The Democratic National Convention is having many problems

[genglandoh]

1. The big Unions have pulled out of the convention.
Unions hit Democratic convention where it hurts: In the wallet
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79533.html

2. Many Democrats running for office are skipping the convention.
List of Democrats Skipping the Party’s National Convention Continues to Grow
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics...inues-to-grow/

3. The Democrats are having a hard time getting the funding for the Convention
The Convention budget is $37 and they are somewhere between $17 to $27 Million short.
That a shortfall of 46% to 73% not looking good.

Unresolved Obstacles Loom Ahead of Democratic Convention
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/...tic-convention

Democrats shun Nancy Pelosi’s plea for cash (for the convention)
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78833.html

4. They were forced to cut back from 4 days to 3 days.
Democratic National Convention to be shortened from four days to three
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...Vl5P_blog.html

5. MTV will be having their Video Music Awards on Sept. 6, when President Obama will deliver his acceptance speech.
How MTV is Hurting Obama's Democratic National Convention
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...-parade-359249

[Glen Longino]

LMAO
You want problems?
Look at the Republican National Convention and the two twerps they're running for POTUS and VP!
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!

[John Smith]

The Republican convention comes first: it may solve all the problems the dems are having with theirs.

[Domesticated_Mr. Know It All]

Your reply to a post with multiple sources doesn't repond to any of them. You just name call and ridicule.

Do you think this makes some point or influences people?
Do you think your post makes you look intelligent?

Whats the point?

A logical reply from my way of thinkin.
Of course I've been drinkin beer and smokin weed with Glen at the Pub and everythings kinda funny now.
You really should hit this Art, it's the cronic.

[Cuyahoga Chuck]

Your reply to a post with multiple sources doesn't repond to any of them. You just name call and ridicule.

Do you think this makes some point or influences people?
Do you think your post makes you look intelligent?

Whats the point?

Geng is getting more manic with every new thread. The worse Romney looks the more remediation he tries to find. I hope he doesn't come unglued when Romney suffers just what the pollsters have been predicting all along.

[Glen Longino]

Your reply to a post with multiple sources doesn't repond to any of them. You just name call and ridicule.

Do you think this makes some point or influences people?
Do you think your post makes you look intelligent?

Whats the point?

I just did it to piss you off...and it worked!LMAO
You Troglodytes tickle the hell out of me!

[Glen Longino]

A logical reply from my way of thinkin.
Of course I've been drinkin beer and smokin weed with Glen at the Pub and everythings kinda funny now.
You really should hit this Art, it's the cronic.

You're no damn good, Kevin, and I ain't neither!

[S/V Laura Ellen]

Your reply to a post with multiple sources doesn't repond to any of them.

I believe he did respond, maybe not the response that you wanted, but a response non the less.

LMAO

[Domesticated_Mr. Know It All]

You're no damn good, Kevin, and I ain't neither!

You just wait, I'm gonna start posting woodenboat porn in the Bilge, just to distract them.
Oldest trick in the book but it works everytime.

[ccmanuals]

All this discussion reminds me of the old bumper cars at Roseland Park (Canandaigua Lake).

And where are all those old cars.

[Rum_Pirate]

1. The big Unions have pulled out of the convention.
Unions hit Democratic convention where it hurts: In the wallet
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79533.html

2. Many Democrats running for office are skipping the convention.
List of Democrats Skipping the Party’s National Convention Continues to Grow
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics...inues-to-grow/

3. The Democrats are having a hard time getting the funding for the Convention
The Convention budget is $37 and they are somewhere between $17 to $27 Million short.
That a shortfall of 46% to 73% not looking good.

Unresolved Obstacles Loom Ahead of Democratic Convention
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/...tic-convention

Democrats shun Nancy Pelosi’s plea for cash (for the convention)
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78833.html

4. They were forced to cut back from 4 days to 3 days.
Democratic National Convention to be shortened from four days to three
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...Vl5P_blog.html

5. MTV will be having their Video Music Awards on Sept. 6, when President Obama will deliver his acceptance speech.
How MTV is Hurting Obama's Democratic National Convention
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...-parade-359249

Hmm, I think I better not comment one way or the other.

[LeeG]

Isn't it time for Linda to sing "You're no good"

[hanleyclifford]

I think that business about the unions withholding the boodle might smart a little. And that get out the vote effort might be huge in light of the Republican voter fraud conspiracy. It is a little early for the coronation of Obama.

[Lew Barrett]

I wonder if there are any Republicans who won't be attending their Convention? (Bush, Cheney and Palin, for starters.)

From the same article quoted by the OP:

Democrats are not alone, Republican elected officials have opted not to attend this year’s GOP convention in Tampa Bay, Fla. as well. Recently, Montana Rep. and GOP Senate nominee Denny Rehberg announced he would not be attending. Rehberg has been distancing himself to some degree from the Republican congress, he recently ran an ad in which he criticized Paul Ryan’s budget proposal.

Party leaders skipping their party’s conventions is not an entirely new phenomenon: Claire McCaskill has actually skipped her party’s convention before, in 2004. In 2008 several GOP senators facing re-election including Susan Collins of Maine skipped out on the festivities in Minnesota.

[Cuyahoga Chuck]

I gotta' admit that 'hollywood reporter" web site might be kind of spicey. They show any prurient pictures?

[Dave Wright]

No, you didn't piss me off, you just made a stupid comment.
Why would I get pissed off when you make yourself look dumb?

And why would you spend your time posting just to piss someone off?

I have to admit that the more I read here in the bilge, the more I realize that at times the only rational post in response to some of the trogodytes is an irrational one which will get them frothing at in mouth in indignation. So good for Glen!

Incidentally, you still haven't responded with your personal plan to survive the coming financial disaster that posted about. Why would you waste your time posting about coming financial disasters then abandon the thread???

[Gerarddm]

Holding the DNC in NC was not a smart idea.

[Lew Barrett]

Holding the DNC in NC was not a smart idea.

No doubt about that. The incentives must have looked good at the time.

[genglandoh]

Holding the DNC in NC was not a smart idea.

The real issue for the Unions is Team Obama was not working with the Unions but rather taking them for granted.
The location was one exmaple but the Unions are also not being involved with the Convention planning


DNC 2012: Upset With Convention Location, Unions Hold Own Rally

Prominent labor leaders created the "Workers Stand for America" rally after what they say was their lack of input into planning for the 2012 Democratic Convention in Charlotte, N.C., which is set to begin Sept. 4.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1764866.html

[genglandoh]

Hmm, I think I better not comment one way or the other.

First you do not read my posts then you will not comment on them.
I think I could be insulted


PS I like the small font.

[Cuyahoga Chuck]

I did not start that thread with a plan to comment on it. I wanted to see what others think. I watched and read the comments as they were made. That would not be "abandoning"it.

Can we say you jumped in with both feet but ducked out early?

[Kevin T]

To digress for a moment, the funniest thing I saw when I was down in Florida on the news just the other day, is that the Republican Convention is making available to convention goers some kind of 6 or 8 passenger pedicabs for conventioneers to get around the Tampa area in an attempt to appear green.

Should be a real hoot(not) when 6 or 8 corn fed, somewhat overweight mid-western delegates decide to take a pedicab in 95 degree and 95% humidity weather in SW Florida in August. EMT's should be fairly busy if anyone is actually dumb enough to try and pedal one of those rolling heart attack machines.

[wardd]

Your reply to a post with multiple sources doesn't repond to any of them. You just name call and ridicule.

Do you think this makes some point or influences people?
Do you think your post makes you look intelligent?

Whats the point?

i thought the post was intelligent and was impressed

[wardd]

That says a lot about you.

or it could be that this says a lot about you

[David W Pratt]

I was puzzled that they are both in the Souteast.
When/how do they decide?

[Norman Bernstein]

I was puzzled that they are both in the Souteast.
When/how do they decide?

Probably in a smoke-filled back room

(I'm sure it involves a great deal of horse-trading between politicians who want it in their state for the sake of the economic boost... probably accomplished with promises of support for other projects, down the road)

[David W Pratt]

IIRC, a strip club in the Rep city has recruited a dancer who looks like Palin, Sarah, not Michael.

[Lew Barrett]

Probably in a smoke-filled back room

(I'm sure it involves a great deal of horse-trading between politicians who want it in their state for the sake of the economic boost... probably accomplished with promises of support for other projects, down the road)

Incentives are always offered for large conventions but the choice of NC is puzzling to me.

[Glen Longino]

I think the Dems wanted to hold their convention right square in the middle of the Snake-Handling, Fundamentalist, Tea Party, Troglodytic Capitol of the country, simply to jerk them out of the eighteenth century and rub their faces in the twenty-first century for a moment.

[Rum_Pirate]

I think the Dems wanted to hold their convention right square in the middle of the Snake-Handling, Fundamentalist, Tea Party, Troglodytic Capitol of the country, simply to jerk them out of the eighteenth century and rub their faces in the twenty-first century for a moment.

. . . and the reason for the GOP holding it in Florida?

[Glen Longino]

. . . and the reason for the GOP holding it in Florida?

They are Gator Bait!

[genglandoh]

I think the Dems wanted to hold their convention right square in the middle of the Snake-Handling, Fundamentalist, Tea Party, Troglodytic Capitol of the country, simply to jerk them out of the eighteenth century and rub their faces in the twenty-first century for a moment.

Well if this is the reason for having the Convention in NC it has cost Obama the support and money from the big unions.
Not a very smart thing to do.

[genglandoh]

Obama will be giving his acceptance speech at the 73,778 seat Bank of America Stadium home of the NFL Carolina Panthers.
In 2008 the Obama did the same thing .
He held his acceptance speech in the Denver Football Stadium and filled it with 84,000 people.

Do you think this year Obama will fill the Stadium?
If he does not fill the Stadium do you think it will show less support for him in the election?

[Rum_Pirate]

Well if this is the reason for having the Convention in NC it has cost Obama the support and money from the big unions.
Not a very smart thing to do.

How many lost votes would that translate into?

[Glen Longino]

How many lost votes would that translate into?

None!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Geng is off on another one of his brain farts!

[ccmanuals]

. . . and the reason for the GOP holding it in Florida?

Tampa is renowned for it's plentiful number of strip clubs.

[Rum_Pirate]

None!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I suspect that the loss of financial support by the big unions would result in some vote loss, rather than 'none', or is it wishful thinking on your behalf?

[Peter Kalshoven]

I think the Dems wanted to hold their convention right square in the middle of the Snake-Handling, Fundamentalist, Tea Party, Troglodytic Capitol of the country, simply to jerk them out of the eighteenth century and rub their faces in the twenty-first century for a moment.

Gee, Glen, with such a convincing point of view, I'm amazed that more Southerners don't just hop on your bandwagon.

Charlotte is a Democrat controlled city, in a state with a Democrat Governor, and until recently, a Democrat controlled State legislature. It is also a major city with the facilities to handle such a convention, and in a state that the Dems need to win.

Having said that, local media folks are starting to refer to it as the Democrat National Cluster. Personally, I'm staying away from the Uptown area for the duration. It's going to be a mess.

(Oh, and for the record: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/201...e-gearing.html )

[Cuyahoga Chuck]

Obama will be giving his acceptance speech at the 73,778 seat Bank of America Stadium home of the NFL Carolina Panthers.
In 2008 the Obama did the same thing .
He held his acceptance speech in the Denver Football Stadium and filled it with 84,000 people.

Do you think this year Obama will fill the Stadium?
If he does not fill the Stadium do you think it will show less support for him in the election?

It depends on the weather. What was the weather report for the day of the speech in Denver?

[Rum_Pirate]

Gee, Glen, with such a convincing point of view, I'm amazed that more Southerners don't just hop on your bandwagon.

Charlotte is a Democrat controlled city, in a state with a Democrat Governor, and until recently, a Democrat controlled State legislature. It is also a major city with the facilities to handle such a convention, and in a state that the Dems need to win.

Having said that, local media folks are starting to refer to it as the Democrat National Cluster. Personally, I'm staying away from the Uptown area for the duration. It's going to be a mess.

(Oh, and for the record: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/201...e-gearing.html )

It appears that Mr Longino was describing the Democratic citizens of Charlotte was describing the Democrat citizens of Charlotte when he wrote "the Snake-Handling, Fundamentalist, Tea Party, Troglodytic Capitol of the country, simply to jerk them out of the eighteenth century and rub their faces in the twenty-first century for a moment."

WAY TO GO GLEN

[Rum_Pirate]

It depends on the weather. What was the weather report for the day of the speech in Denver?

What, you are admitting that Democrats are fair weather supporters?

If you say that, then man you need a good

[beernd]

You just wait, I'm gonna start posting woodenboat porn in the Bilge, just to distract them.
Oldest trick in the book but it works everytime.

So where is that woodenboat porn you promised

[genglandoh]

2012 DNC Attendance is expected to only be 35,000.
In 2008 DNC had an attendance of 50,000.

Big drop in attendance.

[Cuyahoga Chuck]

2012 DNC Attendance is expected to only be 35,000.
In 2008 DNC had an attendance of 50,000.

Big drop in attendance.

At the moment Barach Obama is the President of the United States of America. Agreed? Supposedly the Secret Service that guards the President of the United States of America is dead set against having him appear in the vast stadiums that those huge crowds require. They are far too difficult to control.
Got it?

[coelacanth2]

http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=mpg&mpid=56&load=7393

Here you go, folks. Have fun with this one.

Oh, BTW Mr Longino Mr. Eastwood hit it on the head with his characterization of Joe Biden as the intellectual basis of the Democrat party- a grin with a body behind it. _Do_ please try to offer something other than petulant- preschooler-in-a-sandbox "discussions" with your attempted rebuttals and refutations.

[Paul Girouard]

Oh, BTW Mr Longino Mr. Eastwood hit it on the head with his characterization of Joe Biden as the intellectual basis of the Democrat party- a grin with a body behind it. _Do_ please try to offer something other than petulant- preschooler-in-a-sandbox "discussions" with your attempted rebuttals and refutations.

Wait, that all Glen has to offer,and he fills that niche rather nicely.

[Glen Longino]

Better title for this thread: "Right-Wing Teed-Off Party Has Many Problems With Dem National Convention"!

[genglandoh]

Hillary Clinton will not be at the Convention.

Hillary Rodham Clinton won’t be seen close to Charlotte during the Democratic convention

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will be about asfar away as her State Department plane could take her when the convention opensin Charlotte. She left Washington on Thursday for an island hopping trip acrossthe South Pacific and Southeast Asia, with visits to the Cook Islands,Timor-Leste and Brunei, on the island of Borneo.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/hillary-rodham-clinton-wont-be-seen-close-to-charlotte-during-the-democratic-convention/2012/09/01/9d0e1a7c-f396-11e1-a612-3cfc842a6d89_story.html

[John Smith]

Holding the DNC in NC was not a smart idea.

That pretty much says it all. Wait a couple of weeks. it may turn out to be brilliant.

[John Smith]

Probably in a smoke-filled back room

(I'm sure it involves a great deal of horse-trading between politicians who want it in their state for the sake of the economic boost... probably accomplished with promises of support for other projects, down the road)

My guess is they decided it would be a good idea to go into a Republican stronghold. As to the unions, whether they feel taken for granted or not, if they're dumb enough to do anything that helps Romney win, they do so at their own great peril.