Sitting Room Only for Obama in Green Bay (Not many showed up for rally)

ABC News ^ | 09/22/08 | Jake Tapper

[jerry557]

Sitting Room Only for Obama in Green Bay September 22, 2008 2:53 PM

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin packed the house last week in Green Bay, Wis., at the Resch Center.

Not so today in the same arena with Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., as ABC News' Sunlen Miller captured in these photos.

[jerry557]

[impeachedrapist]

Apparently they need to hand out more cigarettes before the next rally

[Abbeville Conservative]

Or have a Wisconsin band like the BoDeans or Violent Femmes perform. LOL

[TheWasteLand]

This is not the messiah you’re looking for.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

What? Kanye West was supposed to give a free concert?

[goldstategop]

Your guess is as good mine - Obama doesn't look good to win Wisconsin... if intensity of turnout is any indication of where the two campaigns are right now in the contest.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[markomalley]

I am honestly surprised that there were that many in attendance? (Wonder how many were actually from Green Bay and how many were bussed in)

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

[wintertime]

I just don’t believe the polls.

The polls predicted that Harry Truman would lose the election, yet, wherever he went there were **enormous** crowds. The size of the crowds were the true indicator in Harry Truman’s case.

[padre35]

Wow...first merely 15 people show up in VA around Liberty to kick off Obama’s “Lack of Faith and Family and whatever else you bitter folks like” tour and now the day shift at Schlitz couldn’t fill up the auditorium in Green Bay WI..

The thrill...is gone...

[proudpapa]

Obama hates the Packers

(pass it on)

[WIconservative01P2]

Probably a bunch of homeless from Milwaukee. :)

[Bobkk47]

Is Green Bay representative of the state, politically speaking?

I mean, I’m not one to put that much reliance on anecdotal evidence like crowd sizes etc., but when you start to look at things like 60,000 people at a Palin rally and a few grand at an Obama rally and virtually no one shows up at a Biden rally, it starts to make you wonder if these polls showing Obama in the lead, are bulls**t.

[Paul8148]

Poll show that McCain up 49-41 in Greenbay Area.

[JustaCowgirl]

The total lack of energy in the crowd comes right through that picture. It truly does look like a funeral.

[waus]

I’m shocked that more supporters of the Nitaly Lions didn’t make the trip from Pennsylvania.

[edzo4]

empty seats for an empty suit...

[Ramius]

This ABC reporting this?

That alone is remarkable.

[Hamilcar_Barca]

They’re just bitter people in Green Bay clinging to guns, religion and the Packers.

[50cal Smokepole]

It's representative for about the northern two-thirds of the state. Unfortunately, the population centers lie to the South and West of the state. JMHO. (I live near GB.)

[RoseofTexas]

PLEASE can someone post a side by side pic of both rally crowds for comparison value.

[SaintDismas]

Yeah, well today was not a good day for Packer fans. Probably walkin around in a daze after the shellackin they took from the Boys

[Shqipo]

Jake Tapper is a lone straight shooter at ABC; hell, on any of the little three networks newscasts.

[PhilDragoo]

I saw B.B. King in Boston and Cleveland, Mr. Messiah, and you're no B.B. King--

The Thrill Is Gone

[50cal Smokepole]

*PING*

[Overtaxed]

Maybe they were looking for Lambert field.

[rabidralph]

Maybe everyone was at work. LOL! J/k.

[MRadtke]

That sounds about right. It’s the socialists in Madison and welfare lobby in Milwaukee that stink up the rest of the state.

[brooklynlou]

In case your wondering about Michelle's turn out in Madison Wisconsin ... from Althouse's blog

[Shqipo]

>>>Maybe they were looking for Lambert field.<<<
—Is that where Manny Ortiz plays now?

[radiohead]

first merely 15 people show up in VA around Liberty to kick off Obama’s “Lack of Faith and Family and whatever else you bitter folks like” tour

Whoa! The thrill is indeed gone.

[mylife]

I saw BB in Cleveland as well! And Pittsboigh

[Paperdoll]

Boy! Do you have a good memory!

[bray]

Wrong state, Wisconsin is home of the Bladders. Looks like that rally could have been done at Willy’s Bar and Grill, pathetic.

Pray for W, McCuda and Our Troops

[Cobra64]

The total lack of energy in the crowd comes right through that picture.

Can't tell anything with these thumbnail "photos."

[BallyBill]

I've seen more people at a Rap Concert in Amish Country.

[radiohead]

That's all Michelle can pull in MADISON, the center of all that is Left in the Midwest (even more left than A2 in my view)??? Oh, the humanity!

[gwilhelm56]

**and how many were bussed in ...**

I’m wagering AFL-CIO from Chicago emptied out their halls and bussed them ALL

Otherwise there was probably about 8

[Perdogg]

I heard clips of this on ML, Obama was all over the road. He may sound good to his kool-aide drinker, but he was awful.

[Colonial Warrior]

ZEROBAMA Pilot to passengers....I'm gonna go get help..

[garyhope]

When Obambi shows up in Green Bay wearing a cheesehead hat, you'll know he's really desperate. It might be better than a Dukakis moment.

[Perdogg]

Isn’t Green Bay kind of conservative?

[LegalEagle61]

What— didn’t they have enough “freebies” on hand?

[gwilhelm56]

I remember when GW and Cheney both came to NW Arkansas just before 2000 election ... they had a rally at the largest hangar they had..(14,000 or so)

I couldn’t get within 6 miles of the place ... not for security... traffic trying to get there too.

[waus]

Ironically, the most poignant quote from Barry’s speech in Green Bay came during the opening seconds. Here are his exact words:

“Hello Green Bay, it’s great to see all you yogurt heads...how ‘bout them Green Bay Slackers!. Ever since I saw that actor in “Something About Mary,” I’ve wanted to come to his hometown.

Funny, I’ve never saw him in another movie since then, what ever happened to that guy?

Anyway, I’ve met some great people here, and hopefully, your town will get to experience the honor of winning a world championship someday.

Of course, the Slackers will have to be promoted from the Arena Football League to experience the ultimate thrill, but, with the community spirit I’ve seen, it could happen. In fact, it will the number one priority in an Obama, Biden administration.”

Editor’s note: ahs, ums, you knows, ehs, duhs and ers were edited out to spare the reader from 23-minutes of useless drivel.

[longtermmemmory]

ouch.

how the might styrofoam column has fallen...

[GOP_Raider]

Jake Tapper wrote this?? Does he have a death wish we’re not aware of??

[TexasNative2000]

Wow - look at all of those . . . . . trees.

[dandiegirl]

In case your wondering about Michelle’s turn out in Madison Wisconsin ...

I love it!!

[GoLightly]

You’re joking, right?