This happened at Jack Kingston's Health Care Town Hall, Valdosta, GA, 28 Sep 2009:
To Kingston's credit, he shushes the crowd.
The speaker was George Rhynes, who is one of the organizers of a rally tomorrow, Saturday 17 October 2009, on the Lowndes County courthouse steps, Valdosta, Georgia. Invitations on
Democrats.org and Facebook.com.
I have plenty of bones to pick with Obama (FISAA, Iraq, Afghanistan, gitmo, ...). You can probably think of plenty I forgot to mention (DOMA, Don't Ask Don't Tell, TARP, ...).
But at least he's trying to do something about health care, the economy, energy, and a very long list of other problems and opportunities. It's like Michael Moore said:
We are weary, weary of war. The trillions that will have gone to these two wars have helped to bankrupt us as a nation -- financially and morally. To think of all the good we could have done with all that money! Two months of the War in Iraq would pay for all the wells that need to be dug in the Third World for drinking water! Obama is moving too slow for most of us -- but he needs to know we are with him and we stand beside him as he attempts to turn eight years of sheer madness around. Who could do that in nine months? Superman? Thor? Mitch McConnell?
Instead of waiting to see what the president is going to do, we all need to be pro-active and push the agenda that we want to see enacted. What keeps us from forming the same local groups we put together to get out the vote last November? C'mon! We're the majority now -- the majority by a significant margin! We call the shots -- and we need to tell this wimpy Congress to get busy and do what we say -- or else.
All I ask of those who voted for Obama is to not pile on him too quickly. Yes, make your voice heard (his phone number is 202-456-1414). But don't abandon the best hope we've had in our lifetime for change.
Besides, where I live I had at least half a dozen Obama yard sign stolen. Standing up and saying you support president Obama is a progressive political act hereabouts. And probably in lots of other places, like MN-06, Alassska, New Hampshire, Maine, and about half of California.
So I'll be there, noon to 2PM tomorrow, on the courthouse steps.
Y'all come!