“It holds 3,000 and frankly only 2,000 to 2,500 showed up.”
Martha Coakley and Barack Obama held a rally today in Boston.
They couldn’t fill the hall at a university.
Carl Cameron is at the hall in Boston and said that Coakley and Obama couldn’t fill it up.
Meanwhile… Scott Brown didn’t have the problem across town.
It’s a mob scene:
It is standing room only and the hall management is concerned about OVERcrowding.
January 17th, 2010 | 2:53 pm | #1
Ya gotta love it!
January 17th, 2010 | 2:58 pm | #2
[...] with the Anointed One in the hall, they couldn’t fill it. Compare that to Scott Brown’s SRO rally [...]
January 17th, 2010 | 2:58 pm | #3
You gotta get us a link for that!
January 17th, 2010 | 3:00 pm | #4
[...] Gateway Pundit mentions that the Martha Coakley / Obama rally Boston couldn’t even fill the hall to [...]
January 17th, 2010 | 3:03 pm | #5
Sen. Harry Reid said that Democratic candidate Martha Coakley would be “much more than just my 60th yes-man.”
This guy just doesn’t know when to shut up.
January 17th, 2010 | 3:04 pm | #6
I smell the makings of a weekend bomb.
Almost like a hollywood movie that no one goes to.
Same old story, same old actor-wannabees.
January 17th, 2010 | 3:06 pm | #7
Can. You. Say. TOXIC.
January 17th, 2010 | 3:06 pm | #8
Can’t wait to hear the lamestream media spin on the Won’s descension from heaven and view some on the scene video.
B+ Odumber’s Soros picked controllers would never let the unwashed proles into his TOTUS performance ever.
Is there any doubt those in the hall were bussed in carefully selected SEIU thugs, ACORN squirrrels, some Demorat activists who have not yet jumped off the Destroyer Obama, and a small flock of his carefully rehearsed chanting mostly female sheeple!
January 17th, 2010 | 3:07 pm | #9
[...] ANOTHER UPDATE: Meanwhile, reportedly, Coakley can’t fill a hall. [...]
January 17th, 2010 | 3:07 pm | #10
There’s a quite simple reason for this.
All their trusted operatives, who would normally be asked to fill such a meeting hall to capacity (thereby making it look like average people were attending), are presently in various smoke-filled backrooms all across Boston filling out blank ballots for Coakley.
January 17th, 2010 | 3:13 pm | #11
OMG watching Obama live, it’s a crazy house! On FOX right now.
January 17th, 2010 | 3:13 pm | #12
[...] 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment Can’t fill a rally for a Massachusetts contender? Even with the President of the USA helping her [...]
January 17th, 2010 | 3:17 pm | #13
I just can’t force myself to watch the one on FNC. Am so tired of seeing and hearing him. It’s always Boosh’s fault anyway why bother to listen.
January 17th, 2010 | 3:19 pm | #14
Toxic doesn’t even describe it at this point.
January 17th, 2010 | 3:20 pm | #15
The Won’s latest descension in Boston obviously failed to attract as big a crowd as he rustled up on September 12 when he fled from the TEA Party march on Washington.
The reasonis obvious Bay Staters are considerably less clueless then the Land of Stupids aka Minnesota. There the sheeple were so stupid that enough of them voted Stuart Smalley Franken to enable ACORN and the Democraps in his theft of that state’s “Kennedy Seat”.
I am so glad my parents had the brains to abandon Minnesota sixty years ago. It was the state where their pioneer grandparents first came to pursue the American Dream when that now sorry land still had frontier vigor.
January 17th, 2010 | 3:26 pm | #16
Some other points to make:
Just so you know, the rallies are not across town from each other. The Obama rally was in Boston and the Brown rally in Worcester, a good 30-40 miles away and with a metro area a 10th of Boston’s size. There is no subway in Worcester, and there is an incipient snowstorm that is likely to catch a good number of attendees driving home. You had to really want to go to the Worcester rally.
Boston has 10x the population of Worcester and a subway system that gets you within a block of the Obama rally with a dozen or more colleges no more than 15 mins away by the subway. Probably 10 in walking distance. Some of the colleges are not yet back in session, but there’s always thousands of students out and about on a Sunday afternoon even so. So assume some number of Obama rally attendees are college students who will not be voting in the election. If the turnout is as bad as the article says, the implications may be even greater than they first appear to be.
January 17th, 2010 | 3:27 pm | #17
I wonder how many of the paid attendees at the Coakley event will be voting for Brown!
January 17th, 2010 | 3:31 pm | #18
God Bless Sarah Palin. She can attract more people to a book signing in a mall than the Economic destroyer can. Obama is part of the problem.
January 17th, 2010 | 3:32 pm | #19
How come Fox is giving free coverage to martha? Sort of unfair isn’t it to Brown.
January 17th, 2010 | 3:38 pm | #20
[...] Obama-Coakley rally in Boston didn’t fill the [...]
January 17th, 2010 | 3:38 pm | #21
As a Brown supporter, I have to correct the report that they couldn’t fill the hall. I was just there, outside the Obama-Coakley rally at Northeastern U. There were plenty of people turned away who wanted go get in. I heard some young people saying the cops just stopped letting people in at some point (don’t know why). But it IS true that it was a spiritless crowd on the sidewalk. Few signs for Coakley, mostly appeared to be Obamabots waiting for a glimpse of their messiah. NO enthusiasm for Martha, but lots in the Brown contingent. All we have to worry about is fraud on election day.
January 17th, 2010 | 3:42 pm | #22
Manny, I just HAVE to ask….Are you Manny Ortiz?
January 17th, 2010 | 3:43 pm | #23
[...] Fail. Coakley & Obama Hold Rally In Boston– Can’t Fill It Up (Video) [...]
January 17th, 2010 | 3:47 pm | #24
SPREAD THE WORD!
Brown VOTER BOMB:
http://brownforussenate.com/voter-bomb
January 17th, 2010 | 3:53 pm | #25
I would just like to correct the report- the line for the Obama-Coakley rally extended over four blocks, the full width of the sidewalk. Thousands of supporters were turned away by the Boston Police. I was personally at the gate, begging to be let in, and was told that the venue was filled to capacity. There was plenty of support for Coakley.
January 17th, 2010 | 3:59 pm | #26
Alicia perhaps they didn’t let all those other people in because they were afraid they would heckle Obama. And Darned if the ones who got in didn’t heckle him anyway.
January 17th, 2010 | 4:00 pm | #27
[...] (Via Gateway Pundit) [...]
January 17th, 2010 | 4:03 pm | #28
I see stupid people.
I would just like to correct the report- the line for the Obama-Coakley rally extended over four blocks, the full width of the sidewalk. Thousands of supporters were turned away by the Boston Police. I was personally at the gate, begging to be let in, and was told that the venue was filled to capacity. There was plenty of support for Coakley.
January 17th, 2010 | 4:03 pm | #29
“All we have to worry about is fraud on election day.”
Yes, the Dems have to be worried about fraud. If there is too big a Republican lead, fraud may not work as well as it usually does.
January 17th, 2010 | 4:14 pm | #30
[...] Obama went to to Boston today, to an unfilled small hall, to save himself and the Obama Dimocratic Party. Fate has lifted the humble sounding name of [...]
January 17th, 2010 | 4:15 pm | #31
Alicia:
I think your scenario is more likely. The venue is just too accessible for there not to be a good turnout.
However, that does not address the fact that the auditorium itself was not full.
Nor as I understand it was it the Boston Police turning people away. They were doing crowd control, but the processing for admittance was the bottleneck – as one would expect at an event involving the president.
Before reading too much into the relative attendances inside the two rally venues, people should consider the intent. The Obama rally was to buck up the party faithful, and to get video, and sound bites. It’s impact will be in the political ads that the Coakley campaign can wring out of the event. It really was not a rally at all, but rather a staged event.
The Brown rally was just that, a rally, and a lot more representative of voter energy than Obama’s.
And I mean to say Obama’s. This came off as a lot about Obama and his agenda rather than Coakley. Because of that perception, I think it was probably the worst move Coakley could have made. She could have gotten just as much mileage paying for air time for Obama speaking from Washington, and used the last regular weekend day of the campaign holding a COAKLEY rally.
January 17th, 2010 | 4:20 pm | #32
Gotta change your wording a bit, troll. Otherwise we catch on you are posting as more than one person.
January 17th, 2010 | 4:24 pm | #33
It’s worse for Obama and the Dems than you thought.
MSNBC reporter Michelle Francis reported that only 1,500 showed up at the rally.
Obama was only able to get a 3,000 seat venue half way filled? Wow! And just think, he was pulling in crowds of 10,000 to 30,000 during his campaign.
It’s very clear the smell is off the rose, and the rose has wilted.
January 17th, 2010 | 4:25 pm | #34
“Alicia” #24:
I would just like to correct the report- the line for the Obama-Coakley rally extended over four blocks, the full width of the sidewalk. Thousands of supporters were turned away by the Boston Police. I was personally at the gate, begging to be let in, and was told that the venue was filled to capacity. There was plenty of support for Coakley.
“Espresso Logic” #27:
I would just like to correct the report- the line for the Obama-Coakley rally extended over four blocks, the full width of the sidewalk. Thousands of supporters were turned away by the Boston Police. I was personally at the gate, begging to be let in, and was told that the venue was filled to capacity. There was plenty of support for Coakley.
Keep posting the same message. I think the Americans are starting to believe it.
January 17th, 2010 | 4:29 pm | #35
[...] Meanwhile, Coakley can’t even fill a hall: [...]
January 17th, 2010 | 4:33 pm | #36
[...] I sure hope so, in any case Obama went to Massachusetts and couldn’t even fill a room, while Scott Brown, a Republican (which means that he will vote against the healthcare bill) is filling rooms. More here. [...]
January 17th, 2010 | 4:37 pm | #37
Eden:
Hope you weren’t addressing me. If so, to recap:
I’m from Boston. I have no use for Martha Coakley. I would not vote for her for any office.
I find it hard to believe that there wasn’t a big turnout on the streets near Northeastern. Again, I’m from Boston, I know the area. There’s no doubt in my mind that there would have been a lot of people there. Too accessible for there not to be.
I suspect that a lot of the people outside were college students from the area hoping to get in to see Obama, not Coakley voters.
I think Coakley laid another egg. This was NOT how she should have spent the day – at a venue appealing to people with a vested interest in her election rather than the voters trying to decide or able to be swayed. (The place was packed with the recognizable faces of Boston and Mass establishment democrats). It was a campaign event to use the correct description – inside at least – and NOT a rally.
I’m glad she spent the day that way.
January 17th, 2010 | 4:38 pm | #38
lol
January 17th, 2010 | 4:40 pm | #39
It was at capacity. Many, many people waited for hours only to be turned away.
Please tell the truth.
January 17th, 2010 | 4:40 pm | #40
No, Just, in fact thank you for your update! I didn’t like the concern troll shushing dissent is all…lol.
January 17th, 2010 | 4:41 pm | #41
Oops, that’s the OTHER thread with the concern troll, gee they are tiring.
Just passing through, see post #33 to understand my troll message.
January 17th, 2010 | 4:48 pm | #42
This reporting is completely wrong. I was at the rally today and there were easily 5500+ people waiting outside to be let in. The hall only had capacity for 1500 people, and there was a standing room that held 2500 people. These were filled and literally thousands of people were turned away (I was one of them). The Boston Police had to ride down entire city blocks with a bullhorn telling people that capacity was reached and to go home. Then thousands of people surged up trying to get into Cabot (where Obama was speaking).
There is absolutely no need to sensationalize stories about the rallies. I would prefer REAL, TRUE information about both Brown and Coakley rallies.
January 17th, 2010 | 4:53 pm | #43
Kind like there were 75,000 people on the mall at the Teaparty rally on 9/12?
January 17th, 2010 | 4:58 pm | #44
Eden,
Understand. Keep in mind though, that it is more likely than not that there were a lot of people wanting to get in that couldn’t. Have to understand the area. Boston I believe has the highest concentration of colleges in the country and Northeastern is not quite, but close to being in the middle of the highest concentration of colleges.
This is also an area that does not usually see a lot of campaigning in a state election. National, yes, but not state. Because while the locals are almost assuredly Dem, the majority are out of state college students. Waste of Dem resources in a state election.
So while the claims of people lining up 4 blocks is believable to me, the odds are that many or most did so to see Obama, not support.
I’ll repeat. This was a staged campaign event to buck up Boston and Ma Dem pols, not a voter rally like what occurred in Worcester for Brown. Any help Coakley gets from this will only be in sound and video bites heavily edited and released as fast as possible – only 48 hours left before the polls close.
January 17th, 2010 | 5:05 pm | #45
If this rally was 100% filled, and “thousands lined up outside being turned away” the media would be gloating about how Obama hasn’t lost his touch.
NBC, and CBS don’t mention the attendance of the rally or about “thousands being lined up outside”.
There are no pictures or interview from the “thousands lined up outside being turned away”. You know if there was, the media would have pictures and interview with those people.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34905099/ns/politics-capitol_hill/
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/17/politics/main6108137.shtml?tag=cbsnewsTwoColLowerPromoArea;morenews
Furthermore, as of 5pm central standard time, CNN, and ABC are not running stories about the rally in Boston that was “filled to capacity” and had “thousands lined up outside being turned away”.
http://www.cnn.com/
http://abcnews.go.com/
January 17th, 2010 | 5:05 pm | #46
good grief, I’m not disagreeing with you, I don’t really care…
geez, long day, I’m outta here…
January 17th, 2010 | 5:05 pm | #47
It isn’t true that the hall wasn’t filled. I was there waiting to get in and there were far more people trying to get in than the fire marshal would let in. Many people with tickets could not even get in. They sent the over flow to a side auditorium to watch on a big screen and many others just stood in a large crowd outside hoping to see the president
January 17th, 2010 | 5:21 pm | #48
“many others just stood in a large crowd outside hoping to see the president”
For Pete’s sake, why?
I see stupid people.
January 17th, 2010 | 5:23 pm | #49
Glenn Greenwald write in Salon.com that, Cass Sunstein, Obama confidant and head of the “Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs”, in 2008 wrote a paper which proposes, that the U.S. Government employ teams of covert agents and pseudo-”independent” advocates to “cognitively infiltrate” online groups and websites — as well as other activist groups — which advocate views that Sunstein deems “false conspiracy theories” about the Government.
This would be designed to increase citizens’ faith in government officials and undermine the credibility of conspiracists.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/01/15/sunstein/print.html
I expect that Sam, Dee, Espresso Logic and Alicia are merely “Cognitive” Inflitrators.
January 17th, 2010 | 5:39 pm | #50
[...] venue holds 3,000 but only 2,000 to 2,500 showed up… including the abortion [...]
January 17th, 2010 | 5:53 pm | #51
[...] held on a university campus in the uber liberal state of Massachusetts! As for the attendance, they didn’t even fill up the hall… Wow! Meanwhile, Scott Brown’s campaign rally in Worcester, MA looked like this on the [...]
January 17th, 2010 | 6:07 pm | #52
Wow! Never been north of NYC but have new view of MA residents. Looks like the original patriot spirit has risen again. Go Scott Go!! BTW where is Mitt??
January 17th, 2010 | 6:20 pm | #53
Hi all,
I have to say that I am a Coakley supporter, I’m from Boston, and I was just at the rally. The lines extended more than four blocks because there were actually two lines extending about that far. Some people I was standing in line with didn’t know that.
With regard to the Fox News report we just watched — that was absolutely false. Conservatively, a couple thousand people were turned away by the Boston police because it was filled to capacity. That is just plainly false, because I was turned away and would have loved to go in to support Martha along with the thousands of other people around me.
After people were turned away the contingents of Coakley supporters and Brown supporters were roughly equal, with the Brown supporters having a slight edge in terms of the numbers of signs and such.
There was strong support for Coakley after the doors closed and after the rally ended.
Massachusetts is a very liberal state, and while its great that Scott Brown has had a very vocal campaign bolstered by a lot of national support, as has Coakley in these final days — I really just don’t see him edging this out. I don’t think the base is there.
A lot of the national news coverage has focused on this surge and these really specious poll numbers and its kind of like building something in the clouds — because when it comes down to it Massachusetts is a really liberal state and are not very receptive to any elemenst of what could be considered far-right social policies, which Brown represents.
The tea partiers and such — people here don’t buy into that kind of extremism. All that said, I don’t know, it could be anyone’s guess. At the end of the day though, I think a lot of the hysteria is delusional and media-induced and complemented by a spate of polls with indiscernable reliability.
Anecdotally though, I did spot anumber of people from out of state, even questiong them politely about where they were from. Another preception, very few to no minorities were holding Scott Brown signs. I was specifically trying to get a read on this. I saw one black man.
On the other hand there were many african-americans and latinos among the ranks of Coakley supporters. A couple of Hispanic people out holding signs I saw barely spoke any English. So to characterize Coakley’s support as lame or anything is not fair. People were defintiely cooming out of the woodwork. But that statement on FOx is just absolutely 110% false. Fox can push whatever agenda it wants just like MSNBC can, but God — how can you flagrantly lie about such a simple fact?
I have a lot of respect for Brown supporters, ( so please dont attack me) as I do supporters of anyone, thats what makes democracy so great.
peace
January 17th, 2010 | 6:26 pm | #54
Judith
Mitt is merely B+ Dumber light. After patriotic freedom loving Americans crush the democorrupts in now power in November (believe me Odumber will try to stop or subvert the elections) and elect true Americans we can eliminate the tools of the statist democreeps, the RINOs and their lamestream media propagandists and enablers.And Mitt is the quintessential RINO.
January 17th, 2010 | 6:28 pm | #55
No one who is a Dem or who would vote for Coakley would ever read this site or post messages like the defensive ones above. All the posts above overestimating the Coakley turnout are by paid Dem bloggers.
January 17th, 2010 | 6:29 pm | #56
Notice the strange names of people that have never been here before and suspiciously they ALL say 4 blocks, give me a break trolls, not buyin it. Not sure if Brown can win but your comments are all the same. We tea partiers aint as dumb as you think.
January 17th, 2010 | 6:30 pm | #57
[...] UPDATE: Meanwhile, reportedly, Coakley can’t fill a hall. “Martha Coakley and Barack Obama held a rally today in Boston. They couldn’t fill the hall. . . [...]
January 17th, 2010 | 6:46 pm | #58
panzerkardinal
January 17th, 2010 | 5:23 pm | #49
Espresso Logic is a regular here – and has been for some time.
It takes however, a bit of discernment to understand the way in which he calls out the trolls that drop by. There are times that his humor is a bit obscure.
Rest assured, though, that he was not agreeing with dee, sam or alicia (who seem to be the same person, actually).
January 17th, 2010 | 6:52 pm | #59
[...] UPDATE: Meanwhile, reportedly, Coakley can’t fill a hall. “Martha Coakley and Barack Obama held a rally today in Boston. They couldn’t fill the hall. . . [...]
January 17th, 2010 | 7:04 pm | #60
Hi JC (#53) —
Were you one of the people who left a Coakley event prematurely when the discussion turned to aid for the Haitians?
You see, a black (I thought I’d mention his race since you’re keeping score) conservative (imagine that!) at PJTV took video and commented on what he’d observed.
He noted those flocking to the doors were causing consternation among Democrat organizers. Cameras were rolling and they knew it wouldn’t look good.
You know. The truly caring, compassionate ones not looking so compassionate after all…
But fear not. Your media will never cover it. And you can go on telling your lies.
January 17th, 2010 | 7:05 pm | #61
JC
January 17th, 2010 | 6:20 pm | #53
And another little oh-so-concerned troll “just trying to set the record straight” — with blatant lies.
Give it up, troll. You won’t find very fertile ground for the creation of “eeyores” here. You seem to forget that we’ve seen the photos, watched the videos, heard many minorities speak for Brown (legal, English-speaking latinos, too) – and even seen the people with seiu shirts supporting Scott Brown.
If you believe even one-half of what you wrote (following your master’s script, no doubt), then you need to seek immediate mental health assistance – because you’re living in a delusional world.
January 17th, 2010 | 7:17 pm | #62
I have just returned from the Scott Brown rally in Worcester, MA (about 50 miles west of Boston).
Mechanics Hall in your photo above holds 1500; I am sure they packed more that in there. They closed the doors on the greater part of the collected crowd outside which was then directed 1) to the Crown Plaza’s ballroom (a Hotel three blocks away; this is where my wife and I wound up) where they had quickly set up an AV link to Mechanics Hall, and 2) to Scott Brown’s campaign office in Worcester.
The crowd was very energized, and was rallied by Scott’s two daughters, Doug Flutie, Kirt Schilling, some Patriot players, other celebrities before Scott came on the stage and addressed the thong. During the hour delay while the rally was adjusting for the huge overflow crowd, a lot people at the Crown Plaza got up and gave testimonials for why they where voting for Scott Brown. There were quite a few previous Democrats who were disgusted with the Democrats’ politics-as-usual. There were lots of doctors, nurses, and others in the health industry, who provided alarming expectations of what will happen if ObamaCare is passed in its present form. Scott wants it scrapped and re-written from scratch. There was one woman who over the past six months has developed, as a private citizen, her own health care reform plan with input and suggestions from the public — hey, what a concept! Far beyond Pelosi’s and Reid’s mentality. It is short and simple, and it is at http://www.paythedoctor.com/
January 17th, 2010 | 7:20 pm | #63
I was at the People’s Rally for Scott Brown. AMAZING! An usher at the hall estimated the crowd at 3000 – they had to turn people away and send them to the Crowne Plaza hotel to watch via video feed. The place was electric!
January 17th, 2010 | 7:54 pm | #64
LoppyD, shoulda known you’d be there! Glad to hear your report. Fingers crossed that Scott Brown wins, but I fear fraud.
January 17th, 2010 | 7:58 pm | #65
The reports regarding the partially filled hall at the Coakley/Obama rally were completely false. I was one of thousands who were not able to get in as the firemarshall had deememd the hall filled to capacity. The problem was a hall that was too small not that there were too few people to fill the hall. The Brown people appear to be better organized but that said, I’d rather have solid, fair and hard working than a political machine representing me in Washington. The latter is simply more of the same old politics. Go Martha.
January 17th, 2010 | 8:13 pm | #66
[...] The People’s Rally Jump to Comments I just returned from Scott Brown’s The People’s Rally in Worcester. Thousands of supporters waited outside holding signs, waving flags, cheerimg, chanting “GO SCOTT BROWN” while cars drove by laying on their horns, hanging out the windows with their Brown signs. They opened the doors and (according to an usher’s estimate) a lucky 300o of us got in. The overflow crowd walked over to the Crowne Point hotel to watch via video, unlike the Obama/Coakley event at Northeastern in Boston where they couldn’t even fill the room. [...]
January 17th, 2010 | 8:18 pm | #67
[...] President spoke in Massachusetts to a non-capacity crowd and said that candidate Scott Brown had “Wall Street’s back”, an attack in search [...]
January 17th, 2010 | 8:32 pm | #68
The report that the hall for the Coakley rally could not be filled is a shameful and intentional distortion of the truth. Hundreds waited outside for hours but could not get in. A larger venue would have been great.
January 17th, 2010 | 8:40 pm | #69
Atlas Shrugs site has a photo of the street crowd outside Brown’s rally. HUGE.
We keep hearing how many morons showed up (and were paid) to see B+ Obama and Croakley, but jeez, don’t any of you people have cell phones? cameras?
If this is the earth-shattering event you trolls describe, let’s see the pics.
January 17th, 2010 | 8:41 pm | #70
I wish the Coakley supporters could explain to us what they like about someone who shields a child rapist from prosecution because the rapist’s father is promoting her political ambitions.
January 17th, 2010 | 8:47 pm | #71
Also, Dems, why is it a point of pride that your candidate gets votes from people who “can barely speak English”–and therefore probably don’t know much about what’s going on?
Oh, silly me, the point is just to get the power, no matter how stupid the agenda. Kinda like supporting any Dem “health care reform” whether or not you have any idea what it actually entails. Just hand more and more power to the lefties, that’s all. Brilliant.
January 17th, 2010 | 8:52 pm | #72
I’m afraid this post is not accurate. There were at least 500 Coakley people who were not let in and were waiting to do so. I know because I was in the middle of them.
Then again there were more that 700 Brown supporters outside too, perhaps the campaign was screening to try and keep them out.
I also understand however that the hall capacity was less than 3000 but I can’t verify that.
However the Brown Mob scene in Worcester is almost certainly spot on.
January 17th, 2010 | 8:59 pm | #73
[...] I like Gateway pundit a lot but it would be a good idea to correct this post on the subject. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)It is ignorant Catholics like [...]
January 17th, 2010 | 9:00 pm | #74
Some of the comments here are shameful. I’m all for open dialogue but to denigrate immigrants who may not have mastered the english language is out of line. As for some reasons why I like Coakley– she’s a no nonsense, hard working, smart and authentic person who is motivated by doing right by the constituents she supports. And has a proven track record of getting things done–she’s an independent thinker who is not afraid to take on the establishment. She’s not a typical politician and that’s a good thing. Slick isn’t what we need. Certainly not now. We can all agree that we don’t want business as usual. That’s why Coakley is the better choice.
January 17th, 2010 | 9:18 pm | #75
Lynn
The concerned troll from Media Matters, the Soros girl wants to incorrect the correct info to make it the proper stalinist propaganda. Lynn go get your piddling paycheck from George and try another blog. Your crap ain’t playin here!!
January 17th, 2010 | 9:19 pm | #76
Lynn I have no idea how you can say: “I’d rather have solid, fair and hard working than a political machine representing me in Washington. The latter is simply more of the same old politics. Go Martha.”
My puzzlement is not that you prefer Coakley, but how on earth is Brown the political machine? It doesnt compute. why not just say I like the candidate of the Democratic machine?
January 17th, 2010 | 9:27 pm | #77
[...] reportedly, Coakley can’t fill a hall. “Martha Coakley and Barack Obama held a rally today in Boston. They couldn’t fill the hall. . . [...]
January 17th, 2010 | 9:33 pm | #78
Lynn,
How about responding to my question re: how you can support someone who protected a child rapist for selfish political reasons?
And while you’re at it: Why do you support someone who was determined to keep Gerald Amirault in prison with no evidentiary basis of guilt–only the preposterous and impossible claims made by heavily coached and highly suggestible young children? Given that she still claims that the charges were true, what does that say about her intelligence and/or honesty?
January 17th, 2010 | 9:42 pm | #79
Whooee! Jim Hoft must be doing something GOOD to attract all of these high-paid trolls.
Warms the cockles of my heart to see it.
January 17th, 2010 | 10:52 pm | #80
[...] 0bama speaks at rally for Coakley, cannot fill the hall… [...]
January 17th, 2010 | 11:12 pm | #81
[...] the Obama rally wasn’t even filled to full capacity. I wonder how many people had to be bussed [...]
January 17th, 2010 | 11:50 pm | #82
Manny’s right…all we have to worry about is fraud on election day. Don’t put it past them.
January 18th, 2010 | 12:09 am | #83
Isn’t it a bit odd that NONE of the trolls who “were at the coakley/d’ohbama event were able to get in? It seems that the only people we’re hearing from were all left standing in the cold because of the “huge crowd”.
You’d think that at least ONE of the trolls that drop by here would have gotten inside the event – and then told us all about how packed it was.
One might have even taken photos that would show the “packed hall”; and would have disproven the reports of a less-than-stellar turnout. I guess that all of them forgot their cell phones and couldn’t get a pic.
And, it’s amazing that d’ohbama’s lackeys in the msm haven’t shown any wide shots of the “jam-packed hall”. You’d think that they would be crowing about how bambam can still draw the crowds.
(btw; The pictures I’ve seen of the crowds waiting to get into the democRAT event didn’t “fill the sidewalks for four blocks” as one troll wrote. It was a pretty sparse crowd, by all indications.)
January 18th, 2010 | 12:49 am | #84
If you’re going to lie, you might want to lie about somrthing not captured in photos. Crowds at the rally that I attended today at N’eastern U, where I teach, went for blocks on both sides of Huntington Ave across the entire campus up to the Y north and down past Wentworth on the south. 1500 people were allowed into building where Coakley, Frank, Kennedy, and Kerry attended as well as the President. There were another ~6000 people waiting outside, plus the Curry Student Center which was filled to the brim with people watching on the big screen.
If you need to believe that this was not well attended, and lying is what you think is fair and decent, well…you’re a sad character just like the Playmate candidate you support. Too bad you can’t even discourse in a rational and truthful manner. Oh, and if you don’t believe me, here are the photos to disprove your weak and dishonest claims.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/erikchristiansen/4282264371/in/set-72157623105345085/
January 18th, 2010 | 5:44 am | #85
Lynn at 7:58
I was with you up until you said go Martha. Your comments about the political machine could only be interpreted to be the Chicago political machine currently in power. Hard-working, honest, fair referred to Brown. Guess the Go Martha was the leftovers.
January 18th, 2010 | 7:26 am | #86
I just looked at the pictures posted by Margalit and I have to say I’m confused. There are no pictures of lines – of the 23 pictures, two or three are of the people with tickets going into the building, the vast majority of whom are college kids. The majority of the pictures are of all the police motorcycles. There’s also one picture of a bunch of people who look to be standing outside. No “four block” lines, nobody being turned away. Mostly just a bunch of college kids going to see the President, and a whole lot of money being wasted on police security.
January 18th, 2010 | 8:05 am | #87
Dearest Fellow American Trolls:
The world-class competitive US Post Office has the day off.
Your Axlerod’s $2 per troll post check will go out tomorrow. Thanks to the Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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January 18th, 2010 | 8:09 am | #88
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January 18th, 2010 | 8:43 am | #89
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January 18th, 2010 | 9:44 am | #90
Hello trolls,your fooling no one.
January 18th, 2010 | 10:21 am | #91
hussein obama and his marxist agenda is the problem.
This is AMERICA. Not kenya !!!!
impeach & deport the muslim hussein obama with the muslim name.
January 18th, 2010 | 12:38 pm | #92
As soon as the One had finished, and speakers began requesting that the audience stick around to learn how they could help Haiti, everyone bolted from the room — bleeding hearts, eh?
January 18th, 2010 | 12:41 pm | #93
..on MorningJoe .. reported the turnout at 5,000.
For 3,000 seats ?
Can’t these fools create a plausable lie about anything ??
January 18th, 2010 | 12:59 pm | #94
Half full or half empty it is the same thing.
I would like to hear what students are being taught in Econ 101, is every text book wrong about how to save a down economy? Or are we in the presents of the only people who really know?
January 18th, 2010 | 1:40 pm | #95
god is looking down and hearing our prayers.if scott brown should win and the dems.do not delay in seating him.health care will be stopped and our country will win.
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