Posted on 05/18/2008 4:46:11 PM PDT by 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.
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Stupid old ladies. Soft brains.
All they need is suitable music for a lunatic leftwing hugfest:
“Lemmings Lament”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg-2DTLlDOM&feature=related
peace, love, and death!!
“We are lemmings, we are crazy.....”
I found this on Jeff Mapes blog for The Oregonian; enjoy.
“PENDLETON-While it sounds like there was a truly huge crowd for Barack Obama in Portland, I missed it in favor of covering the Illinois senator in a city that doesn’t usually see Democratic presidential candidates.
(Full disclosure: I happened to be on the east side of the Cascades watching my niece, Jennifer Gilbert, graduate from Whitman College in Walla Walla. Bill Gates Sr. gave the commencement address and jocularly told the parents that, unlike him, at least they could get their kids to graduate from college).
At this point, I’m waiting along with more than 3,000 people - not bad for a town of not quite 17,000 - for Obama to arrive. What’s clear is that the long primary contest between Obama and Clinton has energized activists in parts of the country that usually don’t hear much from the Democrats.
“It really is a surprise that he’d come out this way, particularly in Pendleton,” said Armand Minthorn, a tribal leader for the Confederated Tribes of Umatilla. “Big cities get all the attention.”
That’s changed this year. Obama and Clinton have courted tribal leaders around the country, and other Democratic pockets of rural Oregon are coming alive. Tonight, I saw a lot of union members, college students and other Democratic activists streaming in the door. (I should add there was also a good-size contingent from nearby Walla Walla, just across the border in Washington.)
Except for a couple of Happy Canyon Indian princesses in the front row, the crowd doesn’t look all that dissimilar from what you’d see in the Willamette Valley. There’s hardly a cowboy hat in the crowd, even if we are just next door to the rodeo grounds that is home to the famous Pendleton Round-up.
Shelley Cimon, a state contractor working on cleanup issues at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, said more than 80 people attended a recent grass-roots meeting for the Obama campaign.
“It’s huge,” she said. “We’ve got Republicans in Eastern Oregon that are working for Obama. He’s able to reach a tremendous cultural breadth of people.”
That doesn’t mean Eastern Oregon is going to turn blue. “I think people are faith-based more around here,” said Ron Emmons, a fourth-grade teacher from Hermiston. “It doesn’t matter what happens. They don’t change their minds very much.”
But if the east-of-the-mountain Democrats can keep this energy going in the fall, they’re going to make Oregon all that harder for the Republicans to contest in November.”
We need to make more folks aware by calling talk shows, etc., as to what kind of person Obama really is.
For instance, Obama is the strongest, supporter of the Black Holocaust, abortion.
“Obama has spent a scant two years in the Senate but served eight years at the Illinois capitol in Springfield.
During that time, Obama voted AGAINST (emphasis mine) a bill that received national attention and would protect babies born alive after botched abortions.”
http://www.lifenews.com/nat2877.html
Obama wanted born-alive babies to be left to die on a shelf.
I don’t follow Drudge but I wonder if he cynically realizes that an Obama presidency could be great for (his) business??
Not good for the country, but there would be plenty of far-left loons welcomed into the WH and eased into appointed posts throughout the govt, so there would be non-stop controversies and scandals.
Obama will only need to call McCain a racist only once and ask that McCain quit, and McCain will do just that!
The Jehovah’s Witness convention every year in Tucson fills the stadium, close to 60,000. He’s also become somewhat of a news blip you know. People like to see stuff.
Just get out and vote McCain.
Ditto...
Do we need to stoop to that level to win the argument?
If so, maybe we don’t deserve to win it...
Bill Clinton may switch sides just so he can troll the crowds that Obama generates, picking up chicks....
That Obama can draw such a large crowd in Portland is simply an indication that he is so much of a socialist, he can’t win in many states.
McCain will beat him soundly.
The ignorance of American’s is overwhelming.....or so it seems. We’ll see if the “Wilder” effect becomes an issue...
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Replied the fiend, "but each thing has its time. The day is short, and it is now past prime, And yet have I won not a thing this day.
I will attend to winning, if I may, And not our different notions to declare. For, brother mine, your wits are all too bare
To understand, though I told mine fully. But since you ask me why thus labour we- Well, sometimes we are God's own instruments And means to do His orders and intents, When so He pleases, upon all His creatures, In divers ways and shapes, and divers features. Without Him we've no power, 'tis certain, If He be pleased to stand against our train.
And sometimes, at our instance, have we leave Only the body, not the soul, to grieve; As witness job, to whom we gave such woe. And sometimes have we power of both, you know, That is to say, of soul and body too. And sometimes we're allowed to search and do That to a man which gives his soul unrest, And not his body, and all is for the best.
And when one does withstand all our temptation, It is the thing that gives his soul salvation; Albeit that it was not our intent
He should be saved; we'd have him impotent. And sometimes we are servants unto man, As to that old archbishop, Saint Dunstan, And to the apostles servant once was I." "Yet tell me," said the summoner, "faithfully, Make you yourselves new bodies thus alway Of elements?"
The fiend replied thus: "Nay. Sometimes we feign them, sometimes we arise
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