US religious right march on DC...unbeleivable video

[RDMcG]

You could not write this stuff.......there is something deeply,gravely wrong in the US.....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUPMjC9mq5Y&fea...

[Marf]

The guy with the cross at the beginning "Oh I didn't even know this was going on!", right, so you often just walk through Washington with a cross on your back?

[TheD]

I can never get my head round some Americans. I don't believe for a minute all Americans think this way but how come it is always middle of the road whites than seem thick as st.

[s2art]

TheD said:

I can never get my head round some Americans. I don't believe for a minute all Americans think this way but how come it is always middle of the road whites than seem thick as st.

I am pretty sure the Yanks could film some apparently middle of the road whites over here with similar characteristics. But they would be protesting climate change or something instead.

[Muntu]

Painting them all as the "US religious right" in the title is vastly misleading.

They are just fed up with Barry's (not so) creeping socialism

[Marf]

Muntu said:

They are just fed up with Barry's (not so) creeping socialism

Are you sure about that? Most of them couldnt even illustrate their feelings beyond the slogans they were carrying.

Seemed like alot of emotionally based objections rather than anything logical and concrete.

Though I agree its probably wrong to paint them all as the religious right.

Edited by Marf on Wednesday 16th September 19:13

[KANEIT]

I can understand if they have concerns about the potential cost, efficiency and wastage of a new healthcare system.

I cannot understand the fixation with the word 'Czar' or how Barack Obama's name could be interpreted as the antichrist nor what his religion has to do with the proposed healthcare system.

Crazy fkers!

P.S I loved the placard 'I (nearly) miss Bill Clinton'.

[jetskidia]

The march was nothing to do with religion?

[Muntu]

Marf said:

Muntu said:

They are just fed up with Barry's (not so) creeping socialism

Are you sure about that? Most of them couldnt even illustrate their feelings beyond the slogans they were carrying.

Seemed like alot of emotionally based objections rather than anything logical and concrete.

Though I agree its probably wrong to paint them all as the religious right.

Edited by Marf on Wednesday 16th September 19:13

Yup, I have seen a fair bit of rational and well thought out argument against obamacare, and I have to say that I agreed with the vast majority of it.

It is a shame that our political system over here isnt a bit closer to the current US system in terms of ceding power upwards rather than the other way around, I am sure we would be much better for it.

[Marf]

Muntu said:

Marf said:

Are you sure about that? Most of them couldnt even illustrate their feelings beyond the slogans they were carrying.

Yup, I have seen a fair bit of rational and well thought out argument against obamacare, and I have to say that I agreed with the vast majority of it. .

Do you have any links to hand? Most of the stuff I find is much like this video, people frothing at the mouth and not really saying much about anything.

[Muntu]

Marf said:

Muntu said:

Marf said:

Are you sure about that? Most of them couldnt even illustrate their feelings beyond the slogans they were carrying.

Yup, I have seen a fair bit of rational and well thought out argument against obamacare, and I have to say that I agreed with the vast majority of it. .

Do you have any links to hand? Most of the stuff I find is much like this video, people frothing at the mouth and not really saying much about anything.

Victor Davis Hanson (amongst others) talks a lot of sense, I have been reading his stuff for a few years now. Charles Krauthamer (sp) also talks sense a lot of the time

http://victorhanson.com/articles/hanson082909.html

[Marf]

Muntu said:

Marf said:

Muntu said:

Marf said:

Are you sure about that? Most of them couldnt even illustrate their feelings beyond the slogans they were carrying.

Yup, I have seen a fair bit of rational and well thought out argument against obamacare, and I have to say that I agreed with the vast majority of it. .

Do you have any links to hand? Most of the stuff I find is much like this video, people frothing at the mouth and not really saying much about anything.

Victor Davis Hanson (amongst others) talks a lot of sense, I have been reading his stuff for a few years now. Charles Krauthamer (sp) also talks sense a lot of the time

http://victorhanson.com/articles/hanson082909.html

Thanks, I'll do some reading.

[Muntu]

Marf said:

Thanks, I'll do some reading.

Cool ;-)

Mark Steyn also belts out one or two good articles a week, despite being Canadian

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/health-obama-go...

[eddharris]

Muntu said:

Painting them all as the "US religious right" in the title is vastly misleading.

They are just fed up with Barry's (not so) creeping socialism

Clearly there was a tiny minority of infiltrators within the ranks of the US religious right. Not representative at all

Edited by eddharris on Wednesday 16th September 21:03

[Muntu]

eddharris said:

Clearly there was a tiny minority of infiltrators within the ranks of the US religious right. Not representative at all

Very Good!

[eddharris]

Muntu said:

eddharris said:

Clearly there was a tiny minority of infiltrators within the ranks of the US religious right. Not representative at all

Very Good!

Thanks, I do try.

[The Hypno-Toad]

I've got to say that anything posted by a group calling themselves New Left Media is probably guilty of selective editing and the interviewer is a pompous ass buttt.....

There are a couple of things on that video that would make me very worried if I was an American.
Firstly if you look at that video they all seem to be white and secondly they all seem to be massive fans of that insidious little prick Glenn Beck. Its not going to be much of a jump to a fascist redneck idiot with a smoking gun outside an Acorn office saying "Glenn told me to do it,"
I'm no fan of what Obama has done so far in America and I think that spending huge sums on setting up a health care system is not the best thing to do in the middle of a recession but some of the stuff FoxNews is drumming up is very dangerous.

[Marf]

The Hypno-Toad said:

jump to a fascist redneck idiot with a smoking gun outside an Acorn office saying "Glenn told me to do it,"

Probably the guy holding the "Unarmed, this time" sign.

[Mojocvh]

LOL talk about a set up!!

[drivin_me_nuts]

Well, that was special.

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