Posted on 05/08/2012 12:19:55 PM PDT by ColdOne
The people who were not there just would not go away.
It began with a huge and startling headline atop the popular Drudge Report on Saturday. This was the day President Barack Obama was kicking off his presidential campaign with a rally at Ohio State University.
Drudge was not impressed. OBAMA LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN IN HALF EMPTY STADIUM, he screamed in large letters atop his webpage.
The headline linked to Breitbart.com, which had an even more startling headline: OBAMA LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN IN EMPTY ARENA.
The story was accompanied by a picture of the inside of OSUs enormous Jerome Schottenstein Center, which is used for basketball and hockey games. The picture, supplied by the Mitt Romney campaign, showed a slice of the stadium with hundreds of empty seats.
The arena was certainly not empty nor even half empty, and it was not clear that the president was even on stage when the picture was taken.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
The 770,000 square foot multipurpose venue seats 17,500 for ice hockey, 19,500 for basketball and 20,000 for concerts.
Enrollment (Autumn 2011)
Total at Columbus Campus 56,867
Men 29,259
Women 27,608
The enrollment figures in my previous post are for Ohio State University.
It is.
But seriesly, aside from their communist treason, those two slugs are a total visual embarrassment to the nation.
RumpRanger & the First Load
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Photos of empty seats from different angles. A few as Obama comes onto stage. Some with him hugging Michelle. You can clearly seat empty seats on the upper levels along two sides.
1. http://imgur.com/zovvN.jpg
2. http://imgur.com/jLAlF.jpg
3. http://imgur.com/crORC.jpg
4. http://imgur.com/Kxymy.jpg
5. http://imgur.com/OhesA.jpg
6. http://imgur.com/hbYlv.jpg
7. http://imgur.com/wkSZc.jpg
8. http://imgur.com/eiRen.jpg
9. http://imgur.com/NlG0v.jpg
10. http://imgur.com/Zcg2E.jpg
11. http://imgur.com/DK6Iv.jpg
12. http://imgur.com/7z8Dn.jpg
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