The Mob Marches In: American Democracy in All Its Glory


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Above is a picture taken by my friend Will Davis of the Monroe County Reporter in Forsyth, GA.

Forsyth only has 4,000 people. 700 of them turned out to speak to Congressman Jim Marshall (D-GA 08) about healthcare.

The line was long. The day was hot. More and more people came. Congressman Marshall, a Democrat running in a decidedly Republican congressional district (he’s also my former law school professor), was patient.

Marshall, like the people in his district, opposes the healthcare proposals winding their way through Congress. Marshall went so far as to say he’d vote against all five of the present proposals.

The crowd got a little rowdy, but people feel passionately on the issue. You’ll see though that they were not really a mob. They were not really protestors. They were citizens turning out to tell their Congressman they are greatly opposed to Barack Obama’s agenda.

And he listened. The media, of course, will not cover gatherings like this because there really is no news and it is not in a major metropolitan area. But peaceful assemblies like this are far more common than those we’ve seen on television — and even those were not chaotic masses of angry people as the media would have us believe.

This is American democracy in all its glory.

Consider this an open thread.


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This picture just makes me smile

peg_c (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 6:22PM EST (link)

n/t

Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem.

I'll second that. nt

Xasteius (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 6:55PM EST (link)

Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!

The only poll that counts is the one at the ballot box.

I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be a Chance/Soros hybrid.

 

Almost Rockwellian

blooch Thursday, August 20th at 8:25PM EST (link)

except for that jarring image of a guy with long sleeves on in Georgia in August. At least he could have moved into the shade.

“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”

 
 

Yep.

muffin Thursday, August 20th at 6:41PM EST (link)

Looks like a rowdy mob to me. :) Maybe we are finally getting our non-representing representatives attention. We will hold them accountable for their actions. Pass this monstrosity at your peril.

Fortitudine vincimus – By endurance we conquer

 

We, the People

erp Thursday, August 20th at 6:47PM EST (link)

Proud to be one of them.

erp

 

off topic, but...

bags64 Thursday, August 20th at 6:50PM EST (link)

the colors in that picture are so vivid!
if you took the shot, what camera did you use?

ON TOPIC:
it’s good to see that reps are listening to their constituents for once. now, what do we have to do to get the American people riled up about deficit spending?

Agreed,

SoFiMil (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 6:59PM EST (link)

and this picture truly is Pulitzer Prize worthy. Please pass on my regards to your friend who took it.

www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com

This is America!

SoFiMil (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 7:14PM EST (link)

The spectacular photograph which reminded me of how blessed we are also reminded me of the work of John White, which I first became aware of last year when touring the Newseum in Washington, DC.
http://columbiachronicle.com/someone-you-should-know/

www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com

 
 

Canon Rebel

Erick Erickson (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 7:29PM EST (link)

A digital one.

Who will stand on either hand and keep this bridge with me?

CORRECTION

Erick Erickson (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 8:33PM EST (link)

Will tells me it is a Nikon D40

Who will stand on either hand and keep this bridge with me?

 
 
 

This Can't Be Right

gahazzah (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 7:27PM EST (link)

Where are the guns? The angry shouting protesters? The professionally made signs? The fights (started by SEIU)? I’m so confused here.

My TeeVee would never lie to me… would it?

/government

And where are the busses?

SoFiMil (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 7:33PM EST (link)

to bring in all these paid asphalters? Gahazzah, you’re right. Probably about 50% of the people in line are not conservatives, but rather Reagan Democrats.

www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com

 
 

Look at those crazies.

itrytobenice (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 7:36PM EST (link)

Bunch of redneck raaaaaacists.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.


Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

The gentleman who finished climbing the stairs appears to be African American.

SoFiMil (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 7:48PM EST (link)

Not that it matters.

www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com

 
 

I brought this up somewhere else

DontBanMeBro Thursday, August 20th at 9:49PM EST (link)

but it really belongs on an open thread.

When (if ever) is it appropriate to use Nazi references in posts and comments?

I take a narrow view on this. The evils of the Nazi regime are in a unique category. We haven’t seen anything on that scale since V-E day, and thank God for that. One of the reasons we haven’t as a species slid back into that morass is because there are people out there reminding us of who the Nazis were and what they did. They were dedicated evil men, and they were ordinary people. Their deliberate action and inaction led to the death of six million + innocents. They were not people who didn’t serve you soup. They were not people who didn’t agree with you on health care or foreign policy.

Casual references to Nazis in contemporary times, however well-informed, are out of place as far as I’m concerned (unless they really are neo-Nazis or something). Hyperbole, whatever the source and ideological leanings, serves to undermine a point. In this case it does more: it takes what was uniquely evil and makes it ever so slightly more mundane, common, acceptable. Any group of people united for the sake of the common good ought to avoid that, or so say I.

Thoughts?

Yawn. [nt]

Bill S (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 10:14PM EST (link)

“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins

 

Here is a thought and some work for you...

JadedByPolitics (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 10:24PM EST (link)

The work is for you to go to the above written diary and attached picture and find ANYWHERE anything about Nazi’s.

The thought is you are an ignorant troll, thoughts?

Relax, amigo

DontBanMeBro Thursday, August 20th at 10:30PM EST (link)

I was under the impression this was an open thread. This would appear to back up my assessment:

Consider this an open thread.

If I’m outta line, please define ‘open thread’ more concisely so that I may learn and correct my behavior. Otherwise, I invite you to comment substantively.

I will not relax and I am not your amigo to me you are...

JadedByPolitics (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 10:33PM EST (link)

a speck of nothing and I stick with my contention you are an ignorant troll.

Duly noted.

DontBanMeBro Thursday, August 20th at 10:41PM EST (link)

Feel free to ignore my comments from here to perpetuity.

 
 

Dontbanmebro...your question was already answered...

Aaron Gardner (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 10:36PM EST (link)

no reason to repost it. Especially when you were wrong both times.

conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!

“We’d be much better off if We The People had desired small government enough to keep it.” acat


Thanks, Aaron

DontBanMeBro Thursday, August 20th at 10:44PM EST (link)

I may in fact be alone on this island. But at least you know I’m here now.

Have fun on you island...hopefully Bambi can stop the see from rising...lest ye drown. nt

Aaron Gardner (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 10:46PM EST (link)

conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!

“We’d be much better off if We The People had desired small government enough to keep it.” acat


 

Actually I would bet you won't be here long at all...

JadedByPolitics (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 10:47PM EST (link)

I have looked at your posting history and you are definitely a troll and I think you will be gone so quickly your head will still be spinning the next day!

 
 
 
 
 
 

A picture's worth a thousand words

tcolegrove (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 10:50PM EST (link)

and this one includes a thousand people. Thank you for that. However, I’m not sure what to do with this video. This video below made me sick to my stomach. I felt the need to share.

I’m an avid reader of this site but don’t comment often and do want to thank you for all you do here to inform and educate. Thank you.

Obviously Obama community "workers" (nt)

SteveLA (Diary) Sunday, August 23rd at 12:33AM EST (link)

______________________________________

Competency over ideological purity and litmus tests

 
 

Something really sinister I just realized....

DONTREADONME (Diary) Friday, August 21st at 8:25PM EST (link)

Zerobama and Demons Government is taking over every sector of the economy!

Automobiles, Healthcare, Energy, Housing, Banking, Financial and Investment, Transportation (except airlines for the moment)…
Subcategories indirectly taken over by the Government Restaurants, Food, Tobacco, Pharmaceuticals…. subcategory-universal healthcare

Whats left folks? Holy Crap!!! The Government will single handedly have complete control over the entire U.S. economy? Am I wrong?

 

Neil, more for your investigation...

DONTREADONME (Diary) Sunday, August 23rd at 12:21AM EST (link)

it may be related to my settings in the internet options within IE8; however, I have not seen it with any other webpage. I have also seen this with my home computers as well.

What is happening is sometimes I refresh to see new comments or I want to click on new diary and I will get a lock-up where the page will never finish loading. It is like the progress bar gets stuck. So I will exit out and I will get a error message stating the server is busy, are you sure you want to cancel or something like that.

Plus sometimes a diary or when I click on a headline the diary will come up missing all of the stuff on the side bars for members diaries, comments etc. I have no idea what is going on, but I have tried to change a number of things in IE 8 and I can not seem to fix things. Oh, this all began when you did your update. I thought this problem would be a fleeting thing.
Then again it is a Microsoft conspiracy! but many newcomers will have IE 8 and we do not want them running into problems. Anyway, I hope that helps.

Same symptoms here, also on IE8.

Achance (Diary) Sunday, August 23rd at 4:34AM EST (link)

Have to close the tab to move to another website and get the “Site is busy” notice.

In Vino Veritas

 

Neil site seems to be working today...

DONTREADONME (Diary) Monday, August 24th at 1:34AM EST (link)

what did you do? No busy servers today.