54,000 Empty Chairs, Oh, My! What is a DNC teleprompter to do?
- Post 05 September 2012
What do you if you held a froward convention, hyped it as the second coming, giving away tickets by the thousands, and hardly anyone shows up for the coronation?
Well, you could call a time out for rain, global warming or something and move your teleprompter to a venue with far fewer empty chairs. The Obama bubble is nearing its end and it has nothing to do with the weather...
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama scrapped plans to hold the biggest speech of his re-election campaign in a 74,000-seat outdoor football stadium on Thursday night, moving it to a much smaller venue due to severe weather forecasts.
The address to the Democratic National Convention will now be held in the approximately 20,000-seat Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina, convention officials said on Wednesday. ...continues...
"Question all which is 'taught,' dig deeper, think clearly, respond profusely. Conformity is the antithesis of free thought and self-determination." -- Standard Pearls