Hussein Says His Ears Too Big For Rushmore
By TOM RAUM –
MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL, S.D. — Democrat Barack Obama paid an unscheduled late-night visit to Mount Rushmore Friday, visiting the national memorial at closing time and joking that his ears were too big to ever be included in such a display.
Two days after rival Hillary Rodham Clinton made a campaign stop here, Obama joined a group of reporters and staff members for an after-dark sightseeing visit to the national memorial, where the faces of four presidents are carved into the mountain. South Dakota and Montana hold their primary elections on Tuesday, the final ones in the nation, and Obama was campaigning in both states.
Asked by a reporter if he ever envisioned himself carved into the mountain, he said, “I don’t think my ears would fit. There’s only so much rock up there.”
On her visit, Clinton also batted away reporters’ questions about whether she or her husband, former President Clinton, might one day be immortalized there. “Why don’t you learn something about the monument?” Clinton said.
Obama said it was his first visit to the landmark.
He did express curiosity about the filming of a chase scene in “North by Northwest,” Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 classic starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint that included a death-defying scramble over Rushmore’s presidential faces.
“How did they get up there in the first place?” he asked ranger Wesley Jensen.
“They didn’t. It was a movie set,” Jensen told him.
“Pretty spiffy, isn’t it,” said the Illinois senator, summing up his overall impressions.
(AP)
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““How did they get up there in the first place?” he asked ranger Wesley Jensen.”
What a dumbfuck.
May 31st, 2008 at 9:53 amIf Obama is trying to show his patriotism he should be in Red Square in front of Lenins tomb.
May 31st, 2008 at 9:58 amEars to big, mind too small. Just not suited for a movie plot either.
Who actually thinks this guy graduated?
May 31st, 2008 at 10:35 amHIs ego is too big for Mount Rushmore!
May 31st, 2008 at 10:36 amInteresting: the most important part of this story, according to AP, is Obama’s comment about his ears, not the incredily idiotic comment about the Hitchcock film.
May 31st, 2008 at 10:49 am“I don’t think my ears would fit. There’s only so much rock up there.”
That monument was built by an immigrant to our shores that had NO SHAME IN BEING AN AMERICAN!
This ass-hat empty suit is nowhere near the caliber of the men up there on that mountain side.
There will be a monument to Barry in Gaza and Havana before he ever makes it to the Dakotas.
May 31st, 2008 at 10:50 amHis likeness will look very nice right next to Jimmy Carter’s
May 31st, 2008 at 2:08 pm