High-Tailing It Out of Town

By Robert Ringer

Never say never. What’s this world coming to when Robert Ringer shows up at a protest rally? I’ve always believed that most, if not all, crusades are a waste of time. But Saturday’s cozy little get together in Washington, D.C. wasn’t a crusade. It was a revolution.

What’s the difference? A crusade attempts to mold people’s thinking. A revolution pushes back against the forces of tyranny.

I don’t care much for crowds or inconvenience, but I knew for a long time that I had to go to the 9/12 protest rally. I can’t explain it … it was like a calling … an invisible voice telling me that I had to be there. Rain was expected, and it’s not like me to willingly subject myself to a physically uncomfortable situation. But I went anyway.

And guess what? The weather turned out to be perfect — mid seventies, overcast, and no rain. I’m tempted to say that the weather was ordered to perfection from above.

My urge to attend the rally was only heightened by BHO’s arrogant, belligerent, totally dishonest speech to Congress Wednesday night. His tone and body language was like that of a trapped villain in a bad B movie. He appeared to be a man who was losing control — angry, threatening, tossing out one factually incorrect statement after another. It was as though he didn’t know how to cope with the fact that more and more people who were McCained into voting for him were now saying, “Whoa, pal! Enough is enough!”

What I wanted most out of Saturday’s rally was to be able to mingle among the people and get an idea of who they were and what was on their minds. I hate to sound trite, but they really were everyday folks — people you see at shopping malls, PTA meetings, or just walking down the street — young, old, and in between. They were angry, to be sure, but polite and civil almost to a fault.

I was amazed at how many great speeches were given by individuals who were blue-collar workers, house moms, and small businesspeople. A coal miner, in fact, gave a speech from the heart that would have put the King of Teleprompters to shame, taking umbrage with the president’s threat to bankrupt coal-mining plants. It was a real high to see a guy wearing a hard hat espousing the merits of capitalism.

Three of the best speeches came from blacks — you know, those despicable sell-outs who have dared to, in the (paraphrased) words of Star Parker, escape from Uncle Sam’s welfare plantation. One black woman (whose name I did not catch) said she was “outraged at black politicians’ affinity for socialism.” She suggested that people “look at the black ghettos and see what government has done.”

It reminded me of the words of the famous former slave Frederick Douglass, an advisor to President Lincoln, who said, “Everybody has asked the question … ‘What shall we do with the Negro?’ I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! … All I ask is, give [the Negro] a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!”

Had he lived in our time, Douglass undoubtedly would have been reviled by today’s progressives. There’s nothing that upsets a progressive more than an uppity black conservative who believes that blacks should be left alone to succeed or fail on their own merits.

How many people were at the rally? It’s hard to say, but I can tell you this: Standing near the front of the crowd on the west lawn of the Capitol Building, I turned around a number of times and looked back. As far as my eye could see, the streets were jammed with people. At a minimum, the figure would certainly be in the hundreds of thousands.

And where was BHO? Conveniently, he had high-tailed it out of town and was in Minnesota giving another belligerent speech to a crowd of his supporters. If he was the Obama whom people thought he was when they voted for him, he would have been on the west lawn of the Capitol Building, listening to the concerns of citizens who don’t want his deathcare program — or anything else that he is intent on giving them — which would be paid for with their children’s and grandchildren’s money.

Now, the big question is, how many people will show up at the next rally — after several more months of in-your-face Obama speeches? This is a test of wills. BHO’s words and actions make it clear that he intends to succeed at forcing Americans to look to him for all their needs. It remains to be seen if Americans will have the will to resist — in ever-increasing numbers.

Bottom line: 9/12 was a great and historic day for America … but, unfortunately, far more needs to be done. The next time around, I would like to see millions of people jamming every street in downtown D.C. and throwing fear into the hearts of the BHO-Axelrod-Emanuel-Pelosi-Reid-SEIU-ACORN criminal co-op. Rest assured that their feigned indifference to these rallies masks a deep concern that time is running out for them.

P.S. A special tribute to one of our great American heroes — former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, chairman of www.FreedomWorks.com — who played such a major role in making the 9/12 Washington event happen. Would that all Republicans had his knowledge and wisdom — and, even more important, his character. Leader Armey and FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe don’t just talk about freedom. They demonstrate their commitment to it through their actions.

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