Record Obama Crowd, the Size of a City

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/05/18/record_obama_crowd_the_size_of.html ^

[kcvl]

Record Obama Crowd, the Size of a City By Matthew Mosk

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Sen. Barack Obama has seen his share of large crowds over the last 15 months, but his campaign said they have not approached the numbers gathered along the waterfront here right now.

The campaign, citing figures from Duane Bray, battalion chief of Portland Fire & Rescue, estimated that 75,000 people are watching him speak.

The scene suggests this is not an exaggeration. The sea of heads stretches for half a mile along the grassy embankment, while others watch from kayaks and power boats bobbing on the Willamette River. More hug the rails of the steel bridge that stretches across the water and crowds are even watching from jetties on the opposite shore.

[Hildy]

More people showed up to hear Rush Limbaugh at Dan’s Bake Sale...so what?

[buck jarret]

Since it’s Portland, imagine the smell. Bare feet. Dreads. Ugh.

[RoseofTexas]

This is one reason I shake in my boots....AMERICANS have been bamboozled by a TERRORIST LOVING MUSLIM!! There is no way McNUT can win against this evil man. WE ARE COOKED! The Obamessiah will be OUR next president. GOD HELP US! Never seeing anything like this only in text books during Hitler's reign!

[ExTexasRedhead]

Kind of like one of Hitler’s early rallies stirring up the masses. Both are (or were) so charismatic don’t ya know and both are just as destructive.

[Clemenza]

You forgot the Pachouli oil!

Portland is Seattle with better public transportation and a higher unemployment rate.

[RC2]

The Anti-Christ has arrived? Oregon, at one time, was highly conservative. I lived there years ago for 18 years. Mostly Californians now....go figure.

[Fintan]

 

[afortiori]

The Obama Rally, from Two Angles Posted by: Mary Katharine Ham. Reynolds Coliseum on N.C. State's campus seats 12,400 people. It did not seat that many tonight. Behold, the power of political staging: The Obama rally, as seen on TV (above)

[basil]

The difference between Hitler and our form of government is that our president doesn't really wield that kind of power. Even if Obama Hussein gets elected, he still will have Congress and the people to deal with. Remember, among the dims in Congress, quite a few are conservative dims.

I'm not quite ready to go sit in the corner and sulk just yet.

[Alright_on_the_LeftCoast]

Portland is the arm pit of the NW..Seattle the Ahole....period!

[modest proposal]

Remeber that is just one city.

America is a big place and there are alot of us ‘typical white people’ out there ready to vote against this nut.

If he wins I think all red states should secede from the union. Although that would be a mess where I live in the deep south ha!

Oh what a mess. If they don’t get they obammy theys gonna be mad

[soupcon]

Kind of like one of Hitler’s early rallies stirring up the masses. Both are (or were) so charismatic don’t ya know and both are just as destructive.
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You know the rulw....
the first one to mention Hitler loses the argument.

[soupcon]

Yeah, the polar opposite of Buloxi.

[Eye On The Left]

Geez, with all this attention he's been getting, you'd think he was the second coming of Mao.

Let Screwy Louie explain...

Louis Farrakhan, at the annual Saviours' Day celebration in Chicago, Feb. 25, 2008: "This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better"..."If you look at Barack Obama's audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed."
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=4337417

Louis Farrakhan, at the Millions More Movement rally in DC, Oct 15, 2005: "...what Mao Tse Tung did was, he went to the cultural community, and they [Farrakhan spreads his arms beneficently] accepted his idea."..."Mao Tse Tung ... had a billion people whose lives he had to transform."..."the idea of Mao Tse Tung became the idea of a billion people, and China became a world power on the base of the culture and the arts community. If we had a ministry of art and culture in every city we'd create this movement [in the U.S.]."
Source: http://thedrunkablog.blogspot.com/2005/10/communist-plot-noted.html

Louis Farrakhan, Santiago de Cuba, February, 1998: "There is not a member of the black masses in the United States who is not proud of the example set by Cuba and its revolution, with Comandante Fidel at its head"
Source: http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/farakhan21898.html#says

[Paige]

This is the Washington Post; they have no desire but to support and report on those they back.

They believe Obama is their answer to taking back the Oval Office, and to be honest, unless McCain does something earth shattering soon, other than show his liberal side, Obama will be the next president of the United States.

Oh Joy, a true Socialist in office because the GOP, Conservatives, and other to the right could not agree. Now we have this that will have to be cleaned up after four years.

Four Years of Obama and a Democrat Congress, God help America.

[Ron in Acreage]

McCain got 40 at the local hospice center. They were a captive audience.