President Obama hasn’t been good for the anti-war protest industry. Since he was elected anti-war protests have basically come to an end. I’m not the only one who has noticed. John Stossel has some information from a recently released a study of national protests between 2007 and 2009.
… After January 2007, the attendance at antiwar rallies [measured in] roughly the tens of thousands, or thousands, through the end of 2008.
… After the election of Barack Obama as president, the order of magnitude of antiwar protests dropped [...] Organizers were hard pressed to stage a rally with participation in the thousands, or even in the hundreds. For example, we counted exactly 107 participants at a Chicago rally on October 7, 2009.
The anti-war left isn’t anti-war at all. They’re only opposed to killing people if there’s a Republican in the White House. President Obama can bomb as many people in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Libya as he wants and we will not hear anything from angry “anti-war” crowds. The left is now preoccupied with bigger problems like unions, entitlement protection, and gay rights. Don’t worry, the anti-war protests will resume immediately after a Republican is sworn in to the White House.
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