Empowerment

Freepers are all abuz. True, some weakly try to blame Kanye's outburst on Obama, but really, they are basking in the joy and solidarity that is a protest. Not so useful in fomenting social change, but it sure is a good time!

Salamander is sure Obama is totally scared:

He’s probably sitting in a dark room somewhere right now, chain smoking, rocking back and forth, sobbing

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*But*...it is...:)

Palladin wishes Obama would come out and address the crowd, or fight him, or something:

Where is the cowardly President?

supremedoctrine seems to have transcended normal paragraphing or capitalization:

A MILLION OR TWO people is hard to ignore, and the Dem Power Elite, with Zero at the top, will only be doing themselves a disservice by pretending, as their spinmeister/strategists were this morning, that it’s entirely normal , and this protest is basically no different from Code Pink’s presence at Anti-Bush/Iraq war rallies. Their tune will have to change a little when the actual numbers are figured out, and then submitted to the
“Dem Strategists” over the next several days. I can’t wait to hear how Bad Bobby Gibbs handles this, but I think there is bound to be official word from the WH itself that will be designed STRICTLY TO ASSUAGE WHAT IS GOING TO BE A GROUNDSWELL THAT IS GOING TO GO ON IN A HUNDRED DIFFERENT WAYS ALL FALL AND WINTER IF NECESSARY. The absolute first order of business, though, should be a concerted effort to make them pay attention by making every effort to replace THEIR majority with OURS in 2010.

Emmett McCarthy is all about the data. The totally anecdotal, biased data:

A friend who is in DC and has lived there for all his 60 some years of life was there and he said it is the single largest demonstration he’s ever seen. Yeah, he was around for the civil rights, anti-war stuff since Vietnam, the million man crap. All of it. This one he was, of course, personally invested in, but he said it was a glorious thing to behold. I want ObaMao to have “stuff” running down his leg. Yeah, bring on your ACORN and SEIU goons and let’s rock ‘n’ roll.

grateful also brings on the Science. Also tears:

Whatever the size of the crowds, from the pictures I’ve seen it far surpassed any expectations I had.

It’s so beautiful... my screen just went blurry.

Judith Anne has her own reality. I'm sure it's nice:

I am quite certain that there were over a million, maybe closer to two.

And I am absolutely certain that no matter how the numbers are spun, or lied about, or fudged, or minimized by the Democraps, they are absolutely all terrified. They know what the real numbers were, and they know what the real numbers mean: it means that their DAYS are numbered.

Anybody who would go to the trouble of getting into that demonstration today is going to be an activist, a voter, and voting against Washington’s disgusting, corrupt, communist manipulation. And for everyone that was there, there were 5 who wanted to be, who couldn’t. And all of us feel the same way. AND WE VOTE!

Windflier answers the question on everyone's lips:

This was The People's day. Sarah knew better than to show up and suck all the air out of it. Love her though we do.

There's plenty time for her to be the center of attention later.