Obama’s “Historic” Inaugural Draws Less than One Millon People

That’s still a lot of Village idiots in one place.
I wonder if the crime rates dropped in DC proper for a few hours.

The crime rate should have dropped with all the added security there meant to secure a couple million more people that showed up.

Thank you media, thanks for all the hype for your guy. Because of all the exaggerated numbers they used because they didn’t want to miss a chance to elevate Obama, we pay for 20,000 additional security forces and everything related to their services and who knows what else.

The local media out here in Colorado were using the sat image to say, “pictures don’t lie; it confirms the Obama inauguration drew more people than expected.” Putting a more accurate, low crowd estimate would somehow lessen the “historical impact” and make Obama just another politican.

HMMM. Less than a million people but there was 130 million pounds of trash hauled off when it was over. What does that tell you about the left and their commitment to the environment.

it looks like a bunch of swarming bees, or ants. kinda creepy if you ask me, the libs are pests anyway so the picture is fitting. how could they leave behind that amount of trash? that is rude and disrespectful, i don’t care where you are, if at a friends house or something like this. pick up after yourself. leaving all of this behind is like taking a crap in your own front yard, terrible.

Didn’t look that cold to me Raymond. Nice sunny day by all accounts with temps in the 30’s.

Try again.

Try again nitpicker:

http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KDCA/2009/1/20/DailyHistory.html?req_city=Washington&req_state=DC&req_statename=District+of+Columbia

30’s or 30.

That’s a nit pick.

Ass.

Trish: The tactics which you picked up on are a regular feature here as the apologists and enablers of the left will glom onto any minor point in an effort to distract people from the central message and derail the comment stream into a petty little squabble.

Are we to believe that a million more showed up for the Inauguration but stayed in their hotel rooms that morning because it was cold? It’s beside the point.

C.R.A.P. You mean 800,000 without one arrest.

And are you sure about that?

Have a news link you would like to add? Let’s hope your source is more reliable than the crowd counts.

Stephanie: You obviously didn’t read my bio. I lived on Capitol Hill and worked at the EPA office blocks from the Mall for years. My time in residence gave me a daily view of the goings on at the National Mall. Did YOU, from your perch somewhere out in Maryland have a daily view of the Mall? Personally, I have attended numerous 4th of July, Inaugurals and witnessed various protests on the mall involving crowds in the hundreds of thousands. It’s just possible I have a better perspective than someone who lives where? in Maryland?

And you obviously don’t read the news media as there were multiple reports showing how flawed the District’s count was. You may wish to examine some of the links in this post and issue a retraction of your clearly ignorant statement.

I’m not sure how long you have been a DC area resident but you may also be aware that it isn’t the distrcit’s business to issue “official” crowd counts. That job has traditionally fallen to the National Park Service who stopped doing it after you left wing loons tried to inflate the figures from the Million Man March which also fell far short of predicitions.

It’s also noteworthy to point out that the DC Mayor was among those hyping crowd predictions as high as 4 million. Of course the higher the crowd the more money he would get from the Federal government to help with the event. Is it any surprise he’s trying to inflate that number???

Did you ever stop to think about that Stephanie? No.

It’s clear that initial reports in the media, including the one you cite, were WRONG. And all you have to do is look at the picture Stephanie.

Kool Aid Obama Kooks may lie but photographs do not!

@Real American Patriot:

Trash cans were removed for “security” reason.

hard to throw stuff away then isn’t it?

If there was an absence of trash cans then they should have done the decent thing and simply carry the trash away with them.

Did they not have pockets?

However, I am not quite so gullible as to believe that all of the trash cans were removed prior to the Immaculate Inauguration of TelePromTer Jesus.

In either case, I would have filled my pockets or perhaps brought a plastic bag with me rather than do what this bunch did. Of course, I always practice personal responsibility and have taught my children to do the same.

As to the extraneous issue of the lack of arrests, that just goes to show that the loyal opposition on our side can behave appropriately in public or protest as necessary without ending up in a jail cell.

Too bad your side is unable to do the same.

Dear Mike,
I”ll “respond” at a later date (more important things-family, life, work, etc), but I’ll leave this response in your style:

“Gee, Mike ought to be required to take his Midol before he responds.”

or
“You could have save some the trouble and just paraphrase Dan Aykroyd:
‘Stephanie, you ignorant slut.’”