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Tennessee Gal

(6,160 posts) Sat Sep 1, 2012, 05:27 PM Sep 2012

Sand sculpture of Obama built by Myrtle Beach SC for DNC convention. [View all]

Last edited Sat Sep 1, 2012, 07:03 PM - Edit history (1)

What are your thoughts?

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EDITED: Changed heading upon finding out that it is a tourism promotion for Myrtle Beach and neither Obama or the Democratic Party had anything to do with it.

I apologize for the misunderstanding.

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Sand sculpture of Obama built by Myrtle Beach SC for DNC convention. [View all] Tennessee Gal Sep 2012 OP

If a ReTHUG had killed Bin Laden malaise Sep 2012 #1

YUP ... Limbaugh would have carved it with his tounge. JoePhilly Sep 2012 #18

ROFL malaise Sep 2012 #40

I do not recommend visualizing that. JoePhilly Sep 2012 #48

Looks like some black guy. 2pooped2pop Sep 2012 #2

Looks more like MLK than the DC monument does! SaveAmerica Sep 2012 #4

Sorry, but I don't like it. Tennessee Gal Sep 2012 #3

I so agree, it's awful..n/t monmouth Sep 2012 #6

Inappropriate... that it.. nenagh Sep 2012 #21

+ agree nt Voice for Peace Sep 2012 #36

They should add a statue of a prone, dead Osama Bin Laden at the base (nt) Nye Bevan Sep 2012 #5

that's so monty pythonish... Whisp Sep 2012 #29

lol Voice for Peace Sep 2012 #37

Oh FFS taterguy Sep 2012 #7

Fine, then do a sand sculpture celebrating this country or our heroes. Tennessee Gal Sep 2012 #9

That's your thought, not mine taterguy Sep 2012 #15

"a sand sculpture celebrating this country or our heroes" demwing Sep 2012 #51

I meant something farther back in our history. Tennessee Gal Sep 2012 #53

What I'm hearing you say demwing Sep 2012 #56

That's kind of cool -- local tradition. I like it! gateley Sep 2012 #28

Oh shit....rofl DearAbby Sep 2012 #8

They are already saying it. Tennessee Gal Sep 2012 #10

What's the purpose? Frustratedlady Sep 2012 #11

Sorry but dipsydoodle Sep 2012 #12

It's awful. WinkyDink Sep 2012 #13

lots of goofy stuff at conventions Enrique Sep 2012 #14

It's supposed to rain every single day next week Kookaburra Sep 2012 #16

That is one of the stupidest....butt ugliest things I've ever seen. alphafemale Sep 2012 #17

Well, it doesn't look very much like Obama and it doesn't look like Mt Rushmore either tularetom Sep 2012 #19

By using sand they can't make it look like him at all lunatica Sep 2012 #20

I like this! gateley Sep 2012 #32

Excellent work! KansDem Sep 2012 #66

As I said above, I think this is a mistake. Tennessee Gal Sep 2012 #22

Where do you get that the convention is doing this? chieftain Sep 2012 #25

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! Tennessee Gal Sep 2012 #33

So it's not the DNC -- that seems to have escaped those who rushed to judgment. gateley Sep 2012 #34

Sorry if you think I rushed to judgment. I apologize. Tennessee Gal Sep 2012 #38

You just asked for our thoughts -- and the misunderstanding is gateley Sep 2012 #59

Here is a closer picture of it SunsetDreams Sep 2012 #41

Hey! @InvisibleObama is already in Charlotte!! SaveAmerica Sep 2012 #61

Typical of the Redneck Riviera Tom Ripley Sep 2012 #49

Looks like Joey Bishop. Scuba Sep 2012 #23

I really did laugh out loud Tom Ripley Sep 2012 #50

Deleted.. nenagh Sep 2012 #24

it can still be saved by someone who knows how to do likenesses Whisp Sep 2012 #27

I appreciate that this isn't easy but mygawd, that's not the President! Whisp Sep 2012 #26

Anyone in Charlotte that can Shankapotomus Sep 2012 #30

So the DNC is not creating the sculpture.. nenagh Sep 2012 #43

You got your wish, it rained today big time. SaveAmerica Sep 2012 #62

Yes! Shankapotomus Sep 2012 #65

Rain damage to Obama sand sculpture from Saturday downpour is being repaired pinboy3niner Sep 2012 #67

They need another course Dalai_1 Sep 2012 #31

Is that Sheldon Adelson with an afro? BeyondGeography Sep 2012 #35

Ozymandias lilly-kate Sep 2012 #39

The sculpture was done by a hotel. Not DNC, not Obama emulatorloo Sep 2012 #58

I don't see the fuss, it's a sand sculpture that's in front of a hotel in Charlotte SaveAmerica Sep 2012 #42

Makes sense to me to take it down goclark Sep 2012 #44

I wonder if there were 2 sand sculptures in the works? SaveAmerica Sep 2012 #45

Yes--they are two DIFFERENT sand sculptures and the Welcome one was taken down pinboy3niner Sep 2012 #54

Hey, thanks! I tried to find locations, sounds like neither were DNC SaveAmerica Sep 2012 #60

If anyone is interested, "Madame Cocoa" completely made of chocolate for DNC SaveAmerica Sep 2012 #46

your headline is misleading, it has nothing to do with the convention. grantcart Sep 2012 #47

Yes, I changed it. Thank you. Tennessee Gal Sep 2012 #52

Looks like a lot of people believed you. Now we will have to hear this shit emulatorloo Sep 2012 #57

bad replica of Obama n/t onecent Sep 2012 #55

Excellent workmanship, but it doesn't look anything like Obama. WillowTree Sep 2012 #63

Doesn't look like him , but i don't really care JI7 Sep 2012 #64