Those free tickets you picked up at Manuel’s last week (or at the Bibb Democratic HQ) aren’t any good. Don’t blame the Republicans blame the weather, or George W. Bush.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Campaign aide: President’s convention speech to be moved inside because of weather forecast.
— Josh Lederman (@joshledermanAP) September 5, 2012
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God must be pissed at His name being removed from the Democrats’ platform.
+1…….Jerusalem as the capital of Israel got dropped by the Democrats too….
I’m blaming biased polling organizations…….and Rio.
What? You’re tellin’ me that the spin-masters at the DNC couldn’t use the weather forecast to conjure up some suitable imagery of ObamaZeus or ObamaThor or ObamaAlienDeathStar or ObamaCylonElectricFingers? How are they going to fit the styrofoam Mount Olympus and the MegatronSmokeMachine through the doors of that itty-bitty arena?
/sarc
Or maybe he’s still pissed that his name was omitted from the Constitution. At least Ted Strickland quoted the Gospel… That Strickland speech made me wonder why the Democrats don’t use that type of messaging more in the South.
It was supposed to be in the Constitution, but there was a typo or a hard drive crash or a virus or something. Just ask David Barton, he’ll ‘splain the whole thing.
Perhaps John Edwards will motor in from his six million dollar N.C. mansion to give his famous “two Americas speech.”
Why doesn’t Barack take a break from holding the oceans down and healing the earth, to stop the drizzle for one day. Surely planet earth can survive one day without Barack’s attention.
Guess those free tickets weren’t an easy sell or busing in people just didn’t provide enough warm bodies for a suitable TV shot?
The crowd looks bigger indoors than out.
We are talking 20,000 (indoors) versus 80,000 (outdoors). I know the camera puts on 10-15 pounds, but I don’t know if it can make a crowd 1/4 the size that much larger.
TV cameras always add 10 percent…
I wonder if I was the only one that noticed that NBC, CBS, ABC, & CNN’s coverage used a lot of tight shots of the crowds near the middle. When I checked on Fox News, they were using a lot of wide shots and let me tell you, it was quite interesting how empty the stadium looked.
Most conventions don’t have many people there until later on when the “good” speakers come on stage. I’ve seen a lot of empty venues over the years when the news organizations will actually pan the camera over the entire seats.
@Calypso, you got that right. There were rumors last week that it would be moved back indoors because the Dems could not round up (even busing from out of state) enough people to fill a big football stadium like they did in 2008. Like B.B. King sang, “The thrill is gone, baby.”
I still don’t understand why they would choose and outdoor venue to begin with.
At certain levels of BS processing, (Patch Folk know it as Brian’s Science)
open areas are required by EPA and OHSA mandates…
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