Nice Photo Set of Tea Party - See for yourself

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lawgator1 said:
How do you know the ones they posted -- and which you in turn posted here -- are representative? And, I am not sure there really is such a thing as "representative" of the sentiments of 60,000 people, anyway.
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The mere volume of the people represented in the continual photo set I posted indicates it is more representative then your posting of individual signs.
 
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volinbham said:
The mere volume of the people represented in the continual photo set I posted indicates it is more representative then your posting of individual signs.
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"More" is relative and if your photos have more people, you are right. But, that doesn't mean that there aren't some seriously over-the-top types in their midst. I think we both know there are.


MG1968 said:
there was also a helluva lot more than 60 thousand people there.
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Only if you include the fictional people that Rush Limbaugh counted. You know, I bet I know what happened with that. See, Rush made a simple mistake as he counted. Instead of saying "59,998, 59,999, and 60,000," he accidentally said "55,998, 55,999, 2 million." Happens all the time.
 
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lawgator1 said:
I'd have been in pretty big trouble because I really enjoy iced tea. Unsweet, of course. (Which incidentally is a pet peeve of mine -- McDonald's drive thru workers have some sort of mental block about sweet versus unsweet. They have a 50-50 shot just by pure chance. Yet I'd say they get it right, at most, 25 pct of the time. Basterds.)






How do you know the ones they posted -- and which you in turn posted here -- are representative? And, I am not sure there really is such a thing as "representative" of the sentiments of 60,000 people, anyway.

And, no one has any problem whatsoever with the 57,000 people who showed up to protest big government and deficits. Its the 3,000 people who were there (I am making that number up) and carrying signs with racist undertones (or overtones), threatening to arm themselves and come back if they don't get their way, and the like. The handful of them who walked around that place thinking what a hero they'd be to the other 60,000 if they off'd POTUS is what is worrisome.
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So it worries you now? Why weren't you so torn up and bothered when the same type of signs were directed at Bush?

The difference between you and I is I see them for what they are.....the 99.999999% harmless lunatic fringe they are, no matter the party or person they despise.
 
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volinbham said:
The mere volume of the people represented in the continual photo set I posted indicates it is more representative then your posting of individual signs.
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Don't try using logic, it doesn't support his claims so it can't be correct.
 
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lawgator1 said:
"More" is relative and if your photos have more people, you are right. But, that doesn't mean that there aren't some seriously over-the-top types in their midst. I think we both know there are.
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There weren't as many seriously over-the-top types in their midst, as there were seriously over-the-top liberals in the midst of the anti-war protests.
 
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KB5252 said:
So it worries you now? Why weren't you so torn up and bothered when the same type of signs were directed at Bush?

The difference between you and I is I see them for what they are.....the 99.999999% harmless lunatic fringe they are, no matter the party or person they despise.
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My sense is that the number on the edge of reason with regard to Obama is much, much larger than the number with regard to Bush.

Now, that could be because the airwaves are drowning in some very harsh rhetoric from allegedly mainstream but conservative folks, such as Beck or Hannity. So, it may just seem like its more prevalent now than then.

On the other hand, there is I think a growing sense that it is that very rhetoric which could be the thing that sends one of them over the edge.



SavageOrangeJug said:
There weren't as many seriously over-the-top types in their midst, as there were seriously over-the-top liberals in the midst of the anti-war protests.
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See above. I just think you are wrong on that. We'll never know, though.
 
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lawgator1 said:
"More" is relative and if your photos have more people, you are right. But, that doesn't mean that there aren't some seriously over-the-top types in their midst. I think we both know there are.
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Funny... the first thing that popped into my mind when I read this response of more being relative and if there were more people (as if that is really in question) was Bill Clinton's infamous "it depends on what the meaning of the word is is..."

However, I certainly agree there are some over-the-top types in any crowd.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
It's another twist on the Joe Sixer argument and, as you say, very well spot on.
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As I said, I do not expect to persuade any of you. But when he posts photos he says are representative -- and that's debatable -- I'll point it out.
 
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