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Title: Beck Says US Has 'Wandered in Darkness' Too Long
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URL Source: http://www.aolnews.com/nation/artic ... in-rally/19611981?ncid=webmail
Published: Aug 28, 2010
Author: Phillip Elliot
Post Date: 2010-08-28 11:57:28 by war
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Views: 187378
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WASHINGTON (Aug. 28) -- From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck told a crowd of tens of thousands of people Saturday that the U.S. has too long "wandered in darkness." His rally's marquee speaker, Sarah Palin, praised "patriots" in the audience for "knowing never to retreat." The two champions of the tea party movement spoke from the very spot where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech 47 years ago. Some civil rights leaders who have denounced Beck's choice of a venue staged a rival rally to honor King. Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee who may make a White House run in 2012, said activists must honor King's legacy by paying tribute to the men and women who protect the United States in uniform. Beck, pacing back and forth on the marble steps, said he was humbled by the size of the crowd, which stretched along the Washington Mall's long reflecting pool nearly all the way to the Washington Monument. "Something beyond imagination is happening," he said. "America today begins to turn back to God." "For too long, this country has wandered in darkness," said Beck, a Fox News host. He said it was now time to "concentrate on the good things in America, the things we have accomplished and the things we can do tomorrow." Neither Beck nor Palin made overtly political comments. Palin, greeted by chants of "USA, USA, USA" from many in the crowd, told the gathering, "It is so humbling to get to be here with you today, patriots. You who are motivated and engaged ... and knowing never to retreat." "We must restore America and restore her honor," said the former Alaska governor, echoing the name of the rally, "Restoring Honor." Palin told the crowd she wasn't speaking as a politician. "No, something more, something much more. I've been asked to speak as the mother of a soldier and I am proud of that distinction. Say what you want to say about me, but I raised a combat vet and you can't take that away from me." It was a reference to her son, Track, 20, who served a yearlong deployment in Iraq. Palin honored military members in her speech. She likened the rally participants to the civil rights activists who came to the National Mall to hear King's historic speech. She said the same spirit that helped civil rights activists overcome oppression, discrimination and violence would help this group as well. "We are worried about what we face. Sometimes, our challenges seem insurmountable," Palin said. "Look around you. You're not alone," Palin told participants. The crowd - organizers had a permit for 300,000 - was vast, with people standing shoulder to shoulder across large expanses of the Mall. The National Park Service stopped doing crowd counts in 1997 after the agency was accused of underestimating numbers for the 1995 Million Man March. Civil rights leaders protested the event and scheduled a 3-mile plus march from a high school to the site of a planned King memorial near the Tidal Basin and not far from Beck's gathering. Beck has said he did not intend to choose the King anniversary for his rally but had since decided it was "divine providence." Organizers said their aim was to honor military personnel and others "who embody our nation's founding principles of integrity, truth and honor." Many in the crowd watched the proceedings on large television screens. On the edges of the Mall, vendors sold "Don't Tread on Me" flags, popular with tea party activists. Other activists distributed fliers urging voters "dump Obama." The pamphlet included a picture of the president with a Hitler-style mustache. The Rev. Al Sharpton, leading the civil rights march, said Beck's demonstration was an anti-government rally that advocated states' rights - counter to the message in King's speech, in which the civil right leader appealed to the federal government to ensure equality. "The structural breakdown of a strong national government, which is what they're calling for, is something that does not serve the interests of the nation and it's something that Dr. King and others fought against," Sharpton told C-SPAN hours before his event. People began filling up the space between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument early in the day, many waving American flags. Wasington's subway system was extremely crowded with long lines of people trying to get to the rally. Metro spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said that there was crowding at least a dozen stations. Ricky Thomas, 43, a SWAT team police officer from Chesapeake Beach, Md., brought his 10-year old son Chase to the Beck rally. "I wanted my son to see democracy in action," Thomas said. He said he wants government to stay out of people's lives. He acknowledged that he works for government, but said it's "a part of government that helps people when they are in trouble." Beck has given voice to those angry and frustrated with President Barack Obama and other Democrats this election year, especially members of the tea party movement.
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#110. To: Liberator (#80)
Yea...Mamie has me pegged all right. Meanwhile, she has online sex with Boofer.
Chuckles...
Wanna bet?
Looks like Bush and his GOP Congress produced the biggest deficit in 2004 (not counting 2008 - the year Republican economic policies came home to roost) Sure. Only regressive idiots like you and "the LF crew" have up and lost your calendars. 2009 numbers???.....2010?????....who needs em when deficit numbers simply ceased to exist after 2008. But yeah.....stay in 2004....heck..go back to 1964 or whenever you gaseous kooks found nirvana......whatever you do keep looking elsewhere and not at what's in front of you. November is coming......and you and your infantile crew of community communists are L...E...A...V...I...N...G...
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way. Below is positively the most hilariously BS overflowing comment from the resident obamunist spent-condom EVER:) "This is WHY I left the GOP in the mid 90's. ." Dwarf
He won't pay up. In fact, he'll keep saying he was right even after he's wrong. Remember his prediction earlier of this being a "long, hot summer", implying riots were going to break out? He doesn't either.
"How many confirmed NV Mig kills do YOU have general? I only have three." - Mad Dog, the village idiot's hemorrhoid.
I've noticed that about him. He keeps saying that Boehner has a plan to cut spending, even after I posted Boehner's "plan" which offers no spending cuts whatsoever. Badeye is delusional. He reminds me of my ex-mother-in-law.
LOL! YOUR "hero" eh corn flake "girl"/"boy"? WE ALL already knew that weasel "boy"/"girl". Wave your "little red book" some more "comrade"! LOL! That's MORE than FUNNY coming from a LIAR such as you weasel "boy"/"girl". I'm NOT posting for you corn flake "girl"/"boy", I'm posting to you for lurkers et.al.. I'm just making sure that the TRUTH keeps bitch slapping your LYING butt down. YOU are what YOU are, which is a self admitted LIAR, you vile loser creep. As illustrated, AGAIN, by your inability to back up even this one of your LIES you sniveling little bitch. I'm STILL waiting for the citation of ME EVER claiming to have been a Naval aviator you vile sniveling little ibTURD LYING POS. ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((crickets)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) Of course you CAN'T, because I've NEVER EVER made any such claim anywhere, and you know it, you pitiful vile sniveling little ibTURD LYING POS. So lets review, 1.) You are a self admitted LIAR. 2.) You have charged that I have made the claim of once having been a Naval aviator, and when called on to provide a citation of me doing that, you rum away and TRY to change the subject, because you are nothing but a pitiful vile sniveling little ibTURD LYING POS. That's what is called "PROOF" you pitiful vile sniveling little ibTURD LYING POS. Now run, and dodge, and evade, and TRY to spin and change the subject you miserable little whiny creep.
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
Come on, care to share?
Clinton and Cuomo are the true bandits who lit the fuse to this economic crisis we're now in. All in the name of getting more minorities in houses: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=12554
They weren't serious about it. They have the entire government in their power and they have no intention of paying for it. They believe in borrowing and that is all.
Clinton and Cuomo are the true bandits who lit the fuse to this economic crisis we're now in. All in the name of getting more minorities in houses: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=12554
Well mutt, you are the one who always puts MAO in your posts. But now you mention it, he wasn't a particularly handsome man, but he was a damn sigh better off then you in many ways. I mean, look at you here in this picture that best matches your online character. Your characteristic hassle from the get go when you first started this when I returned here to now and beyond is something most can't take. But see son, I have a very thick skin and relish in this sort of combat. r I wouldn't bother with forums where I find amusing and colorful whine-os. People like you need spam, as you are probably too Alaskan drunk most the time and can't come up with a different post from the same one over and over. Why, your peepers are so red and blurry with double vision, a cut and paste job no doubt takes you an hour or so to do. Cheers buttercup, thanks for sharing.
He reminds me of a bag lady who's shopping cart has squeaky wheels as she shambles down the sidewalk spewing in line side bar comments out of the side of her mouth at no one in particular. He's harmless. I just ignore him. Though I do sometime bother to read his one liner, for entertainment reasons of course.
LOL! Oh gee THAT really hurts LIAR! /S YOU are what YOU are, which is a self admitted LIAR, you vile loser creep. As illustrated, AGAIN, by your inability to back up even this one of your LIES you sniveling little bitch. I'm STILL waiting for the citation of ME EVER claiming to have been a Naval aviator you vile sniveling little ibTURD LYING POS. ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((crickets)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) Of course you CAN'T, because I've NEVER EVER made any such claim anywhere, and you know it, you pitiful vile sniveling little ibTURD LYING POS.
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
Yeah, but it's sure to spread. WW III? The elites want to reduce the population, we're sucking up too many resources. Quit breathing so much! 8^)
Well first, they were dems and naturally were pussies. Secondly, when they did raise it, the GOP media went into overdrive portraying them as unpatriotic and troop haters. And you sound stupid tagging dems with that when it was a GOP POTUS and Congress which borrowed and spent more than had ever been done in this nation.
And you sound stupid tagging dems with that when it was a GOP POTUS and Congress which borrowed and spent more than had ever been done in this nation. For the record, I LOATH all borrowing. I believe that each and every fiscal year should find ZERO debt. Revenue = spending, and not a dollar more. I agree that EVERYTHING, be it war or social spending, should be paid for and not borrowed. I was apoplectic about the Republicans level of spending. If you didn't know that, well now you do.
Clinton and Cuomo are the true bandits who lit the fuse to this economic crisis we're now in. All in the name of getting more minorities in houses: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=12554
Spot on Pete!!!! I'm for us going back to a Bianchi sack of rocks on our Brownes:):) (and no I've never fired any dept issued autos yet)
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way. Below is positively the most hilariously BS overflowing comment from the resident obamunist spent-condom EVER:) "This is WHY I left the GOP in the mid 90's. ." Dwarf
I've never had anything on my body pierced nor do I wear spandex which is 100% lycra...the shorts and bibs I wear are of a carbon/lycra/nylon composition. I'm sorry - were we conducting an interview for eHarmony? Liberator posted on 2010-08-29 11:14:37 ET Reply Trace Private Reply BBBWWWAAAAHHHHAAAAAAA!!!!!! snort.....don't open that door to dwarf Lib!!!! FYI I recall one of the fake's storylines mixed in with being a wall street "shaker" as well as a prior "conservative" and GOP stalwart and staunch NRA dude.....was something like he fancies himself some kind of Tin Man pentathlete super stud assclown. So I have a colleague that does these idiotic long Iron Man and ultramarathon things......he took off Wednesday to prepare and will be back Tuesday after running some local Los Angeles 100 or so mile thing in the San Gabriel mountains. 2 months ago he did the same for some similar idiocy down in San Diego for something like 120 miles. Point is, a real U/M actually seems to take time off to prep and then actually participate in these things. This uber fake dwarf is NEVER gone more than a 12 hour period unless he's been banned. Dwarf = Just one more puffed up fraud freak mini-man.
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way. Below is positively the most hilariously BS overflowing comment from the resident obamunist spent-condom EVER:) "This is WHY I left the GOP in the mid 90's. ." Dwarf
Yet here you are rooting for their victory. The fact is, the GOP are the worst spenders. Period. Always have been.
The fact is, the GOP are the worst spenders. Period. Always have been. Dude, anything is better than the socialists. But we'll see in January how these Republicans act. I don't have high hopes for them.
Clinton and Cuomo are the true bandits who lit the fuse to this economic crisis we're now in. All in the name of getting more minorities in houses: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=12554
You give me a choice between feeding Raytheon's profits or healing sick people and I'll choose sick people every time and never look back.
No sick people will be healed in aggregate.
Clinton and Cuomo are the true bandits who lit the fuse to this economic crisis we're now in. All in the name of getting more minorities in houses: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=12554
Dude, anything is better than the socialists. You give me a choice between feeding Raytheon's profits or healing sick people and I'll choose sick people every time and never look back. This post from the obama hosegobbler exemplifies what is going wrong in their addled skulls. It's all about "them"...dwarf, whiningskank, boners, jerx etc....it's always about "them". No capacity to view anything but the 2 doors of welfare for raytheon or welfare for "sick people" Completely lost on this douche' is he has less than zero right to "feel good" about healing sick people with anyone else's money any more than he has the right to decry anyone else's money being ripped off for raytheon. The third door of "neither" just doesn't factor.....afterall.....if there's money that can be forcibly taken by their gov't deity then by golly it MUST be spent on a or b!!
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way. Below is the latest Dwarf revelation: ...."the shorts and bibs I wear are of a carbon/lycra/nylon composition......and maaaaaannnnnn....just letting everybody know that makes my balls SWELL......I'm just tooooooo sexy for you all!!" ....Dwarf August 2010
You have the art of mumbleswerve down to a "T".
Dwarf....I know from my bozo total still at 5 (since your way-too-short tombstoning) that you see my posts:):) Is the new tagline not a hoot?? BBWWWAAAHHHAAAAAA!!!! Thanks.....you clowns write my comedy routines for me sometimes. I'll be watching for number "6" to reappear.....meanwhile you worthless repulsive sub human fraud......may your BP climb:):)
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way. Below is the latest Dwarf revelation: ...."the shorts and bibs I wear are of a carbon/lycra/nylon composition......and maaaaaannnnnn....just letting everybody know that makes my balls SWELL......I'm just tooooooo sexy for you all!!" ....Dwarf August 2010
Amazing how many liberal cowards slink around these forums.
Better than being wrong on almost every issue such as you.
Clinton and Cuomo are the true bandits who lit the fuse to this economic crisis we're now in. All in the name of getting more minorities in houses: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=12554
Amazing how many liberal cowards slink around these forums. Yeah......now that i challenged the resident kevlar constructed tutu wearing Aluminum Man contestant, he'll not actually fire up his faggotron bozo earmuffer machine for a few days.......so he can be in control over something......anything..... FWIW I'll post when the toggle occurs....and it will be the bitches toggle:):)
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way. Below is the latest Dwarf revelation: ...."the shorts and bibs I wear are of a carbon/lycra/nylon composition......and maaaaaannnnnn....just letting everybody know that makes my balls SWELL......I'm just tooooooo sexy for you all!!" ....Dwarf August 2010
I don't have to 'bet' its in the database as to my prediction.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
You believe it's better to sput bullshit than to take a stand and be wrong? Explains much. That asked and observed, you've yet to show me to be wrong.
Yes I have. You're to delusional to know when you've been schooled.
Clinton and Cuomo are the true bandits who lit the fuse to this economic crisis we're now in. All in the name of getting more minorities in houses: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=12554
Links please...
Okay, you said that government policies aren't responsible for increased health care costs. My retort: Illegal aliens. There, you were wrong and I was right.
Clinton and Cuomo are the true bandits who lit the fuse to this economic crisis we're now in. All in the name of getting more minorities in houses: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=12554
I said that where? Links please...
You are still as blind as a bat and as biased as Jesse Jackson. You only see what you want to see,and misinterpret plain English in order to fit your biases. ALL I want is for every American citizen to have equal rights,and for the government to get and stay our of people's personal lives. You know,the principles the country was founded on?
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
Not entirely true. There are rare occasions where someone is being held hostage,and a SWAT unit could be helpful then. The sad fact is the typical SWAT unit deploys to kick in doors for drug busts hundreds of times for each genuine hostage situation. This makes them Storm Troopers,not hostage saviors.
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
My exact point.
We've already determined that war/defense spending is a waste. It is a waste when we are spending it and the lives and health of our young people on wars that shouldn't be fought and on defense for other nations. Yet, Dems overwhelmingly have voted for IT. Of course. Like I keep saying,we are now a One Party Nation and the leaders of that party are all owned by the international bankers.
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
Links please... Do you deny saying it? You said it over the weekend, Mr. Link.
Clinton and Cuomo are the true bandits who lit the fuse to this economic crisis we're now in. All in the name of getting more minorities in houses: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=12554
Then you should have no problem providing the quote.
Follow the money.
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
Sorry, you said it. I'm way to busy to go around pulling links up for every little comment you made.
Clinton and Cuomo are the true bandits who lit the fuse to this economic crisis we're now in. All in the name of getting more minorities in houses: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=12554
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#111. To: Skip Intro (#9)
Doesn't she know that she has the greatest living hero of the Viet Nam war, MiG Killer Dog, living in her own state?
#112. To: Badeye (#58)
GOP will retake the House, by a wide margin.
American public policy has been dominated by Democrats who don't care and Republicans that don't dare -- Dick Armey
#113. To: lucysmom (#63)
2001 128.2 2002 -157.8 2003 -377.6 2004 -412.7 2005 -318.3 2006 -248.2 2007 -160.7 2008 -454.8 + TARP -750.0
#114. To: jwpegler (#112)
Wanna bet?
#115. To: Skip Intro (#114)
In fact, he'll keep saying he was right even after he's wrong.
American public policy has been dominated by Democrats who don't care and Republicans that don't dare -- Dick Armey
#116. To: Ferret Mike (#30)
#117. To: war (#104)
You really are a Neb Nose aren't you?
#118. To: war (#105)
Are you claiming that the dems did not try to make paying for the war an issue every time a re-authorization came up?
#119. To: Mad Dog (#116)
#120. To: jwpegler (#115)
"Badeye is delusional. He reminds me of my ex-mother-in-law."
#121. To: Ferret Mike (#119)
#122. To: Liberator (#94)
Like Iran? Probably.
#123. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#118)
They weren't serious about it.
#124. To: war (#123)
Well first, they were dems and naturally were pussies. Secondly, when they did raise it, the GOP media went into overdrive portraying them as unpatriotic and troop haters.
#125. To: sneakypete (#46)
It is NOT the job of the police to fight wars,and they do NOT need and should not even be allowed to have automatic weapons.
#126. To: Liberator (#64)
#64. To: war (#55)
#127. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#124)
#128. To: war (#127)
Yet here you are rooting for their victory.
#129. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#128)
Dude, anything is better than the socialists.
#130. To: war (#129)
You give me a choice between feeding Raytheon's profits or healing sick people and I'll choose sick people every time and never look back.
#131. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#128)
#129. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#128)
#132. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#130)
#133. To: dwarf (#132)
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#134. To: e_type_jag (#133)
my bozo total still at 5
#135. To: war (#132)
You have the art of mumbleswerve down to a "T".
#136. To: Ibluafartsky (#134)
my bozo total still at 5
#137. To: jwpegler (#112)
#138. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#135)
Better than being wrong on almost every issue such as you.
#139. To: war (#138)
That asked and observed, you've yet to show me to be wrong.
#140. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#139)
Yes I have.
#141. To: war (#140)
Links please...
#142. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#141)
Okay, you said that government policies aren't responsible for increased health care costs.
#143. To: A K A Stone (#47)
It is you who wants to recreate marriage into a perverted institution. And it is you that hates the first amendments religious clause.
#144. To: war (#61)
Why do you need a SWAT team? Train your police correctly and you won't need one.
#145. To: sneakypete (#144)
This makes them Storm Troopers,not hostage saviors.
#146. To: Liberator (#71)
#147. To: war (#142)
I said that where?
#148. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#147)
#149. To: Liberator (#91)
Yeah, why Palin and some conservatives insist that wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and "Nation Building" are "protecting" us in ANY sense...I just don't get it.
#150. To: war (#148)
Then you should have no problem providing the quote.
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