Top 10 Reasons 75000 Portlanders show up for Barack Obama rally

[thunder rising]

10. They were following the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders boat.
9. It was a slow day with nothing else to do in the entire city.
8. They thought it was a Hannah Montana photo shoot.
7. John Edwards was supposed to get his jet-ski.
6. There was finally a place with enough water for 75K
5. Most of them were the Portland Book Club that meets in the Park every Sunday.
4. It was like "Well I came across a child of God. He was walking along the road ..."
3. They were there for Michelle
2. Once the crowd got to 20K everybody else thought it was a free Metallica concert.
1. Barack Obama said he would be there !!! gooooObama

Feel free to have fun!

Thanks Portland!!! You Rock!
:yourock: :woohoo:

[DerekJ]

1. They were attending the opening f my new business here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6021490&mesg_id=6021490

[UrbScotty]

2. I'd say #6 and #1 are most true

:-)

[Tatiana]

3. Free lattes?

:shrug:

[graycem]

4. lol..

you stole my idea! :P

[swishyfeet]

7. Someone from Pete's Coffee was giving out free coffee

Hauling around a big tank of it.
I was filling up when someone asked the dude if he had soy milk. LOL.

[Renaissance Man]

5. Another reason!

The local paper announced free lattes, and everyone wanted to act now.

There was a Birkenstock giveaway.

No one really wanted to come, but in some sick, demented reverse-psychological cluster-f*ck, the white vote that Pat Buchanan said that Sen. Obama couldn't "get" wanted to prove him right, so they attended.

Ten Prius' were given away every 10 minutes.

[thunder rising]

6. White vote? I don't see any white folk?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. but no coverage on CNN website, no Washpost, NY Times headlines

nice to see the headlines on MSNBC though

[sfam]

9. George Bush dunking tank...

[Arugula Latte]

10. It was one of the few sunny days we've had since last October.

People just headed outside to the park to get a little sun to replenish their vitamin D supplies and stave off rickets. Hey, who knew Barack was in town? That was just coincidence.

[aaaaaa5a]

11. Maybe They Thought....

It was a Volvo convention!

[Seabiscuit]

12. They thought KKKarl Rove was going to be arrested onstage for treason.

[boppers]

13. They thought the nude bicyclists and rolling bicycle protests were converging.

(That was for the PDX folks on DU)

By way of explanation, we have a group of folks who ride nude, and another group of folks (Critical Mass) who ride en masse, shutting down all the cars as they wind through the city.