Contributed by: filbert Saturday, September 12 2009 @ 11:45 AM CST
That was the word on the street on the attendance at the 9/12 rally in Washington. I understand that “official” estimates are 60,000. That’s laughable. I know what 60,000 people looks like.
600,000, I would believe. Not 60,000. Way, way more people than that.
I’ll have pictures, later.
Yes, I’m on the ground in D.C. (Actually, at this moment, 11 floors up in my hotel room.)
UPDATE: That was the happiest “angry mob” i’ve ever seen. The main difference I could see between the hordes of people in front of the Capitol and the 535 politicians who work inside that building is that most of the hordes seem to have actually read the Constitution. Oh, one other difference. The hordes didn’t want to extort money from me, or from you for that matter.