made a comment about pie - it was really about taxes. Obama responded in the same "pie" vernacular that McCain used - this was different from the "pie" story. It started a "We want Pie" chant at the Miami rally.
There has just been tons of pie talk lately. Pie, Pie, Pie!
Here is the original "pie story".
Obama's sweet talk is a tale of pie
Posted October 11, 2008 4:58 PM
by Jill Zuckman
This is a story about pie. Except that it's a little bit like a fish tale. With each retelling, the story gets a bit more dramatic.
Sen. Barack Obama likes pie. Over the last three days of campaigning, it's become clear that he's given a great deal of thought to pie. He's talked about the kinds of pie he likes, about having a pie contest where he'll be a judge, and how pie fits into the larger economic difficulties of our time.
On Thursday afternoon, in Georgetown, Ohio, Obama and Gov. Ted Strickland stopped at a diner for pie. He's been talking about the visit ever since. He waxed on about his pie during a rally in Portsmouth, Ohio that night. He reminisced about it the next morning in Chillicothee and again in Columbus, Ohio. And today, he talked about his stop for pie at four separate stops in neighborhoods across Philadelphia.
"I was in this small town in Ohio, Georgetown, Ohio," the story begins. "We went to a diner because I decided I wanted some pie."
"You going to make me some pie?" Obama asked his audience in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. "What kind of pie do you make? Sweet potato pie? Alright. We might have to have a sweet potato pie contest. I'll be the judge. Cause I know my sweet potato pie."
In West Philadelphia, Obama offered to put anybody's sweet potato pie up against his mother-in-law's.
"But they did not have sweet potato pie at this particular establishment. So, instead, I got coconut cream pie," he said. "I'll take a cream pie, I don't mind. I like all kinds of pie. But the governor of Ohio, he had lemon meringue pie."
"So we had ordered our pie and the employees there decided they wanted to take a picture with me because they said 'our boss, the owner of this diner, he's a die hard Republican. So we just want to kind of tweak him a little bit. We want to take a picture with you and we'll show him the picture,' " Obama recounted.
Well, who should walk out with Obama's coconut cream pie and Strickland's lemon meringue pie, but the Republican owner of the diner.
"I said, 'How do you do sir? I said, I hear you are a die hard Republican.' He said, 'that's right.' I said, 'How's business?' He said not so good. My customers, he said, they don't have any money to eat out," Obama told his laughing audience. "I said, well that's the problem when you've got an economic policy that gives everything to the folks at the top and doesn't give folks who are working hard every day a break."
"I said, by the way, who's been in charge of this economy for the last eight years? He said, the Republicans," said Obama, a bit gleefully at this example of the Socratic method. "I said, but you vote Republican. He said that's right. I said, if you keep on hitting your head against the wall, at some point, do you stop?"
According to Obama, the owner told him he had a good point. "I said you might want to try Democratic this year. We can't get any worse than these Republicans have been doing," he said. "So I think I might get his vote, along with his pie. Here is my point Philadelphia, we can't have four more years of this economic theory that just helps folks at the top and doesn't help ordinary people."
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/10/barack_obama.html
Today's "pie" talk:
"We want pie!" Miami tells Obama
Somebody give these people some pie, quick.
We have officially entered the silly season.
The economic "pie" metaphor has turned into a chant.
Obama has been using the pie image to hit back at McCain's allegation that his effort to "spread the wealth" is akin to socialism. This time it went a little further.
"Recently I heard Sen. McCain say that I'm more concerned with who gets your piece of the pie than with growing the pie. But let's be absolutely clear -- after eight years of Bush-McCain economics, the pie is shrinking. And what's left of the pie has been eaten by millionaires and billionaires," Mr. Obama told a noisy rally at Miami's Bicentennial Park. "Everybody here wants some pie. We want to grow the pie. And then we want a slice of the pie!"
And that, my friends, set off a chant in the crowd:
"We want pie! We want pie! We want pie!"
I haven't spotted Dave Barry, the Miami Herald humor columnist. But as he would say: I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP.
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/10/we-want-pie-miami-tells-obama.html
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