Bridging the World - Supporting Obama in France

[babylonsister]

Run time: 01:11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZeIKBUq_Ns   Posted on YouTube: April 29, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 01, 2008 By DU Member: babylonsister Views on DU: 5588

 
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/democrats-abroad-say-yes-we-span/

Democrats Abroad Say, ‘Yes We Span’

By Ariel Alexovich

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Mr. Obama won the Democrats Abroad primary back in February, but Ms. Wheeler still was surprised by how many of her colleagues were outspoken Obama supporters. These Americans, usually just a background presence in their adopted cities, should make their support for him more visible, she thought.

And, symbolically, they should do it on a bridge.

Right away the idea took off, Ms. Wheeler said, and the first rally was organized in Vienna in late March.

Susan Vaillant, an ex-pat in Strasbourg, France, raised the bridge project’s hip quotient by dubbing it “Yes We Span” — a play off the Obama campaign motto “Yes We Can.”

So far, bridge rallies have been held all over the world, from the Pont Neuf in Paris, to the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, to the Batavia Drawbridge in Jakarta.

The Sydney Harbour Bridge and Oberbaum Brucke in Berlin will be invaded Saturday, with more events planned later this month.

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For now, though, the project organizers are pleased with the mixed turnout of Americans and locals they’re getting at local events. The group that gathered at the Pont d’Avignon, in southern France, even changed the words of a classic French children’s song to reflect their message.

To all our Francophile readers, they sang: “Sur le Pont d’Avignon, on y vote, on y vote Obama!” Or, translated: “On the Avignon Bridge, we all vote, we all vote Obama!”

[democracy1st]

1. Obama Worldwide baby

[FrenchieCat]

2. Those are my peeps!

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

Strasbourg, France

[Jensen]

3. That is right America the world is watching and if WE don't open Our eyes....

and stop look and listen WE will F**ked up for our selfs by letting the media frame it for US once again!

[1776Forever]

4. This to me is the issue - We have 2 Candidates for War & One for Peace! Obama - Yes We Span

We span the world with PEACE!



Image by Kanijssinc

http://s267.photobucket.com/albums/ii294/kanijssinc/

[ixat]

5. Ssshhhhh...

Now guys... listen to me. If the French are in Obama's favor, that is something we need to keep really, really quiet.

It's not an endorsement that, hélas, does a candidate much good in our country.

[ClayZ]

6. Nice! :-)

K and R

[texasleo]

7. Let's keep this one under wraps, shall we?

The jokes write themselves.