Convention activities[edit]
All three dates of the convention were held at the Time Warner Cable Arena. The last night, Thursday, September 6, was originally scheduled to be held at the 72,000-seat Bank of America Stadium, where presumptive presidential nominee Barack Obama was to deliver his acceptance speech.[17] After Convention officials insisted that they would hold Thursday's activities at the stadium "rain or shine",[18] the venue was moved to the 20,000 seat indoor arena "... due to thunderstorm threat."[19]Some in the media questioned the move, wondering whether it was motivated more by an inability to fill the 70,000 seat stadium and the possibility that empty seats would show a lack of enthusiasm.[20]
The risk of severe weather wasn't high;[21]Charlotte NBC affiliate WCNC-TV chief meteorologist Brad Panovich tweeted that the "[s]evere threat is almost zero Thursday night & chance of rain is 20%", adding, "It's a simple question...if you had a Panthers game, concert or soccer match with a 20% chance of storms would you cancel 24 hrs prior?"[21]
The date of Obama's acceptance speech caused the National Football League to move the Kickoff game, normally on a Thursday, to Wednesday, September 5, to avoid a conflict.[22] This in turn caused the DNC to move Joe Biden's vice presidential acceptance speech, normally held the day before the presidential acceptance speech, to Thursday, before Obama's speech, to avoid a conflict with the NFL game.[23]
The date of Obama's acceptance speech caused the National Football League to move the Kickoff game, normally on a Thursday, to Wednesday, September 5, to avoid a conflict.[22] This in turn caused the DNC to move Joe Biden's vice presidential acceptance speech, normally held the day before the presidential acceptance speech, to Thursday, before Obama's speech, to avoid a conflict with the NFL game.[23]
Well, if Barack Obama wants to DEBASE HIMSELF, he can GO AHEAD!!! None of the Democrats in Wilmington (other than narco-traffickers), have a single nice thing to say about Hillary Clinton. May she get her
Oh look, that would be a NEW GIRLFRIEND!!!
What happened to Yoko Ono???
As I recall, Yoko in fact denied this -- but was THRILLED that it hit the Press, she NO FAN of Hillary Clinton -- after all, husband John Lennon was MURDERED by the CIA (as is currently being investigated by Her Majesty's Government -- since I sent them much evidence).
And it was Tennessee Williams's last lawyer, John Eastman, who authorized the murders of BOTH Artistic Giants
John Eastman with his sister Linda (Eastman) McCartney in the early 1980s, when I knew HIM well, but her, not at all.
Paul McCartney received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2012, with his NEW wife on his arm. Wifey's BLOOD AUNT is Barbara Walters (who has finally lost her lisp), and on the far right, his BUSINESS MANAGER STILL (but they cut ties since then), John Eastman, with HIS wife.
Which reminds me that when Tennessee Williams got HIS Kennedy Center Honors in 1979, it was all less fancy -- they didn't even yet sit in the balcony:
That is Texas Kate next to him: Kate (Schweppe) Sharp, Moldawer, eventually McNamara, a "Houston Socialite", whose first husband, Dudley Sharp II, was the son of Dwight Eisenhower's Secretary of the Air Force, who wrote the US's FIRST LAWS governing Nuclear Warfare in Outer Space -- and Ike's BIGGEST ALLY fighting the Military-Industrial War Complex (until his family was threatened and he recanted after Ike left office).
While Kate Schweppe was growing up in Atlanta, Georgia, her parents were BEST FRIENDS with both Frank Hawkins Kenan and his brother, James Graham Kenan. This was where Kate learned to act like "The Richest Woman in the World", and in his last play, In Masks Outrageous and Austere, Tennessee based the character Babe on Kate.
And just to throw in how WEIRDLY my life is so interconnected, here is a photo of my good friend who got me out of the USA safely in 2010, Army Colonel Dottie Newman, the retired Chief Protocol Officer of Secretary of State Colin Powell:
Dottie has the HIGHEST HAIR, and that is Kiki Smith in the UPPER photo, daughter of Tennessee Williams's LIFELONG friend, Jane Smith!!!
Scott
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