Posted on 08/14/2013 11:32:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
Originally the event was scheduled to be held at the Georgetown Waterfront. Just to show that they were serious, the group called the rally the “Climate Change Day of Action” on their event page. “Action” quickly turned to inaction as the gathering ended up as a non-meeting of clearly uncommitted leftists.
In all fairness, there was some rain at the time of the event. You would think environmentalists would be willing to brave the elements of nature to nurture their cause. . . But I guess you’d be wrong. Between the one person that attended the Obamacare event, and the zero people that poured out for climate change, it looks like the group is hitting a nice average of 0.5 people per rally. Surprisingly decent for this President’s radical interests.
The NRCC blog, which originally reported on the less-than-stellar turn out, made the very poignant observation that “climate change” is generally a low priority for most voters anyway. Therefore, maybe we shouldn’t be so surprised that the get-together went down the drain with the rain water.
It’s also worth noting that the group, OFA, wasn’t about to let a disappointing turnout (I’m understating things, I know) tarnish their reputation as the President’s official-unofficial campaign organization. So, they took the event off their page. Just like George Orwell’s Propaganda Ministry, the OFA wiped clean any evidence that a failure of activism (or community organizing) had taken place. . . Oh, except we got a screen shot of the event page. You can copy the picture and share with your Facebook friends for a free IRS Audit.
While OFA’s recent failure to organize communities, and rally for the President’s leftist agenda, is humorous, it is also telling. It demonstrates an underwhelming enthusiasm for the President’s attempts to steer the conversation away from the economy. It illustrates a disappointing call to action in the liberal narrative. It also shows how little can really be accomplished by the left without paid SEIU protestors standing around.
Is very possible that a major reason for OFA’s recent failures, is that average citizens are far more interested in talking about the still failing economy, atrocious jobs market, and mandatory health insurance. The failed rally is worth noting, because it was a rally aimed at the least important issue among voters, citizens, and working families. OFA just learned that factoid in a tremendously embarrassing way.
It is also, however, quite possible that the environmentalists who were planning on attending, couldn’t quite make the trek in their spontaneously-combustible Chevy Volt.
The temps in Tennessee this summer have been the lowest that I can remember. We have global cooling here in the mid-South.
“97% agree that climate change is real”.
What a misleading statement! The climate has been changing since the crust of the planet cooled. And it will go on changing until the sun goes supernova.
Might as well say that 97% agree that gravity is real.
Obama is the victim of his own success
Every time I read this, I LOL. Over and over again. It’s a hoot!
After inserting plugs for “global warming” in weather forecasts, PBS documentaries, travel programs, kids shows, sitcoms and news broadcasts the public still doesn’t buy it.
What will the poor misguided souls do now?
Hell, THE FOREIGNER couldn’t even make it. The weather was to nice and he was playing golf.
the socialists/democrats took a 50/50 chance to destroy capitalism and freedom and they picked the wrong thing to create a hoax to destroy capitalism and our freedom. they picked warming and now the Earth getting colder. lol . we have to put that in their face.
it is fun watching the media and the scientists keep trying to cry global warming as the world is getting colder. lol. maybe we can use this to show the low info voters that believe in global warming that the gov and media have been lying to them for 30 years.
I think you are too optimistic.
I hear very little reference to “warming” these days.
All the talk now is “climate change induced weather events”
Impossible to verify or argue against.
We had 48 degrees last night in South Central PA, I do live in a hollow but still 48 in mid-August is unreal.
Proof: Calling for 52 tonight so 48 in a hollow is not out of the question.
http://www.weather.com/weather/today/York+PA+17404:4:US
They are calling for the mid 50s here in middle Tennessee... IN AUGUST!
I waited for the large banner across the weather channel declaring coolest July in decades... Never saw it. Hmmm. Every time temperatures were near record highs for a week, they had a large banner and a story about it. Mum on the longest and coldest summer of my lifetime.
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