Hissyspit's "Sanity And/Or Fear" Rally PHOTO Thread (Home-made, Eyewitness, First-Person & All!!!)

[Hissyspit]

Sane or fearful... You decide.

It wild here. I swear there are as many people as the Inauguration. As in the One Nation thread, all photos taken on iPhone 4.
Enjoy.

[gateley]

1. I love you Hissyspit!

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[MadMaddie]

58. Fantastic!

My favorite

Down with Signs that are too hard too read....bwha..haw..haw...Brilliant!

[Hissyspit]

94. MORE HERE:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9426010

[Tatiana]

2. Amazing pics! Thank you so much for sharing! n/t

[RoseMead]

3. Awesome!

Thanks! :yourock:

[dmr]

4. Awesome pics!

Thanks for posting this!

Have fun!
:hi:

[seabeyond]

5. sons and i love your thread. appreciate much. nt

[Phentex]

6. THANK YOU!

:yourock:

[Iris]

7. These are fabulous!

I feel better today! Thanks!

[OneGrassRoot]

8. Woohoo!!!!

Awesome!!!

:hi:

[elleng]

9. BRAVO! THANKS

[bermudat]

10. I am so envious. Laughing out loud at many of the signs.

No matter, the evening news on abc, nbc and cbs will state
'several thousand' Americans attended, low balling the actual numbers.
I still remember attending an anti-war rally that must have had
half a million folks. That evening, Brian Williams stated
'a couple of thousand' people attended. What a tool.

[PatrynXX]

87. Holy Crap My Arms Are Tired!

Yeah thats what happened in class when ones hand is up too long. then you gotta lean it on your head etc

[bleever]

11. I see Jonathon Alter and Medea Benjamin.

Beautiful pictures. You have a good eye.

[Demoiselle]

59. Yes! I thought that was Jonathan Alter! (Pic 4) Thank you thank you Hissyspit.

(Not for Jonathan Alter....for all the great eyewitness pics.)

[LSK]

12. K&R

This is awesome!

[Turborama]

13. K&R Wonderful stuff, thanks so much for sharing, man.

I'm reeeally jealous now.

I love those signs (nice to see some intentionally funny ones for a change) and it looks like a really cool crowd.

:kick:

[NV Whino]

14. Surely somewhere in there

there must be a misspelled sign. I mean law of averages and all.

Great pics! Thanks for posting.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

15. Hissy, you're the best! Thank you. :)

:loveya: :yourock:

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. Almost like being there myself. Thanks!

[Grassy Knoll]

17. Fantastic pictures......

The Teabagger clown was perfect.

[blaze]

18. Holy Crap!!! My arms are tired!

LOL!!! :rofl:

Thanks for all the great pics!!!

[malaise]

19. These are fabulous

Thanks

Rec

[dixiegrrrrl]

20. Bless you dearest Hissyspit for helping me "be there".

Some wonderful signs.

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

Are ya having a good time?

How big is the crowd?

[madfloridian]

21. Wonderful pictures!!

[renate]

22. oh, what a TREAT!

So fun! Thank you so much!

[Hissyspit]

23. More to come. nt

[uppityperson]

24. Thank you for all the signs, what a funny group of mockingness

[xiamiam]

25. thank you..these are fun..nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

26. K & R

[livetohike]

27. Thank you Hissyspit!

Great pictures - it's almost like being there :-).

[Dappleganger]

28. Sweet pics!

It means a lot as we just took the fam there this year to do the DC thing again so it's all quite fresh. Looks like a beautiful day to be a reasonable person!

[progressoid]

29. K/R!!11!

[jillan]

30. LOVE the bed bugs for fear! Thanks for posting these!!

[live love laugh]

57. Me too. Brilliant! nt

[Buns_of_Fire]

31. Great pictures! It made me feel like I was there.

It's like Woodstock for all the people whose parents wouldn't let them go to Woodstock.

:thumbsup:

[mzmolly]

32. Great

stuff. Thanks for sharing HissySpit. :hi:

[Adsos Letter]

33. Thankyou!

and bless you, Hissyspit, it looks like it was cold out there!

[pinboy3niner]

34. WOW! Love your pics, Hissyspit!

Took me a while to get to the thread because I was doing some GOTV calls for Boxer and Brown in CA (I felt guilty for spending time watching the Stewart/Colbert rally, so I had to atone for that, lol).

Thanks for your ground-level view of the ralliers. :toast:

K&R

(ETA: Rec # 90)

[Solly Mack]

35. Those are great!

Thank you!!!

[Bozita]

36. Outstanding pics! ... Thank you.

[Reader Rabbit]

37. What was the story behind the bananas?

They looked happy, but I couldn't read their signs.

[indimuse]

38. WOW!

Thank you~

KNR!

[saltpoint]

39. LOL.

Superb stuff.

:thumbsup:

[DirkGently]

40. Excellent.

[tomm2thumbs]

41. 100th rec and climbing fast!

thanks for posting (& taking) all those pics

[eppur_se_muova]

42. Ummmm ... is that *you* in the 2nd pic?

All I can say is ... oh, myyyyyyyyy. :)

[Hissyspit]

91. No. Am guy.

Thought she was cute, too.

[Odin2005]

106. I want her name and phone #!

:loveya:

[eppur_se_muova]

108. Dang, it's so much trouble to check those profiles! :^D

:blush:

[AnnieBW]

43. Fantastic!

The best sign was "Holy crap, my arms are tired!" :D

[lyonn]

44. Thanks so much for pics!

Watched it on c-span but missed the sign my husband saw that said "Tea parties are for little girls with imaginary friends". Good one, never got to see it even tho I watched the whole thing. So far there is no talk of the rally on CNN, ugh...... polling news, not the rally.

[DainBramaged]

45. Can't WAIT to see the CSPAN replay tonight, THANK YOU!!!

[KoKo]

46. Thanks "Hissy" and for the alert...! Great Pix all...but this one

"The Pix of the DRONE)...Billboard...showing the Smithsonian's latest is really is a contrast to the whole rally. Very cool you putting that one in there. I feel sad that this is what Smithsonian has come to... I assume this is from the "Air & Space Museum" so...I guess it fits...but I, and many others see these Drones as agents of Death by kids doing war games in their P.J.'s somewhere.......and the disconnect between the Death and Damage and someone hitting a computer keyboard to cause it..(removed by thousands of miles) is mind blowing.

[stevedeshazer]

47. Thanks!!

I love those pics.

+1

[BlancheSplanchnik]

48. Oh Hissyspit, these are so damn GREAT! Liberals sure are funny and creative

and smart! And nice! And non=violent!



WOW, I'm smiling from ear to hear!

Thank you so MUCH -- boy do I wish I could have been there!

:7 :7 :7 :7 :7 :7

[Lorien]

49. Love the pumpkins and the bedbugs! nt

[Iwillnevergiveup]

50. Great shots, Hissy

Hope you had a good time and that you can sleep in tomorrow!

K&R

[Hekate]

51. Thank you Hissy! I wish I could be there!

:bounce:

[Historic NY]

Nice pictures , who let the bedbugs in? LOL

[Historic NY]

52. Nice pictures , who let the bedbugs in? LOL

[FailureToCommunicate]

53. Great photos Hissyspit! And taken with a cell phone?!?

WoW, I suddenly feel old fashioned, with my expensive single lens reflex (but digital) Canon.

(I know, I know, 'it's not the camera but the skill of the photographer')

Thanks for posting these!

[MrMickeysMom]

54. It was just like being there, Hissyspit... THANKS!

You've portrayed what I had hoped this day would be!

:hug:

[a2liberal]

55. Yay, a Sikh (pic 18)! n/t

[Lucian]

56. Wow! And the signs all have correct spelling!

:wow:

[tigereye]

60. oh, so funny! Thanks for all the great pix, from those of us who couldnt be

there! :yourock:

Looks like a great day!

[Alameda]

61. Fabulous! Many thanks....love those pumpkins!

[slay]

62. Thnx for sharing the pics!

Nice that at least CSPAN of all channels covered the whole thing. :hug:

[blondeatlast]

63. My third cousing (I swear it's her) is holding the Kansas sign!

Her mom and my older sister are spitting images of each other; I'm almost certain that's her.

[KoKo]

64. Hissy doin gthe PHOTO OP that MSM will do but their photos deleted by Editors and PTB!

Reporter on the ground for US.. What a new thought...ain't it.??

[davidwparker]

65. K&R

Thanks for posting these.

[Mad_Dem_X]

66. Such great signs! n/t

[glitch]

67. Like being there, thank you! nt

[lightningandsnow]

68. Amazing!

[laughingliberal]

69. Great pics! nt

[Bluenorthwest]

70. Oh thanks for posting these!

I soooo wanted to be there, and this is the bite of the crowd that I longed for this morning. People clearly had fun, the Twain sign, very great.
That "Kansas Apologies for Fred Phelps" banner made my day. I accept, Kansas, and never really held him and Sam against you anyway!

[nmbluesky]

71. Kansas

I like that a old with white bread... He's awesome!!!

[intheflow]

72. Wonderful photos, Hissyspit!

I wish I could have been there with you, with my camera. though your photos make me feel Like I was there. :hug: Thanks for helping to get the word out, Friend! :hi:

My favorite, btw, was "Bedbugs for Fear"! :rofl:

[denbot]

73. Amazing pictures Hissyspit

Thank you so very much.

[laylah]

74. Thank you SO much Hissyspit!

I was off from work at 4p CST...watched all the vids. I was there in spirit. Thank you for the pictures :yourock:

:hug:

jenn

[Kajsa]

75. Thank you, Hissyspit!

The photos are GREAT!

Most of the signs here are
the best ever and very original!!

I wish I could have been there.

A big

:kick: and R from me.

:)

[MindandSoul]

76. These are great, thanks! I only have one question: Were these pictures taken early?

I was there at 10 am, and from then on, it became so crowded that we were shoulder to shoulder about 75 feet behind the last big screen! Couldn't even bend over or sit on the ground. . .just enough room shoulders to shoulders!
In fact, the only pictures I could take were by raising my arms straight above my head and shooting in the crowd!!!
It was sooooo great though!

[Hissyspit]

89. Yes, all before 12 noon. After posting this I went back to get more and was astonished at how large

the crowd had grown. Will post these later ones Sunday in Part 2.

[MindandSoul]

104. Thanks, looking forward to seeing more!

[blue sky at night]

77. a truly well rounded group of photos....

and an awesome event...looks like a real winner!!!

[applegrove]

78. I was number 200 to rec this post. Great job of documenting the great event.

[madmax]

79. Bravo, Bravo Hissy - hey neighbor

I live in NC next time their is a rally or something we need to attend in DC can I bum a ride if you have an extra spot. I'll pay all the expenses. Keep me in mind, pweez ;)

Your pics are awesome! Thanks for all the work you do for us on DU. We all appreciate it. :grouphug:

[dflprincess]

80. Thank you! I loved your pictures

but could someone explain to me why some people feel the need to drag their dogs to events like this? I can't believe the dog really enjoys it all that much.

[donheld]

81. +1

[snappyturtle]

82. Thanks so much.....wish I could have been there....your pictures

almost make me feel like I was! K&R

[awoke_in_2003]

83. not only "the rent is too damned high"...

but "disco always sucked". I have to agree on both.

[Overseas]

84. Beautiful! Thank you! //nt

[CLANG]

85. K&R for the Hissmeister!

[Lorien]

86. More great signs and pics from the rally from my friend Scott:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ableman/sets/72157625277348376/show/

[Hissyspit]

90. Ha! Did not see the 'Jump rope with a Muslim!'

[gtar100]

88. Priceless!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

[tabatha]

92. Overriding sense of thought.

That is what these pictures convey.
Their thoughts are not dimmed by hatred or fear, but free to go down myriads of paths.
What an awesome event.

T H A N K S for the photos - you did really good.

[proteus_lives]

93. I would like to get digits from the pretty redhead with the specs.

Nice pics!

[Hissyspit]

95. More Here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9426010

[marketbreakaway]

96. Thank You from a Blue Dog

Not an uber liberal here but still a democrat and the pics were wonderful. Sort of feel like I was there. THANK YOU Hissyspit!

[druidqueen]

97. WOW!!

My husband & I watched it live yesterday......(Couldn't go...my husband has lung cancer)but we LOVED IT!! Love the pix...looks like a great cross-section of folks...My husband look at the crowd & said there were more people present than at the Million Man March years ago....(but of course the MSM will say a "few thousand" showed up.....

BTW my husband will be 71 on Wednesday & I'm 63.:yourock: :yourock: :yourock:

[BrklynLiberal]

98. WOWOWOWOWOWOW! Great pics. Loved the doggy shots.

So many creative and intelligent people!! Looking forward to Part II of your thread!!

Thank you.

[BlueState]

99. Absolutely wonderful!

For those of us who couldn't be there - thanks for posting.

[ooglymoogly]

100. You deserve an award. These pictures alone

juxtaposed against the folks at Beck's Rally to restore Horror should make voters think twice about casting a vote for hate.

[lonestarnot]

101. I particularly like the bedbugs for fear!

:toast: Thanks Hissy! :applause:

[WillyT]

102. Awesome Job Hissy, Absolutely Awesome !!!

:bounce::woohoo::bounce:

:yourock:

:kick:

:hi:

[Amaril]

103. Thanks so much for posting these, Hissy!

I was supposed to go, but had to cancel due to a work situation. I watched the rally live yesterday on CSPAN, but these photos actually made me feel like I was there.

I love Democrats/Progressives/Liberals! :loveya: So much funner, cuter, smarter, creativer and all around awesomer than the (ahem!).

[Odin2005]

105. LOL at the wheelchair lady "I still function better than Congress"!

:rofl: :D :woohoo: :party: :loveya:

[Inchworm]

107. Most awesome!

I want to marry this lady :evilgrin:



:rofl: