The Littlest Tea Party Mega-Rally: TPM's Day At The 9/12 March
For the most part, the day was gray, wet and overcast. Though the threat was there, serious precipitation never came. That's not how the several thousand tea partiers gathered in DC for the second 9/12 rally today would describe things, though -- according to them, a hard rain fell on President Obama and his socialist cronies.
In many ways, the rally was a lot like last year's 9/12. A virtually all-white crowd cheered as speaker after speaker -- many of them not white -- spoke early and often about how not-racist everyone in attendance was. None of the crowd members I talked to would say that Obama was either Christian or a U.S. citizen (the best I got was "only God knows what's in his heart," from a nice woman from Ohio). Taxes were pilloried, the Constitution heralded, and God repeatedly placed firmly on the conservative side of the political spectrum by speakers and audience members alike.
Oh and, yes, there were the signs. Signs trumpeting Second Amendment remedies and questioning Obama's faith, citizenship, political leanings and, uh, Reaganness.
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