President Obama told ticket-holders now shut out of his acceptance speech because of a venue change that “a safety issue” prompted the shift from the Bank of America Stadium to the Time Warner Cable Arena.
Citing concerns about bad weather, the Obama campaign moved the speech from the 75,000-capacity stadium to the 20,000-capacity arena on Wednesday. The camp countered reports that it couldn’t fill the stadium, saying there were 65,000 ticket holders and scores of journalists to fit into the stadium, as well as thousands more Obama supporters on a waiting list.
“I just want to begin by saying how much I regret that we’re not all gathering together in one place to deliver my acceptance speech tonight,” Obama told supporters on today’s conference call. “…Because of the nature of our campaign, we’ve always been about getting everybody involved, making sure everybody is participating and making sure everybody has got access. And that’s why we took a chance in Denver four years ago, and that’s why we wanted to take a chance when it came to North Carolina.”
“The problem was a safety issue,” he continued. “I could not ask you — our volunteers, our law enforcement, first responders — to subject themselves to the risk of severe thunderstorms. And you guys can imagine, with all the magging that goes on and the security issues involved, getting 70,000 people into a place is tough; getting them out of there is even tougher. And if we had started seeing severe thunderstorms and lightning, in particular, it would have been a problem. And we would have had a situation where we were putting you guys at risk.”
It started raining heavily in Charlotte after 4 p.m. today.
“So I know it’s disappointing,” Obama said. “I’ve got to tell you, I saw some of my key staff who had come down here and they’ve literally been working non-stop for months just getting the logistics of this all put together. And obviously, they were a little bit crestfallen. And I know it’s especially disappointing for a lot of you who worked hard to get your tickets to the event, or traveled or planned to travel a long way at your own expense to be here.”
To be honest, I wouldn’t want to be outdoors where this liar is talking. Actually with the group of liars they’ve had speaking at this fiasco, I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near them in a place where lightning can strike. You never know when Heaven will decide it’s heard enough and put an end to it.
Right. “Safety issue.” Got it.
It is a known fact that Democrats melt in the rain.
You see, in the inner cities you can throw out any reason and you will be believed. And the Gauleiters/ward captains will take care of those who see through it. You just have to offer a talking point, and they’ll take care of it for you: “No, Barack was looking out for our safety, so you need to stop being disrespectful….”
When the USF football team played Notre Dame in September 2011, somehow they were able to clear the stadium, twice, for lightening delays.
Of course that was a crowd that wanted to see a college football game, not a crowd that was being forced to attend for Dear Leader.
http://www.weather.com/weather/map/interactive/Charlotte+NC+USNC0121:1:US
30% chance of thundershowers decreasing.
the odds of lightning hitting INSIDE an open stadium has to be very nearly zero, see if anyone can find ANY instance of that happening anywhere in the world in the last 100 years.
His ego was in danger of deflating.
His ego was in danger…
For the Love of Life Orchestra, what’s with the “lightening” business? It’s “lightning,” dammit! Do not trust your spell check! SPELL CHECK IS NOT YOUR FRIEND!
There, I’m better now…