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Obama’s DNC Speech Moved Indoors

Sep. 5, 2012 10:20am Madeleine Morgenstern

President Barack Obama’s nomination acceptance speech to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. has been moved indoors due to weather concerns, Democratic officials said Wednesday.

Obama was scheduled to address the convention at the more than 60,000-capacity Bank of America outdoor football stadium, but will now speak in the Time Warner Center, which seats just around 20,000.

Obama campaign officials had insisted the speech would be held at the Bank of America stadium rain or shine, but would move it inside if lightning posed a threat to public safety, CBS News reported. Weather forecasters have predicted “isolated thunderstorms” for Charlotte on Thursday night.

“We have been monitoring weather forecasts closely and several reports predict thunderstorms in the area, therefore we have decided to move Thursday’s proceedings to Time Warner Cable Arena to ensure the safety and security of our delegates and convention guests,” DNC organizing committee CEO Steve Kerrigan said in a statement.

At the same time, the venue switch comes as the campaign has reportedly had trouble filling all the seats in the massive outdoor stadium, according to Politico.

Kerrigan said Obama will hold a national conference call with those who had been slated to come watch him.

“We will work with the campaign to ensure that those unable to attend tomorrow’s event will be invited to see the president between now and Election Day,” Kerrigan said.

This post has been updated.

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mersey
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:55am
The Lord does work in mysterious ways.

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- huey6367
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:14am
  Can you get struck by lightning indoors?
  
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- Gold Coin & Economic News
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:33am
  I think it will be funny when it doesn’t rain at all in Charlotte on Thursday. They moved the speech because the DNC couldn’t find enough Obamabots to fill the 60,000 seat stadium, no where even close. Get out your tin foil hats and your tums, the next 2 days of this convention will make you want to puke!
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fx0CAboEo8
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:42am
  Can they not move it to Havana? They already have a Castro.
  
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- Brad Wesselmann
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:46am
  Yes, you can get struck by lightning indoors….with man nothing is possible, with God everything is possible. Keep the Faith!!
  
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- banjarmon
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:08pm
  WOW…. BHO dose believe in GOD…He thinks he will get struck by Lighten!!, and We’re PRAYING HE DOSE!!!!
  
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- tcseacliff
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:42pm
  B*llshit ! they moved it inside because they could not fill all the seats ! LMFAO!
  
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- ScreaminEagle
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:47pm
  I’ll bet he doesn’t fil the Time Warner Center either.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 1:04pm
  TCseacliff, exactly right. Anyway, a guy that can make the sea stop it’s rise and heal the globe, should be able to hold off a little rain for an hour!
  
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- JRook
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 2:09pm
  “At the same time, the venue switch comes as the campaign has reportedly had trouble filling all the seats in the massive outdoor stadium, according to Politico” Yo maddie by your own reference and link this statement is a complete lie. Vying for a spot on the Romney / Ryan campaign are ya.
  
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- RossPoldark
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 2:59pm
  The grand wizard Obuma is melting. http://youtu.be/j7GJcKuVGm8
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 3:37pm
  Jrook, he may be speaking in phone booth so it doesn’t look empty.
  
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Apple Bite
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:53am
So GOD doesn’t strike him down with Lighting,….how clever.
You can’t box with GOD…and hiding is only temporary.

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- michael48
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:11am
  I thought chairman ocommie could change the weather???…I can’t do dat….appears as though he can’t do anything except community disorganize….and of course that’s been extremely helpful….right????
  
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- Meggars53
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:17am
  You beat me to it! He’s moving his backside indoors to try and escape the lightening bolt that God will send his way for all the lies he will be telling.
  
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- quackertwo
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:40am
  Exactly!
  
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- CatB
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:05pm
  LOL .. I’m waiting … golf course anyone?
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:13pm
  @CatB, you mean like this? :)
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A3M-d_eIqo
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:40pm
  Seems to me that if by simply getting elected, the oceans would recede, the temperatures would cool, and the earth would begin to heal,,,, WTF’s up with a little rain and lightning?
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:42pm
  I almost forgot! RAT FARTS!!!!!!!!!
  
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- floridareader
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 1:13pm
  Jeremiah 23:24
  
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- Wildblue3
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 3:31pm
  If God wants him, He’ll send the lightning in the area to get him. Let’s hope he does!!
  
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Bohump
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:51am
You Could not find The People, to fill all those seat’s could You ? .. Must have ran out of Money.

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- Xiccarph
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:00am
  Nah, I think the main reason was a bus shortage; they had to extend the distances to find enough people to get there, but couldn’t swing it logistically.
  
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- right
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:46am
  Not enough people to fill the buses they had driving around the country side collecting obama voters.
  
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TelepromoterNChief
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:49am
What is really sad is when word gets out that many people in the “crowd” we’re paid to be there. Way to get your money back on giving to BroBlama.

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Jim
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:45am
What a bunch of BS. We know why they moved to a location holding only 1/3. People found out the Obama was not the Messiah and is lying to the American People who stated that his tasks were incomplete (his words folks). In other words, he has yet to successfully bankrupt America and bring our country down. Don’t take my word for it, do your own investigation.

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barber2
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:42am
I just over-heard some of the snippets from last night’s speeches this on NPR ( one of the unofficial propaganda mouthpieces for the Obama campaign ), and they all sounded like a bunch of harridans and screamers. Guess that fits in nicely with their divisive, negative rhetoric and platform. When you leave out God but include abortion , things don’t track optimistic.

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- starman70
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:50am
  NPR = National Politbureau Radio.
  
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GrayPanther
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:42am
Regardless of where BHO speaks, make sure you have your BS Detector ear pads in place.Over the past 44 months his actions have seldom if ever matched his words.This man is a total allusion of a leader. You may also want to have a BARF bag handy.

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- CatB
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:08pm
  I’ll wait for the transcript .. I can’t stand to listen to him.
  
  BTW … the weather channel website says afternoon t-storms … nothing about evening. Usually you tarp over the field and wait for it to pass .. he is not speaking in the afternoon. All BS all the time!
  
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- kaydeebeau
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:44pm
  Go see 2016 and you will know he isn’t lying – you are just hearing what he says through the prism of American ideals. 0 doesn’t hold those ideals – in fact he holds the opposite and there is much that you “hear” when you view him through his anti-American prism
  
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landman1
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:39am
Again with the weather! The Weather Channel is owned by NBC who is owned by GE who is run by Jeff Immelt who is in Obama’s front pocket. I have already won a bet when I told someone that The Weather Channel was placing Hurricane Isaac right over Tampa long before that could have possibly been accurately predicted. All in an effort to keep RNC attendance down. You might recall in a bit of irony it went to plague New Orleans which is quite a ways from Tampa. Now The Weather Channel will be used to trump up “severe” weather threats to Charlotte in a thinly veiled attemp to give the DNC cover for the inability of filling BOA stadium and ultimately “compel” them to move it into the much smaller convention center. Now I know what you’re thinking, “they can’t control the weather” and you’d be right, but they do control the weather predictions. Remember what Stalin said, “It’s not important who votes, it’s more important who counts the votes”. Game on!

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- 65Mustang
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:51am
  LANDMAN1: agree with you completely.
  
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- tirelesspatriot
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:02am
  Landman1, you got it right. We see the in-the-tank-for-ObaMao clips and ads on the Weather Channel. They even started having a show about union workers – on a weather channel?! – which, fortunately, only lasted a few episodes. You’re right, too, about the WC’s early and incorrect prediction of where Isaac would hit. Rotten libs need to learn the definition of this word: backfire.
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:14am
  Nailed it!
  
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- HonorandIntegrity
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:51am
  As a resident of Charlotte, I totally agree with your assessment. I just got off the phone with someone and said I wouldn’t put it past the Weather Channel to change the forecast to give them cover for not filling the stadium. Our local weatherman gave his prediction this morning saying: “30%- 40% chance of thunderstorms today, and cloudy in the morning clearing in the afternoon, but maybe a chance a severe weather tomorrow evening.” Excuse me…..are we stupid?
  
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- TAXLORDCOMETH
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:07pm
  I miss the days when the WC was just a weather map and some great jazz music playing. You could always turn to that channel in your hotel room for background noise and just leave it.
  
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- chips1
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 1:21pm
  TAXLORD:
  Alone much? You need a date!!!!
  
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lel2007
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:38am
Weather threat, or sparse attendance threat? Are we to assume there’ll 40,000 disappointed turned away from the obama pitch.

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- starman70
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:48am
  ROFALOL!!!!!!
  
  Great post!
  
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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:08am
  Just another example of Obama’s uncertainty should I flip or flop.
  
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- Dismayed Veteran
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:46am
  They can pitch tents and join their fellow occupiers.
  
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perry1980
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:37am
LOL, couldn’t fill that 70,000 seat arena this time around

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- starman70
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:49am
  Tey were afraid that the STROFOAM Greek columns would be blown away!
  
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GoodCook
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:36am
The only thing that is disaappointing the other 45000 people is that he is doing the speech at all.

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KickinBack
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:35am
Haha! They can’t even bus enough people in!

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- biohazard23
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:40am
  Or give away enough tickets at dive bars and other reputable establishments.
  
  http://dunwoody.patch.com/articles/dems-giving-away-tickets-to-obamas-speech-9af17d66
  
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- sgtbrown01
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:47am
  Rush said the headline yesterday when this news came out…”you didn’t fill that”
  
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- CatB
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:10pm
  If I were in town I would have happily taken a ticket (and some for my friends) .. AND NOT SHOWN UP! ;-)
  
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Freebird
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:34am
Just heard this on a morning radio show 2 hrs.ago.The dems will have to to have some type of weather event so they can move the party indoors.
Also heard that nobody at the convention is calling the venue Bank of America Stadium,instead,their referring to it as Panther Stadium.Must be trying to distance themselves from the evil banker fat cats.

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biohazard23
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:34am
There’s only a 40% chance of rain on Thursday in Charlotte. Weather? Sure…. And I have a bridge you may be interested in purchasing….

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huey6367
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:33am
Since you can’t trust what anyone in this administration says, is it possible it was moved indoors (a smaller venue) because they couldn’t fill the larger venue?

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FoxholeAtheist
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:33am
Here’s the salt of the earth showing up for Mittens: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/28/century-mine-romney-ohio-mandatory_n_1836674.html?utm_hp_ref=business

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- MODEL82A1
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:42am
  Divert! Deflect! Deny! Lol! Loser.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:43am
  Fox: Hey Troll: I can tell by the name you chose, that this will be truthful, optimist, positive and up-lifting ! LOL
  
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- TEARS FOR AMERICA
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:44am
  The miners I saw on that day didn’t look unhappy at all…they looked overjoyed to be there!!!
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:52am
  @Atheist
  
  Your entire post is classified as Argumentum tu quoque, a form of ad hominem.
  
  Sorry Atheist, but you’ve offered nothing regarding this article as a valid rhetorical response. If all you have is ad hominem, you will be soundly mocked. :)
  
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- Wango
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:57am
  Yes, yes, once again the facts derail the conservative minions. “Nuh uhhhhh!” Just can’t muster the strength to admit the obvious. Always so ready to toss truth over the side thinking it will right their listing ship of fools. No bounce for Mitt, but wait for the bounce fro Obama.
  
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- Wango
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:01am
  GHOST OF THE PETER PRINCIPLE . . . It’s all fair game here – ad hominem attacks, straw man arguments, projection, deflection. Everybody does it, including you. There is no moral high ground to be claimed on The Blaze. The post you decry is absolutely relevant. You just don’t like the light it sheds on Mitt’s desperate manipulations and the right’s wild-eyed hypocrisy.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:20am
  @Wango
  
  Saying that ad hominem is fair game in a debate is to concede the debate to your opponents. It also shows a distinct lack of ability regarding debate and rhetorical discussions.
  
  I accept your concession. Good day.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:22am
  @Wango
  
  Also, I don’t care what it says about Romney, I’m not a fan of Romney. Wouldn’t matter if I was or wasn’t a fan though, given as ad hominem is not a valid response to a topic.
  
  I enjoy the way that you cannot avoid dishing out ad hominem. It provides me with ample leverage to discount you at every post. Exposing your weakness and declaring it a strength is little more than false pride. Please, do continue. :)
  
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- Wango
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:24pm
  GHOSTLYHEAFERSON . . . First you say: “I’ve started to believe that they actually would, based on their zombie like conformity since at least 2008. I’ve never seen a group of people so utterly mindless and hateful in my life.”
  
  Then you say: “I enjoy the way that you cannot avoid dishing out ad hominem. It provides me with ample leverage to discount you at every post. Exposing your weakness and declaring it a strength is little more than false pride.”
  
  Please, do continue.
  
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- WEBWITHDEB
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 1:43pm
  Hmmm. Ghost espoused a BELIEF. It was even quoted as such! Trying to equate a belief as fact is for fools and wangos.
  
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TEIN
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:32am
“..people who signed up for community credentials..”
We encourage our community credential holders and Americans..”
I am missing something…what are “community credentials”??? and if they are not Americans, what and who are they???

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- barber2
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:46am
  TEIN: Hey, I thought Democrats were all AGAINST IDs and credentials. Remember that birth certificate mess ? And those hidden school records ? And those surrendered law licenses ?
  
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- starman70
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:23am
  IDs ACCEPTED: EBDT cards, GREEN cards, Fake Drivers licenses with only Hispanic names, Rent Subsidy check stubs, Medicaid Cards!
  
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G man
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:30am
Yeah… well you need photo ID to get in the stadium, so they will probably end up moving this to the local high school gym.

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- loriann12
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:37am
  Na, if you show your Mexican ID, I’d bet you could get in.
  
  So, with the Union boycotting because it’s a right to work state, they couldn’t even find enough union workers to bus in for free?
  
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- booger71
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:23am
  Only if they include free dogs and beer, ah should have said hotdogs, would not want to get Barry’s hopes up
  
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Slowman101
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:27am
Thtas because they know he cannot fill the larger arena. There is NO hope, there is NO change. At least no change for the good. It’s time WE make a change at the ballot box in November!

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- barber2
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:36am
  But I bet there will be lots of “dirty tricks” before the election .
  
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Robert in Texas
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:26am
WEather? Or to cover up the fact that they can’t fill the 60K seats? We had more than 60K at Restoring Love! LOL

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nobull14
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:26am
That’s because he can not fill football stadium .

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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:26am
If I were him, I’d worry about lightning strikes as well.

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MODEL82A1
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:26am
(Bank of America Stadium) “You Didn’t Fill That.”
– Rush Limbaugh

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starman70
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:25am
IF HE DIDN’T SPEAK AT ALL, IT WOULD BE FINE WITH ME!

rqd. lc

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- steveh931
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 1:55pm
  Amen
  
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randy
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:24am
Hahaha
Can’t fill up the stadium even while bussing in SEIU!

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- Obama Snake Oil Co
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:32am
  And busing in SC churches of the black faith isn’t enough.
  
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