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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: kcvl; All
This is off-topic, but concerns Obama.

Why don't we seize the opportunity provided by the MSM's deification of Obama to permanently de-claw the IRS?

This post (<-click), while addressing taxes, helps to explain why government "leaders" like Obama are actually in contempt of the Constitution that they have sworn to defend, foolishly following in the footsteps of FDR's dirty federal spending politics. In fact, the article referenced below shows that Obama is the #1 federal spending proposer in the Senate for '08; Clinton is #2.

Obama, a big-shot federal spender
The people need to reconnect with the Founder's division of federal and state government powers. The people then need to wise up to the major problem that the federal government is not operating within the restraints of the federal Constitution, particularly where constitutionally unauthorized federal spending is concerned.

The bottom line is that the people need to send big-shot, Constitution-ignoring federal spenders like Obama home as opposed to trying to send people like him to the Oval Office. The people need to get in the faces of the feds, demanding a stop to constitutionally unauthorized federal spending while appropriately lowering federal taxes - or get out of DC.

41 posted on 05/18/2008 5:26:53 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: kcvl
Kerry drew 80,000 once. He still lost.
42 posted on 05/18/2008 5:28:50 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: CedarDave

Last year ICE raided a food processing plant in Portland, they arrested over 150 illegals and the Mayor (former police chief of Portland) was outraged. Just a little insight into there government.


43 posted on 05/18/2008 5:28:50 PM PDT by jazusamo (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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To: kcvl
Big deal... the Democratic race is still a contest; Hillary is still drawing crowds
44 posted on 05/18/2008 5:28:51 PM PDT by dangus
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To: kcvl

45 posted on 05/18/2008 5:29:16 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Everytime McCain reaches out to conservatives, conservatives get poked in the eye.)
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To: All

Ought to plaster this all over lib political website in Oregon:

View this and then come back and tell me you want Baraq Hussein Mohammed Obama for your president:

http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/
He is supported by the same kind of terrorist who did this.
Elect him and you’ll get what you deserve.

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46 posted on 05/18/2008 5:30:41 PM PDT by cyberella
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

caption: 'the endless sea of stupidity'

47 posted on 05/18/2008 5:30:59 PM PDT by Eye On The Left
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To: Phlap

"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!"

48 posted on 05/18/2008 5:31:17 PM PDT by jetson
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To: afortiori

That’s about the size of it.

Media manipulation.

Is it any wonder Hitler was elected by the ignorant sheeple?


49 posted on 05/18/2008 5:33:36 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: jazusamo

Sheesh!

there=their


50 posted on 05/18/2008 5:33:57 PM PDT by jazusamo (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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To: kcvl; All

Amazon Book Review:
"Vastly Illuminating!" September 25, 2004
By Kat Bakhu

"I had long wondered why people on the Left had the propensity to speak more positively about people who would slit their throats than they do about their own country, which affords them more freedom and opportunity than anywhere else. David Horowitz has answered that question thoroughly and convincingly in his Unholy Alliance. Where I felt bewildered and confused, I now feel crystal clear. Unholy Alliance is such a great book.

It begins with the leftist movements at the beginning of the 20th Century, and works its way up to the present day, exploring the anti-American attitude of these movements in detail. Horowitz shows that the enemies of the US back then are largely the same group today, operating under the same misperceptions, making the same mistakes, and pursuing the same impossible utopia.

Individual chapters are included on the Patriot Act (I was persuaded that it is a GOOD thing); the democratic flip-flop on Iraq once G.W. Bush implemented what they agreed with Clinton needed to be done; the driving components of the current anti-war movement; as well as chapters on individual personalities who are major spokespeople of the Left. Horowitz covers a lot of ground, and he covers it concisely and clearly. Unholy Alliance is richly informative without ever being boring or plodding.

This book is so illuminating that I simply cannot do justice to it here. I love people who reason so clearly that they help me get my own reasoning clear. Horowitz is just that type of person! In the terrain of mindless clichés (no-blood-for-oil, etc.), he is a breath of real fresh air."

http://www.amazon.com/Unholy-Alliance-Radical-Islam-American/dp/089526076X

____________________________________________________________________

"David Horowitz talked about his book Party of Defeat: How Democrats and Radicals Undermined America's War on Terror Before and After 9-11, published by Spence. In his book he criticizes members of the Democratic Party that, he says, are undermining the U.S.'s efforts in Iraq. This event was held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C."

Watch now on c-span video: Party of Defeat: How Democrats and Radicals Undermined America's War on Terror Before and After 9-11
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=205154-1&highlight=

51 posted on 05/18/2008 5:35:21 PM PDT by Eye On The Left
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To: kcvl; All

"Shortly after taking office in 1985, Kerry and Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa went on a fact-finding trip to Nicaragua, where they met with Daniel Ortega (right) and other Sandinistas. The trip was criticized when the Sandinistas cemented ties with Moscow."
http://cache.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/images/day6/01b.jpg

The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine
Monday , May 5, 2008
FoxNews/Hannity's America
[special Friday night edition--original airdate May 2, 2008]

(some key excerpts)

JOSE DIAZ-BALART, TELEMUNDO NETWORK: "Liberation theology in Nicaragua in the mid-1980's was a pro-Sandinista, pro-Marxist, anti-U.S., anti-Catholic Church movement. That's it. No ifs, ands, or buts. His church apparently supported, in the mid-'80s in Nicaragua, groups that supported the Sandinista dictatorships and that were opposed to the Contras whose reason for being was calling for elections. That's all I know. I was there.

I saw the churches in Nicaragua that he spoke of, and the churches were churches that talked about the need for violent revolution and I remember clearly one of the major churches in Managua where the Jesus Christ on the altar was not Jesus Christ, he was a Sandinista soldier, and the priests talked about the corruption of the West, talked about the need for revolution everywhere, and talked about 'the evil empire' which was the United States of America."

REV. BOB SCHENCK, NATIONAL CLERGY COUNCIL: "it's based in Marxism. At the core of his [Wright's] theology is really an anti-Christian understanding of God, and as part of a long history of individuals who actually advocate using violence in overthrowing those they perceive to be oppressing them, even acts of murder have been defended by followers of liberation theology. That's very, very dangerous."

SCHENCK: "I was actually the only person escorted to Dr. Wright. He asked to see me, and I simply welcomed him to Washington, and then I said Dr. Wright, I want to bring you a warning: your embrace of Marxist liberation theology. It is contrary to the Gospel, and you need, sir, to abandon it. And at that he dropped the handshake and made it clear that he was not in the mood to dialogue on that point."

The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html

Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate
Kathy Shaidle, FrontPageMag.com
Monday, April 07, 2008

In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obama’s pastor in a heated interview about his Church’s teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to "Black Liberation Theology"...

Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of "salvation" in the afterlife is superseded by "liberation" on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30CD9E14-B0C9-4F8C-A0A6-A896F0F44F02

From "45 Communist Goals":
#27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

52 posted on 05/18/2008 5:37:38 PM PDT by Eye On The Left
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To: kcvl

If the crypto-muslim isn’t elected POTUS this time, he or somebody just as evil and insane will be soon.

After the damage inflicted by the 8 year reign of the socialist crook Clinton, America dodged a bullet with algore in 2000, but there are just too many imbeciles that have been given the franchise via constitutional amendment and Motor Voter to hold back the tide for long.

As if the fact that Nancy Pelosi is Speaker of the House wasn’t evidence enough that is all over but the shouting for this Republic.

With the franchise expanded to every idiot in the nation and now illegal aliens voting to boot, this Republic is doomed anyway.

It was a nice try, but the Founders warned against expanding the franchise to the landless, women, and those under 21, and we just didn’t listen.

Constitutional amendments 15,19,24,26 and Motor Voter have finally tilted the balance forever towards socialism.

The Republic is in decline, the Founders warnings not heeded.

Its all downhill from here.


53 posted on 05/18/2008 5:37:45 PM PDT by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: Eye On The Left
"Revolt With A Vote"?

You have to admit; every O'bama vote IS revolting.

54 posted on 05/18/2008 5:38:03 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: kcvl
Has the Drudge report owned by Soros now ? His website looks like a non stop Obama For President press release.
It is sad to see how over the top he is for Obama . What the heck happened to him ?
55 posted on 05/18/2008 5:39:03 PM PDT by ncalburt
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To: kcvl
They were all promised an Orange Mocha Frappuchino!


56 posted on 05/18/2008 5:40:41 PM PDT by Cvengr (Fear sees the problem emotion never solves. Faith sees & accepts the solution, problem solved.)
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To: Phlap



57 posted on 05/18/2008 5:42:37 PM PDT by Zombie Lincoln (McCain/<conservative_placeholder> '08)
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To: 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.

Or like Caligula. Here's one black preacher's drawing parallels between Caligula and BHO:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ysar571oxUA

58 posted on 05/18/2008 5:46:02 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: kcvl
citing figures from Duane Bray, battalion chief of Portland Fire & Rescue

I respect his name and his office. Having said that, I find it fitting that he in particular should be telling us about Donkey party speeches.

59 posted on 05/18/2008 5:47:36 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: jazusamo
Last year ICE raided a food processing plant in Portland, they arrested over 150 illegals and the Mayor (former police chief of Portland) was outraged. Just a little insight into there government.

I remember that. Here in NM, ICE arrested a couple of illegals in Santa Fe and the leftist mayor was equally outraged.

60 posted on 05/18/2008 5:50:04 PM PDT by CedarDave (McCain: Wants to cut 18¢ off the gas tax but add $5 per gallon with cap-and-trade carbon legislatio)
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