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.

[Nam Vet]

Gotta be angle of the shot, cropping ....... something looks odd. Waterfront Park is not as wide and expansive as the shot looks. You SHOULD see either trees or the Willamette River somewhere. I will say there are a lot of Obamarama signs around town, but you have to understand that these socialist idiots voluntarily voted a county income tax in. Also the only American buried in the Kremlin Wall came from here.

Nam Vet

[CedarDave]

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decemberists

[CedarDave]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLi_m656tQQ

[FreedomPoster]

Cult of Personality
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RZ5SVDYBNrY

[TornadoAlley3]

7am -9am eastern time...Washington Journal. C-SPAN

[Rome2000]

Looks like his supporters are all of the people the Founders warned against giving the vote to.

[Rome2000]

The "Hope" kid is probably going to vote absentee.

This pic says a million words, chief among them that the 26th Amendment was a very, very, bad idea.

[TornadoAlley3]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kti-42IR82A

video of rally

[the invisib1e hand]

that is f-r-e-a-k-i-n-g s-c-a-r-y.

[the invisib1e hand]

"All of you young airheads, pinkos, fuzzbumpers, socialists, political morons, latte drinkers, trannys, elevated thinkers, child molesters, bed sniffers and Muslim racists...I welcome you!"

bwahahah!

The only thing missing is Jimi Hendrix and mud.

Another thing Obama has in common with Woodstock is the little publicized fact that the Black Panthers extorted the promoters for "security" payments.

[CedarDave]

that is f-r-e-a-k-i-n-g s-c-a-r-y.

Indeed, as is the news video linked in #188 above.

[Osage Orange]

But if he does win, he's going to make Mugabee look like Pope Benedict XVI.

Oh, please..!!

[AuntB]

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

McCAin didn’t care enough about Oregon to pay the $100 to get on the ballot or in the voter’s pamphlet. Oregon doesn’t know there is a republican running!

[ctdonath2]

our president doesn't really wield that kind of power

Beware a president who leads a cult of personality, leading a passionate host of utterly devoted followers who care not what he actually says or does but who will do anything to support & defend him. He has the means to persuade Congress. The difference you observed is the crux of the issue: THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE save the completion of a repeating phase of history; the German congress had to be dealt with ... and indeed it was.

[ctdonath2]

Sometimes the reference is, in fact, relevant & suitable.

[Boagenes]

Please, what? You think I'm engaging in hyperbole? I'm not. Not in the least. This guy has pulled the wool over everyones eyes, he's putting on an act for "Whitey". If you think this guy is who he appears to be, think again. He sat in a vehemently anti-white church for 20 years listening to the vilest and most vicious attacks on "Whitey" by a venom filled, racist preacher.

If you don't think this guy isn't going to go bonkers, if he should obtain the Presidency, you're woefully naive. His operations and his "machine" against his enemies is going to make the Clinton's look like pikers. Watch for it. The first attack, once he obtains office, will be like Chavez in Venezuela and it will come against talk radio and Fox News. He will go after all the outlets of opposition and shut them down. And that's just going to be the start.

[TornadoAlley3]

John Kerry rally draws 80,000

[PurpleMan]

I was refering to “Reductio ad Hitlerum” logic - or lack thereof. Obama rallies has a “Hitler-esque” quality to them, therefore he is a present day Hitler.

http://www.americanvision.org/articlearchive/06-30-06.asp

[Big Horn]

They should charge admission and give the money to the poor.
I don’t understand where people have nothing better to do that listen to that fake. Don’t anyone there like to fish, work in the yard, or save their money.

[Big Horn]

I am not sure Hitler was as radical.