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Confirmed: #DNC2012 acceptance speech will take place at BOA stadium
It’s been speculated about for months, and the Bloomberg news outlet put a more official stamp on the rumors last week. Today in a presser, Democrat National Convention Committee officials confirmed that President Obama will indeed make his acceptance speech not at Time Warner Cable Arena as originally scheduled but at the much bigger Bank of America Stadium instead:
This year’s Democratic National Convention will shrink from four days to three, and include public events at the Charlotte area’s two largest venues — Bank of America Stadium and Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Officials announced the changes this morning at a news conference on the sidelines of Bank of America Stadium, which featured the convention logo on its electronic scoreboards.
President Obama will deliver his acceptance speech at the 74,000-seat stadium on Sept. 6, the last night of the convention, just as he did four years ago in Denver.
“From the start, this convention has been about engaging more people in the process,” said U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee. “We saw in Denver in 2008 how holding the president’s acceptance speech at Invesco Field allowed more people to be part of the process….
“We wanted the convention to be about more than the pageantry and speeches you see on TV.”
In lieu of the convention opening on Monday, Sept. 3 — Labor Day — organizers plan to hold an event at the speedway to showcase not only the Charlotte region but the South. What exactly that will entail is unclear.
Several speakers, including Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx, appeared to go out of their way to say the event would “celebrate North Carolina and Virginia” as well as the South. Obama carried both states in 2008.
I watched the presser this morning on News 14 Charlotte (see local media coverage of it here) and the hateful Wasserman Schultz all but admitted what we’ve known all along: That this city was chosen for political reasons more so than any other. While it’s true President Obama won this state and turned it blue for the first time since Jimmy Carter, he won this state by the smallest margin of any of the states he won in 2008 and Wassserman Schultz said that with the pick of Charlotte as the host city the Obama campaign was showing it wants to be competitive here in North Carolina again this year. And with hosting a so-called “non-partisan” event at Charlotte Motor Speedway – which is actually in Concord, on the Charlotte line – Democrats are showing that they’ll fight for the Southern blue collar vote, which they’ll buy if they have to (which is usually the case).
As to the irony of President Obama giving his acceptance speech at a stadium named for the bank which his liberal Occupiers have made one of the primary symbols of “corporate greed” in America, Iowahawk sums it up well (via Jim Treacher):
When President Classy McWarfare gives his acceptance speech at the Bailout Bowl, this time he can use REAL Greek columns.
#nomorestyrofoam
Heh.
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Would it be wrong of me to hope that it absolutely pours that night? :)
1968 !!!11
@Dana: No, and if there’s any justice in the world it will…
BTW, the real reason they are cutting the convention from four to three days is to give less time for the Code Pinkos and New Weatherman Underground (I’m sure there is such a thing because those illegitimates have absolutely no imagination) and such to display their “tolerance” in all its violent and flaming glory. Of course, that’s the last reason you’ll ever hear from either the DNC, the LSM (but I repeat myself) or the WH.
Wasserman-Schultz:
So, holding at a 74K-seat stadium makes it less about pageantry and speeches?
Huh?
No. No rain. I want America to see the Greek columns again. I want all the fancy shmancy stuff and all the trappings. We have a misery index through the roof. I want him to be seen doing what he has done for 3 years now. Bathing in the excess while hard working Americans barely make ends meet. The strongest message we’ll ever have is his hypocrisy. Let him talk about being for the little guy as we show his lobster dinners for super bowls, his 74k seat party for his convention. Here’s hoping it’s better than the royal wedding.
But Chris, if they set up all those phony-baloney paper mache columns and they all melt, what a wonderful going away prize for Dear Leader!
Surprised no one has asked yet but where will the concession speech be made?
So what are the chances that BOA implodes MF Global style between now and September? So that the stadium can be renamed something more suitable, like, ‘President for Life’ Arena.
After Nancy Pelosi’s remarks on the Republican candidate it is now official in my mind. They are scared sh..less of Romney. The DNC has already shown us who they fear by attacking him, and nobody else. Their only salvation is that we choose another nonminee that they can easily beat.
Dave, just wait: if Mr Romney is our nominee, we’re going to see those oh-so-inclusive, never-a-bigoted-moment, multicultural Democrats start making attacks on Mr Romney being a Mormon that’ll make Trig Palin Trutherism look tame.
Oh, not a bit of it will come from the official campaign, but you can count on their Super-PACs and willing minions in the mainstream media to start the ball rolling.
Drew asked:
The concession stands, of course! :d
Everyone’s acting like Obhammud’s re-election is a foregone conclusion but “it ain’t over till the fat lady sings”. And Michelle can’t sing.
Please shower them all with some wonderful Southern hospitality! Be extra polite in declining to attend their events. Be extra polite in declining to cover every detail of their time in Charlotte. Be extra polite in suggesting that they plan to clean up after themselves. Be extra polite in waving goodbye as they leave. Let them know you think they are “number 1.”
Very good, H Hazell, especially the “number 1″ suggestion.
And if at all possible, could a “Pinnochio Meter” be installed both at the arena and the stadium? I know, it would be broken in the first 2 minutes, but if a repairman was standing by every time the Democraps overloaded it, maybe it could still be useful by the time Dear Leader hit the stage lying at 100mph.
And the length of the nose by the end of the convention (already shortened to three days)? It would surely reach all the way to Texas, probably to Arizona and possibly all the way into Hollyweird, where I’m sure some of the more inventive A-list activist actresses could figure out something to do with it.
BOA=Bowl of A..h…s!
oh boy, that event at CMS will surely galvanize support for the man that hates the NASCAR fan. Remember when first lady MO and second lady JB were resoundingly booed at the NASCAR championship race last fall?