Posted on 09/05/2012 1:00:11 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
So, with a forecast of 20% chance of rain, the DNC moves the acceptance speech indoors to a much smaller venue.
Simply put, they could not get the numbers...even by bussing them in from as far away as Chicago...to fill that stadium. Oh, and they want us to believe that there just aren’t enough hotel rooms to accomodate it...but, but, that same stadium gets sold out up to ten times a year with people from other areas crowiing in (depending on the opposing team) to go against the Panthers.
Sorry...not buying all this hooie. They simply cannot fill it for their nominee...and given his record, that is understandable. Their Happy meal is short the fries, the drink, and the meat on the sandwich. Just two pieces of stale bread with some cheap condoments inside is all they have left.
THE DISASTEROUS FIRSTS OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
http://www.jeffhead.com/obama1sts.htm
Its really funny to hear them spin. Like the kid who blurts out to his mother that if she happens to find the kitchen window broken it wasn’t him that did it.
Busing people in is a pretty expensive thing. Think about the cost of transportation, then lodging, and food. Plus the overhead cost to organize such a thing, and the cost could easily run up to $100 per person brought in. Imagine having to do bring in 25-35K, that’s going to cost the campaign $2.5-$3.5 million. I don’t think they can afford to throw away that much money.
The thing I love is that they’re already spinning this whole convention disaster as “well, Charlotte doesn’t have enough hotel rooms and it’s too small a city to hold something like this in.” Well, yeah, this isn’t New York City by a long shot. But it IS the 17th largest city, and 33rd largest metropolitan area, in the United States. This is not some podunk backwater.
Furthermore, it’s a metropolitan area that hosts two massive NASCAR events a year. In May there’s the Sprint All-Star Race the weekend before Memorial Day and the Coca-Cola 600 on Memorial Day weekend, and in October there is the Bank of America 500. Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord (about 14 miles northeast of Uptown Charlotte) seats about 135,000 people, and they almost fill it up for those races. Not everybody in those seats is a local. This entire metro area is used to handling big events and big crowds.
You nailed it. This isn’t about Charlotte and it isn’t about the weather (although it has been storming here the past four afternoons before today...which is perfectly ordinary late-summer weather in the Carolinas). It’s about Obama and the fact that they can’t even get the family dog to play with him if they tied a pork chop around his neck.
BTW, I live in Kannapolis, which is about 25 miles northeast of the DNC. And quite thoroughly red, thank you very much. (Also, mercifully, it’s upwind from the Occupy camp, or else some of the reek might even make it all the way out here.)
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I just checked weather.com and they show Thursday with a 40% chance of scattered storms.
Current radar is showing a nice long line of storm squalls from SW KY to the NE as far as Cinncinati. It’s moving pretty good towards the S and SE and should increase in strength as it picks up more warm air.
But that won’t happen for the next few hours through midnight and the air temps will cool and the storm should break up.
Unless it stalls, it looks like it should be hit and miss and isolated if it even makes it down to the Charlotte area.
So, yes, weather concerns are a flimsy excuse. Local weather news says it’s weakening in our area of middle TN as of 5:30 pm cst.
Too small a city, not enough hotel rooms? LMAO. Then why did they choose Charlotte in the first place? Union presidents want to know.
If the inability to fill seats at the event at Ohio State was a "stark reminder," what must the Obama campaign be thinking about this colossal failure to fill the stadium in Charlotte?
They don't think (not because they are dims).....
..but because their heads have exploded.
A Cognitive Dissonance event for those in Rio Linda.
Day 3, ABC still adding comments into their convention reporting about how packed the arena will be tonight. Reporting live from the firemarshall’s office, apparently.
Network brass aren’t happy either, having wasted untold man hours and big bundles of money for set-up at Bank of America stadium. Journalists don’t care, I’m sure, but their bosses do.
You have to think some of the folks drinking in a bar are unemployed. I’d say it’s dangerous to walk into a bar and ask them to come to an obama speech.
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