Sarah Palin Protest: Biggest Protest In Alaska's History

[JordansMommy555]

My play mom sent me this...

[The] Alaska Women Reject Palin rally... was organized by a small group of women, talking over coffee. These women hatched the plan, printed up flyers, posted them around town, and sent notices to local media outlets.  One of those media outlets was KBYR radio, home of Eddie Burke, a long-time uber-conservative Anchorage talk show host.  Turns out that Eddie Burke not only announced the rally, but called the people who planned to attend the rally “a bunch of socialist baby-killing maggots”, and read the home phone numbers of the organizers aloud over the air, urging listeners to call and tell them what they thought.  The women, of course, received some nasty,  harassing and threatening messages.

Never, have I seen anything like it in my 17 and a half years living in Anchorage.  The organizers had someone walk the rally with a counter, and they clicked off well over 1400 people (not including the 90 counter-demonstrators).  This was the biggest political rally ever, in the history of the state.  I was absolutely stunned.  The second most amazing thing is how many people honked and gave the thumbs up as they drove by.  And even those that didn’t honk looked wide-eyed and awe-struck at the huge crowd that was growing by the minute.  This just doesn’t happen here.

Then, the infamous Eddie Burke showed up.  He tried to talk to the media, and was instantly surrounded by a group of 20 people who started shouting O-BA-MA so loud he couldn’t be heard.  Then passing cars started honking in a rhythmic pattern of 3, like the Obama chant, while the crowd cheered, hooted and waved their signs high.

So, if you’ve been doing the math…  Yes.  The Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was significantly bigger than Palin’s rally that got all the national media coverage!  So take heart, sit back, and enjoy the photo gallery.  Feel free to spread the pictures around to anyone who needs to know that Sarah Palin most definitely does not speak for all Alaskans.  The citizens of Alaska, who know her best, have things to say.

Tags: obama, politics, sarah palin

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[Xynyth]

Sep. 16, 2008 at 1:59 PM

Wow, these are great! I had no idea! Thanks for posting!

[maddieandleomom]

Sep. 16, 2008 at 2:00 PM

My favorite "Great performance but we're not that stupid!" 

Too bad so many people are that stupid.  Great post.

[Fawn80]

Sep. 16, 2008 at 2:08 PM

Wow.  So very cool. 

[emf6874]

Sep. 16, 2008 at 2:20 PM

I'm so glad that a lot of people are posting this, & realize that not everyone who is from Alaska thinks she is sooooo great!!

 

[sweetsea07]

Sep. 16, 2008 at 2:37 PM

this is awesome!!!!!!

[Oshun55]

Sep. 16, 2008 at 4:17 PM

Wow

[--Cyn--]

Sep. 17, 2008 at 11:48 AM

Thank you for sharing,

I agree she is BUSH in a skirt

[IhartU]

Sep. 17, 2008 at 11:50 AM

Bush in a skirt.. LOL! Me and my dirty mind...

[MemawBrie]

Sep. 17, 2008 at 11:55 AM

This only represents a small amount of people who live in Alaska.

[IhartU]

Sep. 17, 2008 at 12:00 PM

This only represents a small amount of people who live in Alaska.

MemawBrie

How many people LIVE in Alaska? Not many! In fact, it's has the fourth smallest population. It just kills you that people in her own State don't want her in office, huh?

STATE	Abbr.	Population	Land Area	Pop. Density	Land Area	Pop. Density
				(Sq Kms)	(Sq Kms)	(Sq Miles)	(Sq Miles)
1	Wyoming	WY	509,294	251,487.85	2.03	97,100	5.25
2	Vermont	VT	623,050	23,957.39	26.01	9,250	67.36
3	North Dakota	ND	636,677	178,647.02	3.56	68,976	9.23
4	Alaska	AK	663,661	1,481,346.00	0.45	571,951	1.16

http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/populations/usapops.htm