Comments on Obama in Portland: A Post-Mortem

Did you score?

I saw a girl at a bus stop this morning who looks like she did score after the rally. She was still wearing her (now rumpled) "Yes We Can" t-shirt, and she had that walk of shame look about her.

I am not impressed with that story. Please make something up. Just don't be all Stephen Glass about it and you'll be fine.

Interesting point: Kerry's rally in Portland, if I remember correctly, was long after he had secured the nomination, and even long after the convention. Kerry also had an 80k rally just days before the election.

On the other hand, we're still in the primary season and Obama is nearly topping that. Could Obama top 100k or more once he's secured the nomination, is in full general election mode, and has all the former Clinton supporters on board?

But the important question is, what was the Decemberists' setlist?

Congrats to all of you guys in Portland.

Allow some pacNW pride here, but using a 1-2 punch analogy, if Washington's caucus was the "1" for Obama, being the first post-Supertuesday state with a sizeable population to elevate Obama, Oregon was the vital "2" knockout -- one can hope.

This was the best Obama shirt I saw in PDX, www.tzilla.com

Now that all you mathematicians have written off Hillary, I've been willing to consider Obama. I mean, anything's better than another Republican in the White House, right? So I've been willing to look past:

1. Obama's "bitter" remarks.
2. His Muslim flareups.
3. The fact that he's spent his entire life in exotic places like Hawaii, Indonesia, and Harvard, rather than in America.
4. The fact that the three most influential people in his life are fellow foreigners Tony Rezko, Jeremiah Wright, and William Ayers.

Despite all this, I've been willing to consider Obama. But when 75,000 people show up at his rally in Portland, that's the last straw. I mean, when you get 75,000 to show up at a political rally, you're entering cult territory. You're talking a politician with such a power to inspire that those people who aren't inspired are going to resent the hell out of those who are.

So just because of all you smug, self-righteous Obamatons in Portland (and on Slog too), I'm voting for John McCain this November. And if McCain is elected and blocks any effort to reform our bloated health-insurance system and nominates three more Antonin Scalias to the U.S. Supreme Court and plunges this country into war with Iran and gives Americans a permanent gas-tax holiday while still managing to send the price of gas up to $6 a gallon—well, don't blame me. Blame yourselves.

@8

Are you going Kyle on us, cressona? You will vote against your own party just because your candidate lost the nomination. Why can't you people admit that Obama won fair and square? He won, she lost and he's the nominee.

You have the emotional maturity of a 3 year old. If there is any solace in your post it is that people like you make a big stink, but usually stay home on election day.

Two words: President Obama. Get used to it, Kyle.

Cressona, that's not very good satire. It's too convincing, and there aren't enough clues in it to let the reader know you're aware of how silly what you're saying is.

Shoot, I forgot to add the following to my post @8:

DISCLAIMER: Slog is a satire-free zone. Any attempts at satire must clearly be labeled as such.

WARNING: To any prospective satirists on Slog. It is highly unlikely that anyone will find your weak attempts at satire amusing.

cressona - thanks for hating America ...