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DNC Charlotte: Obama’s Thursday Apotheosis Gets Rained Out

Posted on | September 5, 2012 | 18 Comments

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina
While I was waiting to pick up my media credentials this morning, the official word came that Thursday’s final night of the convention will be moved indoor due to a severe weather forecast. CNN reports:

After days of bad weather, President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign and Democratic National Convention organizers have decided to change the venue of the president’s acceptance speech Thursday in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Instead of holding the final night at the Bank of America stadium as planned, the event will move indoors to the Time Warner Cable arena, where the first two days of the convention have taken place.

This means 21,000 seats inside the arena instead of 65,000 seats in the stadium and some Republicans on Twitter are suggesting the real reason for the move was that Democrats were afraid of having empty seats at the stadium. But even if the weather explanation is legit, it’s still kind of embarrassing for Obama, as Rocco Cavallo said on Twitter: “So the guy who slowed the rise of the oceans can’t stop the rain?”

Category: Barack Obama, Democrats, Election 2012, Fear and Loathing at the Democratic National Convention

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18 Responses to “DNC Charlotte: Obama’s Thursday Apotheosis Gets Rained Out”

  1. Mike Tuggle
    September 5th, 2012 @ 11:54 am

    And yet our local weatherman says Thursday night will be the best weather of the week.
    While 65,000 irate Obama supporters try to elbow their way into the arena (with its 15,000 seats – do the math), the Occupy protestors will have their best opportunity to create mayhem.

  2. smitty
    September 5th, 2012 @ 12:06 pm

    Did you bring your Code Pink disguise to sneak in?

  3. JeffS
    September 5th, 2012 @ 12:42 pm

    The fedora would give him away, regardless of what he wore.

  4. Bob Belvedere
    September 5th, 2012 @ 1:44 pm

    Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha – to infinity!

  5. Fear And Loathing 2012: In Charlotte’s Web « The Camp Of The Saints
    September 5th, 2012 @ 1:58 pm

    […] -In the first, he reports and comments on the decision of Team Obama to move Comrade Obamnin’s speech indoors where the accommodations are must more modest [Bank Of America Stadium capacity = 65,000; Time Warner Cable Arena = 21,000]. The DNC, which never, ever tells lies, claims it’s because of the weather forecast, but some of us who are bitterly clinging to our guns, our Bibles, and the Truth, remain rather cynical about that. […]

  6. Michael Smith
    September 5th, 2012 @ 2:22 pm

    Guys, you are missing the real point. Obama isn’t downsizing the event, he has just saved or created 50,000 extra seats.

  7. Adjoran
    September 5th, 2012 @ 2:28 pm

    One of the local news people noted the forecast is for “scattered” T-storms until 4 pm tomorrow, then “isolated” until 10, and only 20% chance. Obama wouldn’t come out until the rain was well past, if any.

    Then he raised his eyebrows and asked if a Panthers game or concert would be cancelled 24 hours in advance with a 20% chance of a storm?

    The really good news for those with stadium tickets who rode 10-12 hours on a bus to get there and won’t get in now is that Obama will address them Thursday afternoon – via conference call. Be still, my beating heart!

  8. JeffS
    September 5th, 2012 @ 3:27 pm

    I believe that Paco puts it best:

    “Having dropped “God” from their platform, the Democrats are now apparently afraid of a lightning strike.”

  9. Who’ll Stop the Rain? | hogewash
    September 5th, 2012 @ 5:13 pm

    […] Smitty suspects that they think they can’t find enough live bodies to fill the large stadium. Hmmmm. Share this:TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmailPrintLike this:LikeBe the first to like this. This entry was posted in Election 2012, Politics and tagged Barack Obama, CCR, Charlotte, Democrats by wjjhoge. Bookmark the permalink. […]

  10. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    September 5th, 2012 @ 6:19 pm

    They just wanted a more intimate setting! Barack Obama: “Please tip your waitresses and bartenders!”

  11. Edward_Teach
    September 5th, 2012 @ 6:38 pm

    ROTFLMFAO

  12. Edward_Teach
    September 5th, 2012 @ 6:38 pm

    Must be

  13. Anonymous
    September 5th, 2012 @ 6:40 pm

    […] […]

  14. Bob Belvedere
    September 5th, 2012 @ 7:23 pm

    Bravo!

  15. Bob Belvedere
    September 5th, 2012 @ 7:24 pm

    Paco usually puts it best.

  16. Mike Rogers
    September 5th, 2012 @ 8:57 pm

    Obama’s Karma ate his Dogma – this is what he gets for wishing a hurricane on the GOP convention!

  17. Mike Rogers
    September 5th, 2012 @ 8:59 pm

    I always joke with pastors that they might not want to let me in in case God hurls a thunderbolt at me!

  18. Dan Collins
    September 7th, 2012 @ 10:31 am

    God, I hate it when my apotheoses get rained out.