Yes, this will allow the residence challenged to live on the Chicago lakefront with its scenic views instead of living under bridges. 
Posted on 10/18/2012 6:51:30 AM PDT by RummyChick
[ Barack Obama is deliberately choosing to cloister himself in one of these fortress-like buildings cutoff from the public on Election Night this year...which is a far cry from the Grant Park victory party he planned in 2008 in the heart of Chicago where thousands were encouraged to worship him like it was a triumphant cult rally ]
[ If you remember, the 2008 Obama victory party was held in Grant Park, where the Obama cult declared him to be a living god-king who would lower the oceans, patch the whole in the ozone, and deliver hope and change and unicorns to everyone. Nothing so grandiose and extravagant is being planned for November 6th, 2012...for good reason ]
I’ve written before about the fact that Barack Obama was not planning another big Election Night victory party in Grant Park here in Chicago like the spectacle he put on in 2008, because no one I know in the Parks Department or in the event planning community had anything on their radar for Grant Park that night. Because of the permitting and union rules that plague any event in this City (which wouldn’t be waived even for Obama, due to liability and insurance issues the City would face if anything went wrong and permitting was not followed to the “T”) we would have known a few weeks ago if Obama expected another win and was going to celebrate in Chicago again. That massive Grant Park victory rally took a while to plan and involved far too many vendors for anything similar to be replicated this year without people already knowing.
I’ve suspected for some time that Obama was going to plan for a concession speech on November 6th, but last night final confirmation arrived in the form of leaked news that the Obama election night event is being staged in private McCormick Place, not a big public setting like Grant Park.
Let me put this as clearly as I can because it’s crucial: if Democrats really thought Barack Obama was going to be reelected, then they would have planned a massive rally in Grant Park again; the fact this is not happening is proof that, despite what you hear coming out of the Ministry of Truth that is the national media, the Democrats really do not expect Obama to win this election. Campaign operatives in Chicago are, thus, making appropriate preparations for his imminent defeat.
Instead of Grant Park, Obama’s apparently going to have his election night event at McCormick Place…the convention center here in Chicago.
Let me explain a few things about McCormick Place that you could intimate from the photo above:
* it’s separated from the City by highways and is hard to reach by anyone traveling on foot from the various “El” trains that service Chicago…which indicates this event is not intended for throngs of Obama supporters.
* there are no buses that readily service McCormick Place like they do Grant Park…so once again, this event is not being planned for the public to come and celebrate with Obama.
* McCormick Place is completely indoors and is a venue that Democrats can easily control in terms of the camera angles and stagecraft of the event…which is a big deal because losing campaigns choose small, isolated places to hold concession speeches while winning candidates are feted on election night in, well, places like Grant Park.
I was an event planner here in Chicago for several years before the 2008 presidential campaign. I planned events in McCormick Place for various trade shows; it’s a building designed with flexibility for downsizing an audience if the need suddenly arises so that the participants do not feel lost in too much extra space. There are modular walls that achieve this, with dividers capable of cutting a space in half…and then in half again…if that’s what needs to be done to make a sparse crowd seem bigger for cameras.
Despite being within sight of the Museum Campus and Soldier Field, McCormick Place is a fortress-like island surrounded on most sides by freeways or railroad tracks (with the lake on the other side). This is where the G-8 summit was held, so the dignitaries could be isolated and kept as far away from the public as possible in downtown Chicago. Because the only realistic way of reaching McCormick Place is by taxi (or car, if people drive themselves) this is clearly not a place Obama would be holding an election night event if he really thought he was going to win the election. How on Earth would his throngs of supporters be able to reach him if he won and the event was held here of all places?
McCormick Place is not a spot to hold a victory rally, folks…but it is the ideal spot to give a concession speech.
Take a look at that photo above again. The place sits on the highway. After the results come in, Obama just has to deliver his concession and then he’s in his car and on his way to his house in Hyde Park while Mitt Romney takes the stage in Boston as the new President-Elect. The highway that runs through McCormick Place leads right to Hyde Park…it would be less than a three minute drive for the Obama motorcade after they leave the convention center to head home and sulk.
I just don’t know any way else to put this, but planning his event at McCormick Place instead of Grant Park again (or another high profile outdoor venue like the Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park, for instance) is a tacit admission that the guy is going to lose and will have an early bedtime on Election Night in Hyde Park at the Obama/Rezko Mansion.
Great Merciful Zeus and Sweet Whitney Houston, this is a shocker because even if he remotely expected to win he would have at least scheduled something in a fancy hotel in downtown Chicago that the public could be a part of. But that’s not what they are doing: they are deliberately having his Election Night party in a place that prohibits the public from congregating easily.
I think this might be a way to avoid riots or other public disturbances from the Obama cult here in Chicago…because if they aren’t encouraged to assemble anywhere here on November 6th, then they won’t be assembled and ready to riot. That might have happened if they had the event at a hotel in the Loop…and it would have definitely have happened if they did a big Grant Park event.
But McCormick Place diffuses all this. It’s isolated, remote, and pedestrian-unfriendly.
The perfect place to discourage disappointed supporters from gathering with an easy escape route for Barack and Michelle to their Chicago home when it’s announced he will no longer be the president.
Read more http://hillbuzz.org/daily-doom-antidote-solid-proof-obama-is-planning-a-concession-speech-event-for-november-6th-election-night-10182012-10182012
Reference from 1984 by George Orwell. Quite appropriate and very much on point.
Top-Notch entertainment will be provided by roving groups of urban yodelers.
Actually not the case. A veep who becomes pres can only run for the "third" term if he served less than half of the first term. 10 years (less one day) is the max that any one person can serve as pres.
Ministry of Truthfffff.........
Yes, this will allow the residence challenged to live on the Chicago lakefront with its scenic views instead of living under bridges.
Zer0 seems to NEVER go to his Errs-’hood house. I’d guess that he choppers off to Hawaii.
“...Detoilet will be aflame.”
BFD. Who’s going to notice./:)
Paging Eva Braun....
I wonder if Barry will use his fake negro accent in his concession speech?
OK, thanks for the correction.
Obama should give his concession speech, over a satellite phone, from his cell at GITMO.
I agree with you, there really is a going through the motions element. It actually looks like he doesn’t want to be re elected.
Obama hasn’t even bothered to come up with any sort of real, or even imaginary jobs plan for voters to get the least bit excited about. His answers to the two job seekers in the debate could not have been worse.
The govt today could tell everyone that unemployment is zero, but that wouldn’t change the fact that there are all sorts of folks unemployed, underemployed, struggling financially. These folks are as a majority not going to vote for the guy that has a 4 yr track record of talk but no action.
“this event is not intended for throngs of Obama supporters.”
They’ll all be out rioting anyway, no time for celebration.
And, then there are the thousands on Twitter threatening
Romney’s life. (most of those urban slang laced threats appear to have been written by White Obama campaign workers, by the way.)
I have attended trade shows, etc, at this venue. What is the total capacity allowed by the Fire Department?
Tht could be another good clue about their anticipated ‘celebration’.
According to freeper markomalley in this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2946406/posts
“The absolute largest facility in McCormick Place has a capacity of 11,500 people...”
Proceed...
Maybe obama doesnt really want to win this election? I have often wondered about it. What if his plan is to go on to something else, lets say like head of the UN.. we would still be somewhat under his thumb if that happened. *sigh*
He would have to proclaim that he is a foreign national, born in Kenya, to become UN Sec. Gen. The Security Council members of the UN, of which the USA is one, cannot by agreement have anyone serve as Sec. Gen.
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