Hissyspit's "One Nation" Rally PHOTO Thread (Home-made, Eyewitness, First-Person & All)

[Hissyspit]

A reunion of sorts, as I met up with Proud2bLibKansan AND, unbeknownst to me, SharonRB was here too, so we were together again for the first time since Netroots Nation '09.

And I was back at the Lincoln Memorial for the first time since the inaugural concert with Springsteen and U2. An historical spot, of course. Some dickweed con artist named Breck or Bock or something had a rally there last month.

Anyway, enjoy (taken with iPhone4):

[EFerrari]

1. . . .

:cry:

[G_j]

2. very nice!

beautiful photos,
thank you

[Iwillnevergiveup]

33. K&R

Wonderful to see so many issues addressed - foreclosures, DADT, health NO-care, stop wars. Thanks for being there and posting these photos.

You are a true :patriot:

[oldgrowth]

3. Free Speech TV feed a bit choppy

http://www.livestream.com/freespeechtv

[Peace Patriot]

4. Thanks for the photos! And thanks for being there! I wish I could've been! nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Terrific pics!!!

Great time as well.

[pinboy3niner]

6. Great pics--thanks!

A bit chilling to see security so heavily-armed...

[HughBeaumont]

24. They all had fingers near the triggers.

Curious . . . I wonder if the FailFest or any of the TeaBirther rallies feature such heavily armed personnel . . . you know, the kind that AREN'T rally participants.

[pinboy3niner]

29. At the townhalls, it sometimes looked like the cops were outgunned

But I suspect the level of security is pretty much the same whether an event is sponsored by the Left or the Right, subject to the size and place of the event and intelligence on potential threats.

[sarge43]

7. Thank you.

The children at The Wall was especially touching.

[Hissyspit]

You don't know the photo I missed.

Totally heartbreaking, but as I pulled my phone/camera up to get it, they had moved on. Older USMC vet and his wife.

[sarge43]

14. I can imagine.

The Wall brings home the cost of war.

[BlueMTexpat]

76. That one really brought tears to my eyes too. n/t

[jonthebru]

77. Vietnam Wall

I will never forget my visit to the Vietnam Memorial, it was late, near midnight and there were still many people there including a National Park guide to assist people. I had no idea how it would affect me that is for certain. This was many years ago on a very quick visit to DC.
Damn this war loving country.

[Hissyspit]

79. I had been there many times, but it had been a long time.

Again, after all these years later I was struck by how affecting and innovative a work it was despite all the protests and demands for a "realistic/naturalistic" sculptural memorial. Sometimes what people want is not want they need.

It's like descending into a grave.

[bobburgster]

108. Looking forward to experiencing the Vietnam Memorial...

my wife and I are going to the rally

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQihPX2xybRhwMkscfAJgqZ1DSyvus8kuiVHrpS_D6HVeaC4l8&t=1&usg=__Ss7D0AFm2LeL7kUs5HUA45LIrWw=

and plan to make time for the memorial.

[FirstLight]

8. Thanks sooo much for the pics!

I wish i could have gone. Someone said on another thread for every one person there there were at least 10 who had to work or hadn't the resources to go... i am the latter.

It's so good to see the positive signs and people gathering for good reason - unity and peace and hope
We need tons more of that kind of thinking in this country...on the whole freakiong planet.

It is also awesome to see how many folks there were holding End the War signs...hope the White House notices too...

[malaise]

9. Thanks Hissyspit

Nice pics - very good rally!

[Kadie]

10. Great pictures.

Thank you for posting.

[lamp_shade]

11. Wonderful photos you selected to post. Each tells a story. Thank you so much.

[ProSense]

12. Great photos.

This is my favorite:

[HughBeaumont]

23. I saw this guy about three times today.

Also have seen him more than a few times at past DC anti-war rallies. One of the best ideas for a costume.

[RedCloud]

56. Sort of sums it up for me too!

[moonbatmax]

88. Actually, I sorta thought he had it backwards.

I mean, doesn't more people dying give Death more work to do? :shrug:

[blm]

13. You're always ACES, Hissy....thank you.

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[MadMaddie]

15. Thanks for sharing! I hope that everyone that attended

had an amazing time.

[bigwillq]

16. Great pics!!

:bounce:

K and R

[Bitwit1234]

17. Some one said these pictures bring tears to their eyes

well all the love and honor and patriotism that you can see by this rally is making me cry damn it and the tears are rolling. The republicans could never invoke the pride and compassion this rally inspires in us. the dignity and actions speak for themselves. The hate and violence and racist signs are for the low calls tea bags and radical republicans. We don't need that type of stuff to promote our feelings. We are true blue Americans and believe in America and not corporations.

[bdamomma]

47. right on

:thumbsup:

[renate]

53. very well said, and worth 1000 rec's all on its own

This is such a beautiful collection of photos--it makes me so proud to be American. :patriot:

[uncommon]

18. Great photos. One can't help but notice the many colors of the participants in the One Nation Rally

-- a big difference from the Restoring Everyone Back to their Place Rally.

[rateyes]

19. Great pics. But, since when has Obama supported education?

He's supporting public education right out the door.

He is no friend to a free appropriate public education for all students.

[TruthTeller]

90. i just got back--saw a few messages like this

I brought my copy of Ravitch book to share. OAON, I have some of the same pics!

[GentryDixon]

20. Thank you.

I would have been there had I been able.

[dixiegrrrrl]

21. How large was the crowd in your estimation, Hissyspit?

Conflicting reports of the size all over the media.

and thank you for the pics. Hell of an Iphone.

[Hissyspit]

78. Slightly or more significantly larger than the Beck rally.

I'm no good at #s, but I wasn't expecting this many and impressive considering the lack of of non-stop Fox News, Internet and MSM promotion that we saw with the Speck Beck rally.

Of course, therefore it deserved LESS media coverage.

[Hissyspit]

94. I could be wrong, though.

When I came to the inauguration concert, it was standing room only for most of the area.

If there were more people at the Beck thing, it just means that there many many bigots and hypocrites at the Lincoln Memorial.

[babylonsister]

22. Hissy, thank you. I so wanted to be there; these help.

:hug:

[blondeatlast]

25. I have goosebumps. great photos, Hissy, thanks! nt

[Oceansaway]

26. thanks...n/t

[HCE SuiGeneris]

27. K & R

[lonestarnot]

28. Thanks Hissy!

[txlibdem]

30. MSNBC should (tongue in cheekly) report attendance of 4 million people - show fox how to inflate #s

Since about 3,000 people actually attended the Beck/Nazi Party/Krystal Nacht/Fear/Hate/Fear/Death to Grandma/Hate/Fear/Fear/Fear/Fear rally but the attendance numbers on FOX grew about 1,000 or 10,000 percent throughout the day of their coverage! (daily show made sport of that)

I wish I could have been there. My disability makes it impossible to leave my house some days. Believe me I was definitely there in spirit (especially with the Democratic Socialist contingent).

[BrklynLiberal]

31. WOW! Those are GREAT pics! You took them with an iPhone!!?? Amazing.

Thanks for sharing your day with us...

[MsPithy]

32. Obama is no Socialist, but we are!

Is, in my opinion the greatest political sign in recent memory!

[socialist_n_TN]

36. Yep. I liked that one too........

:)

[bdamomma]

49. great sign

that brought a smile to my face!!!!

[jxnmsdemguy65]

34. Good pics, thanks for sharing!

[LawnKorn]

35. K&R

[handmade34]

37. a big thanks!!

I just got back to my apartment and love seeing the areas I couldn't make it to... great pictures!

(Will post my meager pics in another thread)

[NEOhiodemocrat]

38. Thanks for posting!

Great pictures, I especially like the -Call me a "lefty" or a "Liberal" or "Obama's Base" I am a Proud Progressive.

[DeSwiss]

39. Thank you Hissyspit!!! - K&R!!! n/t

[tavalon]

40. I can't play the same game with this as with Whitestock

I counted three people of color at Beckkk's "rally". It would be useless for me to even try with this one. There is a rainbow of skin colors at this one. And more commonality of message than I am used to seeing at a progressive rally.

[Solly Mack]

41. :o)

K&R

[ohheckyeah]

42. Geat pics....thanks

for sharing.

May they be reposted?

[lunatica]

43. kick an rec'd

[Kitty Herder]

44. Great photos! Thanks for sharing them!

Wish I could have been there. :-)

[ensho]

45. the pics brought me to tears. D.C. is my hometown

wish I could have been there

[bdamomma]

46. great pictures

great signs too we know how to spell correctly!!!!!

[BlueIdaho]

48. Thank you for these great photos - I'm getting choked up viewing these threads!

[nadinbrzezinski]

50. I wish I could have been there

and frankly the Park Police Officer with the M-4 on an Israeli Sling is a testament to the land of cowards and scared people we live in anymore.

[phasma ex machina]

75. Thanks for pointing out that bit of intimidating fascism. nt

[humbled_opinion]

51. I have renewed HOPE...

Many people are waking up to the danger of the teabaggers, seeing this makes me believe that Obama will be able to mobilize the base again and so Democrats will not lose control of the Congress next month. The message will be loud and clear that the teabags movement to control the country has failed and they are relegated to the fringe element of the Racist, nazi rightwing...

The GOP will have no choice but to support Obama's agenda or be trounced in 2012 as the totally inept party of no obstuctionists that they are.... In other words this being a referendum on Obama's agenda means that the country will be approving of moving forward.

Thanks for the pictures...

[defendandprotect]

52. Wonderful pictures -- thank you !!!

And ... just right now catching up with what I missed this afternoon in replay

by C-span ... Harry Belafonte re war!! Love it!!


See a lot of "Jobs" signs ... did anyone talk about WHY all our jobs are gone?

Trade agreements, etal???

and LOVE that Belafonte did what the NAACP always did .... mention everyone's oppression ...

Belafonte speaking for women -- Love it!!


"Our greatest weapon is the vote" -- !!

"Overburden our voting booths --"


What a huge and great looking crowd!!

[savalez]

54. Awesome. Thanks for the pics.

[ocd liberal]

55. What a lovely looking group of people!

Why does the right, when they congregate, look like a bunch of crazy nuts and we lefties look so reasonable and in control of ourselves?

Rhetorical question, of course.... GREAT pictures and I'm glad you were there!

[Hekate]

57. Great pics of people, signs, t-shirts. What can you tell us about the mood of the crowd?

[Hissyspit]

80. People were enjoying themselves.

Would cheer wildly when issues like DADT were brought up by a speaker. It was a great day weather-wise, too, considering it is October.

[treestar]

58. Beautiful!

[Historic NY]

59. Excellant....thanks.

[donheld]

60. Thanks for sharing these!

[savalez]

61. This is what America looks like!

Look at all those people from different backgrounds. This is what real America looks like! Those anti-American Tea Bag a-hole gatherings are completely foreign to me.

[eridani]

68. Exactly. And the whitebaggers don't like it at all n/t

[AmandaMae]

62. thanks for the great pictures, wish I could have been there. n/t

[Nordmadr]

63. The Vietnam War Memorial pictures always stir ones emotions. N/T

[Barack_America]

64. The kids at the Vietnam Memorial...

...very powerful.

[MzNov]

65. fabulous pictures, thanks so much

:bounce:

[opihimoimoi]

66. KnR Priceless :o)

[mzmolly]

67. BEAUTIFUL!

:yourock: Hissyspit.

[kimi]

69. Oh, hey Hissyspit!

I took a pic of the ladies with the Obama pics too:

How crazy is that? GMTA!

[proud2BlibKansan]

71. We met them at breakfast. They're staying at our hotel.

Interesting ladies.

[MrMickeysMom]

70. IMPRESSIVE!

I'm very happy to see this...

[AllyCat]

72. I see my union! Way to go gang! Sorry I couldn't be with you today

But there in spirit. Thanks to everyone who went to make the crowd of "thousands". You all did us real Americans proud :)

[daughter of liberty2]

73. Great crowd! Great photos!

I wish I was there!
Thanks!
:yourock:

[phasma ex machina]

74. +1 "Foreclose Wars not Homes"

+1 "Fund Jobs Not War"

+1 "End War Now"

+1 "Honor the Dead, Heal the Wounded, End War Now"

Thanks for sharing.

:kick: & R

[DFW]

81. And just how did I detect that it wasn't a teabagger rally?

Easy: the smiling people, their ethnic diversity, their age diversity, and ALL THE SIGNS WERE SPELLED CORRECTLY.

[kimi]

85. Yes indeed

the whole vibe was so nice, so cool, so wholesome. I have always been worried walking around some rallies, about my purse, or safety, or what-not . . . but not this one. Such a relaxed atmosphere . . . even the police officers that I saw were either smiling or yawning or laughing with each other.

Just a whole-person healthy vibe. Very nice. Diverse, and happy, and all ages, and all looking to assist each other with whatever. Very very nice.

[nessa]

111. Well most of the signs anyway. Signs on the ground, 1st photo.

.

[DFW]

113. Teabagger infiltrators, maybe?

:P

[nessa]

115. Must be.

:)

hmm.. and not to nit pick but Iraqui? :)

[WilliamPitt]

82. (((((HUG)))))

Spectacular.

[barbtries]

83. great pictures!

maybe we can meet on the 30th, if you'll be there then as well.

[TexasObserver]

84. recommend

[SeattleGirl]

86. Thanks for the pics, Hissy!

So nice to see some pro-Dem photos!

[dave29]

87. Wonderful pics

thank you so much for documenting. Oddly enough I found the picture of the African American boy in camouflage shirt with both hands outstretched on the Vietnam memorial the most compelling. What a powerful image. Could be in Time magazine, IMHO.

[Hissyspit]

89. The one I missed by a few seconds was a one-in-a-million iconic picture. I'm not kidding.

I'm not kidding. I had never seen a "Vietnam Wall Picture" like it before. And I missed it by seconds getting my camera app open again.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

91. K&R

[onehandle]

92. Hooray for the iPhone 4!

...and those dirty fucking hippies I suppose.

:)

Nice pics.

[xchrom]

93. what wonderful pictures -- thank you! nt

[Enthusiast]

95. K&R

I want to thank all the participants in the One Nation Rally. You represented the thousands of us that couldn't attend.

[droidamus2]

96. Loved the pictures

Thanks for posting the pictures loved them. I just went over to CNN.com to see how they covered it. What a bunch of asshats. They had one wide angle picture in the ten they posted and that was the one we all saw early in the day when the vast part of the crowd hadn't arrived yet. All the other pictures were of small groups, signs or single people.

[tilsammans]

97. A thing o' beauty!

Thanks so much! :yourock: :patriot:

[NewJeffCT]

98. Thanks so much for sharing

Great pictures.

[Mad_Dem_X]

99. People of all colors, a sense of community,

and properly-spelled signs! Thank you for sharing these. :)

[DirkGently]

100. Excellent. So refreshing to see Americans flossing such intelligent, unhateful signage.

Way to go, HS.

[RoccoR5955]

101. I put some photos up on my Picasaweb site.

You can find them here: http://bit.ly/b4ignL

[catgirl]

102. Thank you!!

[Fire1]

103. Great pics! K&R

[davidwparker]

104. K&R

[cal04]

105. great pics! Thank you so much for posting

:hi:

[pleah]

106. K&R

:yourock: :patriot: :woohoo:

[rhett o rick]

107. K&R thanks for posting. nm

[Swamp Rat]

109. k&r

[Turborama]

110. K&R Awesome pics from what looks like an awesome gathering. Thank you for sharing

:kick:

[spanone]

112. k...........r

Error: you can only recommend threads which were started in the past 24 hours

[Ganja Ninja]

114. Looks every bit as big as Beck's rally.

I can't understand why the media ignored it? :sarcasm: