Sunday, September 14, 2008

Anchorage Alaska Has Something to say...



Anchorage Alaska Has Something to say...

"This was the biggest political rally ever, in the history of the state. I was absolutely stunned. The second most amazing thing is how many people honked and gave the thumbs up as they drove by. And even those that didn’t honk looked wide-eyed and awe-struck at the huge crowd that was growing by the minute. This just doesn’t happen here.
~ Progressive Alaska



Then, the infamous Eddie Burke showed up. He tried to talk to the media, and was instantly surrounded by a group of 20 people who started shouting O-BA-MA so loud he couldn’t be heard. Then passing cars started honking in a rhythmic pattern of 3, like the Obama chant, while the crowd cheered, hooted and waved their signs high."
~Alaska Real



Mudflats writes:
o, as I jettisoned myself from the jaws of the ‘Drill Baby Drill’ crowd and toward the mystery rally at the library, I felt a bit apprehensive. I’d been disappointed before by the turnout at other rallies. Basically, in Anchorage, if you can get 25 people to show up at an event, it’s a success. So, I thought to myself, if we can actually get 100 people there that aren’t sent by Eddie Burke, we’ll be doing good. A real statement will have been made. I confess, I still had a mental image of 15 demonstrators surrounded by hundreds of menacing “socialist baby-killing maggot” haters.

It’s a good thing I wasn’t tailgating when I saw the crowd in front of the library or I would have ended up in somebody’s trunk. When I got there, about 20 minutes early, the line of sign wavers stretched the full length of the library grounds, along the edge of the road, 6 or 7 people deep! I could hardly find a place to park. I nabbed one of the last spots in the library lot, and as I got out of the car and started walking, people seemed to join in from every direction, carrying signs.

Never, have I seen anything like it in my 17 and a half years living in Anchorage. The organizers had someone walk the rally with a counter, and they clicked off well over 1400 people (not including the 90 counter-demonstrators). This was the biggest political rally ever, in the history of the state. I was absolutely stunned. The second most amazing thing is how many people honked and gave the thumbs up as they drove by. And even those that didn’t honk looked wide-eyed and awe-struck at the huge crowd that was growing by the minute. This just doesn’t happen here.


Mudflats blog


Progressive Alaska Blog

Alaska Real blog
*Hat tip to Enigma @ Watergate Summer for posting links to these blogs

3 comments:

enigma4ever said...

thanks for giving them the attention they really deserve- it was really amazing...I am so proud of them...that took real guts and courage....

pretty amazing eh...

Fran said...

I was so happy to hear Alaska had such a great turn out for an anti Palin rally (while she was in town no less). The signs were very creative. She did not do well in her Gibson interview, and lots of people realized, when it came down to knowing facts, and answering tough questions, she failed.
Palin does not make it far beyond sound bites, and I suspect they will be limiting her interviews because she needs to take a crash course in Executive Branch & Foreign Affairs knowledge.
Meanwhile the bank failures & hurricane disaster relief disaster is can only help the Dems, as the current regime is demonstrating
& reminding us of how inept they are.

Christopher said...

I got ahold of McCandy's email account.

Let's send her some 'love.'

Sarah Palin: gov.palin@yahoo.com