“I’ve got two words for you,” a senior Obama campaign official told ABC News, “Ford Field.”

[bigtree]

Obama Campaign Responds To Team Romney On Cancellation Of Stadium Speech:

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Obama campaign is facing a barrage of criticism and mockery from Republicans for scrapping plans to hold the final night of their convention at downtown Charlotte’s more than 73,000-seat Bank of America Stadium. But they’ve got a message for their detractors.

“I’ve got two words for you,” a senior Obama campaign official told ABC News, “Ford Field.”

The official was referring to Mitt Romney’s February 2012 speech before a crowd of 1,200 at Detroit’s Ford Field — a stadium that seats up to 80,000. Democrats on Wednesday circulated a now-famous photo of Romney speaking in the almost-empty venue with the tongue-in-cheek headline: “Mitt Romney’s idea of a successful stadium event….”

“I understand why the Romney campaign is saying what they are saying,” the Obama campaign official said. “If I were them I probably would say the same thing too.”

The official added, “If we were worried about our crowd size, we certainly wouldn’t listen to Mitt Romney about how to build a crowd.”


read: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/obama-campaign-responds-to-team-romney-on-cancellation-of-stadium-speech-two-words-ford-field/

[gateley]

1. Hahaha!

[hobbit709]

2. That picture says 10,000 words

[DonViejo]

39. Don't need 10,000 words...

try these seven: "The empty suit addresses an empty stadium."

[Angry Dragon]

3. LOL!! ........ I like it

[Curtland1015]

4. Surprised they weren't called for a safety.

[Fearless]

57. Well there certainly weren't too many men on the field!

[MadrasT]

5. *snort*

Yeah, if I were them, I really wouldn't go there.

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. that pic - high school marching band practice?

[still_one]

7. Leave it to abc to ask an inane question. /nt

[dogknob]

8. Puppet Show, Spinal Pap & Mit Rmoney.

I crack myself up sometimes.

[susanna]

9. Well-played. n/t

[Horse with no Name]

10. ouch!

[Tennessee Gal]

11. And that is how to put them in their place! SNAP!!

[Bolo Boffin]

12. Very brave of Mitt to still speak when surrounded by that many Kenyan socialist Muslims. n/t

[Curtland1015]

14. Bwahahahahahaha!

[fugop]

13. Takedown!

I love it when the Dems fight back! Especially when they do it so effectively!

[hifiguy]

15. That lively crowd for Willard reminds me of

a place I played about 15 years ago. Half-full bar, dead silence.

I grabbed the singer and said "Jimmy, I've never seen dead people smoke before."

[rocktivity]

16. I've got two more words for them: Hurricane Issac.

They rescheduled part of their convention because the weather posed a potential safety hazard, but we can't reschedule part of ours?




rocktivity

[renko]

56. Kick! This gets copied and posted at work!

[redqueen]

17. Nice

[truebrit71]

18. Classic!!!

[progressivebydesign]

19. and Most of them are in SUITS.. which means it was a corporate event.

Not exactly a barn burner.

[kathman-duzi]

35. I thought all those suits were his security team!

[progressivebydesign]

58. Haha. Probably Bain employees bussed in. n/t

[judicine]

20. my wish in response to gop

that the people of Charlotte would come by the thousands, to the convention center, even though they couldn't be inside.....to be outside and be counted by what is in their hearts....
even if they do need umbrellas

[bigtree]

23. that's exactly what I hope

I wonder if the landscape and logistics would make that possible? I know they have such a tight net of security around the venue.

[TahitiNut]

21. To be fair ...

Ford Field has a roof on it.

[mac56]

31. But does it have a car elevator?

[Iliyah]

22. And still had empty chairs - LOL

I would say 2/3 were corporate media types, hehehehehehehehehe

[bigtree]

24. props

. . . bussed in from various cocktail lounges around the region

[Blue Owl]

25. Clint Eastwood personally spoke to each of them

n/t

[xxqqqzme]

28. The chair occupiers

or the empty ones ?

[LiberalAndProud]

26. Yes! Mitt's campaign is just full of 'em.

[ailsagirl]

27. BWAHAHAHAHAHA

I love it

[Heather MC]

29. priceless

this really highlight just how delusional mitt Romney really really is

[tsuki]

30. I guess Republicons prefer to speak to empty chairs. nt

[kathman-duzi]

36. Precisely they don't like un scripted questions.

[McCamy Taylor]

32. "Bank of America" anything is a bad idea.

[liberal N proud]

33. Perfect response

[SoapBox]

34. Finally, a little spunk back at the Limp Stream Media

ABC has been piss'n me off anyway.

p.s...I just saw this, so I'll add it here!

Remember the big anti-Obama concert with the likes of Travis Tritt, Lee Brice and Charlie Daniels Band?

I was going down the crapper from low sales...and then this!

" ‘We Built This,’ But Nobody Came; Anti-DNC Concert Moved To Pumpkin Patch (VIDEO)"

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/09/04/we-built-this-but-nobody-came-anti-dnc-concert-moved-to-pumpkin-patch-video/

[skeewee08]

37. Lol Classic

[nc4bo]

38. Rec #100. nt

[myrna minx]

40. Brutal! The Obama camp doesn't mess around!

Looky - the stadium is *filled* with invisible Obami <--is that the plural form?

[PMcDee]

41. "I Like To Fire People"

Did Mitt fire the person who ordered too many folding chairs?

[IDemo]

42. But my TeaCrowd Estimator app says there were a quarter million people there..

[mountain grammy]

43. The 1% dutifully listening to their candidate.

The empty chairs? hmmmm maybe that's where Clint got the idea.

[Ed Suspicious]

44. Looks like the band practicing for the halftime show. Hilarious!

[HiPointDem]

45. you know, who cares? this is like the jets and the sharks trading jabs. who the hell cares

but insiders?

[SunSeeker]

46. Too bad all the papers that featured this story didn't carry that retort.

I can't believe what a prominent role this stupid change of venue story had in so many papers and websites. Sheesh. And none of the ones I saw carried that awesome retort as part of the main article on the topic. Including ABC.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/people-denied-speech-relocation-dampens-democrats-convention-public/story?id=17051405&page=2

[SoCalDem]

47. reminds me of the Freeper event in DC

more portapotties than peeps

[ellisonz]

48. Bahaha

Losers

[LovingA2andMI]

49. Perfect....

And Romney thinks (falsely) he all supported in Michigan and all. Not so much because S.E. Michigan anyway will NEVER forget these words out of Mitt's Mouth....

[AsahinaKimi]

50. Whats that phrase?

"Oh Snap!"

[NBachers]

51. When I first saw it I thought it said "Force Field." I was hot to find out about Obama's Force Field

[tavalon]

52. Snap!

[Doctor_J]

53. tha flag they dragged out would cover the entire audience

what a loser.

[CoffeeCat]

54. This is the Democratic party we've been waiting for!!

We need to fight fire with fire. When we get sucker punched, we need to punch right back with a hit of our own.

I am tired of the Democratic party playing nice with psychopaths and narcissists. It doesn't work. We don't have
to behave horrible like they do, but we don't need to take their abuse either.

I have grown weary, watching my party get beat up, lied about, distorted, name called and the victim of countless Republican dirty tricks in their sadistic little magic show of hate. ENOUGH!

We need to stand up to these people because we are better than these bullies. All we need to do is speak the truth, counter with smart arguments and points---and every once in a while zing them.

Bill Clinton showed us that they are a bunch of ridiculous liars with no plan, no agenda and a lot of hate, anger and lies.

Aren't we just so sick of it???

[AlbertCat]

55. Well... at least they didn't have to....

.... postpone the entire 1st day of the convention.

B-b-but the hurricane! It was the weather! There's nothing to make fun of or criticize.


Uh huh.... exactly....



Repugs are way desperate!

[bobburgster]

59. Haha, good point!

I had forgotten about that Romney blunder....there's just too many!