Posted on 08/30/2010 10:17:02 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama Builds a Big Tent . . . for Conservatives The rally demonstrated how the Obama administration's excesses have brought different strands of the conservative movement together.
By JOHN FUND
It will drive liberals crazy, but Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" Rally probably outdrew Rev. Martin Luther King Jr's original "I Have a Dream" rally, on which it was patterned. Mr. Beck's rally also lived up to its promise to be non-political. Weaving through the crowd on Saturday, the most partisan sign I saw read "I Can See November From My House."
On a BBC panel discussion afterward, one of my fellow participants insisted the rally was political nonetheless because so many who attended share what he called a "quasi-religious" view that the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted as it was written. Leaving aside the confused exercise in pop psychology, he was right in one sense: The rally was yet another demonstration of how the Obama administration's excesses have brought different strands of the conservative movement together.
Mr. Beck's operation could never have pulled off such a large event on its own. But the Tea Party Patriots were able to come up with 350 volunteers within 24 hours of being contacted by Mr. Beck. FreedomWorks, a group headed by former Rep. Dick Armey, provided logistical help and held a get-out-the-vote training session the night before (at which Mr. Beck appeared). Americans for Prosperity, another Tea Party group, arranged for buses to converge on Washington from all over the country.
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“It will drive liberals crazy, but Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” Rally probably outdrew Rev. Martin Luther King Jr’s original “I Have a Dream” rally, on which it was patterned. Mr. Beck’s rally also lived up to its promise to be non-political. “
Notice there has been no mention anywhere about the Reverend Al’s circus?
“interpreted as it was written”...WHAT A NOVEL CONCEPT!
Lets interpret laws the opposite of how they are written...See how that works...
or how about letting the person arrested interpret the law the way he sees it...U don't need no stinking Judge that way...
Can someone tell me how to interpret something OTHER then the way it is written...Jeez!...
It is true that we unify well when we are playing defense.
The opposite is happening to liberals. Daily Kos and Democratic Underground are in shambles. Skinner wrote an opus and left; there are all sorts of new rules and regulations about name calling and position taking. People keep breaking the rules and calling each other on it, and getting banned. Then there are posts protesting the bannings and then the rules get re-posted and on and on and on.
I will refer you to the California Court system and the Obama Administrations knee-jerk reaction to Arizona's immigration law...
...just for starters.
These clods believe they are the first humans to use rational thought. Not that they are rational. “Living Constitutionalists” consider all thought prior to their own unenlightened, not realizing that they see darkly with a dim bulb.
If Reverend Al had two brain cells to rub together he would drop politics altogether and make a weight loss video. Oh, but wait, that would be evil capitalism making him wealthy - can’t have that!
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