Heh:
“Were they handing out free granola?”
– Blogs of War, responding to the news reports that between 65,000 and 75,000 people were on hand for an Obama tent revival rally in Oregon on Sunday.
Caption: Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks to people at Waterfront Park in Portland, Ore., Sunday, May 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Personally, I think distributing smelling salts to the masses would have been the far more humanitarian thing to do …
AJ Strata has more on some of what the O-man said at the rally, including Obama’s global warming warnings, and what an Obama administration will not allow - like continuing to drive SUVs and leaving the thermostats in our homes set at 72, etc.
Give up SUVs? Wait til his hypocrite buddy John Edwards gets the news.
Obama himself switched from a gas guzzling V8 Hemi-powered Chrysler 300C to a hybrid SUV for personal use only in the last year, although it’s apparently a different story while on the campaign trail. I should note that he made the switch from gas guzzler to fuel efficient vehicle about a month after he made his “courageous” speech to Detroit business leaders and auto executives.
At a campaign rally in Oregon, BarryO launches into the classic Dem “scare the geezers” tactic: “McCain is a threat to your social security!”
Yeah, ole Barry is all about “change” huh? Riiiiiight!
Comment by Tango @ 5/19/2008 - 10:32 am
Just had a “GOP commercial we really need” moment.
I don’t know if you can wrap up the following in thirty seconds, but it would really drive the point home assuming people would pay the level of attention to it that I would.
Think of Jay Leno’s “jaywalking” format. The reporter shoves a microphone in the faces of random people and asks them, what things did you decide to do because a lot of other people were already doing them?
And he gets back answers like go to a rock concert, go to an Obama rally, take part in an anti-war demonstration, go to an Obama rally, smoke some dope, go to an Obama rally, jump off a bridge, go to an Obama rally…
Next question: How happy are you with those things you decided to do…and the answers are…kinda sorta, not very, I guess it would’ve gone all right without me, I was young & dumb, what can I say…seemed like a great idea at the time.
I dunno. Maybe there’s no effective way to get that message across. Things we do just because everyone else is already doing them, aren’t going to culminate in a demonstrably positive effect on anything. And maybe that’s the whole point. Having a notable and beneficial effect on something, an effect that wouldn’t take place if you were missing, can be a frightening thing to an immature mind.
Comment by Morgan K Freeberg @ 5/19/2008 - 10:58 am
Morgan you just reminded me of the “Buyers” remorse that the Dem party suffered in the 2004 election after John F. Kerry became their nominee. Especially after the way he “landed” in NYC for the convention. The more I see of BO, the more I think that these guys are going to have the same situation. Many of the more reasonable Democrats are going to lament and gnash their teeth over which ever nominee before this is all said and done.
I am still of the mindset that BO is not elegible to be President. The US Constitution says the President must be a natural born citizen. We trace lineage by the Father, not by the Mother. This would make BO a Kenyan, not an American. I am wondering if or when Hillary is going to protest his electablity in the court system over his paternal lineage. - Lorica
Comment by Lorica @ 5/19/2008 - 12:01 pm
Lorica, I don’t think your theory holds water, however I’d love to see the Dems and the MSM hoist by their own petard, after their slimy insinuations that McCain is not eligible from having been born in the Canal Zone.
I am not expecting even handedness, however. I just think it would be funny to see.
Comment by Steve Skubinna @ 5/19/2008 - 3:34 pm
Well I don’t see it as a theory, since his Father was never a citizen of the United States, and his Parents were only married for 2 years, not enough time for the marriage to give him citizenship. He is clearly half Kenyan / half American, which is exactly what the Founding Fathers were trying to avoid, someone whose allegencies were divided. With strick constructionist attitude, it could be presumed that this could be a problem for him. I would put nothing past Hillary, especially when things stop going so well for her. - Lorica
Comment by Lorica @ 5/19/2008 - 3:50 pm
He was born in Honolulu, so that makes him a US citizen.
All the same, I’m not averse to throwing it at him, since apparently we are not permitted to discuss his voting record, his lifetime associates, his criminal inner circle and advisers, his wife’s public statements, or his public statements. Nor are we permitted to say the word “appeasement.” And I think we’re all supposed to accept that there are 57 or more states in the US and that Arkansas is nearer Kentucky than is Illinois. And for God’s sake, don’t talk to him during his waffle time, sweetie!
So until Obama declares his birthplace off limits (probably by this afternoon) run with it.
Comment by Steve Skubinna @ 5/19/2008 - 4:19 pm
That Steve is a good point. One that has been argued on this very website. But none the less, I will concede your point. But I still wouldn’t put it past Hillary to try something along these lines. - Lorica
Comment by Lorica @ 5/19/2008 - 4:43 pm
Lorica, I’m waiting for Hilary to have a full bore Joan Crawford meltdown. We’re gonna find Bill in the den with a letter opener in his chest, and it won’t be by Colonel Mustard. I’m almost at the point where I feel sorry for her, but then I think of Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate (the original, of course) and see Hillary’s face superimposed.
Comment by Steve Skubinna @ 5/19/2008 - 5:36 pm
Yes, I can’t wait until a crying, snot nosed, Bill is curled up in a ball at the convention as his chances of getting back into the White House are so much dust in the wind. - Lorica
Comment by Lorica @ 5/19/2008 - 6:48 pm