Tapping into anger as the tea party movement has done, a coalition of progressive and civil rights groups marched by the thousands Saturday on the Lincoln Memorial and pledged to support Democrats struggling to keep power on Capitol Hill.
“We are together. This march is about the power to the people,” said Ed Schultz, host of “The Ed Show” on MSNBC. “It is about the people standing up to the corporations. Are you ready to fight back?”
In a fiery speech that opened the “One Nation Working Together” rally on the National Mall, Schultz blamed Republicans for shipping jobs overseas and curtailing freedoms. He borrowed some of conservative commentator Glenn Beck’s rhetoric and vowed to “take back our country.”
“This is a defining moment in America. Are you American?” Schultz told the raucous crowd. “This is no time to back down. This is time to fight for America.”
which rally has more people? this one….
Or this one?…
With a month of campaigning to go and voter unhappiness high, the Democratic-leaning organizers hope the four-hour program of speeches and entertainment energizes activists who are crucial if Democrats are to retain their majorities in the House and Senate. The national mood suggests gains for the GOP, and Republicans are hoping to ride voter anger to gain control of the House and possibly the Senate.
More than 400 organizations — ranging from labor unions to faith, environmental and gay rights groups — partnered for the event, which comes one month after Beck packed the same space with conservatives and tea party-style activists.
Organizers claimed they had as many participants as Beck’s rally. But Saturday’s crowds were less dense and didn’t reach as far to the edges as they did during Beck’s rally. The National Park Service stopped providing official crowd estimates in the 1990s.
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I took a quick trip up to check it out, there were at most and this is really giving them a lot of head room, about 40 – 50 thousand people.
The differance is that these people were crazy nut jobs, angry, nasty, and just low down mean.
What do you expect, they are all socialist/communist scum.
LOL..as if such a thing as nice, happy, upper class socialist/communists exist…lol
Compared to the numbers at Mr. Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally, this so-called "One Nation" rally's numbers were a pallid pittance by comparison.
"Power to the people," my eye!
William, I agree with you 100% I was also at Glenn's rally; I was in awe.
I think thats why the media has been very quite on the 10/02/2010 quasi event.
The TRUTH will Set you Free!
Pass it on: http://www.greatdanepro.com/Pray%20For%20America/index.h....
That was beautiful. I have been praying nightly for everyone and the country. May I include….Glenn Beck is right about Faith, Honor and Charity. I am passing this on to everyone I know. Thanx alot.
Goldbug, I will second that it was beautiful. Thank you
Who the hell is Ed Schultz ? is he suppose to be someone with knowledge of what is happening in America or Just a fat ass with a liberal socialist agenda.I understand that this liberal crowd left the place a pig sty so that tells you what kind of people attended.
Simple! Good multiplies & Evil divides!
Glen beck's 9/12 project was honorable with good people in attendence & One Nation Working Together was anything but honorable with communist & UnionThugs in attendence.
There was easily a 10 to 1 ratio in favor of the Restoring Honor Rally which should leave no question in anyones mind how the overwhelming majority of Americans feel and once again we get the same response from Mr. Obama and his thugs; the sound of silence. What a sickening disgracful display of arrogance from the POTUS.