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Droplets Force Obama – Regretfully – To Move From His 8.5 Million Seat EnormoDrome to a 20 thousand seat arena
Those are the breaks, people. If not for the drizzle EIGHT AND A HALF MILLION PEOPLE would have been falling out of the rafters of the EnormoDrome, all to get a rare glimpse of the incumbent president.
Oh, a top Charlotte meteorologist is saying that there is little to no chance of rain Thursday.
Daily Caller -
The chief meteorologist at a Charlotte television station is questioning the decision by Democrats to move President Obama’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention to a smaller venue because of the weather.
“Thursday night will likely be the best weather of the entire week,” Brad Panovich of WCNC-NBC TV wrote on Twitter in reference to when Obama’s speech was planned to take place at the outside Bank of America stadium, which can accommodate 70,000 people.
The Democratic National Committee on Wednesday announced that the weather is forcing them to relocate Obama’s speech to the Time Warner Cable Arena, which is inside and holds a far fewer 22,000 people.
In a series of tweets on Wednesday morning after the news broke, Panovich said there’s only a 20 to 30 percent chance of rain or storms and argued that “if you are going to move inside for this small risk you could have done that days ago.”
Said Panovich: “My main point is if you were going to move inside for the small [weather] threat Thursday [,you] could have made that decision a week ago.”
“It’s a simple question.. if you had a #Panthers game, Concert or Soccer match with a 20% chance of storms would you cancel 24hrs prior?” he asked.
jwm
September 5th, 2012
Run out of buses, did they?
JWM
Corky
September 5th, 2012
Could someone slip in there and put an empty chair on the field and take a picture??
How about the Tea Party hurriedly get a concert or something together and fill the place on Thursday night! We could do it.
bigjoesaddle
September 5th, 2012
Unfortunately for Brad Panovich of WCNC-NBC TV , he is now MARKED FOR DEATH!
Stirrin the B.S.
September 5th, 2012
I’ve seen this scene before somehere.
[Pooh:] Christopher RoOobin! I think it would help with this deception if you would just kind of open your umbrella and say,”Tut-tut, it looks like rain.”
[Christopher Robin:] Tut-tut, it looks like rain! Tut-tut, it looks like rain!
Navigator
September 5th, 2012
They’re afraid of being struck by lightning after removing God from their platform.
Horrorman18
September 5th, 2012
Is the new venue big enough to hold the hand picked attendees and Obama’s ego?
Xavier
September 5th, 2012
Charlotte 9/5/12 2:30PM The NWS Strike Team, equipped with newly purchased weapons and hollow point bullets, has surrounded Charlotte’s WCNC Channel 36. Meteorologist Panovich has reportedly refused to surrender to the NWS and claims he was justified in making an unapproved weather report to the general public. A spokesperson for the NWS said, “It’s always distressing when a weatherman goes rouge but this case is especially sensitive since WCNC is an NBC affiliate.” The President himself is personally involved and has offered Panovich a combination of reeducation camps and government subsidized medical treatments. We’ll keep this story updated as new developments occur.
dba_vagabond_trader
September 5th, 2012
Bet his handlers are wishing for another Hurricane Isaac.
Wyatt, Insensitive Progressive Jerk
September 5th, 2012
You folks are such angry cynics. Hurricane Mitt is bearing down on Charlotte, and you are questioning the decision to move the venue indoors? Do you have any idea how much damage even a little bit of moisture can do to fake Greek columns? Or how hard it is to read a teleprompter with condensation on the lens?
Why, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s hair may even frizz unless there was a change in venue.
Maudie N Mandeville
September 5th, 2012
So Obama leaves 50,000 people with cancelled hotel reservations, non-refundable airline tickets, and lost work and vacation schedules?
He wouldn’t have cared if it rained as long as he was covered. It would have showed their reverence.
He didn’t have the people to fill it. Romney 2012!
Tim
September 5th, 2012
Well, I heard it was 85 Million who showed up to catch a glimpse of BO and the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy put out the lie that it was only 8.5 Million and that Charlotte isn’t really expecting a Tsunami of Biblical proportions.
Clearly, the Won is concentrating on calming the seas and not on petty political Earthly events …
hanoverfist
September 5th, 2012
But if hes not outside how can the Mother Wheel
pick him up?
Diann
September 5th, 2012
That’s the problem with relying on dead people. They make excellent voters, but really, how the hell do you prop them up in a stadium?
Czar of Defenestration
September 5th, 2012
Yep. From the “man” (read: GAWD) who said he would stop the rising of the oceans and heal the planet…
…now it’s (to quote Monty Python):
Run away! Run away! Run away!
Yeah. Like I’m buying THAT……….
dba_vagabond_trader
September 5th, 2012
Kind of delicious how the empty chair theme runs thru this fiasco.
cfm990
September 5th, 2012
Waasa matter Barry, can’t get the 82nd to drop in? How about the Marines? North Carolina has both.
fina
September 5th, 2012
Brad Panovich should expect a visit from the IRS, TSA, DHA and FBI in 3…. 2….. 1
Moe Tom
September 5th, 2012
Neither snow, nor rain, nor sleet, nor gloom….. pussies.
So they gave a convention and nobody showed. Hee, hee
Stirrin the B.S.
September 5th, 2012
@Diann -
“….That’s the problem with relying on dead people. They make excellent voters, but really, how the hell do you prop them up in a stadium?….”
Now that’s funny!! That got a good guffaw out of me.
Chicagoan
September 5th, 2012
We know Obummer was a big pothead in high school. He was a big pothead at Occidental. Maybe he was busted for drugs at Occidental and asked to leave. Frank Marshall Davis called a friend and got the boy into Columbia. Obama was scared straight by the experience.
This is why the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review did not become a supreme court clerk or work for a big law firm for big bucks. A drug bust could be the skeleton in his closet which steered him into taking the law job working for a slumlord.
Alfa06
September 5th, 2012
BREAKING NEWS: Weather Underground concerns are forcing Obama’s big Thursday night speech to be moved to the alternate venue of Bill Ayer’s living room.
Noelegy
September 5th, 2012
Remember, this is the campaign that wanted to show us Barack speechifyin’ on through the rain.
Mountain Dog
September 5th, 2012
I’ve heard a lot of talk about slaves and share croppers from the democrats. Now I get the impression that the democrats are the party of tight-croppers, as in tightly cropped photos to make it look like more people.
Stranded in Sonoma
September 5th, 2012
So let me get this straight.
1) Hurricane Isaac was forecasted by the libtards to disrupt the Republican convention and they were giddy over it. Except the Republicans just didn’t let it bother them.
2) The forecast in Charlotte for Thursday night is…mostly dark, followed by scattered patches of light in the morning. And this “weather” is causing them no end of headaches and has forced them to move the
coronationacceptance speech indoors.Got it.
MaryfromMarin
September 5th, 2012
@Stranded–
“scattered patches of light”? On Democrats? No chance.
MaryfromMarin
September 5th, 2012
Too bad it didn’t drizzle last night. Then we could have heard a REALLY blood-curdling wail of “I’m melting! I’m melting!”
Roscoe P. Soultrane
September 5th, 2012
Didn’t He previously assert that He controlled the weather – that He would heal the planet and lower the seas? Is rain beyond the scope of His powers? For a god, He’s somewhat ham-fisted.
Blink
September 5th, 2012
An Obama made of sand was nearly washed away by rain in Charlotte.
With the DNC forecast for Charlotte being:
Sunny with a Chance of Empty Seats.
A Presidency made of sand being washed by a sea of empty seats is too much to risk.
Stranded in Sonoma
September 5th, 2012
@MaryfromMarin — Did you visit my “Got it” link?
MaryfromMarin
September 5th, 2012
@Stranded–
Actually, I really didn’t! “Two great minds…” and all that…”GMTA”, isn’t that the way it’s written?
Eric
September 5th, 2012
Bank of America Stadium? Wasn’t there some hocus pocus involving Bank of America back in the days of Booosh!, ? Didn’t the last stimulus that worked save Bank of America?
Doubting Thomas
September 5th, 2012
Hey Barack, you didn’t fill that!
Stranded in Sonoma
September 5th, 2012
@Eric — I guess you could say it saved them. But they’ve been laying off workers like throwing cargo out of a sinking ship. A year ago they released a press statement saying they would let 30,000 people go in the next three years. And they got the “stimulus” and they paid it back early. But they’re still letting people go. You figure it out.
Anonymous
September 6th, 2012
The Bob Cats arena holds 36 thousand people you asshole, get your facts straight.
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