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Record Obama Crowd, the Size of a City
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/05/18/record_obama_crowd_the_size_of.html ^

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: 2008; barackobama; cult; demagogues; democrats; obama; obamamessiah; obamanation; or2008
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To: modest proposal
Personally I think a lot of my club mtv generation screech for Obama because they think he is sexy or something. yuckola.

I think that they're sick of the same old geezers that have been in politics for the last fifty years just like we are. They're looking for something new. It's just that they're looking in the wrong place. :(

161 posted on 05/18/2008 9:28:20 PM PDT by Lijahsbubbe
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To: basil
"My hope is that there are enough "real" freedom loving Americans left that will finally wake up and say NO MORE!"

Don't worry about this clown Oboma. Calm down.
Good Americans can see straight through this guy.
His wife will bring him down.
His past will bring him down.
His lack of experience will bring him down.

Good to see you here "sweetie". It will happen.

162 posted on 05/18/2008 9:29:18 PM PDT by AGreatPer (The Penguins in 5. Did I call that or what? Now the the Championship.)
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To: ncalburt; martin_fierro
I think your source is wrong, ncalburt. From the Portland Oregonian newspaper:

Obama was the biggest star at Sunday's gathering -though a popular Portland band, The Decemberists, provided the warm-up act. With blue skies and temperatures in the 80s, thousands waited in lines that snaked through downtown Portland streets.
Obama rallies tens of thousands at Portland waterfront

Nothing about Dave Mathews or free beer.

163 posted on 05/18/2008 9:31:52 PM PDT by CedarDave (Obama: We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees ...)
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To: CedarDave

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks to people at Waterfront Park in Portland, Ore., Sunday, May 18, 2008.

speaking to a crowd filled with sunscreen-smeared babies in sun hats, union members in matching T-shirts, elderly ladies fanning themselves under the hot sun and twenty-somethings dancing to his opening act, the Portland-based band The Decemberists.

164 posted on 05/18/2008 9:32:59 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Lijahsbubbe

I kinda like the whole geezer thing because old men are crabby and don’t like too much meddling with how things are. Maybe not as old as McCain but still good n’ geezery.

Although I wouldn’t mind voting for someone like the president of France’s son.


165 posted on 05/18/2008 9:33:11 PM PDT by modest proposal (Vote Obama: Support inviting anti-American zealots into the white house for tea.)
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To: CedarDave

http://tinyurl.com/6ynt85

May 16, 2008

The Decemberists have announced that they will perform at a rally supporting US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama this weekend.

The Portland rockers will give a free show at their hometown rally at The Bowl in Waterfront Park.

Their set will be followed by a speech from Obama.

Tickets are not required, but RSVPs are strongly encouraged. Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis.

For additional information or to RSVP, visit My.barackobama.com.

—By our Los Angeles staff.


166 posted on 05/18/2008 9:36:08 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: modest proposal

LOL! I know what you’re saying!


167 posted on 05/18/2008 9:38:21 PM PDT by Lijahsbubbe
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To: basil

Can you name them?


168 posted on 05/18/2008 9:39:51 PM PDT by sport
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To: CedarDave

Singin’ Colin Meloy, Chris Funk, Jenny Conlee, Nate Query, and recent solo-flyer John Moen will join the Obama-non himself for a free rally at the Bowl at Portland’s Waterfront Park this Sunday, May 18. Gates open at 12:30 p.m. PDX time. For more info and RSVP details, head here.

Apart from this bit of politicking, the Decemberists have only one other show coming up: a sweater-tuggers’ love-in with Death Cab for Cutie and Rogue Wave in Bend, Oregon later this month.

Obamaists:

05-18 Portland, OR - The Bowl at Waterfront Park (Barack Obama Rally) *


169 posted on 05/18/2008 9:40:44 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: CedarDave
Thanks. They were advertising a free concert and drinks in one of those local free Seattle rags . the D Mathews band support the Osama but I got from that another poster.
170 posted on 05/18/2008 9:55:12 PM PDT by ncalburt
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To: kcvl

Are they named for the “Decembrists” who revolted against Tsar Nicholas?

....or does their sense of history not extend that far?


171 posted on 05/18/2008 9:55:45 PM PDT by Enchante (Barack Chamberlain: My 1930s Appeasement Policy Goes Well With My 1960s Socialist Policies!)
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To: Enchante
Named both in reference to the Russian Decembrist Revolt (which may explain its use of the National Anthem of the Soviet Union as an introduction at many concerts) and to the atmosphere associated with the month of December.

The band's official biography, keeping up their reputation for intentionally over-the-top grandiloquence, describes how they met in a Turkish bath. A footnote following the biography claims, "The Decemberists travel exclusively by Dr. Herring's Brand Dirigible Balloons."

172 posted on 05/18/2008 10:05:24 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Enchante

The Decemberists, a indie rock band from Portland, named themselves after a Russian revolutionary group.

Not many bands seek out the label of “hyper-literate prog rock.” But with their upbeat, folk influenced pop, the Portland-based The Decemberists have taken control of that emerging indie rock genre. The band’s lyrics “skip across history … and overflow with mellifluous rhymes” [Entertainment Weekly] to reveal “a wit so bizarre and vaudevillian beauty so ultimately endearing” [Alternative Press].


173 posted on 05/18/2008 10:08:11 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Enchante

I think I'll stick to country music.

174 posted on 05/18/2008 10:12:14 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl

How appropriate for Obama to associate himself with the namesakes of a Russian revolutionary group — perhaps Bill Ayers introduced them.

Don’t think the Decembrists in Russia were too fearsome as a revolutionary group though - that was in the days when anyone who challenged Tsarist rule was considered a “revolutionary” - even if all they wanted was a constitutional monarchy with a democratic parliament.


175 posted on 05/18/2008 10:12:49 PM PDT by Enchante (Barack Chamberlain: My 1930s Appeasement Policy Goes Well With My 1960s Socialist Policies!)
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176 posted on 05/18/2008 10:13:34 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: cyberella

Still the best 9/11 memorial documentary ever made—and it was thrown together within 24 hours of the attacks. I’ve seen it more than a dozen times, and it never fails to move me.


177 posted on 05/18/2008 10:30:57 PM PDT by giotto
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To: kcvl
I think I'll stick to country music.

Oh boy! I'm with you!

178 posted on 05/18/2008 10:52:31 PM PDT by CedarDave (Obama: We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees ...)
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To: kcvl
Named both in reference to the Russian Decembrist Revolt (which may explain its use of the National Anthem of the Soviet Union as an introduction at many concerts)...

It would be great if they played that as an introduction to Obama's concert. Anyone know??

179 posted on 05/18/2008 10:54:40 PM PDT by CedarDave (Obama: We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees ...)
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To: holdonnow
Named both in reference to the Russian Decembrist Revolt (which may explain its use of the National Anthem of the Soviet Union as an introduction at many concerts) and to the atmosphere associated with the month of December.

The band's official biography, keeping up their reputation for intentionally over-the-top grandiloquence, describes how they met in a Turkish bath. A footnote following the biography claims, "The Decemberists travel exclusively by Dr. Herring's Brand Dirigible Balloons."

This band (Decembrists) played the warmup to Obama. No word on whether they played the Soviet National Anthem instead of ours.

180 posted on 05/18/2008 10:59:15 PM PDT by CedarDave (Obama: We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees ...)
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