A crowd of around 2 million people marched on Washington Saturday to protest Obama and his push towards big government socialism. The 9/12 march was built upon the massively successful tea parties that have been steadily growing this year.

As many as one million people flooded into Washington for a massive rally organised by conservatives claiming that President Obama is driving America towards socialism. The size of the crowd – by far the biggest protest since the president took office in January – shocked the White House. Demonstrators massed outside Capitol Hill after marching down Pennsylvania Avenue waving placards and chanting ‘Enough, enough’.

The focus of much of the anger was the president’s so-called ‘Obamacare’ plan to overhaul the U.S. health system. Demonstrators waved U.S. flags and held signs reading ‘Go Green Recycle Congress’ and ‘I’m Not Your ATM’.’ The protest on Saturday came as Mr Obama took his campaign for health reforms on the road, making his argument to a rally of 15,000 supporters in Minneapolis. Saying he was determined to push through a bill making health insurance more affordable, Mr Obama said: ‘I intend to be president for a while and once this bill passes, I own it.

‘I will not waste time with those who think that it’s just good politics to kill healthcare.’ But in Washington, protester Richard Brigle, 57, a Vietnam veteran, said: ‘It’s going to cost too much money we don’t have.’ Another marcher shouted: ‘You want socialism? Go to Russia!’ Terri Hall, 45, of Florida, said she felt compelled to become political for the first time this year because she was upset by government spending. ‘Our government has lost sight of the powers they were granted,’ she said. She added that the deficit spending was out of control, and said she thought it was putting the country at risk. Anna Hayes, 58, a nurse from Fairfax County, stood on the Mall in 1981 for Reagan’s inauguration. ‘The same people were celebrating freedom,’ she said. ‘The president was fighting for the people then. I remember those years very well and fondly.’ Saying she was worried about ‘Obamacare,’Hayes explained: ‘This is the first rally I’ve been to that demonstrates against something, the first in my life. I just couldn’t stay home anymore.’ Andrew Moylan, of the National Taxpayers Union, received a roar of approval after he told protesters: ‘Hell hath no fury like a taxpayer ignored.’ Republican lawmakers also supported the rally. ‘Republicans, Democrats and independents are stepping up and demanding we put our fiscal house in order,’ Rep. Mike Pence, chairman of the House Republican Conference, said. ‘I think the overriding message after years of borrowing, spending and bailouts is enough is enough.’ FreedomWorks Foundation, a conservative organization led by former House of Representatives Majority Leader Dick Armey, organized several groups from across the country for what they billed as a ‘March on Washington.’ Organisers said they had built on momentum from the April ‘tea party’ demonstrations held nationwide to protest at Mr Obama’s taxation policies, along with growing resentment over his economic stimulus packages and bank bailouts.

Other sponsors of the rally include the Heartland Institute, Americans for Tax Reform and the Ayn Rand Center for Individuals Rights. Recent polls illustrate how difficult recent weeks have been for a president who, besides tackling health care, has been battling to end a devastatingly deep recession. Fifty per cent approve and 49 per cent disapprove of the overall job he is doing as president, compared to July, when those approving his performance clearly outnumbered those who were unhappy with it, 55 per cent to 42 per cent. Just 42 percent approve of the president’s work on the high-profile health issue.

The crowd was estimated to be over two million strong. The White House, I’m sure, was shocked. The mainstream media, however, has been nearly silent on the issue. A friend of mine actually called me today, fuming, asking why the march was not on the news, and asked me if I was going to write about it. The news outlets that have been covering it have, for the most part, been underplaying the size of the crowd. The New York Times, for example, captioned a picture on their site merely as “a crowd” and saying the protest numbered into the “tens of thousands”. MSNBC also numbered the crowd at tens of thousands. The AP also said the crowd numbered in the thousands, while CNN said that the crowd was made up of “tea party activists” and again, said the crowd numbered in the tens of thousands.

Again: the crowd was measured to be about two million strong, a massively larger number than tens of thousands. Check out these pictures and see for yourself. The second photo comes from Mary Katherine Ham, who was at the march herself.

A non-biased media would cover something as huge as this. As it is, most media outlets mention it in passing at most, because they don’t want Americans to realize how unpopular Obama’s government run health care plan really is. As usual, they’re covering for Obama. But they’re not biased at all, are they>?

Also interesting when thinking about the 9/12 march is how the conservatives left the Capitol after protesting there. Gateway Pundit has a photo comparison to the state the Capitol was in after the 9/12 march, as opposed to how it looked after Obama’s inauguration. First, the conservatives:

And now, the liberals:

Apparently, conservatives were responsible to pick up after themselves. Liberals left piles of filth for someone else to clean up.

And while various liberals will sneeringly claim that this was an angry mob of white racist elitist Republicans, it’s patently false. There were no arrests made. There were people there from all walks of life, of all nationalities. One black woman interviewed by Fox News was actually an Obama delegate, who said she was no longer an Obama fan. There were white people there and there were black people there. There were men and women. There were rich people and poor people. Some were Republicans, some were Democrats. All of them agreed that the big government expansion has to stop, and unlike most liberal protests, the 9/12 marchers protested peacefully, with no violence and no breaking the law.

The media can keep trying to cover up the fact that Americans hate Obama’s government run health care, and that they don’t support the move towards socialism. But this march clearly shows that the American people aren’t listening to Obama or the mainstream media anymore. For the first time in a long time, Americans are actually beginning to think for themselves.