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Obama Speaks!

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 8.28.2008 10:15 PM

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I'm not alarmed by the giant stadium of 75,000 devoted followers of a politician. But I am a little freaked out by when that crowd starts to chant.

UPDATE: Chant #1: "Eight is enough." True. Constitutionally speaking, true indeed.

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Katherine Mangu-Ward is editor in chief of Reason.

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  1. Xmas   17 years ago

    Really? Is the economy so bad right now?

  2. SIV   17 years ago

    NUREMBERG !!!

  3. SIV   17 years ago

    I like to be "on my own" Mr Obama.

  4. troy   17 years ago

    he said that drilling is a stop gap measure. Isn't that what Paris Hilton said a few weeks ago?

  5. smacky   17 years ago

    Chant #1: "Eight is enough."

    Personally, I always preferred "Family Ties". But it's a free country and people are entitled to their differing opinions.

  6. Bob Dobalina   17 years ago

    It's amazing that someone can graduate from Harvard, and live in the University of Chicago's neighborhood and be so damned stupid about basic economics.

    I'll leave it up to Reason writers to parse out the nonsense that he's currently dishing up to High-Hile club.

    You'd think an idiot that lives in a million-dollar mansion could afford to trot over to Powell's in Hyde Park, and pick up a used paperback copy of "Economics in One Lesson" for a couple of bucks.

    Pies, chips, ponies ... and HEALTH CARE for everyone!!!!

  7. Yawn   17 years ago

    75,000 people can't counterbalance boring.

  8. SIV   17 years ago

    So I'm stuck with my crappy health insurance with a little lower premium but deadbeats are going to get the same coverage as members of Congress ?

    There isn't any change here. Fucking DemocRATS always promise the Big Rock Candy Mountain, minus the cigarette trees of course.

  9. SIV   17 years ago

    Shout out to the AK-47 ! Wooooooooooooooooo !!!

  10. Barak \"Happy Talk\" Obama   17 years ago

    "75,000 people can't counterbalance boring."

    Yeah? Well fuck you!

  11. zach   17 years ago

    ...but deadbeats are going to get the same coverage as members of Congress ?

    Wait... that's bad?

  12. zach   17 years ago

    What the fuck is this music?

  13. Fred   17 years ago

    Yes, America was a wretched Southeast Asian cesspool until the Messiah came to Denver:

    Well he's tellin' us this
    And he's tellin' us that
    Changes it every day
    Say's it doesn't matter
    Bases are loaded and Casey's at bat
    Playin' it play by play
    Time to change the batter
    And we don't need the ladies
    Crying 'cuz the storie's sad, uh huh
    Rocky Moutain Way
    Is better than the way we had

  14. Lefiti   17 years ago

    Just wait until he debates Bob Barr!

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