Enough with the big rallies Obama!

[thewiseguy]

:evilgrin:

Pictures of this evening's Philadelphia rally from Obama's site:

[Bensthename]

1. LOL.. I want to join the Hillary forum just to post this..

[K Gardner]

15. When I first saw the balloon, I thought it was a jab at the boilermaker drinker, LOL !

[ClericJohnPreston]

33. You have

no life. :)

[TML]

2. Holy smoke!

That second to last picture looks like the whole city turned out for the event. :woohoo:

[Adelante]

3. Wow, just fucking wow nt

[DearAbby]

4. Takes your breath away...

awesome pictures. Wish I were there with them...There in spirit

[boppers]

5. See, this is why Hillary doesn't like him "making speeches".

Every time he does it, she loses a little bit more.

[SoonerPride]

6. When will this be up on Youtube?

I wanna see the speech.

[tishaLA]

7. Shame on you, Barack Obama!

[blue sky at night]

8. I really like these shots.....

I am a photographer and I admire your style...wish I had been there. I would love to send a camera up on the little blimp, you could get some awesome shots from up there. Thanks for a great post, and thanks for showing up.

[thewiseguy]

10. These are not my pictures, they are straight from Obama's website

I wish I was there too. :(

[blue sky at night]

20. I kind of figured that,

but I thought you may have been at the rally.

[2rth2pwr]

9. That's his element, Axelrod script and a pair of teleprompters.

No bothersome questions.

[thewiseguy]

11. And where were these teleprompters installed? LOL

[2rth2pwr]

27. If you notice, his podium has not been set up yet. You can see it behind the podium

when everything is set up it looks like this-


There are 2 of them, chin height to the right.

Larger size easier to see. Notice that they are extremely portable with the telescoping stands.


Some other examples-





bottom 2 images from Getty.

[tabatha]

12. He REGULARLY takes questions.

Obviously you don't watch his events.

When he has small events, like this morning, and many other days - most of the time is spent on answering questions.

Take your ignorance somewhere else.

[2rth2pwr]

26. I said troublesome questions, not softballs from his fawning supporters.

[tabatha]

29. So everyone who supports Obama is an idiot.

How condescending and elitist.

[roseBudd]

39. So highschool graduates who say "Do you believe in the flag" should determine POTUS because

obviously being uneducated makes for better POTUS picking

[QC]

40. "Highschool" graduates are uneducated? LOL! n/t

[roseBudd]

41. In today's workforce, yes, & flag asking woman is clearly not making informed choices if her vote is

based on a lapel pin.

[QC]

42. The point was the irony of someone who can't spell "high school"

accusing others of being uneducated.

[roseBudd]

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Yeah because not putting a space between high and school proves I am uneducated.

Do I believe in the flag?

[QC]

47. Well, it certainly brings to mind the idiocy of credentialism.

Some educated people are fools and some uneducated people have considerable smarts. And, in a nation where only about one person in five has even a B.A., it's probably not a good election strategy to declare that all those who didn't go to college need to sit down and shut up.

Please do not contradict me on this: I have a Ph.D.

[roseBudd]

48. my comments are specific to "flag lapel" woman

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/34071.html

Nash McCabe is the voter from Wednesday night's presidential debate who noted that Barack Obama doesn't usually wear a flag pin and asked, "I want to know if you believe in the American flag."

ABC, which hosted the debate, had tracked her down after she was quoted in a New York Times story about white voters in small-town Latrobe, Pa., revealing her as 52, out of work and against Obama.

But to understand why Obama rubs McCabe wrong is to go beyond the question of what a flag pin has to do with patriotism — it's not really about the flag pin, she said in a telephone interview Thursday — and consider McCabe's life.

The true idiocy behind Nash McCabe's thought processes for why she supports Clinton over Obama is that HRC's charmed from Day 1 life (being born to upper middle class parents) is nothing like Nash McCabe's hard life.

On paper, her stances make her as likely to support Obama as Clinton.

But she sees a difference between the two. In Clinton, she sees someone who has struggled for years, just like her, and has earned the right to be president. In Obama, she sees someone who rose like a rocket, always has a smooth explanation for everything — whether it's about his former preacher or the flag pin — and who makes it all look too easy.

"That's what upsets me about Barack Obama," she says. "He takes everything so nonchalantly."

She admits that she's more likely to give Clinton the benefit of the doubt while looking for fault in Obama. For example, McCabe says that she once saw Obama on television and noticed that "he turned his back on the flag" before the Pledge of Allegiance ended. That irritated her to no end.

[Tatiana]

17. We don't need your "hateration," thanks. n/t

[blue sky at night]

22. almost got me there......

i was actually going to say something of meaning to you, but why fucking bother.

[Middle finga]

13. There is no stopping Barack......

the talking heads on TV don't no what to make of this guy and his movement. Let's just say he's half man and half amazing. The second to last picture is breathtaking.

[scheming daemons]

14. Your user name is pretty apropos tonight!

LOL

[meow mix]

16. Shame On You, Barack Obama, Shame On You.

these huge rally are dirty campaigning

[crankychatter]

18. I wish he would just WIN already so I could go back to being critical

I would LOVE to grill him on a few issues

I guess I'll have to wait till he takes the White House

THEN, I will be the tick on his ass

"you MF," I'll say, "What are we going to do about neo-liberalism in foreign policy and corruption in Congress?"

lol...

Turning the flame thrower on McCain will be good therapy I think

keep me from blowing a gasket

[Voice for Peace]

21. Try jumping up and down and waving your arms around and screaming and

rolling around on the floor kicking. It works really well. I learned that from watching little kids. Gets it all out in short order.

[crankychatter]

25. ok, but let me grease up this artificial hip first

might take a while

imagine a slow motion tantrum

Did I ever tell you that the first half of my life was a slow motion tantrum? It happened in front of the candy counter of life....

God just did what my mom used to do... walked away and pretended I was someone else's kid for a while... that always works.

hey, don't you owe me a poem?

[Buzz Clik]

19. Boilermakers for Obama?

That's unfair! Somebody get Hillary a boilermaker:

[bigbrother05]

23. k&r

Great pix, great rally! If we hadn't seen him here in TX would be beyond jealous.

[Middle finga]

24. we should email the pictures to George S. and Sean Hannity

and the rest of those haters on the idiot box and tell them "your plan is not working bitches"

[rucky]

28. We need a candidate that isn't so popular

if we ever want to win the GE

[TragedyandHope]

30. I love the blimp!

Thanks for the pics.

[VenusRising]

31. Very nice!

:thumbsup:

:hi:

[ClericJohnPreston]

32. All that is missing

are the evening torchlight parades, for that sense of historical homage. Perhaps they are next?

[stillcool]

34. Must be painful to see...

[smalll]

35. Nice pics. You can't win the general on your thin-legged tripod --

kids, blacks and latte liberals. Good luck with that one. :shrug:

[ProfessorPlum]

36. ???

[dionysus]

37. the troll thinks it is clever....

:shrug:

[burythehatchet]

45. PERFECT screen name. Just perfect. Kids blacks and latte liberals

You're quite a thinker.

[yellowcanine]

38. But if you look closely you will see no older white women or Hispanics so it proves

Obama is going to lose the GE because we know they are the only groups who actually vote. AND people who don't show up at rallies for a candidate cannot vote for them. :sarcasm:

[burythehatchet]

44. Enough with the speeches and the big rallies

and the getting people's votes. Shame on you, Barack Obama.

[workinclasszero]

46. LOL love that balloon Boilermakers!

Obama is for the people and the people are for Obama!!! GOBAMA!!!

[nichomachus]

49. Went driving around CA today

LA - Malibu - Sana Monica

Lots and lots of Obama stickers -- all kinds of cars, all kinds of people, young old, men women, all races.

One (1) Hillary sticker -- 60+-year-old white woman.