A BIRD ON THE STAND IS WORTH TWO...
The small critter now dubbed ‘Birdie Sanders’ ele
"Birdie" Sanders & Presidential Pets
dedicated to a little bird that would leave its abode
then land on both feet
to give a political tweet.
When it receives applause that is loud
from the gathered crowd,
is it because, though able to fly,
they know it won't lie?
And doesn't many a Presidential Pet, whether ugly or cute,
And doesn't many a Presidential Pet, whether ugly or cute,
deserve also such homage for being similarly astute?
HzL
3/27/16
A BIRD ON THE STAND IS WORTH TWO...
Small Bird Lands on Bernie Sanders’ Lectern Mid-Speech, Brings Crowd to Their Feet
The small critter now dubbed ‘Birdie Sanders’ electrified the attendees at Sanders’ Portland rally.
Birds land on all sorts of things, all the time. They congregate on phone wires to creepily stare at you as you get the mail and reflect on why your parents thought Hitchcock would be okay for a nine-year-old. They often land on beachgoers’ hot dogs, usually as the first step of a two-step hot dog theft. Once, a pigeon landed on a hat that my mother was wearing at the time. All of this is to say that for a bird landing on a thing to qualify as newsworthy, the bird or the thing it lands on better be pretty out of the ordinary. As far as major outlets can tell at present, there’s not much special about the small bird making headlines this morning, but its choice to land on the lectern that Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders was then using for a speech at a Portland rally on Friday night has sent seismic shockwaves through the Internet.
The footage, embedded above, is really quite something: as Sanders speaks to the assembled crowd, a handful of first-responders take note of the avian interloper and attempt to notify the major political player that he’s in the vicinity of a small bird. The murmurs register with Sanders, but it takes him a moment to locate the source of the disturbance. He takes the whole thing with good humor, smiling and preparing to weave the unanticipated presence into his speech (ultimately comparing the surprise guest with the symbolic dove of peace, calling for an end to global wars), before the small bird hops onto his lectern and the audience explodes into wild applause. The Sanders campaign wasted no time capitalizing on the apparent popularity of the small bird, dubbing him “Birdie Sanders” and embracing him as part of the Sanders team.
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