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Traveler
07-04-2008, 04:35 AM
Report: Obama Camp Considering Football Stadium For Acceptance Speech
By Eric Kleefeld - July 3, 2008, 11:59PM
The Associated Press is reporting tonight that the Obama campaign is considering a novel idea for staging his acceptance speech at the convention: Don't actually give it at the convention, but at a much larger venue in Denver.
Instead of speaking at the Pepsi Center, which seats 21,000 people, in this scenario Obama would speak at Invesco Field, the site of the Denver Broncos games that holds 76,000 -- an astonishing number for a political gathering. Obama previously spoke to a similar-sized crowd in the run-up to the Oregon primary, and could almost certainly fill the stadium for his acceptance speech.
Franklin Roosevelt began the tradition of nominees directly addressing their conventions back in 1932, and it's been taken for granted ever since then. But the Obama camp's idea, if put into practice, would seriously outdo FDR.
Late Update: As commenters have noted, Invesco Field is not across town from the Pepsi Center, but is in fact right nearby.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tpmelectioncentral/~3/326352347/report_obama_camp_considering.php
Play2win
07-04-2008, 06:38 AM
Can you imagine the images of Obama accepting with the horse of the old Mile High in the background... What a great shot that would make!!!
Meck77
07-04-2008, 01:16 PM
I might have to fly a huge Eminent Domain Sucks banner on my building. You can see it clearly from the upper decks.
Tombstone RJ
07-04-2008, 02:51 PM
Your incorrigible Meck!
Florida_Bronco
07-04-2008, 02:56 PM
Can you imagine the images of Obama accepting with the horse of the old Mile High in the background... What a great shot that would make!!!
No way. If he bombs as a president, would you want Mile High to be connected with that?
TDmvp
07-04-2008, 03:00 PM
no thx
orinjkrush
07-04-2008, 04:23 PM
Mile high stadium for BO? Oh, just go to the space station and broadcast already, rock star.
"faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound" Yes, we can!
Meck77
07-04-2008, 04:32 PM
I guess barrack doesn't realize we've lost our home field advantage lately.
TexanBob
07-04-2008, 05:51 PM
Can you imagine the images of Obama accepting with the horse of the old Mile High in the background... What a great shot that would make!!!
He'd be following a great tradition....
http://www.mythinglinks.org/HitlerPlatform~newURL~c~R50~TL.JPG
Dudeskey
07-04-2008, 06:02 PM
He'd be following a great tradition....
http://www.mythinglinks.org/HitlerPlatform~newURL~c~R50~TL.JPG
But Obama's a communist...
L.A. BRONCOS FAN
07-04-2008, 06:44 PM
But Obama's a communist...
Same difference in the minuscule minds of Rush's minions. ;)
L.A. BRONCOS FAN
07-04-2008, 06:46 PM
I guess barrack doesn't realize we've lost our home field advantage lately.
Thanks to Bush and the republi-cons, so has America.
JCMElway
07-04-2008, 07:33 PM
No way. If he bombs as a president, would you want Mile High to be connected with that?
He won't bomb as President. He'll look great following GWB. As a matter of fact, my ass sphincter would look good in comparison.
JCMElway
07-04-2008, 07:37 PM
BTW, who owns the rights to Mile High? Bowlen, right? I know he's leans to the Right in a political sense. Could he put the kibosh on Obama speaking there?
It would be awesome! And maybe they could have a parade afterwards
http://blog.kievukraine.info/uploaded_images/4753-794283.jpg
:wave:
L.A. BRONCOS FAN
07-04-2008, 08:30 PM
It would be awesome! And maybe they could have a parade afterwards
http://blog.kievukraine.info/uploaded_images/4753-794283.jpg
:wave:
Hey - you forgot to acknowledge your source...
http://freeworldradionetwork.net/ThreeSides/uploaded_images/limbaugh_oxycontin-735006.jpg
Spider
07-04-2008, 09:00 PM
Kick ass ......
Dudeskey
07-04-2008, 11:25 PM
BTW, who owns the rights to Mile High? Bowlen, right? I know he's leans to the Right in a political sense. Could he put the kibosh on Obama speaking there?
Doubt it... Stan Kroenke could easily have done that as well w/ the pepsi center & the DNC convention...
TexanBob
07-05-2008, 01:38 AM
Franklin Roosevelt began the tradition of nominees directly addressing their conventions back in 1932, and it's been taken for granted ever since then. But the Obama camp's idea, if put into practice, would seriously outdo FDR.
But it would not seriously outdo JFK who gave his acceptance speech before an estimated 80,000 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in 1960.
I swear, everything Obama comes up with has been tried before. They just call it "change" and expect everyone to be bamboozled.
TexanBob
07-05-2008, 01:41 AM
He'd be following a great tradition....
http://www.mythinglinks.org/HitlerPlatform~newURL~c~R50~TL.JPG
Say....isn't that Al Davis back there in the owner's box? ROFL!
Traveler
07-05-2008, 08:34 AM
He'd be following a great tradition....
http://www.mythinglinks.org/HitlerPlatform~newURL~c~R50~TL.JPG
Wow! Nazi photos and not a peep from anyone.:kiddingme The Bush family has profited greatly from the havoc Hitler caused, but not so much as a few cursory stories on the matter.???
:parrot:
Wow! Nazi photos and not a peep from anyone.:kiddingme The Bush family has profited greatly from the havoc Hitler caused, but not so much as a few cursory stories on the matter.???
:parrot:
There have been threads on the grandfather Bush and the Nazis it's just not to many here take TexasBob's post as, well it's a TexasBob post enough said.
L.A. BRONCOS FAN
07-05-2008, 09:52 AM
There have been threads on the grandfather Bush and the Nazis it's just not to many here take TexasBob's post as, well a TexasBob post.
Yep.
The Bush family fortune was made by financing the Nazi war machine.
Prescott Bush's assets were seized by the U.S. government under the 'trading with the enemy act.'
Makes TexassBoob's post all the more ironic, eh?
Tombstone RJ
07-05-2008, 11:22 AM
I'll point out the obvious for the right wing extremists: Obama going to Invesco Field for an acceptance speech simply plays into his greatest asset: his oratory skills.
He's maxing out his strength, all good politicians do this.
McCain is better at the small venues, Obama is better at the big ones.
P.S. This is nothing like what Hitler did. Hitler consolidated his power, killed off his opponents, and beat the public into submission, so in essence, you had no choice. You either participated, or you were deported, or killed.
TexanBob
07-05-2008, 03:08 PM
I'll point out the obvious for the right wing extremists: Obama going to Invesco Field for an acceptance speech simply plays into his greatest asset: his oratory skills.
He's maxing out his strength, all good politicians do this.
Of course. I'm just poking fun at the writer's belief that making a convention speech at a football stadium is somehow new and original. It's neither. Face it. The media are just bleating sheep around this guy.
P.S. This is nothing like what Hitler did. Hitler consolidated his power, killed off his opponents, and beat the public into submission, so in essence, you had no choice. You either participated, or you were deported, or killed.
How do you know how Obama is going to govern? He hasn't had to lead anyone yet. How do you know that, with a Democrat majority in Congress, dissenters won't be forced into concentration camps where they'll be forced to eat vegetarian and use only compact flourescent bulbs?
Tombstone RJ
07-05-2008, 05:48 PM
How do you know how Obama is going to govern? He hasn't had to lead anyone yet. How do you know that, with a Democrat majority in Congress, dissenters won't be forced into concentration camps where they'll be forced to eat vegetarian and use only compact flourescent bulbs?
I'm not worried about that at all, that's why the Right has Rush.:rofl:
j/k
Seriously though, I'm not worried about any elected leader in this country becoming a dictator, even with a sympathetic congress. Out nation is too fluid, too many voices to be heard, too many toes to step on.
Hotwheelz
07-06-2008, 03:33 AM
He'd be following a great tradition....
http://www.mythinglinks.org/HitlerPlatform~newURL~c~R50~TL.JPG
OH COME THE **** ON!
Traveler
07-07-2008, 08:49 AM
It's official! Acceptance speech will be at Invesco.
http://link.cbslocal.com/r/6RFEBJ/3VCEI/0WOP/NSO20/VAUHD/JY/h
Bronco Jamus
07-07-2008, 09:23 AM
This was "debunked" on the local news this morning. (Channel 2)
Traveler
07-07-2008, 10:15 AM
This was "debunked" on the local news this morning. (Channel 2)
They are also reporting it in USAToday
http://www.demconvention.com/democrats-throw-open-doors/
Crushaholic
07-07-2008, 10:24 AM
That's the kind of feel-good move that would assure Obama of a post-convention bump. From an amateur political strategist point of view, that's brilliant...
24champ
07-07-2008, 10:35 AM
Smart move for Obama, No way McCain tops this, his convention will be Bo-ring unless he gets Zell Miller as a speaker again...
The Bush family fortune was made by financing the Nazi war machine.
Prescott Bush's assets were seized by the U.S. government under the 'trading with the enemy act.'
Not exactly correct, but you've never let the facts get in the way of your hatred of Bush.
Of course, pointing out your erroneous statements in no way supports, condones, or approves anything that Bush has done, or that his family has done.
(It's sad that I need to include the above disclaimer, but when LABF is involved, it's necessary to avoid the usual lies and bile directed at me).