Barack Obama: Mt. Rushmore too small for my ears

Just in time for family vacation season, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have done their parts to spur traffic at South Dakota's prime (only?) tourist attraction, high gasoline prices notwithstanding.

Clinton, at the onset of a campaign swing through the state earlier this week, added an impromptu stop at Mt. Rushmore on Wednesday morning. (For her trouble, the cover of the next day's New York Post featured a picture of her at the monument with the headline: "Rock Bottom.")

Not to be one-upped in the hearts and minds of South Dakotans who will cast primary ballots next Tuesday, Obama took an unscheduled nighttime trip to the sculpture (which already attracts about 2 million visitors annually) on Friday.

"There's something about seeing it at night," Obama said after gazing several minutes at the landmark, aglow in floodlights.

Clinton, during her visit with reporters in tow, was asked a couple of dumb questions and provided a rather snappish (but, to us, perfectly understandable) rejoinder.

Obama got asked the same dumb question -- Could he picture himself up there? -- and offered a joking response, according to The Times' Michael Finnegan:

"I don't think my ears would fit," Obama said. "There's just only so much rock up there."

-- Don Frederick

Photo: Associated Press

Comments

[Carol]

Maybe they could just carve his ears. After all, he listens and thinks before he speaks. How many politicians do that? He's refreshing and has my vote, with deep gratitude! Carol from Wisconsin

[BIG WIG]

Big ears and all, as long as you are up there. The fat lay is singing. The winner takes it all the loser standing small.

LIar liar polly pantsuit on fire. Cheater cheater never win. Selfish, conceited head for the bin.

[dave]

talking about 'rock solid' - the only by all standards qualified, constitutionally founded candidate for PRESIDENT, RON PAUL would be who comes to mind in that context without causing immediate uneasiness and a bad taste in your mouth; none of the phony 'lobbyist-would-be-puppets' and demagogic illusionists and hypnotists, whether they be called obama, or mccain...

[dave]

it might not be mt. rushmore that is too small for obama's ears, but his ears that are too deaf - whether by deliberation, malformation, or misinformation - for him to perceive and grasp the message of the constitution, and the immensity of the ideals the country was once founded on, individual unalienable rights for those qualified, to understand and cherish them. the joke's on obama, not on mt. rushmore, whatever anyone might think of the idea of monumental portrays hewn in stone. not even his ears qualify for the office he would attempt to occupy.

[Independent04]

Barack Obama 08!!