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AMERICAblog: Check out the crowd at the Obama rally in Oregon yesterday

  • Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago
    Obama Rocks
  • Ginger_FL · 1 year ago
    Mr. President !!!

    Keep in mind...this crowd turned out for a Primary !!!
    Wow....imagine how large they'll be in Oct !!!!
  • stranded · 1 year ago
    This is so thrilling. It's such great news. I just have one fairly petty concern. I watched the local news link from the previous post, and again heard what I guess is the campaign's theme song--Signed, Sealed, Delivered. Why on earth would they choose a song with the lyrics "I've done a lot of foolish things that I really didn't mean." I can't believe that it hasn't been jumped on by the right wing machine. Apart from that, thanks to all those great people in Portland!
  • blackwolf · 1 year ago
    You know, I don't want to be the one to say it. But! Obama facing an eager crowd thirsting to hear a message of change...with a calm lake as a backdrop.....almost seems...."Biblical".
  • Monrocsol · 1 year ago
    I DON'T KNOW WHERE ALL YOU PEOPLE WILL BE WHEN MCCAIN BECOMES PRESIDENT.

    YOU WILL ALL HAVE TO HAVE THERAPY.

    THIS HAPPENS TO ALL OF YOU. OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
  • sittenpretty · 1 year ago
  • SINGING_TROLL · 1 year ago
    LOFL!
  • stranded · 1 year ago
    Bull For Sale. Priceless.
  • Milli · 1 year ago
    Hey, Hillary can still bring in a few hundred. In Clinton math, thats like 2 less than 75,000.
  • SINGING_TROLL · 1 year ago
    I don't think biblical...but...SPIRITUAL seems fitting.
    Obama has captured the human spirit and is it's proponent in an increasingly evil world, where our own party members have been willing to back neocons whether they be McCain or Hillary or HILLARY backing McCAIN, continuing our downward spiral. Well, NO MORE.

    GO OBAMA!
  • sittenpretty · 1 year ago
    this needs to be his new music theme

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pGht71KFkY
  • jr · 1 year ago
    "I can offer free pills at our rally to boost attendance"-Cindy McCain
  • SINGING_TROLL · 1 year ago
    sister morphine
  • 1billinnj2 · 1 year ago
    i am always inspired by these kind of pictures. this is the america that i know and love. i think he will make a great president.
  • blackwolf · 1 year ago
    I have to agree. This is the kind of America I want to see. This is the kind of America that will lead us into the new millennium. What you see in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia is a mind-set that has no real place in the future of this country. Thank God for the enlightened folks in these states. I'm grateful for "their" support of Obama.

    Change is on the way! Go on and say it! That crowd reminds you of a story right out of the Bible.
  • Deacon_Blues · 1 year ago
    I'm sure my enthusiasm will be tamped down by the coming Republican slime-fest, but for now -- ARE WE GONNA CLEAN MCCAIN'S CLOCK OR WHAT??!!!
  • SINGING_TROLL · 1 year ago
    Ladies and Gentlemen, our national anthem

    oh say can you see!

    Clean as a whistle.
  • maye · 1 year ago
    Look at all those white people. Do you suppose they all have graduate degrees?
  • Filo · 1 year ago
    They are all there to boo Obama. Haven't you heard Hillary's remix?
  • econprofes · 1 year ago
    It is amazing that John or nobody else on this blog is talking about the assissination threat that Huckkkabee made on Obama.

    http://mwcnews.net/content/view/22579/26/
  • John Aravosis · 1 year ago
    That's because we already wrote about it when it happened a few days ago :-)
  • Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago
    Actually, numbers do mean something, especially when landslide elections occur during the month of November.
  • Filo · 1 year ago
    Numbers, like small states are irrelevant. BWAHAHAHAHA
  • Monrocsol · 1 year ago
    tHE ONLY NUMBERS THAT COUNT, ARE THE ELECTORAL !!

    MCCAIN WILL WIN.
  • blackwolf · 1 year ago
    Mongrol...lol. The name fits. No doubt one of these butt-suckin' Repubs lurking in the airport restroom and blogging between wipes.........haaaaaaaaaaa!

    The GOP brand is poison! McCain's entire Fu*king staff is tainted. The only thing left....jackass....is for me to er ahhhhh....spend a little quality time with Cindy:)
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    More is revealed at a Bush, McCain or Clinton event by what the camera doesn't show...
    Beware participation numbers from a political event, "riot" or a "protest" shown only in teevee close ups from one direction.

    Example: The rarely rebroadcast footage of the the live "coverage" of the "celebrations" around the Saddam statue "falling"...
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    Wonderful!
  • Filo · 1 year ago
    My gravatar is an Obama float biting a Hillary float in the ass.
  • naschkatzehussein · 1 year ago
    You are not far off the mark, Filo. Drudge had a photo up from a parade in Germany with those big balloons like those in the Macy's Thanksgiving parade. One was a fat blond woman being pursued by the just as large a balloon of a dachshund, meant to be Hillary and Barack.
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    Do these numbers mean anything???

    President Bush plans to help John McCain fill his coffers at a high-dollar fund-raiser at the end of May...The reception is set for May 27 at the Phoenix Convention Center and is for donors who give $25,000 or more.

    Bet there'll be a whole lotta hugging going on...

    http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/05/17/bush-to...
  • OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago
    $25K? I thought the limit was $2300 per person. Will someone explain how they get away with that? Bundling? That should be outlawed. It's too easy to pad by a rich individual. The RNC has $140M; McCrazy supposedly has $40M. Obama has raised almost half a billion, and counting...even if you measure things in money (which Rethugs tend to do), Obama is the champ so far. In all things.
  • John Aravosis · 1 year ago
    Complicated, but it's $2300 a person for the general and $2300 for the primary to each candidate, so a total of $4600 to each candidate. Note that the article says "According to an article in The Politico, the money will be split between McCain campaign accounts and the Republican National Committee."
  • OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago
    Imagine the dancing in the streets in November! President Obama, President Obama, President Obama. What serendipity!
  • PeteWa · 1 year ago
    Nice crowd.
  • Hack · 1 year ago
    Singing Troll escribo:

    "I don't think biblical...but...SPIRITUAL seems fitting.
    Obama has captured the human spirit and is it's proponent in an increasingly evil world, where our own party members have been willing to back neocons whether they be McCain or Hillary or HILLARY backing McCAIN, continuing our downward spiral.
    Well, NO MORE."
    .
    .
    No more and never again.
  • TomsOld · 1 year ago
    Boy what a flash in the pan. If only hillary and McSame could generate such numbers !!! Thats 5x the number that live in my old home town.
  • Hack · 1 year ago
    Filo escribo:

    "My gravatar is an Obama float biting a Hillary float in the ass."



    Mine is Hillary burning in hell.
  • Hack · 1 year ago
    Maye escribo:

    "Look at all those white people. Do you suppose they all have graduate degrees?"



    They thought is was a rock concert not a Barrack concert.
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    What's a "stack" and why is mine overflowing???
  • nsr · 1 year ago
    Yeah, well, those big crowds, and delegates, and record-breaking online donations-- it's not as important as being married to the President!

    I hope Bill finally understands the consequences of his sellout. He had the opportunity to undo the "Reagan Revolution", and be the next FDR, and he threw it away to suck up to an elite that wanted only his destruction. The "inevitable" presidency of Hillary Clinton was built on a foundation of sand.
  • michaelt · 1 year ago
    ever catch yourself becoming hopeful again? Only to squash it down for fear of being too hopeful too early?


    yep, me too.
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    Must be photoshopped.

    Everybody knows white people don't like Obama.

    (snark)
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    You read the anonymous quotes about this or that Clinton operative dying to hook up with the Obama campaign for the general.

    This is probably one reason.
  • ChicagoKid · 1 year ago
    !
  • FatRat · 1 year ago
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn6zSDN95uE
    Video of the Obama rally. They even had people coming by boats.
  • naschkatzehussein · 1 year ago
    I'm glad CNN finally deigned to cover the event, but even then, they shaved off a mere 10,000 of the participants. The 75,000 tally comes from city officials, not the Obama campaign. He had a 3,500 by ticket only crowd in Pendleton later on in heavily Republican territory, but he received an "ear-splitting" welcome there too.
  • FatRat · 1 year ago
    The last time I saw that many people assembled by the water, Chalton Heston was parting the Red Sea. lol
  • kajc · 1 year ago
    I live in South Eastern Washington, not far from Pendleton, so our local media covered that event. There was ONLY 3,500 there because that's all the local fire marshall said was allowed in that place. Had it been outside like in Portland more people would have shown up! People were camped out all day after getting their tickets just to get a good seat too! All of this in a VERY rural part of Oregon!
  • naschkatzehussein · 1 year ago
    You don't have to apologize, John. Even though some would stereotype us Oregonians as all hippies, what you had there in Waterfront Park were 75,000 working whites for Obama. You can't show those pictures enough.
  • tbhull · 1 year ago
    Slightly OT, but Drudge has a link to a reported Obama quote from this rally as follows:

    "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.

    Does anyone have the language lifted between the "..." from the quote?
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    Despite images like this, and being shut out of the 24-hour news cycle since Bush addressed the Knesset, HRC ("I'm Still Here") announces this morning that she is owed the nom since the states she's won add up to 300 electoral college votes, versus Obama's 217. But: if early primary states like California were to revote today, it's clear that she'd lose some of those numbers... And the NYT also quotes some bitter enders among HRC's older, white female fans...
  • tbhull · 1 year ago
    HRC iks irrelevant at this point. Just put her on ignore. Her day was yestrrday, not today or tomorrow. She needs to prepare for the coming days spent spit shining President Obama's shoes and carrying his water as the junior Sentaor from New York.
  • oregonienne · 1 year ago
    I was there volunteering, and it was an amazing event. Lots of people on the river on their boats, kayaks, and canoes, people all along the streets who couldn't get in to the park, and a line to get in that went at least twenty blocks. It was HOT and I'm sunburned, but it was worth it! The crowd was great, lots of enthusiasm.
  • dr_arthur_ide · 1 year ago
    Such large numbers of people at a rally was common in the Third Reich. Adolf and Barrack both won crowds with empty rhetoric and emotionalism. Hilter, like Obama, appealed to the young and while Hitler had his Nazi Youth, Obama has his Team Obama. They are identical, using threats and extortion and intimidation to get superdelegates to declare before the nomination. As a Democrat for over 60 years, I would never vote for Obama as he is the worse candidate of them all--as I remember Hitler vividly, and read history regularly, and watch the newsreels of the enthusiasm of the young as they saluted Der Fuehrer. The young Americans supporting Obama are no different in any way--they are intoxicated by poisoned promises that their Leader will never deliver.
  • RenoAnne · 1 year ago
    Congrats dr_arthur, you and George W. Bush have nearly identical thought patterns. Unfortunately for you, you don't have secret service to stop you from mindlessly wandering into traffic.
  • Asterix · 1 year ago
    I loved that the Obama bus stopped in Eugene to get ice cream near the university the day before. Barack and Michelle were mobbed.

    Of course, you have to understand that generally us folks in Oregon are passed over in campaigns as being too late and too sparse to matter. Usually, by the time the primary date rolls around, it's all over but for the shouting.
  • mirth · 1 year ago
    Not this year. :)
    We're counting on you, Oregon. Bring us on home.
  • Wesinoregon · 1 year ago
    The scene here in Oregon was dramatic. The water along River Front Park is the Willamette River which empties into the Columbia River just a few miles away. River Front Park is also where the Gay Pride Parade will take place in a month. Can't wait to be a part of it.
  • nicho · 1 year ago
    Yeah -- but check out this kick-ass crowd for McCain. Obama must be quaking in his boots

    http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b106/nichomac...
  • Monrocsol · 1 year ago
    REMEMBER THE ONE IN PHILLY? 135, 000!!!

    AND THEN HE LOST BY 10 POINTS!

    NUMBERS DON'T MEAN A THING.
  • lovepeaceandallthat · 1 year ago
    The crowd in Philly numbered 35,000 not 135,000. Your post doesn't mean a thing. And stop yelling, please.