10:29 PM
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4. What were they saying the expected turnout was gonna be?..........
........I thought I read 50,000, and maybe there are 500. Yeah, some "majority".
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targetpractice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 10:33 PM
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6. I read 15,000...
If you look at the second video, you will see that they planned for quite a few... And obviously, the crowd obeyed the memo and spread out to make their numbers look much larger... HAH!
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 10:32 PM
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5. You know, if the South would enter the 20th century, these morons would have something to do-
Edited on Sat Aug-15-09 10:51 PM by sasquatch
before the start of SEC football.
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ScottLand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 06:48 AM
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26. I live in Georgia and I'll have you know
we are in the 20th Century. Now if we could only get into the 21st!
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meowomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 06:54 AM
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28. Don't you mean "morans"?
Edited on Sun Aug-16-09 06:55 AM by meowomon
LOL
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muntrv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 10:37 PM
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8. Ooooohhhh! They're gonna teabag on 9/12/09! I'm scared!
:crazy:
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pkdu Donating Member (621 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 10:39 PM
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9. Anyone else notice the Pharma tents on the lawn n/t
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targetpractice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 10:49 PM
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14. For "OXENDINE"?
I thought the same thing... Sounds liked some kind of dental care product, and I thought to myself, "Brilliant target marketing! If there's one thing these people do need is socialized dental care!"

It turns out that John Oxendine is a 2010 Republican candidate for Georgia governor.
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 10:44 PM
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10. Upholding a near-decade old tradition
of being out-attended by the porta-potties.



:headbang:
rocktivity
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 10:45 PM
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11. You and who else's Armey?
What a Dick!
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asdjrocky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 10:48 PM
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13. B-but on CNN they said there was 5000 people there.
I've seen 5000 people and that is not 5000 people.
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BattyDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 10:53 PM
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17. I was typing as you posted ... so THAT'S the rally they were talking about???
Edited on Sat Aug-15-09 10:54 PM by BattyDem
As I said in my post below, they made it sound like it was a big deal! :wtf:


edited to add ...
What a sorry excuse for a rally! :rofl:
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BattyDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 10:51 PM
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15. Is this the same rally that CNN was talking about before Obama's Town Hall started?
I tuned in after the rally was over. They made it sound like it was a big deal. That can't be the same rally!
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 10:53 PM
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16. Maybe if they offered free deep fried whatever-the-fuck?
:shrug:
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Crowman1979 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 11:15 PM
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18. RW Rednecks: Blindly serving their corporate masters for slave wages for over 150 years!
Edited on Sat Aug-15-09 11:15 PM by Crowman1979
They don't care if they destroy their fellow man, because their boss is annoited by god! :sarcasm:
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krister Donating Member (84 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 11:51 PM
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20. Those idiots are probably thinking that anyone named after a branch of the military
must be of unparalleled honesty and integrity.
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sorcrow Donating Member (68 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 12:16 AM
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21. Atlanta is predominantly African-American
And that crowd was about as pasty white as you could get. That's the rethuglican base.
Crow
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Thickasabrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 12:22 AM
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22. The metropolitan area is, these people come from the burbs...
Marietta, Woodstock, Dalton, Duluth, etc. - very white and very conservative.
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FarLeftFist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 12:25 AM
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23. DICK ARMEY IS A DAMN FUNNY NAME !!!!
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The Wizard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 10:55 AM
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29. So if he's Dick Armey
Are the people who showed up at his perpetual sickness rally the Pecker Brigade?
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Strong Atheist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 11:18 AM
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30. Welcome to DU!



:toast:
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katkat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 01:20 AM
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24. karma
So Atlanta recently lost some water rights. God is good, well, sometimes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/us/16water.html

(Not to worry, they'll be fine even if they don't increase their currently pathetic conservation efforts.)
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guidoo Donating Member (25 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 06:33 AM
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25. AJC puts crowd at

The AJC put the crowd at just over 3000, http://www.ajc.com/news/health-care-rallies-attract-116305.html
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ScottLand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 06:50 AM
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27. I don't live in Atlanta but I do live too close for comfort
(about 40 miles) and I'm proud to say I was able to boycott this event! When they have the one on 9/12, I'll be glad to skip that one too.
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 01:12 PM
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31. doesn't matter how many show up . . . they're getting all the coverage . . .
if you watch tv news, you can't help but get the impression that the whole country is against Obama's healthcare reform (whatever it may be) . . . the corporations have just replaced Harry and Louise with town hall meetings . . .
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