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…
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