[Paladin2]

DC Leftists are not that welcome in Flyover Country, for a reason (or two or more).

[dangerdoc]

Shawnee county reliably votes democrat. She would have been welcomed warmly by the majority. My coworker was very disappointed, her son is graduating there this year.

[zerosix]

Oh, trust me Topeka, Shawnee County, KS (the State Capitol) is reliably blue and the head of the District, a woman, was probably the one forced to retract the invitation because she was forcing five (5) high schools into one venue, effectively eliminating many family members from seeing their graduating senior, graduate!

Not only could many family members be unable to attend, Mou-chelle would have packed the (very small convention center, by Obama standards) with gub'mint state union workers as well as the entire Democrat Party of Kansas, her usual cast of thousands traveling companions (so she will always have fawning groupies to gaze upon her), Secret Service, etc so there probably wouldn't even be room for the graduating seniors from the five (5) Topeka high schools!

Even with the Obama voting families from Topeka, who'd otherwise be thrilled to be in the presence of their Queen-Bee, would still like to attend their own kid's graduation and not be forced to listen to her "really BIG thighness" drone on about Brown v. Board of Education, being the great cause of being proud of her country, oops, not the reason of her pride, but I digress.

She probably also got the potential head count of how many they could crowd in that venue and decided the small venue and crowd just wasn't up to a woman of her stature.

This is, after all, Kansas!