Rains wash away Mount Obama in Charlotte, N.C

Washington Times ^ | 9/1/2012 | Stephan Dinan

[KansasGirl]

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.

[RegulatorCountry]

There’s a real giant chair about an hour and a half up I-85 in Thomasville, on the town square. Chair City is the nickname of Thomasville, a furniture manufacturing town, or it once was, prior to all the inane trade agreements that have really hurt the place.

[milagro]

Can’t make the stuff up! Hilarious!

[BerryDingle]

[mykroar]

Add rain to the list of words we can’t say now.

[demkicker]

But I really hate for the 90 groups of protesters that are descending on on the DNC to get washed out. Actually - it would be quite entertaining for everyone to see that these folks will support Obama & all democRATS.

[353FMG]

Much better resemblance of the real Obama.

[Pollster1]

"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. 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. 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. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash."

[mancini]

It’s prophetic, I tell ya.

[freekitty]

LOL

[EDINVA]

This calls for empty sand pails

[Hotlanta Mike]

[garbanzo]

20 And God spoke all these words, saying:

2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

[garbanzo]

 Ozymandias 

by  Percy Bysshe Shelley  (1792-1822)
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

[Ole Okie]

Ears - bigger

Chair - emptier.

[beethovenfan]

Looks like Zero is all washed up, uh-huh.

[Alas Babylon!]

It doesn’t even look like Obama. Looks more like Goober from the Andy Griffith Show....

Love the sand telepromter!

[Momto2]

Kudos to you - a perfect poem for this story... we need someone to super-impose it over the rain-damaged statue....

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Is it too late? Can I say it, ‘cause no one else has, yet?

IT’S BOOOOSH’S FAULT!!! (sarc)

[Monkey Face]

Perhaps a message? That is, if one is clever enough to read it.

A portent of things to come. KEEP PRAYING!!!!

[Eleutheria5]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2925427/posts?page=284

responding to

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2925427/posts?page=207#207

G-d freeps.