I met a traveller from an antique land

Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown

And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.

And on the pedestal these words appear:

`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,

The lone and level sands stretch far away”.

Percy Byyshe Shelley

Hattip to Christopher Johnson at Midwest Conservative Journal, both for the story and the Ozymandias reference.

 

For those who thought Obama worship was only a thing of the 2008 campaign:

A torrential downpour that struck Charlotte  Saturday afternoon damaged the  Mount Rushmore-style sand sculpture bust  of President Obama — an ominous  beginning to what many fear is a plagued  convention.

Workers were trying Saturday afternoon to reform the base of the  sculpture,  built from sand brought in from Myrtle Beach, S.C., pounding  and smoothing out  the sand that had washed off the facade of the waist-up rendering of the chief  executive.

The sand sculpture was protected from above, and Mr. Obama’s face didn’t  see  too much damage. But the storm was so strong that its heavy winds  blew the rain  sideways, pelting the president’s right side and leaving  the sand pockmarked  and completely erasing his right elbow.

Democrats’ choice of Charlotte has drawn criticism from unions who  don’t  like North Carolina’s labor laws, and the state seems to be  tilting away from  Democrats politically.

The large Rushmore-style sculpture drew comparisons to Mr. Obama’s  2008  convention in Denver, when he accepted his party’s nomination on a  stage that  looked like a Greek temple.

Democrats simply fail to see how this type of adulation of the Southside Messiah looks to normal people.  Unlike 2008, I believe they will find out come election day.