Obama Moves Nomination Acceptance Speech to Football Stadium (Official)

[brooklynite]

Source: Time Magazine

The Convention Committee announces Monday the Illinois Senator will accept his party’s nomination at Denver’s INVESCO Field Aug. 28.

The football stadium can hold more than 75,000 people compared to the Pepsi Center’s roughly 20,000 seats, allowing Dems to open the speech to the public.

DNC’s Dean: “By bringing the last night of the Convention out to the people, we will be able to showcase Barack Obama’s positive, people-centered vision for our country in a big way.”

Dean and Kansas Gov. Sebelius hold 12:30 pm ET media call on the location switch.

Read more: http://thepage.time.com/2008/07/07/obama-moves-nomination-acceptance-speech-to-football-stadium/

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I might consider flying in just for the speech if I can get tickets...

[highplainsdem]

1. Link to another news story. They're reserving a block of "community" tickets for Coloradans:

http://www.myfoxcolorado.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=6925999&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1

"The Democratic Party is nominating a true change candidate this August, and it is only fitting that we make some big changes in how we put on the Convention," said Governor Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

The idea is to allow more people to witness the historic acceptance speech in person. The Pepsi Center's indoor arena setting cannot hold nearly as many people.

The DNCC announced Monday that a block of "community" credentials will be reserved for Colorado residents for the event at Invesco Field. Details about how to sign up and receive a "community" credential have not been released yet.

[Doctor_J]

6. Freakin' genius

Between the football seating and the field itself, there will be more than 100,000 people there. I hope secutiry is ramped way up though. I don't trust the freepers.

[kegler14]

2. Freepers have gone completely over the edge about this.

Check this thread for comparisons to Nuremburg, simply because Obama wants to speak to more people.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2041800/posts?page=27

Freeperland is almost always insane, but this thread really shows off their brainlessness.

[Ian David]

5. How DARE Democrats have a candidate who is POPULAR! n/t

[Ian David]

11. Obama is POPULAR and INSPIRATIONAL! Just like HITLER!

Your know what else?


John McCain has MILITARY EXPERIENCE, JUST LIKE HITLER!

John McCain was in prison... JUST LIKE HITLER!




You know who else had military experience?
Topic started by IanDB1 on Jul-01-08 09:22 PM (16 replies)
Last modified by IanDB1 on Jul-01-08 10:19 PM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=6441244


McCain's Hitler Comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfEvae2pu8g


John McCain: Hitler Was Doing God's Work
Well, gosh darn it, that is not what he said. It's what the preacher he begged for an endorsement said.
Here's a video containing the audio, and you can Digg It to help get it to more people.
http://littlethomsblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/john-mccain-hitler-was-doing-gods-work.html


Juan Cole: McCain blames Rise of Hitler on Ron Paul
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2373445

Springboard for Hitler? Nutball right seeks to destroy McCain
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2849928

McCain just compared those who want to bring troops home to Hitler appeasers
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2365998

Quotes from McCain supporters and like-minded folk on Hitler and the Jews
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6069065


Prescott Bush/Nazi link today: "The Bushes and Hitler's Appeasement" by Robert Parry
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3314392

Holy Crap! Prescott Bush Plotted Coup against the USA in 1933
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1432456

HARPER'S (7/29/07): Prescott Bush was "key liaison" w/Nazis in 1934 "Plot Against America"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3290422

[Bonobo]

14. No different than what Hillary supporters said for months: "Cult-leader, cult-leader"

nm

[LanternWaste]

20. No different than what almost anyone would say

No different than what almost anyone would say about a candidate they don't support.

[TheWraith]

33. Uh, no. It's quite clearly over the line behavior. nt

[LanternWaste]

40. I'm afraid I've seen the sobriquet

While I agree it's quite out of line, I'm afraid I've seen the sobriquet of "cult" and "messiah" applied to both of the democratic candidates during the primaries. I've seen variations of it applied to candidates since I've been voting.

No one group of candidate's supporters appears to be innocent of it.

[TheWraith]

59. You're looking somewhere other than I have been, then.

Because the only side I've seen the "cult" attack slung at is Obama.

[LanternWaste]

61. I was looking in GD: Primaries while it was up

I was looking in GD: Primaries while it was up. Guilty parties on both sides of the fight using the same card-stock epithets and labels against "them"(whoever "them" is for you as your milage may vary).

Cult. Lock-step. Mindless. All the usual pejoratives flung by the all the usual suspects at anything it would stick to...

[katty]

41. So, annointing the Rock Star at a stadium? not surprised

[Krashkopf]

29. That is where you are wrong.

As excited as I am about the prospect of a "President Obama," I will be the first one to raise my voice in protest against him if he doesn't take IMMEDIATE STEPS to roll back the excesses, and Consitutional abuses, of the Bush administration.

[ronnykmarshall]

36. The primary is over.

Move on.

[fjc]

16. Thanks for that link to the freepers.

Kind of gives fresh meaning to "over the top". Ya gotta laugh though at all those pics of Hitler rallies and "cult of personality" fears, completely oblivious to the Limbaugh phenom don't ya know.

[Monk06]

21. See this parallel DU discussion of the FReeper thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3575130&mesg_id=3575130

[truthisfreedom]

18. Their fear of Obama is beyond pathological.

Who raised these people? Vampires?

Those posts reach a level of racism I've never seen there before. There's no thinking going on in freeperland... just the smell of pure fear, a collective shitting of thousands of pairs of pants, a panicky grasping at straws to try to understand what is happening to their orderly "bush knows best so shut up and support the wiretapping, oil and the war" world.

The comparison to shitler is transparently Rovian. His feverish, fiendish mind is the only place something this sick and fetid could have been hatched.

[Skink]

25. McCain could lease a McDonald’s, and they wouldn’t even have to shut down the drive-thru.

That comes from that freeper thread.

[underpants]

35. Oh please please please someone on Fox News repeat this

AND shows those photos

please do it

That will go ahead and turn off the remaining percentile of people who consider the Republicans relevant and sober

[NBachers]

48. Thanks for the link. I went there. I need a shower.

My godd . . . These people have nothing legitimate to operate from . . .

[crickets]

51. Yoiks.

Although I liked the one comment someone sneaked in:

"McCain could lease a McDonald’s, and they wouldn’t even have to shut down the drive-thru."

Bwahaha! The rest of it was just insane opposite-land paranoia.

[Name removed]

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[Gman]

3. Someone told me at the convention in Boston

that on Wednesday night, the last night of the convention, there were 30,000 packed into the convention center. We couldn't leave to go to the bathroom and come back because the fire martial had said the place was overcrowded. And that was the indoor facility.

This will be absolutely awesome and it's a complete stroke of pure genius.

[Ian David]

4. McCain's acceptance speech will be in the back room of Denny's during the Early Bird buffet.

Afterward, there will be free glaucoma screenings.

[PearliePoo2]

7. ha ha ha

cripes...spit out my coffee and scared my dog on that one! :rofl:

[brooklynite]

8. The FR Gang beat you to it...

McCain could lease a McDonald’s, and they wouldn’t even have to shut down the drive-thru.

[Ian David]

10. I think McCain's speech should be given here...

[CountAllVotes]

17. sorry I do not find this funny

nor appropriate. :(

[Ian David]

19. Yeah, on second thought, you're right. That was too much. I've changed it...

Now, it's the nuclear waste depository at Yucca Mountain.

[CountAllVotes]

22. thanks

I happen to know someone that got out of Guyana alive. He lost his entire family there. It was an event I'd really like to forget but I cannot. :(

[Ian David]

12. My version of the joke was funnier. Because McCain is old. n/t

[madaboutharry]

24. Very funny!

They will also be serving egg beaters.

[awoke_in_2003]

38. "free glaucoma screenings"

Well, due to the demographic of McSame voters, maybe they should throw in free prostate exams, too- wait a minute, with what they have been doing to us for the last 7 years, they already know the condition of our prostrates :)

[highplainsdem]

9. Democratic convention site press release (link):

http://www.demconvention.com/democrats-throw-open-doors/

[goclark]

13. Can GW resign now and let smart people take over

This is just so smart!

[thereismore]

15. Sheer genius. Obama converts last day of convention into a monumental campaign event,

in a state that will turn blue in Nov. Pure genius.

[Imagevision]

23. This is good news, I favor larger crowds to impact with awesome pictures...

[madaboutharry]

26. Really sheer brilliance.

What a brilliant move. Bring it to the people.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

27. Didn't JFK do that in Los Angeles?

They held the convention at the smaller Sports Arena, but he gave his speech at the 100,000 seat LA Coliseum?

[ronnykmarshall]

37. You are correct !!

[Krashkopf]

28. What could be more exciting, politically . . .

Than watching the man who will become the first black President give his acceptance speech on the 40th anniversary of MLK's "I have a Dream" speech, in front of 75-80,000 Americans hungry for change!

I am going to do everything in my power to make sure that my wife, and I, and our two mixed-race kids are in the crowd!

THIS is an America where "the Dream" is realized. THIS is the America I want to live in!

[dccrossman]

30. Hopefully this will wake up the sleeping masses...

You know, that 98% of America that doesn't pay attention to or give a damn about the national election until the week before?

[El Supremo]

31. I bet Pat Bowlen, Mike Shanahan and John Elway are pissed right now.

Damn Republican shills.

[bamacrat]

32. Great idea, this could send a powerful message.

This could let many across the country see that the Dems are united behind Obama. Also it ties them to the countries new (athletic)passtime; NFL. I think college is better but, not everyone went to college or has a college team, but everyone loves the Super Bowl. Plus if there are 75000 people there imagine the press and the good PR.

[underpants]

34. More importantly it shows our groupthink society that is is OKAY to like Obama

and that is pretty much all it takes these days.

[PearliePoo2]

39. groupthink is right

It's the "everybody likes a winner" mentality.
Too many people are like friggin' sheep and want to be "in".
Just like junior high but supposedly they're adults now.

[katty]

45. it sure is - logos, labels, chanting...same old same old

[DS1]

42. Fox News will no doubt book a section of 15 seats, not show up

and film them empty the entire night.

Shit. I probably just gave them that idea.

[underpants]

43. CNN will have Candy Crowley about 10 miles from Denver

"Yes Wolf just over my shoulder Barack Obama is trying to stir up the crowd....." (the glow of Denver can be seen in the background)

[DS1]

44. The way she bends light it'll still be a Obama head and shoulders shot

yeah, she's fat.

flame on!

[underpants]

46. She sucks onions

just before she goes on air. Its and old TV trick ...you know, for when you want to look like you just took a bite out of s%%t sandwich

[joshcryer]

58. Tee hee, wouldn't happen. People want a free night out, any seats empty would go to people...

...outside the stadium wanting to get in! It's brilliant! It'll be packed to the hilt!

[Miss Chybil]

47. How do you get tickets?

Not for the airline, but for the event?

[backscatter712]

49. That's what I want to know.

Since I live in the northern Denver area, I want to see this in person!

[MaineDem]

50. "Community Credentials"

"The DNCC announced today that a special block of "Community" credentials will be reserved for Colorado residents for Thursday night's program at INVESCO Field. Details about how to sign up and receive a "Community Credential" for the last night of the Convention will be released in the coming weeks."

This was from the DNC's press release. I guess the answer is to stay tuned.

[redqueen]

52. Nice move.

This oughtta make some wrongwing heads explode with envy.

[windoe]

53. What a party that will be

I wonder what music they will have? (Remember everyone doing the macarena with the Clintons?)

I will be happy that night, wherever I happen to be!! :headbang:

[ryanmuegge]

54. I don't see what the big deal is either way. Is it just for a photo-op with an impressive crowd?

What's so genius about this?

[Yavin4]

55. Can Only Wonder How "South Park" Is Going to Respond to this

Won't be too favorable I assume.

[onenote]

57. Worth repeating: JFK did a similar thing in 1960 -- moved acceptance speech to stadium

This was posted upthread, but it bears repeating. ANd it bears reminding the MSM of this fact. I doubt that they'll piss over the idea once they're reminded that its exactly what JFK did in 1960.

http://www.npr.org/news/national/election2000/demconvention/past.1960.html

[Ian David]

60. Republicans can fill a stadium, too...

Barack Obama isn't the only one who can fill a stadium. Republicans can fill a stadium, too!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6466448&mesg_id=6466448