See Swann: First Peek Inside Invesco [Update]
By NoQuarter on August 28, 2008 at 10:32 AM in Invesco Field
UPDATE: From Politico.com’s “Dems nervous over Invesco risks“, via Memeorandum.com:
Senior Democratic officials are expressing serious concerns about the political risks posed by Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at Invesco Field at Mile High Stadium Thursday evening.
From the elaborate stagecraft to the teeming crowd of 80,000 cheering partisans, the vagaries of the weather to the unpredictable audience reaction, the optics surrounding the stadium event have heightened worries that the Obama campaign is engaging in a high-risk endeavor in an uncontrollable environment. …
Hot Air has a great insight into the choice of location:
It turns out that the event serves a higher purpose — fundraising:
The campaign noted that, aside from the speech itself, it’s designed to be “a working event” that enables attendees to phone bank and reach out to potential voters through a variety of online tools. Holding the speech in a venue that holds 80,000 people also allows tens of thousands of Colorado residents to attend and participate — no small consideration since Colorado is a battleground state where Obama and McCain are neck and neck in the polls.
“Phone bank” means primarily “raising money”. Even as a rally, though, the event is rather meaningless, made so by the bait-and-switch by Team Obama on the “free” tickets. In order to get the “free” tickets, applicants had to volunteer for the campaign, two hours per ticket. That turned this into a co-op, not an open rally where numbers matter. And if Obama can’t find 80,000 supporters in Denver, then he’s in pretty bad shape anyway.
Obama needs the speech as a direct fundraiser in other ways as well. He’s already hit up major contributors for million-dollar luxury suites and thousand-dollar VIP seating. His campaign broke a pledge to eschew PACs and lobbyists in order to wring every last cent out of this speech. Obama can’t simply cancel this and move it back to the Pepsi Center; it would cost him millions of dollars.
Swann’s video is now below the fold:
This guy is a scream. Thanks to Hampster for sending me this video.
Check out Swann’s other videos.
The Greek Tragedy is unfolding. I can’t wait to see the end….
What flag is that behind him on the clip? About 40 seconds into the clip. I couldn’t make it out.
I think it may be Jordan
I think I found out where exactly they got the idea for the ‘Temple’
Check it out here.
Pope, King, Messiah are small potatoes, he is aiming for deity now. Nothing short of God for the supreme being will do. Plastic baby Jesus is now left in the primary dust for bigger ambitions.
Will the crowd be kneeling or genuflecting?
Brooooce is just the Boss, ob is the One.
Jesus is under the bus. Make way for Zeus.
Wish the Greek gods would smite the whole ANTI-DEMOCRACY FRAUD FIASCO and the sooner the better.
Obama is VULGAR and inexperienced and PHONY
Here is a link to listen to Stanley Kurtz on WGN. It is two hours long and is about Annenberg.
http://caster.wgnradio.com/podcasts/x720full-043-080827.mp3
I have to stain the deck, thanks for something to listen to while I do so. Whistle while I work!
I love listening to Rush and Hannity especially during their first hour when they talk about St. Obama.
Today should be a lot of laughs about Obama’s toga party tonight!
How ridiculous. I wonder if we could have Bronco cheerleaders out to do some pole dancing on those columns? I mean, why not? This already passed the bounds of rationality and good taste.
Better yet, why not just have some Gladiator matches before Barky is crowned Caesar Barakus Assholius.
There’s something very disturbing about all of this.
Hate to invoke Nazi Germany, but it does have a fascist feel to it. Maybe “cult” would be more accurate? Bizarre.
Yep, very cult-like and fascist. Yet another reason I am voting against Obama in the fall.
Did you notice that flag on the wall behind him in the opening scenes.
Es tu Brutus??
Yes, I did see a flag, tried to read it but it was out of focus..what flag was it?
It is so bizarre. He is the most arrogant person I have ever seen. Why does he have to always break away from tradition and have such a massive production. Even the President doesn’t act like that.
ABC reporter put in danger and then arrested for filming on the sidewalk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QaIrut9rTc
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. This is unbelievable.
It’s the Invasion of the Body Snatchers all over again. The pods have taken over the Democratic party.
I am mad as hell and not going to take this anymore.
As a protest of this insanity, today, I am going to see if I have time to unregister as a Democrat and re-register as and Independent. If I can do this, then tonight when they announce Barack Insane Apollo as the Democrat Nominee for POTUS, I am putting my Democratic registration card through the shredder and shutting off the TV.
My Unity Pony is officially retired and is living in peace out in the pasture.
I want to do this too. I just need to know how to go about it.
Ugh! How tacky. O’s campaign just invites critism and ridicule.
This is such a gaudy example of the multimillions of dollars we waste on elections. And for this kind of spectacle, even public financing will not be enough.
Bread and circuses indeed.
A $10 million production truck. ????? !!!!!!! Obscene for a candidate who needs to win over middle class voters who are paying close to $4 a gallon for gasoline. Is this why all those young and new voters made their $5 and $10 donations? To see conspicuous consumption and shameless self-promotion like this. This is a rock concert and not an acceptance speech for President of the U.S. and leader of the free world. I am appalled at the entire event.
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2. Slang.
a. a stupid, mean, or contemptible person.
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Calling all real journalists. What is the real story here?
Fundraising? Everything is fundraising, so I don’t think that makes Greek columns at Invesco Field special.
Allowing thousands of Colorado voters to connect? Nice thought, Obama people, but you don’t have a chance of winning Colorado. Senator Salazar is really kind of a dud, a Republican in Democrat’s clothing.
Delusion? Perhaps. The Germans said no go to speaking at Brandenburg, which does bear a distinct resemblance to the stage at Invesco. So what is so important about the columns? Did Oprah or one of her gurus have a celestial vision about Obamessiah’s coronation? Maybe the prophecy can’t some true without the columns. Is Oprah paying for this?
The Democrats SHOULD BE WORRIED about this spectacle. It’s sick! It’s ridiculous!
That is a flag from Jamaica (a Rastafarian Flag) — definitely African in nature.
To add to the flag, here is the meaning: The red symbolizes the blood of black people, the yellow the stolen gold and the green the lost lands of Africa.
flag is ETHIOPIA,just above KENYA
If people who have already contributed to the limit for Obama perform work as compensation towards these tickets, then they could break campaign law by doing so.
Even without the campaign-finance issues, this looks very much like a bait-and-switch by Obama. The entire point of the Invesco address was to welcome everyone for free, perhaps because they wanted to ensure that the place was filled to capacity. Now, with everyone excited about attending this free event, Obama suddenly tells them that they can’t get a seat unless they work for him first.
Like most of Obama’s plans, nothing is free. We’ll pay one way or the other for every supposed giveaway in his policies. And in the end, he wants everyone working for him, while tossing hosannas at his feet and giving him the best optics he can possibly get.
One last thing: Obama didn’t require Germans in Berlin to work for him in order to cheer him at the Tiergarten. Why does Obama treat Germans better than Americans?
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/08/13/obamas-fine-print-on-convention-speech-tickets/
hmmmmmmmmm……..
very intersting…………
Secret web pages and hard-sale tactics have replaced Hope and Change for the Democratic convention. The CBS affiliate in Denver discovered a hidden website that sold tickets to the Invesco Field acceptance speech by Barack Obama on August 29th, while Team Obama continued to deny that tickets were anything but free. Democratic activists complained to the reporters about Obama’s sell-out:
Oddly enough, when CBS started asking questions, the site suddenly stopped offering tickets. What a coincidence!
If anyone wonders why Obama has gone into free fall this summer, this provides an easy explanation. Obama had no executive or military experience and no legislative track record in his three brief years in the US Senate. He sold Democrats on the notion that his New Politics would transform Washington. Since welching on his promise to remain in the public financing system, Obama has repeatedly proven that he’s nothing more than a Chicago machine pol with no particular qualifications to run a state, let alone a nation.
This massive attempt to cash in on his acceptance speech not only goes against everything he supposedly represented in the primaries, it stems from that singular betrayal on reform in June. Without that, he wouldn’t need the cash, and Obama could have appeared to be an agent of change. Instead, he now looks like someone who’s going after every last bit of cash he can find, and from anyone willing to cough it up. Obama has become the Sell-out In Chief in 60 short days.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/08/20/video-obamas-invesco-sell-out-an-underground-fundraiser/
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