SubscribeA ‘Non-Happening’ In Central Park NYC
What if they gave a rally for Obama on a perfect summer day in Central Park, New York City — and nobody came?
Despite the hype.
And the pitchmen.
And the fact that one could register to vote.
And even though there was a very nice podium for speakers. (Which no one ever seemed to use.)
And the beautiful “artwork” on display.
And the finely crafted buttons for sale.
And the opportunity to make your very own Obama T-shirt.
And the uplifting music that was performed.
Including this gentleman, who serenaded about how much he was afraid of John McCain, Ann Coulter and CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
And the chance to pose (for free) with a reasonable simulacrum of the great man.
And to discuss the issues of the day with other thoughtful individuals.
Despite all that, it was a pretty sad turnout for the belly of the beast of liberalism.
Apparently, most people had better things to do in the park on such a beautiful day.
Weird, huh?
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August 3rd, 2008 at 6:08 pm
well hell, there was no rock band to draw a crowd, Geeeees…
August 3rd, 2008 at 6:21 pm
And no free beer and brats.
August 3rd, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Hopefully this will not happen Monday when Republicans return to Congress on Monday. MM has an update and Politico”The Crypt”has the story.They do not have who is coming only that a dozen or so are expected.Bet it draws more and gets more attention then this display of progressiveism.Wait, what is more bizarre an Obama speech or a return to Congress for the people and by the people?
August 3rd, 2008 at 8:59 pm
“What if they gave a rally for Obama on a perfect summer day in Central Park, New York City — and nobody came?”
Just an isolated incidence. Bush’s fault.
August 3rd, 2008 at 9:56 pm
An early indication that the masses of young and disenfranchised short-attention-span fans who will be all “fanned” out by the fall. I can just see it raining on the coasts and in the rust belt, sdtifling the Socialist flame while Gramps drives up to the polls in sunshine.
Obama wins 4 states.
August 3rd, 2008 at 10:06 pm
I was at the county fair last night (red state, small county), and the local ‘rats were there trying to pass out Obama propaganda. No takers…seems no one here is interested in voting for someone who’s redder than the paint job on a classic IH tractor!
August 3rd, 2008 at 10:58 pm
This is too funny!
August 3rd, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Give B.O a break. Its not like New York City is a highly populated Democrat and liberal oriented city. Most New Yorkers are probably still in Berlin, enjoying their summer vacation.
August 4th, 2008 at 3:42 am
I would have put on my painted potato-sack dress (photos 4 & 5) and shown up if I lived in New York CIty!
August 4th, 2008 at 6:06 am
“ONLY IN AMERICA: the Legend of Barack Obama” presents a Special Message from MEDUSA GORGONBERG, Obama08 Campaign Assistant!
Dear Friend
I know that you, like myself, love Barack Obama but do you love him ENOUGH and do you SHOW HIM that you love him?
Maybe you think you do; maybe you think “Hey, I love Obama plenty. My heart is brimming with gratitude to him for all the wonderful things he’s done to and for me and my family and I feel truly blessed (in an entirely secular way) that this great man walks among us”. Well, that’s fine – its how we all feel but is it really enough? Does Barack truly feel our love and devotion? As he carries on his gruelling race to save our angry and Bush-riddled nation from itself, when he’s changing his shirt or going to the gym three times a day or explaining his vision to a grateful media, does he truly, truly know that we’re all behind him with our unswerving and complete adoration?
Maybe he does and maybe he doesn’t but we need to be sure we show him (especially if we want jobs after the campaign’s over). The other day, when I read Chris Mathews’ beautiful “Ode to Obama” it occurred to me that a Poetry Competition was a perfect and beautiful and planet-friendly way we could express our Obama-Love! Here’s Chris’ wonderful poem in full:
Barack Obama, Barack you are so great
Barack Obama, Barack I really rate
You highly
On a scale of One to Ten
And I hope you’ll be my new best friend
And come over to my house and play
With me. Could that ever happen? Let’s wait and see
Lovely thoughts, perfectly expressed I’m sure you’ll agree but maybe you can do better. Here’s my own effort, “Barack is So Fine”
Barack, he is so cool, Barack he is so fine
I really, really love him and I
Want him to be mine!
Someday he will be
And than you’ll see how
Happy I will be when Barack Obama
Dumps Michelle and marries me!
It’s about how all of us on the Campaign, male and female, feel toward Barack. And here’s one from our friend W.B. Yeats, called “The Second Coming”:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Hey, W.B – don’t be such a buzzkill. I like the part about the birds but what’s a “gyre” anyway? Anyway, a nice try but a bit “down”. Obama is about a positive message of Hope and Change – please remember that!
C’mon friends; let’s all join hands and pick up our pencils and put pen to paper and create a Garden of Verse that will show ourselves and the world just how much Dear Leader means to us! Send your verse expressions of Obama-Love to me here at Obama08 Headquarters and I’ll see that Barack gets to read each and every one!
Thank you for your attention and have a great, Barack-filled day!
Sincerely yours
Medusa Gorgonberg
Campaign Assistant
August 4th, 2008 at 7:35 am
Ah….what a sublime way to start the day! A classic S&L meditation on the vacuity of the Chosen One and his people, topped off by another artboyusa gem! Many thanks to you all!!
August 4th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Thanks, ptat. My pleasure. I hope you’re working on your poem…its a beautiful day to show your love for President Obama.
August 4th, 2008 at 9:53 am
I did like the uplifting message of “Obama Or Else.”
August 4th, 2008 at 10:03 am
OK, Yeats I am not, but I have to pay hommage to such a spirit, a Haiku perhaps?:
Neo, one, none, done?
He is coming to save…..US
where’s my free bagel?
August 4th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
He parted the Sea of Dischord
that so plagued the halls of power,
He fed the five thousands
with empty words, millions per hour.
He offers hope by the ton
and dreams of his Father.
He can change water into whines,
and will make “Change!” into “Why Bother?”
He says he is the life and the truth,
which is the old Chicago Way;
his apostles of hustle have brought
him this far, almost all of the way.
America is too smart, though,
just wait and see,
we won’t get fooled again,
this is the land of the FREE!
(McGovern lost 48, Obama will too;
his last supper will change the water
into sour grapes, as false cries
of racism grow ever hotter….)
August 5th, 2008 at 4:34 am
Brilliant, ptat and 1repub - we can feel your Obama Love! And now here’s “ONLY IN AMERICA: the Legend of Barack Obama” with a Follow Up Special Message from MEDUSA GORGONBERG, Obama08 Campaign Assistant!
Dear Friend
The Mail Bag here at Obama08 HQ is overflowing with literally several responses to my Poetry Appeal! And what great responses they’ve been, each one is simply oozing with Obama Love! Here are some samples:
“A Salute to Barack”, from Jimmy C in Plains GA
Barack, you make the Sun to shine
You make the Grass to grow
And in my heart of hearts I know
That you’ll be an adequate President
Thanks, Jimmy! And here’s an untitled poem from Teddy K in Hyannis, MA:
Nnnnrrrr
Nrrrrrrrrrrr
Woooooo
Woooooo
Obama!
Pretty avant-garde, Teddy but thanks anyway!
Finally, there’s this beautiful poem, “The Brown Eagle” from Brian W at NBC Nightly News:
He soars like a brown Eagle
With the heart of a white Dove
He brings a positive message of Hope and Change
And he fills us with his Love
We are not worthy of him
As anyone can see
But Obama stands above us
From sea to shining sea
Beautiful words, Brian – thank you! This outpouring of verse tributes just shows how the people of our bitter and disappointed nation are turning away from boring old John McCain, with his “experience” and his “policies” and warmly embracing the exciting message of hope brought by President Obama!
Thanks to everyone who wrote in. I put all your poems on Dear Leader’s desk and he says he’ll have a look at them as soon as he gets back from the gym.
Have a wonderful, Barack-enriched day!
Sincerely yours
Medusa
Medusa Gorgonberg
Obama08 Campaign Assistant and Verse Idolatry Coordinator
August 5th, 2008 at 6:26 am
Alright artboy, how in the hell am I going to clean the grapenuts off my keyboard? The Brown Eagle.
August 5th, 2008 at 6:45 am
You could get Alfred, your faithful butler, to take care of it. That’s what I’d do.
August 5th, 2008 at 11:20 am
SOAR, BROWN EAGLE, SOAR!
by Brian W, NBC Nightly News
He soars above like a brown Eagle
With the heart of a white Dove
Keen of eye and sharp of talon
But with a positive message of Change and Love
From the shores of Honolulu
To the slums of Chicago
He obeys his hidden Bosses
Daily Kos and George Soro
He is hopefully audacious
He is the Change for which we yearn
Just like Carter, we’ll regret him
Cause we never freakin’ learn
He drops his blessing down upon us
From his home up in the sun
He says “I’ve got more where that just came from
My Administration’s just begun!”
He is tan just like my loafers
So we must elect him, don’t you see?
For if we don’t elect brown Eagle
It’s just because of bigotry
So soar above us, big brown Eagle!
So much greater are you than we
You’re the one to unify us
And at least you are not Hillary!
August 5th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Hahaha, Artboy you’ve outdone yourself! :-) And now I see you have apprentices, ptat and 1republicanscientist. Ya’ll are too funny. My monitor may never be the same again, you should give warnings……
August 5th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Some of those photos looked much like a Cindy Sheehan book signing.
August 5th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Looks like it drew as much attention as Yom Kippur services in downtown Tehran.
August 5th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
From the looks of the pictures, everyone that bought Pelosi’s book showed up!
August 6th, 2008 at 12:40 am
Great job artboy, literally laughed out loud, thanks.
August 6th, 2008 at 5:36 am
I didn’t notice the latest instalment of the brown eagle………truly a classic.
August 6th, 2008 at 7:13 am
Thanks, all. I’m delighted that you’re so receptive to the Brown Eagle’s positive message of Change. I saw him on TV last night, saying how he’s not like those other presidents on account of his “funny name”. Tell that to Millard Fillmore, I say.
August 6th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Is’nt brown the usual color for s**t?
August 6th, 2008 at 8:25 am
artboy, I am so inspired, I feel like one more haiku…..in honor of our hero
The brown eagle soars….
his droppings hit my clean car….
from such lofty heights
August 6th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Brilliant, 1repub - that’s the kind of change we can all believe in. Don’t know about the color of s**t, 1st, but I do have a pair of Obama-colored Dockers.