BALLOONS for McCAIN - Uh Oh... Doesn't Go As Planned

[Rhiannon12866]

Run time: 01:04 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yuHylcp4lY   Posted on YouTube: July 29, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: November 24, 2008 By DU Member: Rhiannon12866 Views on DU: 3086

 
Forgive me if this has been posted before, but I just ran across it and it made me laugh out loud...:rofl:

[DJ13]

1. *** POP POP POP POP POP POP POP POP POP POP POP POP***

:puffpiece: :nuke:

:rofl:

[Rhiannon12866]

2. ROFL! Don't you love it?!

They should have regarded this as an omen...:rofl:

[evlbstrd]

3. Thanks!

I kind of linked the amorphous creature they became before they were released to utter doom.

[Rhiannon12866]

12. It's kind of typical that these clueless folks can't even manage to successfully release a bunch of

balloons...:eyes:

[TheEuclideanOne]

37. Would you say the tree symbolize Sarah Palin

On the surface....hey look a beautiful tree..... As things progressed, each one of those branches took out alot of votes.

At second glance, wow that tree is pretty ugly.... grey... branches sticking out causing pain.

[evlbstrd]

40. More like Hitchcoks The Birds.

I prefer not to think about that woman.

[stahbrett]

4. Hopefully that isn't some new voting system!!!

:D

[Rhiannon12866]

7. LOL! Actually, I think this reflects the one that we just experienced...

:D

[patrice]

5. Darn reality interfering with their dreams!!!

Rather typical of the inflated notion of themselves that somepeople have.

[Rhiannon12866]

16. "Inflated" is definitely the operative word here, LOL.

These folks do have an inflated opinion of themselves and their beliefs which defies reality (I've read FR) and their attempts to inflate and release balloons are equally flawed...:crazy:

[patrice]

24. It's an aspect of Magical Thinking that is fundamental to their World View AND

one of the primary reasons they are dangerous people.

[Rhiannon12866]

38. I guess I can understand why older people are Republicans, since they always have been,

but "Young Republicans" totally boggle my mind... I agree that they are dangerous, since they must have a distorted view of the world, which comes from swallowing all the lies...:scared:

Most of my family are Republicans, though I have won over my two closest cousins just by sharing the facts. One of them even even shares things with me now...:-)

My parents are another story. My Dad was, I think, a Goldwater Republican, which is not such a bad thing because, from what I have read, he was a pretty stand-up guy. I saw him once on The Tonight Show and Leno was trying to goad him into criticizing then-President Clinton. He refused, saying that "He is my president, too..." And my Dad was a generous soul and very intelligent. I could talk to him without rancor and I just cannot imagine that he could have supported Bush*...:shrug:

My mother, on the other hand, is impossible. She watches FIXED News and believes all the lies. I try to avoid political discussions with her, but she brings things up and I just can't help myself. I know what she believes and she agrees with Bush* on very little. She's pro-choice, has nothing against gay people, and think she just puts the wars out of her mind, easy to do if you watch FIXED News...:-(

I once asked her who was responsible for 9/11, afraid but expecting that she'd say it was Saddam Hussein. But she totally floored me by saying it was the Palestinians! Yikes! And another time she said that she was against stem cell research because they killed children! I said "What?!" and I think that she suddenly realized how ridiculous that sounded, but that's what she gets from O'Reilly et al...:crazy:

Then there's my grandmother, my Dad's mother, who I was very close to. She was a lifelong Republican, probably because her father was, and she undoubtedly passed on her values to my Dad. She even voted against FDR, though she told me that my Irish grandfather, a Democrat, always voted for him, so they "canceled each other out." But he died young, so I never met him, when my Dad was just a kid.;(

But she moved to a retirement community which I realize now was populated by a whole lot of liberals, educated and intelligent people, many of whom I got to know. And after the 1992 election she called me to tell me that she voted for Bill Clinton. I was not that surprised, but very pleased that my Nana had finally seen the light in her 90s. I told her that I did, too, but there was no need to tell the others...:D

[nuxvomica]

6. Looks like the trees are finally getting their revenge

:rofl:

[Rhiannon12866]

10. It's really kind of ironic,

since his very real concern about climate change is about the only thing that we have in common with McCain. Apparently the trees don't agree...:D

[my2sense]

8. Bwaahahah

That was lol funny. Thanks!

:hi:
:rofl:

[Rhiannon12866]

11. Glad you enjoyed it!

I was concerned that it was too old to post, but I thought it was laugh-out-loud funny enough that I had to share it...:rofl:

[drmeow]

9. Funny

although I kept thinking about the potential environmental damage that releasing balloons can be cause not to mention the litter of all those balloons in the tree branches (I seriously doubt they removed them from the tree).

[Rhiannon12866]

17. Great point. I have little doubt that "Conservative Youth" aren't exactly environmentalists.

The ironic thing is that John McCain is, probably the only issue that he has in common with us, but I'd be willing to bet that these benighted folks aren't even aware of it...:dunce:

[sandnsea]

13. bwahahahahaha

Oh my god that is so funny and I laughed out loud too.

hahahaaaaa.

[Rhiannon12866]

18. Thank you! If this made even one DUer laugh, as I did, then it was well worth posting.

I was concerned that this might have been posted before and was not exactly current, but it just struck me as way too funny not to share it...:rofl::hi:

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

14. Balloons = McCain, Tree = Palin,

McCain impaled by Palin

[my2sense]

15. Exactly! n/t

[ksimons]

44. Bwhahahahaha - you're right, the tree WAS Palin! ...nt

[MadBadger]

19. Those voices sound British

[Karenina]

21. My first thought, too!

[MadBadger]

22. I think its a fake

[progressoid]

29. Funny, but yes it's a fake.

Here's the original http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA4TGRok3N0

It's hard to read but it says England on the tags.

[progressoid]

30. They are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA4TGRok3N0

Edit: Oops, I replied to you twice!

[Rhiannon12866]

34. The story I read was that each balloon represented an orphan.

And that John McCain feels that these adoptable children should remain in institutions until a heterosexual couple was willing to adopt them. Pretty hypocritical, IMO, since one of his own children is adopted, the black child who became fodder for the "dirty tricks" campaign that Bush*-Rove used to defeat him in SC during the 2000 primary... :-(

[Pastiche423]

20. My chest is hurting from laughter

But I can't stop watcing it.

[Rhiannon12866]

35. I've watched it numerous times, too, and laugh each time, LOL!

So glad you enjoyed it. I couldn't help sharing it, since we can use all the laughter we can get, these days on DU...:rofl: :hi:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

23. Sarah! Stop shooting the balloons!!

bahahahahaha

Priceless! Thank ya hun :)

[Rhiannon12866]

41. LOL! At least she was only shooting balloons, this time, and not defenseless wildlife

though it may have been from a helicopter...:scared:

So glad you enjoyed it! It made me laugh so I just had to share it...:D

Rhiannon:hi::hug:

[lazyriver]

25. The entire McLame campaign summed up in about a minute of

truly hilarious video.

[Rhiannon12866]

42. That struck me, too... Kind of paralleled his whole botched campaign.

I don't think he could have won no matter whom he chose as a running mate, but his choice of Sarah Palin really shot his campaign in the foot...:crazy:

But I agree that the parallels are what made this so damn funny... :rofl:

Thanks!:hi:

[1776Forever]

26. Shouldn't that have told them something? Wow - looks like the way the campaign was run!

Thanks! :woohoo:

[habitual]

27. now that was funny. k+r n/t

[YOY]

28. Conservative Youth, College Republicans, etc...

The dumbest assholes on campus with money.

[ksimons]

31. hahahaha love it!!!

you got a laugh out of me, you betcha!

[Liberal Elitist]

32. It's a University of WoE charity balloon launch....

I think the name's quite apt!

Stands for University of West of England (but they like to call themselves UWE)

I'm hoping the amount of money they raised didn't depend on how far the balloons went..

[Cronus Protagonist]

36. Each balloon had a wish from a kid written on its tag

It's funny, but sad at the same time.

[ksimons]

33. still laughing - gonna save that one nt

[DS1]

39. You'd have to be a moron to think this happened in the US

[demwing]

47. And why is that? Do Balloons NOT pop in the US?

Are there not trees, students, and birds in the US as well?

Is our sky a different color? Do our citizens not count down from ten?

Maybe there was a little hint, a bit of accent, barely noticeable, but does that make one a moron for not listening more thoroughly?

What's your "logic"???

[ksimons]

43. sent it to all my friends and they all laughed as well

thanks for posting

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

45. lol!

[ecstatic]

46. OMFG. ROFLMAO my gosh. McCain's campaign and everything

associated with it was just a complete train wreck!

[Bucky]

48. So which is worse, the plastic pollution... or the noise pollution?

or the hypocricy of using pink balloons?