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David Weigel | August 28, 2008, 11:42am


For sale at the Denver Convention Center: President Obama stress balls. "Squeeze it when right wing policy gets your blood pressure up."


To be expected.


Those innumerable magazine covers with Obama's smiling mug on them have all been turned into T-shirts.


An average late-day line into the Pepsi Center. (Visible in the distance: the CNN Grill.)


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Comments to "Street Scenes":

Episiarch | August 28, 2008, 11:59am | #

Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it. You know, I just do things. McCain has plans, the cops have plans, Obama's got plans. You know, they're schemers. Schemers trying to control their worlds. I'm not a schemer. I try to show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are.

SugarFree | August 28, 2008, 12:13pm | #

Ah, PETA... is there anything they think authoritarianism won't solve?

Also, where are the Giant Puppet-Heads? Don't tell me they don't have any Giant Puppet-Heads?!?

Jim Anderson | August 28, 2008, 12:20pm | #

The Joker looks more than a little like Nick Gillespie. Are you telling us the whole truth?

Warren | August 28, 2008, 12:27pm | #

Ah, PETA... is there anything they think authoritarianism won't solve?

If only that was the limit of their wickedness. From their point of view, authoritarianism does solve problems, because they define "solve" as "impoverish and kill humans".

SugarFree | August 28, 2008, 12:34pm | #

Ah, Warren... is there anything getting rid of Steve Chapman won't solve?

Dinner: Apple-smoked-bacon-wrapped turkey kabobs with balsamic braised leeks. Assuming the rain doesn't screw me. Have fun with your lentils, suckers.

joe | August 28, 2008, 12:34pm | #

I don't understand how Reanimated Zombie Barack Obama is supposed to help relieve stress.

SugarFree | August 28, 2008, 12:40pm | #

joe,

Weaponized hope and change drip out when you squeeze it hard enough.

Of course, the McCain doll only exudes cold oatmeal and doubles as a tiger cage air-freshener.

Episiarch | August 28, 2008, 12:43pm | #

Have fun with your lentils, suckers.

"Neil, are these lentils South African?"

NutraSweet, you are such an amateur. My dinner is going to be shrimp sauteed in a basil, ginger, cilantro, garlic, lime, jalapeno, and tamari paste. And no rain can screw me.

SugarFree | August 28, 2008, 12:48pm | #

"Oh, have we got a video?"

Cilantro? Why not just eat three-day-old roadkill? There's a bloated possum down the street I could FedEx if you like.

I have a back-log of bacon. I need to catch up.

Episiarch | August 28, 2008, 12:52pm | #

Whoah. Whoooah. Hold on right there, Chief. You don't like cilantro?

You're dead to me, philistine.

"Oh no...am being hassled in the street by a chick"

Warren | August 28, 2008, 12:52pm | #

Ah, Warren... is there anything getting rid of Steve Chapman won't solve?

Possibly there is. But that would still be a good first step, and it couldn't hurt.

Brandybuck | August 28, 2008, 2:02pm | #

Whenever Obama does something stupid in office, I'll be stomping on one of these stress releivers.

R C Dean | August 28, 2008, 3:13pm | #

President Obama stress balls.

I'll bet Jesse Jackson buys two, and squeezes them whenever his spirits need a lift.

Mike Laursen | August 28, 2008, 3:35pm | #

If we tax meat, doesn't that create an incentive to keep people eating meat? Is your average politician going to kill a revenue stream once established?