Posted on 07/08/2008 10:35:21 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
This truly is the American Idol election.
Yesterday afternoon the big news was the fact that Barack Obama has decided to change venues for his acceptance speech at the Democrat National Convention.
Apparently the Pepsi Center, which holds 19,000 people, was not big enough for this American Idol candidate. Now he will accept the nomination in the stadium that is home of the Denver Broncos, which holds 76,000 people. That is quadruple the amount of people originally planned.
But Obama isn't the first candidate to make such a move ... John F. Kennedy apparently did something similar back in 1960. Oh and let's not forget the fact that Obama will be making this acceptance speech on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Had a Dream" speech.
Truth is, if Obama didn't know that he can parlay his rock star, American Idol status into a crowd of 76,000 he would stay indoors. Normally it would be tough for a politician to draw that many discerning, informed an intelligent voters to hear a speech ... but we really aren't talking about discerning, informed and intelligent voters now are we? We're talking about the victims of mass hysteria who faint not at what the object of their worship says, but at the very sight of him.
Seems that there have been other world leader wannabes who have held huge rallies in front of slavishly adoring followers in huge outdoor venues. Things, as I remember, didn't work out all that well for some of them.
Pray for rain.
C-17
Well you just keep your finger in the politically correct wind and sympathize with OHO. I think most people see the irony.
I was thinking of the picture of the Hitler Babes you used to juxtapose (I think that’s the first time I’ve ever actually used that word) with the swooning Obama Babes.
Or was that someone else posting those pictures?
Those wild-eyed people represent the millions of Americans raised in the government day-care and indoctrination centers we call public schools who did not have, or would not listen to, parents and others who tried to counterweight the propaganda they heard at school...who have been raised on 60 second sound bite time spans and know no better.
You have other tens of millions on the dole who will vote for him regardless of position because he promises to keep pilfering the public largess for them.
Still othes of millions will vote for him simply because he is black, not caring to hear or look at his actual positions.
Other millions will vote for him because they know exactly who he is and what he represents and agree with his anti-American positions.
The first three are all what is termed, useful idiots, a term coined by Lennin for the dupes he got to support him.
Against this it is left to us to educate, arouse, and amass the tens of millions of Americans, of all races and creeds, who understand and hold fast to the foundational principles our constitutional republic rests upon...many of them the bitter, rural Americans clinging to their guns and religion that Obama so arrogantly spoke of.
Finally, understand that this is not the first time in history that rock-star, messianic status has been conferred on a populist, charismatic individual in order to hand them the reigns of power. Although there are many critical differences, still it is important when you consider the danger that this candidate poses to American foreign policy, our economy, our social fabric, and to the war we are fighting against fanatical Islamic Jihad terrorists, to note the following comparison:
Simply put, Barack Hussein Obama is the apex of the hate-America, domestic enemy in this country. His election as president would be the greatest coup any enemy has ever scored against this country and could easily lead to the worst, horrific disaster in our nation's history.
Hillary? I can see it happening. There's a reason why she didn't let go of her delegates.
The Dems really have put themselves in a bad spot. Leading the ticket is Obama, who is very likely unelectable. If they pick Hillary! (who IMHO is more competent but unelectable in a fairly-run election), then large portions of Urban America get burned flat in the rioting...thus ensuring a Republican Win.
I think this election season is going to get ugly. We'll see how well behaved the Dems are in Denver. I'm thinking that it's '68 all over again, and McCain wins in a walk.
And, while I'm not an Obama supporter, I'm not in favor of McCain (who I don't like either) getting a "mandate", either. About the best that I'm hoping for is that McCain wins by a solid margin, and coattails some Republicans into the House and Senate. The gov't stays more-or-less divided 50/50, and stays tied in a knot for another 2-4 years.
That's what I'm hoping for. We'll see.
Bloody outrage how they elected that Schwarzenegger guy in California. Don’t they know the Nazis all had names like that?
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