Deansbury is back!

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[indigo32]

1. Flash mobs for Dean

that is cool!!!

[burr]

2. help me please...

I'm falling for this cartoon charector! :loveya:

[Sean Reynolds]

3. Kick!

More free press! Boondocks did it; now Doonsbury is back! YAY! :bounce:

[RogueTrooper]

4. Dean Life Imitating Art: Flash Mobs for Dean

This morning at 8:45 AM, somebody figured that Doonesbury might have a good political head, and decided to organize, yep:

Flashmob at the Space Needle Time: Sat. Sept 13th, 10:35 AM Place: Foot of Space Needle Activity: Link arms in an enormous circle, hop up and down chanting 'The Doctor is in!' Disperse

http://www.blogforamerica.com/

[LuminousX]

5. Smart

Don't pass up an opportunity to capitalize on free publicity.

[w4rma]

6. lol! 13 people are registered, atm, for the Seattle Space Needle flash mob

Outreach Event:

Flashmob at the Space needle (13 registered participants)
400 Broad St.
Seattle, WA
Time: Sat Sept 13th 10:35 AM Place: Foot of Space Needle Activity: Link arms in an enormous circle, hop up and down chanting 'The Doctor is in!' Disperse (From Doonesbury, http://www.livejournal.com/users/doonesbury/35135.html)
Saturday, September 13, 10:30 AM
http://action.deanforamerica.com/meet/selectmtg.html?zip=98109&distance=1
http://blog.deanforamerica.com/archives/001386.html

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9. This is hilarious

People hopping up and down at the Space Needle for Dean! I hope the press picks up on it. My brother and his wife live in Seattle and are for Dean; I am going to encourage him to go. But now that it's an "event", is it disqualified from being a Flash Mob? Heh.

[w4rma]

14. definition of "flash mob" (it looks like it qualifies, IMHO)

A flash mob is a group of strangers organized by electronic media, who gather together in a public place, behave in a pre-determined (and often silly) manner for a pre-determined amount of time, and quickly disperse. A successful flash mob event depends on the element of surprise. Participants, called mobsters, share news about the time and place for an upcoming event through postings on blogs, chain e-mail messages, and SMS text messages, but no one knows exactly what they will be expected to do until they show up and are given a "script". Flash mobs can arguably be called public performance art, although participants say it's fun just to "freak people out" and shake up the status quo without breaking the law. Flash mob events have gotten media attention in New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Glasgow, and London. Various scripts have called for participants to act like robots, improvise barnyard sounds, or impersonate a group of tourists from Maryland.

One of the first flash mobs to get press coverage occurred in Manhattan in July 2003, where more than 250 strangers quickly changed their plans to meet at Grand Central Station (because news of the planned event leaked out and spoiled the element of surprise) and met instead at the Hyatt Hotel. At a pre-determined time, the mobsters gathered on the balcony overlooking the hotel's lobby. On cue, they burst into 15 seconds of loud, unexplained applause and left. Without the instantaneous nature of the communications tools used to organize the crowd, participants speculated that this particular flash mob event most likely would have been cancelled instead of moved to a new location. According to Howard Rheingold, author of "The Virtual Community" and "Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution," flash mobs are not just a passing fad during the summer of 2003, but are a demonstration of the "ability for groups of people to organize collective action in the face-to-face world, in ways that they were unable to do before the combination of the Internet and mobile telephones made it possible."
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci916705,00.html

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17. Thanks, that's cool

I love this. Flash mob. Hopping up and down for Dean. Perfect.

[regnaD kciN]

7. As a Seattlite...

...my first thought upon reading today's strip was to wonder if anyone would show up there for real. Guess I just got my answer...

[dean4america]

8. lol

this is just too cool :)

[JeniB]

10. Oh my God!

What are you people in like fifth grade??? This is a presidential election, not a Star trek convention!!!!

[Jalixm]

11. yes. People should not get enthusiastic about their candidate.

Then they might run the risk of actually making a difference. That would be awful.

[JeniB]

12. Enthusiasm is one thing.

Getting positively giddy and treating them like rock stars does not reflect the enormous importance of what we are trying to do.

[Pavlovs DiOgie]

13. You're so right

Politics has NO business being fun. It's positively unamerican!

[Sean Reynolds]

16. And we wonder why the YOUTH of this country can care less?

Right there is your answer. Politics is SO boring to typical young people like myself.

:eyes:

[JeniB]

22. I didn't say "no fun"

I would like to think that young people are getting involved because it is important to the future of our country, not just because it is fun. I just think you run the risk of having people vote for the most "fun" person and not the person best qualified to be the leader of the free world. It IS an important job and cannot be delegated to the most "fun" person .

[Jalixm]

15. This is why Deans campaing is successful

Isn't the fact that any politician can get democrats giddy again something worth celebrating? Now, you can spread the democratic gospel and have a good time at it too.

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18. Enthusiasm is THE thing!

He makes people want to jump up and down. Hop, even. Bounce. Sing. Dance. VOTE.

There is not a single negative thing about this. It's free publicity and fun, too.

Young people being enthusiastic about politics, yeah, what a bummer.

[burr]

19. But this adds to the plot and suspense...

Will Dean meet the expectations and hopes of the innocent Doonsbury, or will her idealism be shattered and raped by the savagery of political posturing or defeat?

This happy story could be doomed to become a tragedy.

But we must, we have to save her from becoming the disillusioned victim somehow!!! But what can we do?

[CoffeePlease1947]

21. I say go for it.

I don't think it really does anything but entertain people. But if you think it is fun and helps your candidate, go for it. I would probably do it myself just for the fun of it to freak people out. But it would not get me to vote for a candidate. Believe it or not but many people don't vote for someone because 100 people locked arms around a space needle and shout, "The Doctor is In". But that would be fun to do.
I think it would be funny because all of a sudden 100 people that don't know each other do one activity at the same time. It doesn't matter what it is, just doing it to confuse unexpecting people is funny in nature.

Mike

[RogueTrooper]

20. Tuesday's daily dose

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23. Go Alex!

She is my new hero.