CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A torrential downpour that struck
Charlotte Saturday afternoon damaged the Mount Rushmore-style sand
sculpture bust of President Obama — an ominous beginning to what many
fear is a plagued convention.
Workers were trying Saturday afternoon to reform the
base of the sculpture, built from sand brought in from Myrtle Beach,
S.C., pounding and smoothing out the sand that had washed off the
facade of the waist-up rendering of the chief executive.
The sand sculpture was protected from above, and Mr.
Obama's face didn't see too much damage. But the storm was so strong
that its heavy winds blew the rain sideways, pelting the president's
right side and leaving the sand pockmarked and completely erasing his
right elbow.
Democrats' choice of Charlotte has drawn criticism from
unions who don't like North Carolina's labor laws, and the state seems
to be tilting away from Democrats politically.
The large Rushmore-style sculpture drew comparisons to
Mr. Obama's 2008 convention in Denver, when he accepted his party's
nomination on a stage that looked like a Greek temple.
My first though was 'who gives a f***!
ReplyDeleteTim
Immediately brought to mind the old sunday school song "the foolish man built his house upon the sand ..."
ReplyDeleteSo many metaphors, so little time.
ReplyDeleteThe sandcastle virtues were all washed away ...
Let's get Old Testament from the Book of Daniel about the fate of impressive looking things totally lacking in foundation:
ReplyDelete31 Thou, O King, sawest, and, behold, a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the aspect thereof was terrible.
32 As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,
33 its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay.
34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon its feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them in pieces.
35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Freddie Sykes
Looks to me like Jabba the Hut.
ReplyDeleteRumor has it that this sculpture, in order to give it the correct substance, is constructed of used Wookie litter.
ReplyDeleteToo bad it wasn't carbonite™.
ReplyDeleteThat ain't creepy or nuttin' ...
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