Obamarama Stronger Than The Ron Paulcalypse

Temple English professor Sue Wells watched last month’s Democratic debate at Drexel, and the Temple News‘ blog asked whose supporters had the best cheers. The winner, of course, was Barack Obama:

According to Wells, the most creative chants came out of the Obama camp. Such gems as “1,2,3,4, let Obama end the war, 5,6,7,8, Obama is our candidate.”

Among the losers were Joe Biden (”Let’s go Joe!”) and none other than Ron Paul, whose supporters could only muster up this: “Roooon Paaauuuulll!” That’s it? Come on, the Ron Paul supporters accused me of working for Rupert Murdoch. They can do better than just Ron Paul’s name.

Geeze, just adapt the “Be Aggressive” chant: “We, the people, we, we, the people.” Actually, that’s kind of perfect. Man, the free market can work wonders!

Update: Ron Paul comment flood! The things people have posted don’t quite work as chants, though. “Say yes to Dr. No” is a good slogan, but hard to chant. “Ron Paul Revolution — Bring back the constitution” doesn’t scan, but I suppose it’s okay. (Adding “The” in front of Ron Paul would work, though.) And while “Stop the war in Iraq!, No war on Iran!” is something I’d agree with, it doesn’t even rhyme at all! Geeze. Ron Paul wants to be president and his supporters don’t even have a good rhyming slogan?

Bonus Update: Oh, there is a rap song, though! Oh, it is amazing. It rivals I Like Ike, You Like Ike, Everybody Likes Ike (For President), honest. But not even Ike’s campaign ad called the previous president a “cokehead retard.” Ahh.

Also good: “Hillary Clinton is big money Pimpin’.”

Temple professor: Obama fans are better poets [Broad & Cecil]

Bucks Co. Town To Be Overrun By Chanting Hippies

A couple in Solebury, Bucks County, wanted to run a series of yoga retreats at their house during the year. Not too many; just five sessions on their 10-acre property. They have enough parking, they’re installing a new septic tank to deal with the bathrooms and, um, it’s yoga. No problem, right?

Well, yeah, of course there’s a problem.

On Tuesday, supervisors heard testimony from Alisa Bhatnagar about the proposal, while neighbors raised concerns that ranged from the amount of chanting that will be done to the number of people the property will host at one time.

Yes, because there is no more cacophonous sound than “Om.”

Oh, yeah, and this:

“I don’t want you to be afraid it’s some kind of hippies living next door,” she said. “We’re not hippies. We’re not a commune.”

No! Hippies! Not the hippies!

Neighbors: Plan for yoga would stretch our limits [Doylestown Intelligencer]
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