Rains Wash Away Part of Obama Sand Sculpture
Yes, I too am inclined to see this as a metaphor:
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A torrential downpour that struck Charlotte on 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.
Someone get a picture.
UPDATE: The damage has been repaired. Long live the sand sculpture!
It is indeed a metaphor for Obama’s administration. With a lot of effort, they may be able to hold together the facade for a short time. But it can’t last forever and is doomed to collapse in very short order.
Here is a pic. Creepy.
kaf (81bcc7) — 9/2/2012 @ 7:47 pmWater balloons.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 9/2/2012 @ 7:51 pm“I’m melting! I’m melting!”
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 9/2/2012 @ 7:52 pmIf it was of me, I would want it washed away. It seems to me to be so over the top as to be unintended mockery.
Of course, when Eastwood does a reprise of his performance, he can use a pile of sand instead of a chair…
On another note, I read somewhere a hunch that President Clinton was going to try to steal the show.
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 9/2/2012 @ 8:02 pmClinton can’t do anything but be supportive, at least of the party platform. If Hillary intends to run African-Americans cannot be alienated, and slighting Obama here would be remembered in 4 years.
I expect him to hammer the Republicans on social issues — as everyone will — since that’s the tune they want in everyone’s head anyway.
It might work, too, unless the media start asking about the economy. What’s that you say? “Shut up?”
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 9/2/2012 @ 8:21 pmThat sand looks kinda racist.
mg (44de53) — 9/2/2012 @ 8:34 pmI met a traveller from an antique land,
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 9/2/2012 @ 8:35 pm2Who said — “two vast and trunkless legs of stone
3Stand in the desert … near them, on the sand,
4Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
5And wrinkled lips, and sneer of cold command,
6Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
7Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
8The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
9And on the pedestal these words appear:
10My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,
11Look on my Works ye Mighty, and despair!
12Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
13Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
14The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
So in this instance, a Republican could very literally say: “If you don’t like Mitt Romney, go pound sand!”
LYT (191703) — 9/2/2012 @ 8:42 pmThe Dems have to play the Clinton card, but the downside is they have to play the Clinton card.
The former President is treading a fine line. Of course, he will speak. Of course, he will tout his success.
If I know the former President, and I think I do, he will go all in for Obama on every issue.
By doing so, he reinforces the Democratic brand and establishes the Secretary of State as the worthy successor by his fealty.
Of course, the wild card is that the former President loves himself as much as the current and I suspect each love the absent Secretary of State even less.
So, how will the final hand fall?
Ag80 (b2c81f) — 9/2/2012 @ 8:54 pmWell, crap, posted in the wrong thread again.
Creepy sculpture, though.
Ag80 (b2c81f) — 9/2/2012 @ 8:59 pmCLARICE FELDMAN: Media Madness, And The Reckoning. “Besides being pathological, the media approach is clearly coordinated, and understandably so given the incestuous relationships between so many in the media and the Democratic party.”
http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/149913/
Colonel Haiku (ade70a) — 9/2/2012 @ 9:02 pmDoes Bill think Hillary would be a potential candidate in another 4 years? Does Bill think the nation will want another Democrat in 4 years? I’ve read where Clinton has said he received more calls asking his opinion from Bush than Obama.
We’ll see how things go.
Comment by Colonel Haiku — 9/2/2012 @ 9:02 pm
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 9/2/2012 @ 9:26 pmThat is a great column, linked also by narcisco elsewhere (different link, same original article).
Hell of a foundation for the Democrats.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 9/2/2012 @ 9:32 pmi do not like him in the sand
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 9/2/2012 @ 10:03 pmi do not like him on dry land
i do not like him on the shore
i do not like him anymore
Something tells me the workers there let the tarp slip a little when it started raining. 🙂
I bet the stadium acceptance speech will be rained out too.
Whether it’s raining or not.
Patricia (e1d89d) — 9/2/2012 @ 10:28 pm“And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually . . .”
Icy (e071b2) — 9/2/2012 @ 11:19 pmMatthew 7:24-27
The Wise and Foolish Builders
24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.
26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”
Jcw46 (b4329c) — 9/2/2012 @ 11:39 pmVery difficult to wash away the emptiness.
As to the DNC harping on social issues, if they wish to have a convention to demand federal funding for birth control for professional students, good luck with that.15-year old boys have had no trouble for a century finding the “family planning” aisle in CVS and paying the pittance. Ms. Fluke, despite getting into Georgetown Law well into her adulthood, is somehow mystified by this and wants Daddy Government to do it for her. Really-that’s a big issue?
Bugg (403960) — 9/3/2012 @ 6:11 ami do not like him in the sand
i do not like him on dry land
i do not like him on the shore
i do not like him anymore
Brilliant, Happyfeet.
JD (804352) — 9/3/2012 @ 6:57 amI was at a picnic last evening to help send a young woman off to college in a faraway place. While still in HS she had gone with classmates in a Government class to Washington to witness the historic Obama inauguration. (her parents are R. but thought it would be a wonderful experience for her.)
Also in attendance last evening were a few other young people just starting their junior years at various places and several parents who had just delivered their offspring to college campuses. There is just palpable concern and fear in both of these generations with regard to what is going on and what the future holds. It is sad. A crumbling sand sculpture of the once mighty “O” is an apt metaphor for these times, indeed.
elissa (fa24a8) — 9/3/2012 @ 7:37 amAnother union-worker FAIL.
Icy (e071b2) — 9/3/2012 @ 7:45 amWe learned he couldn’t hold his mud… but sand?!?!
Colonel Haiku (605f7a) — 9/3/2012 @ 8:09 amR.I.P. Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Icy (e071b2) — 9/3/2012 @ 8:15 amUPDATE: The damage has been repaired. Long live the sand sculpture!
It is indeed a metaphor for Obama’s administration. With a lot of effort, they may be able to hold together the facade for a short time. But it can’t last forever and is doomed to collapse in very short order.
Patterico (83033d) — 9/3/2012 @ 11:29 amIdle worshipers. What’s holding it up inside?
starboardhelm (d2c909) — 9/4/2012 @ 7:12 pmVague memories, nothing but memories, and broken dreams? A straw man?