Midknight Review -- new and revised: First Reports of the days so-called "One Nation" rally in D.C. It went exactly as we thought it might. UPDATE: 200,000 may be in attendance.

Update: photo and crowd size. Understand that we know how many folks fill the lanes on each side of the reflecting pool -- 200,000. We know this because this was the official count of the Martin Luther King "I have a dream" speech. We have seen photo's in addition to this one. Based on these picture and especially the one to left, it appears to us that there was somewhere between 150,000 and 200,000 folks fathered at this event. -- yikes !! Talk about the mother of all typos !! We meant to write "200,000 gathered" but maybe the typo is correct in view of the belief that those attending today's event were old hypies and free love types. No ??

Here is how the AP reported the gathering in D.C. - one that was hoped to rally the 8/28 rally of conservative patriots from throughout the nation:

WASHINGTON (AP) - Thousands of people flocked to the Lincoln Memorial for a rally Saturday organized by labor and civil rights groups, hoping to show support for the Democratic agenda in the face of expected GOP election gains next month. More than 400 organizations, including faith, environmental and gay rights groups, sponsored the "One Nation Working Together" demonstration on the same end of the National Mall where a month ago tea party activists met to hear conservative commentator Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin.

"Thousands" they say without telling us how many thousands. "400 organizations" they say, when CNN just reported (noonday news cast) "dozens of organizations." We can find no areal or exalted views of the crowd.
CNN showed one view from the Lincoln Memorial looking to the Washington Monument and it appeared to this editor as if there may have been 60,000 to 100,000 . . . . a good sized crowd, to be sure but compared to 8/28, a rather small gathering.

Understand that the 700,000 to 800,000 in attendance for the Honoring America rally rented their own buses and drove thousands of miles to make the event. No union money. No union buses. No corporate financing. No political signs. No Socialists for America. Just a bunch of people in love with their country and willing to make individual sacrifices in attending an event that sent a message to the nation that "times, they are achanging."

We will update with a definitive picture, if the Progressive media ever gets around to publishing one.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

First Reports of the days so-called "One Nation" rally in D.C. It went exactly as we thought it might. UPDATE: 200,000 may be in attendance.

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