Breaking: GD Posts About American Spring Exceed Attendance.

[Eleanors38]

Curious onlookers flock to site of American Spring after reading some thirty-two thousand accounts of the sparsely-attended event, quickly inflating the number of demonstrators.

"They looked like old 'Sixties hippies," mused one demonstrator, "But we can use everyone we can get; besides, most of us look like that, too."

[Enthusiast]

1. What a terrible thing to say about hippies.

[narnian60]

3. My thought exactly.

We were beautiful.

[Enthusiast]

4. We were beautiful and remain beautiful today.

[malthaussen]

5. Hey, stardust and golden, ya know?

-- Mal

[Enthusiast]

6. I love that!

And we actually are stardust. What could be more cool than that?

[FailureToCommunicate]

20. "Don't take the brown acid...bummer" and "There ARE snapping turtles in the (cow) ponds"

Best rainy weekend, of my younger years!

[heaven05]

14. still dawning marilyn

lots of storms on the horizon florence, billy and ron. age of aquarius is pretty flat so far.. ....more like the age of the oligarch.

[Eleanors38]

18. And who wan't in love with Marilyn McCoo?

[yeoman6987]

8. I actually wished it was successful

The reason is it would have made the Tea party look even worse seeing all those people looking batty. Now the Tea Party can say, "see most of us are not that wacky".

[Enthusiast]

9. Still, there were some real wack jobs.

[yeoman6987]

10. They were scary actually

but it was such a small amount that most won't equate it to the Tea Party as a whole. It would be been awesome for the Democrats to use this for campaign commercials, but won't now because it only shows a small extreme group of 100.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

2. Posts exceed attendance by a factor of at least 1,000

Each attendee estimated to have received more than their 15 minutes of fame on MSNBC alone.

[A Simple Game]

7. So this is what happens when hippies go bad! n/t

[maced666]

11. Gosh I hope it isn't like the Arab Spring - remember?!

All the excitement here, all the hope?!
Then who comes to power but the Muslim Brotherhood - who, as you may know, doesn't have the greatest record with girls and womens rights (there are none). LGBT community certainly didn't move forward.

Don't think we should be associated with that movement at all - drop the stupid Spring name.
Disassociate.
I want nothing to do with movements that ultimately end with people still being stoned for being gay.

[rocktivity]

12. DUzy!!!

rocktivity

[Ichingcarpenter]

13. So you attack 'hippes' and group them with these assholes?

Tell me what do these right wing 'hippes' look like?

You had an amusing title then ruined it with an an cheap attack on the left that fought against civil rights injustices, Nixon and the Vietnam war

[Eleanors38]

16. The "fight against...injustice." Oh, I was there. Were you?

[Ichingcarpenter]

17. I was in the SDS

in DC......

so why attack hippes? You sound like Spiro.

[Eleanors38]

19. I think it's time to...

[Orangepeel]

15. Hah!

[weissmam]

21. there were more people at my daughters 5th birthday party

It was a total joke,

[calimary]

22. No, sorry. They look NOTHING like old "Sixties hippies."

At least not the old "Sixties hippies" I knew and hung with. And not at this later date, either.

Besides, while we were often mellowed-out and stoned, their hearts ARE stone. And I use the word "hearts" with some hesitation, frankly. I doubt these people truly have them - the way they behave, the way they talk, the things they believe. They're really rather heartLESS, if you ask me.

[Jim Lane]

23. OAS was covertly organized by Skinner to drive more traffic to DU.

He got an under-the-table financial contribution from Twitter, which also benefited hugely.

[MohRokTah]

24. Anonymous has joined in the OAS protest

Anonymous really isn't a very credible group any more.

[UTUSN]

25. Bwah-HAH!!!!!!!1 n/t