Monday, September 3, 2012

Will rain force Obama speech indoors?

Possible thunderstorms could move President Barack Obama's Thursday night acceptance speech indoors -- a contingency plan that would frustrate tens of thousands of North Carolinians now planning to watch the speech at Bank of American Stadium.

With forecasts calling for a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms Thursday -- though clearer skies by nightfall -- Obama campaign spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter raised the possibility Monday morning that the president may have to deliver his speech in Time Warner Cable Arena.

"We're still hopeful we can speak in the stadium," Cutter said on MSNBC's Daily Rundown show. "We've got tens of thousands of people from all over North Carolina and the country traveling here for that, with enormous enthusiasm for it. But we always knew this could be part of the plan. We'll make a call sometime in the near future about whether to move it indoors."

But later Monday morning, at a news conference at the Charlotte Convention Center, convention committee CEO Steve Kerrigan told reporters: "This is going forward, rain or shine."

Kerrigan added, though, that a contingency plan was on the table if thunderstorms pose safety issues.

In Tampa last week, Tropical Storm Isaac forced Republicans to change their plans, shortening their convention by a day.

-- Tim Funk and Ann Doss Helms

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

They've been hoping for the chance of rain because they know they will not fill BofA ("Panthers" lol) stadium on Thursday night.

Anonymous said...

Yeah and whoever turns out will still be 5x more than watched Mitt Lie-ney

Anonymous said...

Talk to me on 11/7 after the results are in, libtard.

Anonymous said...

He's spoken in the rain before; why would we not expect him to do that same thing again? It would actually be a pretty effective image.

BoMomma said...

This reminds me of a night we were all up on Sunset Boulevard. My daughter and her friends were sitting with Jean Claude Van Damme. Closing time came and Van Damme tells the girls there will be papparazzi outside. My daughter opened the door and said, "Nobody's out here." and laughed at him.

Anonymous said...

Why doesn't HE just command the rain not to fall? After all, he said HIS election would make the oceans stop rising--and that the earth would begin to heal...

Sick, but this narcissistic jerk actually said that!

Anonymous said...

He was to "heal the planet", and lower the seas...what about a little rain or BEDBUGS.

Anonymous said...

We've got tens of thousands of people from all over North Carolina and the country traveling here for that, with enormous enthusiasm for it

..yeah, right...the shine is off the new little nickel elected in 08

Anonymous said...

With his EGO they will not move inside. He'd rather move it to the Georgia Dome in Atlanta

Surely they could fill a stadium in Atlanta and hey Biden would still think they are in NC