RNC sending a "large group" of young people to downtown Denver wearing togas

[sabra]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/liveblogging/2008/08/toga-toga-toga.html

1:25 pm MT: The games have begun: The Republican National Committee is alerting reporters to the fact that a "large group" of young people are headed to a downtown Denver hotel dressed in togas -- calling attention to the "Temple of Obama" at Invesco Field.

Probably an irresistible image to include in today's coverage.

reminds me of 2000

[maseman]

1. The DNC should send a bunch of people in depends

to Minneapolis next week.

[Bobbie Jo]

4. !

:rofl:

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

6. Hey! These keyboards don't grow on trees ya know!!

:spray:

Come to think of it, will Sen. Vitter be there? We can probably borrow seme from him!

[my2sense]

11. bwahahah

:rofl: :rofl:

Sounds like a good idea to me!

[Kadie]

40. HA!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[meow2u3]

77. Hysterical!

:rofl: :rofl: :spray: :spray: :rofl: :rofl: :spray: :spray:

Then they can send the used Depends to McFartsky during his acceptance speech! :evilgrin:

[remember2000forever]

2. The American People Are So Lame That They Can't Understand

The Analogy And Imagery Of Greeks And The Cradle Of Democracy. Obama's Way Too "heady" For The Masses. Therefore I'm Not Surprised By This Bru-Ha-Ha.

[emulatorloo]

8. It is not the American People who are lame, it is the GOP OPERATIVES who are shoveling this Shit

The GOPers know exactly what the imagery is -- Democracy, Washington DC etc.

They are simply demonstrating their willingness to SAY ANYTHING. And the media is demonstrating their willingness to PROMOTE it rather than tell them that they insane.

[cliffordu]

3. Who's going to protect them? will they wind up at mile high guantanamo??

[Cha]

76. An obvious

concern!

[redqueen]

5. Has ANYONE in the M$M mentioned the columns on the stage at Bush's nomination speech in 04?

:eyes:

[emulatorloo]

9. Or the columns on the East Portico of the Capitol building? n/t

[achtung_circus]

10. If someone provided

a photo, unequivocally of Shrub in 2004 in front of HIS columns, I'll post it at FR and fuck the banning.

[redqueen]

22. Is this good enough?

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/convention2004/georgewbush2004rnc.htm


How about this? Tighter shot:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/03/uselections2004.usa3
another version: http://www.guardian.co.uk/pictures/image/0,8543,-10205005034,00.html

[achtung_circus]

49. Well, I can't figger out how to post pics at FR, damn their site sux

I recall someone saying something about glass houses.

[tblue37]

63. It was posted on HuffPo. n/t

[Virginia Dare]

31. Norah O'Donnell brought it up in passing a little while ago...n/t

[redqueen]

33. In passing... amazing.

:banghead:

*sigh*

[Errrica]

52. Actually,

& surprisingly, they did mention that not too long ago on MSNBC.
I chuckled.

[redqueen]

58. How can these assholes sleep at night?

They've been bullshitting about this crap all day, they now know it's bullshit... but have they stopped?

I would love to know whose idea it was to make a big deal out of the columns... and what they had to say about them when it was BUSH accepting the nomination in front of them.

[rufus dog]

68. to his credit Chuck Todd did to counteract Brokaw

[blondeatlast]

7. And the American people watch, look at the other people in the room, and all at once shrug

and say :wtf:

[VADem11]

12. Oh the hypocrisy

Let's also not forget that 2000 was decided by the Supreme Court whose building is known as the "Temple of Justice"

[C_U_L8R]

13. Togas? Diapers? Airport Bathrooms? Oxycotin? Mitch Miller?

These repukes throw down some serious kinky party.

I don't wanna see it when they get disrobed.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

14. Can they get any stupider???

Is anybody taking these kind of things seriously? Are we supposed to be afraid of THIS? This is almost beginning to seem like the whole anti-French "Freedom Fries" nonsense the RW spewed around the time Bush invaded Iraq. They seem to be quite good at these kind of juvenile stunts (which is exactly their mentality, of course).
:eyes:

[JVS]

15. Oh this is an obvious and transparent scheme! Don't you all see what's happening?

The semester is starting at many colleges and there are going to be toga parties filled with drunken students. McCain's goons are obviously planning on taking advantage of their impaired state to round them up onto buses and send them to denver. They are but innocent pawns in this game.

[hedgehog]

16. What is WRONG with those people?

[blondeatlast]

17. Gear up the local union print shops and get that shot of McCain and the other of Bush in

front of Greek colums!

C'mon, DNC--EMBARRASS THOSE DWEEB CREEPS!

Piece of cake!

[VolcanoJen]

18. Reminds me of Kerry's downtown Cincinnati event in spring of 2004

A bunch of GOP pukes showed up, and got spots right down front. Mid-speech, they took their flip-flops off and started waving them in Kerry's face.

It was a disgusting display and Kerry called them "rude" and "rather stupid."

Best part? The field near the river was muddy as hell. And as the speech ended, a bunch of us around this crowd grabbed the flip-flops out of their hands and flung them far, far away. It was hysterical. I remember one girl whining about "I'm supposed to walk back to the car through the MUD!!!!!" We were laughing at her and she was very, very upset.

Sometimes you just gotta stand up to these asswads. :-)

[Rwalsh]

64. So?

That kind of stuff happens all the time. To politicans of both parties.

The first amendment gives everyone (not just us DUers) the right to get in politicians' faces and to pull these kind of stunts.

[OwnedByFerrets]

19. Whenever I see "young" people in the audience or

doing anything in support of McSame, I wonder if they are being paid, are they brainwashed, or are they just that stupid?

[steve2470]

20. can we say a LAME idea ??? nt

[AspenRose]

21. Someone should confront them with signs that say

The Bush Kegger is over there ------>

[denverbill]

25. Good idea. Better yet, walk in front of them like you are part of the group.

Frat Boys for McCain!

[beac]

36. Brilliant!

:)

[VolcanoJen]

26. DAMMIT! If only I were in Denver!

Great idea, DesertedRose!

[denem]

23. Toga! Toga! Toga! - from Animal House

thats RNC all right.

[Virginia Dare]

29. FOOD FIGHT!!

the Dems should show up with a bucket of mashed potatoes to throw at them!

[denverbill]

24. Obama should joke that the columns remind him of one of McCain's mansion, but he can't remember whic

h.

[VolcanoJen]

30. Just like The Mighty Axelrod!

File under "Department of How It's Done."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/08/obama-c ...

"I know that Sen. McCain and his people have been shooting barbs about the 'opulence' of our convention from the mountaintop at Sedona at the McCain estate. I don't think it warrants a response." - David Axelrod

[blondeatlast]

45. Separate thread. Pure Gold. PLEASE! Thanks. nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

59. DUzy! Right there!

[Virginia Dare]

27. Bring it on MOFOS!...

Anybody want to get a group to go to Minneapolis in white sheets?

[Bozita]

42. required wear for some of those "invitation only" get-togethers in the Twin Cities?

[Bozita]

28. I'm sure the Denver cops will handle these guys like they did the ABC News producer yesterday.

You could hide rocket-propelled grenades and launchers under those togas.

[Virginia Dare]

32. Those guys are a bit trigger happy aren't they?...n/t

[ericgtr]

34. Holy white people batman!

The only thing this picture is missing is swastika's

[Sparkly]

35. What's the big deal about columns? I don't get it.

And I think they'd have to work pretty hard to make it amount to anything. They're just looking like jerks.

[WeDidIt]

37. OH BOY! ANgry White Republicans Marching in Sheets to keep an African American out of Office

Didn't that go out of style several decades ago?

[Fleshdancer]

38. Republicans wearing white sheets? Is this with or without the HOOD?

If they want to play dress up and march, I know some people who would be more than happy to dress them in fatigues and send them to Iraq.

[panAmerican]

44. You beat me to it! I guess they're leaving the hoods behind

[Cleita]

48. People should shout at them that they forgot the hoods.

Maybe even make some hoods out of white paper bags to wave at them in case they are too dense to get it.

[ieoeja]

39. When the M$M shows pictures of the 2004 RNC, these guys are going to look really stupid.

[Vinca]

41. Why do the Republicans hate America?

It's obvious to anyone with a thimbleful of gray matter the set design is meant to look like the important buildings of Washington, D.C.

[TwilightGardener]

43. Juvenile. Won't win a single vote. Go ahead, dudes.

[blondeatlast]

47. The RNC gets its very own "key shaking" moment...

Just warms the cockles of my heart...

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[mountainvue]

46. I phtographed them and will post pics later. n/t

[Eric J in MN]

50. Do you mean that you saw Republicans wearing togas in Denver...

...and photographed them?

[mountainvue]

69. Yes I did. The first one I saw looked like a young Karl

Rove. Sorry I didn't answer you sooner but I was at the speech at Mile High tonight.

[WeDidIt]

51. White people in sheets protesting an African American candidate?

Deja vu. Flashback to the sixties!

[EFerrari]

54. Who's recreating '68 now?

:rofl:

[GreenPartyVoter]

60. !!!

[VolcanoJen]

61. Oh, jaysus.

Now that is a good point, IWantAnyDem!

[K Gardner]

74. Brilliant point.. make sure to MAKE THIS POINT when the pics arrive. Bastards.

[librechik]

53. good lord. Central DC is filled with public buildings using "Greek Columns"

What a ridiculous critique.


they have nothing.

[EFerrari]

56. It's hilarious. Not one of their thug luminaries hasn't posed by one.

lolol

[brooklynite]

55. Does someone have pictures of Bush at the 2004 convention to hand out?

[demo dutch]

57. Who are we sending when McCain speaks from the top of a pyramid? Eqyptians??

Just kidding...

[mitchum]

62. Togas my ass. They are just leaving the hoods off of their usual party wear.

[Jennicut]

65. As Obama said, its not that McCain does not care, its that he does not get it.

McLoser does not get it. Rethugs are confused. So sorry for their pea-brains. NOT!

[and-justice-for-all]

66. There is a 'Temple of Obama'?

WTF? Jealous much?

[MadMaddie]

67. So let me get this straight they are sending Republican kids

into crowds of 84,000 (Dems, Republicans and Independent) hyped Obama suppporters and this smart why?

Just sayin...

[George_Bonanza]

70. Togas are a Roman dress

Yet again, Republicans display their ignorance.

[dansolo]

71. Someone should hand out enlistment forms

These young people are probably the right age to enlist. Don't they want to support the troops?

[jane_pippin]

72. They should send them to the White House too while they're at it then.

All those damn pretentious Greek inspired columns--who does George think he is? Zues? The gall of that man to live in a place like that actin' all Zuesy, when he's just a humble brush-clearer. And for McCain to aspire to live in such a hedonistic palace. For shame! For shame.

[Sparkly]

73. What did Obama say about Republicans trying to make this BIG election about LITTLE things??

He had the perfect response to this sort of nonsense.

[Alcibiades]

75. Here's the voice of today's Republican Party

Actually, some schmuck posting as "usawhiteguy" in the comments:

"Since the beginning of his campaign, Obama sounds like a tearsheet from a Marxist playbook, from class warfare to nationalizing the oil companies, and punishing Americans who shows any sign of wealth and really tax them hard to teach them a lesson . . . yeah, this is his version of the "Amercian" way. So tonight will I be suprised if he walks out from his temple pillars wearing a brown shirt with a bright armband and marching with a kick-step in "jack-boots". . . ? No, I would expect it! The question I have, if Obama becomes President will the White House be too white for him and Michelle, or will that "change" also? The bottom line is one of the real changes you will see after Obama taxes you for being successful, will be the change left in you pocket and he'll probably go after that too! WAKE UP AMERICA! The news media hasn't!"

Racist and stupid, too. Go figure.

[gauguin57]

78. Four years ago, right after Kerry's acceptance, I saw "Flipper" dolphins at a Kerry rally ...

... Two grown humans, dressed as giant dolphins, wearing signs saying "Flipper the Flip-Flopper" ... I yelled at them to GET A REAL JOB!! That shit drives me crazy.

Well, they don't call fall politics the "silly season" for nothing.

Those little repugs probably look like Bluto Blutarsky in their togas! Lamey McLame!

[blondeatlast]

79. Please, someone, tell me this ridiculous thing happened! What could make the RNC look more

ridiculous than a bunch of pasty chickenhawks half-dressed protesting something that the public had no knowledge of?

Please, please, please, let ther be video! There just HAS to be! :rofl: