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Obama obviously didnt have 650 events going on all across the nation all at the same time.. Whats the attendance like at the other events, and put them all together..
The old "that's different" excuse! Sarah could only draw 5000 people?
FWIW - The original Tea party was not protesting a tax on Tea but the British government giving the East India Tea Company a monopoly on the trade with the American colonies. That meant that the Yankee shippers could not buy tea in India and ship it home for their own profit. In fact the British Revenue cutters (ships) could seize American vessels for "smuggling" tea into the colonies.
I was not taxation the “patriots†were protesting but government protected trade. Now if the current Tea Party protesters were protesting the credit card companies usurious rates or the bankers paying huge bonuses with government money they would be doing something useful. As they seem to be protesting the government helping the destitute they are doing nothing but expressing their selfishness and hidden racism.
Under the equal protection under the law provision of the Constitution, the government shouldn't be helping destitute people any more or less than billionaires.
Since when did selfishness become a vice. Everyone cares about themselves first., and since when did destitute become a race.
A crowd of up to 1,000 assembled in the early morning sunshine on Boston Common, just across town from Boston Harbor, where the original Tea Party occurred in 1773.
AP's earlier story is below.
A crowd of up to 10,000 was forecast Wednesday for Boston Common, just across town from Boston Harbor, where the original Tea Party occurred in 1773 among colonists upset about British taxation without government representation.
Maybe they are working today to pay for the increasing taxes.
MSNBC did not get that number from the police, as I posted earlier and also on anther thread. The Boston police don't do crowd estimates.
The guy on the ground from MSNBC said the police TOLD him approximately 10,000 attended.
Of course, you'd rather take an AP report instead. What makes the AP report more credible than the LIVE MSNBC report with an "unofficial" count from the police? At first the AP said 1000 and then when it was apparent that number wouldn't pass the smell test, they upped it. The AP, like you, are interested in spinning the number, for some odd reason.
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