Obama and the DNC have decided to move his acceptance speech from the outdoor Bank of America stadium (74K seats) to the much smaller Time Warder arena (20K seats). The delusions of grandeur and great spectacle have been deflated at last.
Conservative sources have been predicting this for over a week, citing the Democrats panic over not being able to even come close to filling the bigger stadium. College Republicans have reported DNC people showing up at bars and offering free tickets to anyone who would promise to show up; practically begging people to help them out. Black churches… the same…
So the DNC has finally accepted the inevitable. They cannot have Obama accepting his party’s nomination in front of thousands of empty seats. And they’ve decided that even their buddies in the Main Stream Media can’t hide those from the public. So it’s off to a venue a third the size.
One minute officials were insisting that the speech would go on as scheduled at the stadium “rain or shine”; the next minute they announced the switch citing weather forecasts of lightning.
But then, maybe I’m being too hard on Obama and the DNC. Maybe, just maybe they have developed a healthy fear of being struck by lightning. To mock is one thing. To do it in the open…
The DNC canceled Earth, Wind & Fire due to Rain, Wind & Lightening? Oh no! I guess they just can’t play “September” in September.
Dude, your references are getting old and obscure. 🙂
The point is, of course, that the Deems wanted to recreate the appearance of mass support in the area and couldn’t pull it off. They pushed the timeline as far as they could (further than they should have) with the stadium practically ready for the event and then canceled.
It’s one thing to try and save face, it’s another to piss on the leg of the public and say it raining… or in this case going to rain. 🙂
I think it is revealing, prophetic and funny… thus worthy of a post.
No, really… The band Earth Wind & Fire was cancelled, due to venue change. I was just being clever with it, not Watlingtonesque in obscurity.
What’s funnier is the Twitter hashtag #negrospotting which was started by comedian Baratunde Thurston to track black attendance of the RNC.
I’ve watched the major speeches at both events, and so far, the GOP just looks out of touch. Ann Romney gave the best speech. Too bad she’s not running.
As for attendance… well, most middle-class Americans can’t skip work for a week to go to an out-of-state pep rally. The DNC should have picked a Dem stronghold like LA or NYC. So, we’ll just see what happens in November.
>> I’ve watched the major speeches at both events, and so far, the GOP just looks out of touch.
Thanks you. I can’t tell you how much better that makes me feel about this election. 🙂
Oh, it shouldn’t. My vote, as a Texan, won’t apply. Now if we can get a movement towards a popular vote for national office (which would favor Dems), the way the GOP has pushed for voter ID (which would favor the GOP), then we’ll be onto something you can worry about. 🙂
Look, all I’m saying is that I’m glad you think the GOP is “out of touch”. If you thought they were “in touch” it would mean they were compromising, singing Kumbaya, and giving in to the Democrats.
I want the Republicans concentrating on the Top Ten problems we have in this nation right now.
1. Too much spending
2-10. Still too much spending.
The current asshole in charge has been in touch for the past three years to a tune of 6 trillion more dollars to the national debt and no end in sight.
I at least know Paul Ryan gets that THE problem is spending. By most standards, that is not in touch. Good, that’s what I want. It’s the only hope this nation has left.
A skeptic can only come to your conclusions?
I really don’t think anything I’ve said comes close to the thousands of hate filled words where you have the President whipping out his d*ck, etc. I just use Bush’s own words and actions to make fun of him. You create this private theater where Darth Obama and his lib’ral Sithies cast the world into darkness at every turn. It’s like Biblical theater of the middle ages. ‘A socialist ate my baby!’
The source for the quote is Josh Gerstein ABCNEWS.com, who quotes TVS, the Swedish national network. Not good enough? Ok. I’m just a guy with Google, like you. Can’t take it much further.
So, if Obama wins, can I hold you to a 2016 doomsday prediction?
And if Obama wins, and the economy is even better in four years, will you wear a flower in your hair and sing the Coca-Cola song?
We gotta have some kinda bet here. Let’s put some skin into the game.
It tickles me that you limit the President to one year of blaming the guy before him. Reagan only had to deal with four years of Carter, and here’s what he said in at the end of his first term:
“The problems we inherited were far worse than most inside and out of government had expected; the recession was deeper than most inside and out of government had predicted. Curing those problems has taken more time and a higher toll than any of us wanted.” –Reagan, 1983
Obama says the same thing after eight years of Bush & friends, who ran up the worst deficit + war package in the modern era, and the right calls that buck-passing.
OK. Whatever. 🙂
Good luck to your re-animated possum. I think it’s still a coin-flip; right now, slightly in Obama’s favor, but that kind of thing changes weekly. We’ll see what happens in November.
You do realize that if Romney becomes President, all the Sarah Connors are going to die, right?
*Ding dong!*
Secret Service. Ma’am, are you Sarah Connor?
Why, ye-
*pweet* *pweet*
😀
>> So, if Obama wins, can I hold you to a 2016 doomsday prediction?
Yes. Average the yearly national economic growth under Reagans 8 years. (subtract 1981 and add 1990) Both he and Obama inherited a crappy economy. If Obama comes within 10-15% of that, I’ll say he had a positive impact. It won’t even be close.
But then, even if Romney/Ryan are elected I don’t expect much of an improvement. Things were bad when Obama took office, they are worse now. Romney will slow our sprint to hell down to a speed-walk.
Obama will be full spending ahead. Luckily he’ll have a Republican Congress to pull on the reigns so he’ll try to ignore the Constitution and do everything via executive order. The one thing he’ll have going for him is the Republicans are generally pussies.
Right now I’d say we’re at a 50/50 chance of sprinting to hell or speed-walking to hell. Whoopee…
Ryan is the only wild-card (hope) in all of this.
>> It tickles me that you limit the President to one year of blaming the guy before him.
I’m consistent.
One year is enough time to implement your policies and begin to see their results. That is IF the economy is important to you at all. If you don’t address the economy, then it’s reasonable to assume you didn’t think it needed your attention.
But I’ve always said there is very little a President can do to affect the economy positively other than get the government out of the way. He can however have a profound negative effect by getting the government in the way… Thus the key differences between the solutions of Reagan and Obama… and the key results we are seeing in each of those cases.
>> Reagan only had to deal with four years of Carter.
Comparing Bush and Carter is absurd.
Bush had eight years, but his term was just fine economically in the middle; especially when you consider he had to deal with the effects of 911 right out of the gate. I will admit his last 2 years were horrible but only because he started acting like a Democrat. Obama squeals about Bush’s policies getting us in this mess; but those Bush policies exactly the ones he adopted and continued… stimuluses’ and bail-outs… aka spending.
All the hype about us being on the verge of a “Great Depression” is just bullshit propaganda; no more relevant or true than Obama saving us from invading space aliens.
Were things bad? Yep. Were things any worse than Reagan inherited from Carter? Not by a long shot.
>>The problems we inherited were far worse than most inside and out of government had expected; the recession was deeper than most inside and out of government had predicted. Curing those problems has taken more time and a higher toll than any of us wanted.” –Reagan, 1983
I believe that was in his state of the union address (January of 83) two years into his term (1 year 9 months ago by Obama term standards).
Reagans reaction/solution to the problem was also the exact opposite of Obamas, “The Federal budget is both a symptom and a cause of our economic problems. Unless we reduce the dangerous growth rate in government spending, we could face the prospect of sluggish economic growth into the indefinite future. … To assure a sustained recovery, we must continue getting runaway spending under control to bring those deficits down.”
Obama wants more spending, more stimulus, more programs, more bailouts, more crony capitalism, more government jobs, more, more, more…
By this time in his Presidency (1 year 9 months after your quote), Reagan had turned the economy around so much that he was on the verge of re-election winning practically every state in the union. The economic dividend Reagan produced by his policies (exactly the opposite of Bush/Obamas) were felt well into the Clinton years.
Obama at this point in time is another Carter. It’ll be very tough considering the Word Economy; but Romney or Ryan could turn it around like Reagan did within 3-4 years. That’s just to slow the sprint down to a walk.
To curtail the looming disaster and deal with the $16 Trillion deficit will require a much bigger commitment and change in attitude and understanding by the American People. This would require WWII type commitment and I just don’t think we have that kind of national character any more. I hope I’m wrong.
If we survived Bush, we can survive anything. Remember what Bush said, when he didn’t know his mic was hot, in 2001, when chatting with the Swedish PM?
“It’s amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency.”
For the good of America, I sincerely hop Romney loses. He and Ryan want to destroy government oversight and let the corporate oligarchy take over. That will be really, really great… for a tiny % of the population who move all their money overseas. For everyone else, it will suck. Silver spoon boy is hopelessly out of touch with the American experience. I would rather have any randomly selected person with a middle or working class background, than him.
>> Remember what Bush said, when he didn’t know his mic was hot, in 2001, when chatting with the Swedish PM? “It’s amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency.”
No Rick… I don’t… and neither do you.
Oh… I heard the quote before… always from some left winger who pulled it off the web where it is, I admit, quoted thousands of times. I even think Michael Moore recreated it in his book. It was in a George W. Bush movie… so why aren’t I conceding the point?
Have you ever asked yourself why you can’t find this quote anywhere other than a smarmy leftist web-site? Seen it quoted by the Associated Press, Reuters, even CNN or NPR?
I think the original source of the quote is supposed to be from a New York Times hatchet piece back in 2001.
Bush’s “words” were “captured by a local television crew, with the prime minister, Goran Persson”.
Really… OK… let’s see it… let’s hear it. Nope, the NYT was never able to produce anything like that. That must have been some bumbling television crew; OR it never existed. But hey, the NYT heard that a unnamed television crew captured it… so that’s good enough.
But I could be wrong. I can’t prove he didn’t say it. Send me the audio. Send me an at least semi-reputable source that actually backs up its sources or provides some sort of evidence that they claim was “captured”. Perhaps Goran Persson confirmed the quote…
Which leads perfectly into…
>> For the good of America, I sincerely hop Romney loses. He and Ryan want to destroy government oversight and let the corporate oligarchy take over. That will be really, really great… for a tiny %
Yea, and he ties young women to railroad tracks. It’s the twirley mustache that gives him away.
You have bought in to this crap hook, line and sinker; the Dem and MSM are doing something right.
And you claim to be a skeptic… Bush left office almost four years ago. Don’t you think it’s time to set aside all that hate for him and by extension the Republican Party?
The funny thing is this. You’re the one who, along with a Dallas friend, helped me realize that I’m not who I thought I was. So really, I owe you, big time. I thought I was a moderate, and Christian, but you’ve both helped me face what those words mean, concretely. You can’t be partly in favor of equal rights, and you can’t kinda think maybe Jesus was physically resurrected, and that somehow makes things ok between yourself and YHWH. You either support rights, or you don’t; you either believe, or you don’t. Each decision has consequences, and shapes other thoughts. These things matter. The only conflict, really, is how one responds to social pressures to conform, when those pressures run counter to your own conclusions, your own true feelings. Are you yourself, or are you loyal to the tribe? When is it time to stay, or go? These are things most people struggle with in their youth, but I’m finding that struggle in middle age, and it’s not a bad thing. It’s actually very hopeful.
Hmm. Don’t know how my reply got misplaced. Maybe an iPad thing.
I don’t know: Here was your reply as I received it in Email. It was not in my Pending folder.
A skeptic can only come to your conclusions?
I really don’t think anything I’ve said comes close to the thousands of hate filled words where you have the President whipping out his d*ck, etc. I just use Bush’s own words and actions to make fun of him. You create this private theater where Darth Obama and his lib’ral Sithies cast the world into darkness at every turn. It’s like Biblical theater of the middle ages. ‘A socialist ate my baby!’
The source for the quote is Josh Gerstein ABCNEWS.com, who quotes TVS, the Swedish national network. Not good enough? Ok. I’m just a guy with Google, like you. Can’t take it much further.
No worries — it got posted as a reply to a much earlier comment, and I couldn’t see it on the iPad.