For those who are not aware, George Mason is a pretty liberal university. Big shocker I know!! I will tell you, for anyone who knows history they will know that George Mason would be rolling over in his grave if he were aware of what the school that is his namesake has become. I am sure that he is certainly spinning with a president as liberal as the one who spoke there today.
I met a very nice young couple, Allen and Grace, both Obama voters. Allen grew up in the same area of CT that I did, so we talked a bit about that. Allen is in favor healthcare reform, but it didn't seem to me that he is very jazzed at how it is happening, nor did he seem to feel that it will actually work. Grace was wearing a t-shirt with the date of Bush's last day in office. Allen told me that his family are liberal and he is as well. Although, I get this feeling he is more of a left leaning centerist. He comes about his views on healthcare reform honestly, as his family went through a period of not having insurance, his father had a relatively minor medical problem that took the family many years to pay off.
Allen is a patriot kind of guy, he wants to go work for the government at the NSA or some other type of national security kind of way. He is currently looking for a co-op position that will allow him to finish school and work, then give him a full time position once he graduates. We had a very nice chat.
So, after waiting in line for an hour or so, we get let into the building. The rally was in The Patriot Center, ironically enough. It holds 10,000 people - it was not even half full. Which is very surprising considering it was on a very liberal college campus, I also live in a very liberal area.
The morning started out with the pledge of alligence, the National Anthem, and a prayer. The prayer was something to hear, let me tell you. For those who were not sure what Glen Beck meant when he said stay away from any place of worship that talks about "social justice", this woman is what he meant. Her entire prayer (if one could call it that) was about social justice. If anyone can't figure out how people with views like Obama and Pelosi can have so little problems with passing laws that allow anyone at anytime have an abortion and still call themselves people of faith just need to listen to this woman. It was all about how the scripture says that we need to take care of the needy and the helpless. Which is completely true, but no where in the bible does it say that we are supposed to give to the government to do those acts of charity for us. We are supposed to do that ourselves. But, this woman certainly believes that the government is supposed to. She quoted Micah as her example.
The president comes out and the crowd goes wild, chanting YES WE CAN. I of course was totally surrounded by Obama supporters. Again, that is daily life in Northern Virginia; a sea of blue. The president started out talking about the vote on Sunday, how historic it was going to be, blah, blah, blah. He then went into the same old story of that woman in Ohio. You know the one, the woman who is getting top notch care, that she will not be charged for. Yet, again he left out that part.
He then went into what "people" were saying that wasn't true about the bill. I am assuming when he said "people" he was referring to me and people like me; conservatives. He stood up there an lied. Again, another shocker. What was I expecting? He talked about how he wasn't going to be killing granny, nor would they be adding to the defict.
He also went into this long thing about the "change" he has brought to Washington. Wait for it, he actually had the nerve to say that he wasn't governing by the wims of special interests. I could hardly contain myself. There was no point in me yelling out, as by this point one other person had been forcibly removed for stating some facts. I guess it was in his best interests that he was removed as he was being booed and people were pointing at him.
Another thing that I found amazing, was that he actually said this had nothing to do with his presidency, it was all for us. Yeah, you are the man behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz, don't believe your eyes, just look over here at what I am showing you.
Something that Northern Virginia has a great deal:
Unions
College Students
Liberal Dems
and he still couldn't fill 10,000 seats. He is losing his mojo. What a shame, so sad :{
You can't really make it out, but all the upper level seats were empty, and three entire sections had only a couple of people in them.
Why these people were wearing tuxedos, I couldn't tell you. 
This is the "heckler" being removed
This is the social justice prayer lady. 
Sorry that the pics didn't come out better, but it was hard with all the overhead lights.
Aah, gotta love the media. WashPo is reporting that 8,000 people were at the rally. That is simply not possible; I am not good at estimating crowds, but I know what I saw. Four entire sections had no one. Not one single section was seated to the top. Two other sections were only about 1/2 full. The arena only holds 10,000. With that many empty seats, there couldn't have been 8,000 in attendance.
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