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Rains wash away Mount Obama in Charlotte, N.C. (sand Obama!)
Washington Times ^ | September 1, 2012

Posted on 09/01/2012 1:58:22 PM PDT by SMGFan

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A torrential downpour that struck Charlotte Saturday afternoon damaged the Mount Rushmore-style sand sculpture bust of President Obama — an ominous beginning to what many fear is a plagued convention. Workers were trying Saturday afternoon to reform the base of the sculpture, built from sand brought in from Myrtle Beach, S.C., pounding and smoothing out the sand that had washed off the facade. Democrats' choice of Charlotte has drawn criticism from unions who don't like North Carolina's labor laws, and the state seems to be tilting away from Democrats politically.

Read more: Rains wash away Mount Obama in Charlotte, N.C. - Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/sep/1/rains-wash-away-mount-obama/#ixzz25FnnkkT5

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: elections; obama; obamasculpture; obamastatue; shiftingsands
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To: Bertha Fanation

Was trying to recall that very verse when I saw thins post. Thanks


41 posted on 09/01/2012 2:15:13 PM PDT by prov1813man (While the one you despise and ridicule works to protect you, those you embrace work to destroy you)
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To: who knows what evil?

0bama and the DNC are pi$$ing themselves under pressure. Here’s PROOF.


42 posted on 09/01/2012 2:15:37 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: who knows what evil?
schadenfreude
43 posted on 09/01/2012 2:15:57 PM PDT by kingattax (99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
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To: Bertha Fanation

How appropriate!


44 posted on 09/01/2012 2:16:24 PM PDT by Em and Brets Mum ("Lips that speak knowledge are a rare jewel." - Proverbs 20:15)
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To: GoldenPup

Oh no, it's here on my deck.

45 posted on 09/01/2012 2:16:24 PM PDT by Utah Binger (Southern Utah where the world comes to see America)
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To: who knows what evil?
+ freude

:-) lol

46 posted on 09/01/2012 2:16:24 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: SMGFan
Obama cannot fill 15,000 seats for his acceptance speech. Free tickets to the public so he can pack them in like sardines and watch them faint.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. In the calm before Charlotte’s political whirlwind hits, thousands of area residents filed by huge-screen images of Mount Rushmore and the Statue of Liberty at the Time Warner Cable Arena and marveled at what lies ahead.

Organizers billed Friday’s public tour of the convention hall as the first of three free public events to thank Charlotteans for their support.

Monday brings CarolinaFest 2012, a street festival in uptown Charlotte featuring musical performers, children’s activities and vendors.

On Thursday, thousands of campaign volunteers and members of the public will attend Obama’s acceptance speech at Bank of America Stadium.

Elsie Davis of Charlotte, 55, waited in line for seven hours last weekend to get tickets for the president’s speech and came to the arena preview tour.

“It’s amazing that we can just come in here,” she said. “It’s like we’re a part of it.”

Charlotte resident Sheila Cummings agreed. “To know I can look at the TV and say I was there ... it’s amazing,” she said.

Organizers budgeted $7 million to prepare the arena, which will seat 15,000.

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/08/31/3492889/arenas-dnc-makeover-unveiled.html#storylink=cpy

47 posted on 09/01/2012 2:16:32 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: AnAmericanMother

Have heard this song since a child.

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


48 posted on 09/01/2012 2:17:54 PM PDT by SMGFan (SMGfan is not "Sub Machine Gun" fan)
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To: kingattax; tomkat

That’s the one...thank you both!


49 posted on 09/01/2012 2:17:58 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: SMGFan

A fitting bit of imagery to follow that provided by a certain movie icon a couple of days ago.


50 posted on 09/01/2012 2:20:21 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

51 posted on 09/01/2012 2:22:46 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Utah Binger

I like the empty chair..snicker snicker..


52 posted on 09/01/2012 2:23:33 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: SMGFan

And so castles made of sand melt into the sea, eventually—Jimi Hendrix


53 posted on 09/01/2012 2:23:33 PM PDT by Califreak (Obama.... Get off my lawn!)
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To: LS
Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually (Hendrix)

XD

54 posted on 09/01/2012 2:24:19 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Romney, why do you have to be on the ticket?!)
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To: GnL

They loaded 15 tons of sand from there.

Sing it Mr Cash.
You Load 16 tons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfp2O9ADwGk


55 posted on 09/01/2012 2:25:21 PM PDT by SMGFan (SMGfan is not "Sub Machine Gun" fan)
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To: SMGFan

Hey,let’s build a sand castle outside, what could possibly go wrong?


56 posted on 09/01/2012 2:25:25 PM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: smoothsailing

Spitting image.....

Sort of a giant etch-a-sketch.


57 posted on 09/01/2012 2:27:28 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: dfwgator

And rain, in North Carolina...no one could see that one coming.


58 posted on 09/01/2012 2:27:44 PM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: Tzar

That is funny right there LOL. These morons that erect idols to this doofus are the epitome of lunatic fringe.


59 posted on 09/01/2012 2:27:44 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: smoothsailing

I’m slow -— LOVE the teleprompter. LOL!!


60 posted on 09/01/2012 2:27:56 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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