Since he announced his candidacy back in February of 2007, I've seen Obama in person 4 times, with more people in attendance at each event. He's well-known for his ability to draw a crowd.

This crowd in Oregon, though, is just ridiculous. 75,000 people? Holy cow:

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Damnation :shock:

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Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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shit. we are fucked. :D

EDIT: ok i just saw my title... who changed it? lol

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^^^ its been like that for a while! FYI

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^^ good god. now i wish i hadnt seen it :D

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You know, for all the talk about what Hillary did wrong and all the mistakes she made, I think a big part of the reason she lost is that she just ran into a freakin' buzzsaw in Obama. I mean, is anyone aware of a candidate drawing 75,000 people for an event anywhere, at any time -- let alone in a primary race? That's just staggering -- you don't get that kind of crowd when it's just people who don't like Clinton.

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[QUOTE=toasty;605495]You know, for all the talk about what Hillary did wrong and all the mistakes she made, I think a big part of the reason she lost is that she just ran into a freakin' buzzsaw in Obama. I mean, is anyone aware of a candidate drawing 75,000 people for an event anywhere, at any time -- let alone in a primary race? That's just staggering -- you don't get that kind of crowd when it's just people who don't like Clinton.[/QUOTE]

Agree 100%. I don't recall this much buzz on a Presidential candidate ever. Hillary is actually an excellent candidate and John Edwards was decent too.

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yea i did not go to this cause of this... i knew that him being at the waterfront... there was going to be hella crowd.

no real sense in going if you cant see the man. and there is no way that i was going to wake up at 5am to stake out a spot up front.

[quote] [B]The Portland Fire Bureau estimated the crowd at 72,000. About 60,000 squeezed inside the gates and 12,000 watched from outside. [/B] It was a record crowd for an Oregon political event. In 2004, an estimated 50,000 turned out to see Democrat John Kerry, who brought along movie idol Leonardo DiCaprio and rocker Jon Bon Jovi. [/quote][URL]http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2008/05/obamamayvisit.html[/URL]

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[QUOTE=superdave;605619]Hillary is actually an excellent candidate and John Edwards was decent too.[/QUOTE]

I'd have to agree. I don't like Hillary at all, but I have to acknowledge that she has a large and loyal following. I actually like John Edwards very much and think he's a excellent candidate, and in any other year, I would have been 100% behind him. I really feel like Obama is one of those "once in a generation" sort of leaders, and crowds like this suggest that a lot of people agree.

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[QUOTE=ddr;605782]i knew that him being at the waterfront... there was going to be hella crowd. [/QUOTE]

Was there anything that precipitated that gargantuan crowd? By that, I mean was there any sort of specific goal to make it the largest political event in history, or did it just turn out that way?

I'm on another board that discusses politics, and some dude is advancing the idea that the 75,000 people came to see the Decemberists, and then just stuck around for Obama. That is officially the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I could see that applying to a handful of people, but a local band pulling 75,000 people? Gimme a break.

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toasty, obama's proctologist called, your head is causing some major constipation, please take it out of his ass.

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( The Decemberists are quite good tho- not 75k good, but worth checking out)

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funny of the major media outlets failed to mention the concert...

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[COLOR=Orange]Let the Jr.. enjoy his temporary fame, gotta see combat to be a real rockstar!

Go John! [/COLOR]

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[quote=shosh;606040]funny of the major media outlets failed to mention the concert...[/quote]

bingo. media bias. don't you love america? sounded like a real peachy band too. :roll:

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that's not media bias. that's just shit journalism.

ther'es a difference.

why anyone watches tv anymore, i cannot understand.

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[QUOTE=shosh;606410]Breaking News!!! Today Barack Hussein Obama said he may not be able to fix the American economy, but he's pretty sure he can nigger rig it.

no racist[/QUOTE]

Seriously dude? Is that supposed to be funny?

:roll:

Not cool.

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deleted it

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[QUOTE=shosh;606040]funny of the major media outlets failed to mention the concert...[/QUOTE]

#1. The Decemberists were added on last minute.

#2. Do you honestly think that 75,000 people showed up to see a local indie-rock band? That's positively absurd. Even if you give them credit for 25,000 people, which by the way is patently ridiculous, that's still a massive, massive crowd.

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[quote=shosh;606040]funny of the major media outlets failed to mention the concert...[/quote]

yea that is interesting, haha

it was all over the oregonlive.com article i posted above:

[QUOTE]Obama was the biggest star at Sunday's gathering -though a popular Portland band, The Decemberists, provided the warm-up act. With blue skies and temperatures in the 80s, thousands waited in lines that snaked through downtown Portland streets.[/QUOTE]

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slightly funny according to TBS.

yes, race jokes are funny.

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[quote=shosh;606434]deleted it[/quote]

hard to delete when someone else quoted it :lol:

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[color=red][B]Shosh, make another racist comment/racial slur like that again and it'll be your last post on ms.[/B][/color]

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Wonkette's story on this, highlighting how asinine this argument is:

[QUOTE][B]Massive Oregon Crowd Came To See The Decemberists, Not Barack Obama![/B] [he cheats with his rock bands]

When Barack Obama spoke to a crowd of 75,000 or so this past weekend, the Liberal Media failed to report one crucial detail: legendary rock band the Decemberists played that same event before Obama took the stump, so clearly everybody turned out for them. After all, we're talking about the Coldplay of the antiquity-goth set! Barack Obama is riding the wave of an accordion-folk craze that's the biggest American epidemic since the Spanish flu of 1918, and in November the Decemberists will be elected president and then it will be TOO LATE.[/QUOTE]

[url]http://wonkette.com/392379/massive-oregon-crowd-came-to-see-the-decemberists-not-barack-obama[/url]

and some choice comments:

[QUOTE]That band named themselves after an uprising (something we know is unamerican). Why won't Barry reject and denounce them?

And does that crowd look like hipsters? Old white guy with the mutton chops? Mr. Binoculars? Right -- case closed.

Clearly, Obama's VP pick needs to be Paul Westerberg. He can deliver Minnesota!

I don't know about you guys, but when I go to see a band play, I usually stand around in a sea of tens of thousands of people afterward just for the fun of it, too. Why won't Barry admit he had nothing to do with the turnout?

Okay, I know our Wonkette is being sarcastic, but it looks like the Newsbusters writer actually uses the phrase "rock star" unironically to describe the Decemberists. Huh?

Has anyone pointed out that anytime you go anywhere in Portland you end up running into one of the Decemberists? I saw Colin Meloy at a local grocery store a couple weeks ago, and then I almost ran Chris Funk over in my bike last month. Portlanders aren't exactly starving for opportunities to see these guys.[/QUOTE]

:lol::lol::lol:

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honestly, i've never heard of that band. although i know everybody wasn't there to see obama, i can hardly see a crowd of 75,000 showing up for a not-well-known band with anti-american babble. although i loved and still love rage against the machine music. still, the first i even heard of the band being in the act wasn't until today.

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[quote=Jenks;606448][COLOR=red][B]Shosh, make another racist comment/racial slur like that again and it'll be your last post on ms.[/B][/COLOR][/quote]

:Respect:

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[QUOTE=Garrick;606461][B]honestly, i've never heard of that band.[/B] although i know everybody wasn't there to see obama, i can hardly see a crowd of 75,000 showing up for a not-well-known band with anti-american babble. although i loved and still love rage against the machine music. still, the first i even heard of the band being in the act wasn't until today.[/QUOTE]

Most people haven't, which is probably a large part of the reason their appearance wasn't deemed noteworthy. Amongst those of you that are outraged that the media didn't report on the fact that the Decemberists played, can I get a show of hands of the non-Oregon people who had ever even heard of them?

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I have heard of the Decemberists, and actually have a few of their tracks from itunes. They're not a 75k draw band tho.

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[QUOTE=Jenks;606497]I have heard of the Decemberists, and actually have a few of their tracks from itunes. They're not a 75k draw band tho.[/QUOTE]

well, I've actually heard of them, too -- through their thing on Colbert -- but I guarantee you that the people that first began pitching a fit about this have not and think this is pretty much the same as the Stones showing up or something. The notion that these guys pulled 75K people that then just decided to stick around for Obama is lunacy. I don't know how the far-right pundits do it with a straight face anymore.

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My TV says I should vote for Obama...

No question, no think, no worry...

Must do what TV say, must worship Obama...:bow down:

Save us all, oh mighty Obama...

• Obama 3:16

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[quote=toasty;606520] I don't know how the far-right pundits do it with a straight face anymore.[/quote]

hope this wasn't directed towards me, but i will stand by my statement that media bias in america is out of control. they can single handedly influence the majority vote for those that know nothing about our candidates or ever will. for better or for worse. you are one of a few people that actually dig deep to find the candidate that you think is right, toasty. admirable, but you are too few and far between. there are too many people that just jump on the media mainstream without even knowing their own identity. and for the record, i consider myself libertarian. it is unfortunate that i'm left with mccain. :what

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[QUOTE=Garrick;606628]hope this wasn't directed towards me[/QUOTE]

No it was directed at the Hannitys, Limbaughs, Savages, Coulters and Becks of the world. Actually, some of the lower level folks are the worst. Leslie Sanchez, one of CNN's republican talking heads, can spew absolute nonsense with a smile and without even a hint of irony.

There is definitely a media bias, but I am convinced that it is not pro-liberal, pro-conservative, pro-Hillary, pro-Obama or pro-McCain -- instead, it is decidedly pro-media. The media frames the questions and shape the story, but they do it in whatever way makes the best story and will garner the best ratings. There were times over the course of the Dem. primary race that they were almost actively rooting for whatever candidate was down, and downplaying the idea that a knockout blow could/would be dealt. I guarantee you we'll see the same thing over the course of the general -- the media will perpetuate whatever storyline will encourage the most people to watch, period, regardless of whether it is conservative or liberal.

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haaa omfg. those pics are redic. well said guys, ur all very well read.

ok but just for kicks, someone could program a demotivator with it mounted, and have it say something like... [ "politricks" - "propaganda" or "brainwashT" ] ----"because it gratifies your aspirations without understanding it" ] hahaa idunno some shit like that :roll: mabye thats not funny.

:roflmao: narcotic thrust Rush Limbaugh sure hates Obummar! so funny to catch him on the radio these days stayin pissed.

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^is that english?

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[QUOTE=w0e & cri5is;606699]haaa omfg. those pics are redic. well said guys, ur all very well read.

ok but just for kicks, someone could program a demotivator with it mounted, and have it say something like... [ "politricks" - "propaganda" or "brainwashT" ] ----"because it gratifies your aspirations without understanding it" ] hahaa idunno some shit like that :roll: idunno mabye thats not funny.

:roflmao: narcotic thrust Rush Limbaugh sure hates Obummar! so funny to catch him on the radio these days stayin pissed.[/QUOTE]

Please tell me you sent this from a cell phone or something. Whoa Nelly. :lol: ;)

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<most certainly not english homie.

nope no cell but..hurray for the ability that alch. has to killz articulation. blah

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alch. = alchemy, no doubt

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^ nice transmute bro 8)

arrrr Obam and McCain cruizin to Iraq together by chance?

lol this one is always a good one. shes one schemer biotch alright :spank:

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