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.
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All I knows is what I sees...and that's what I saw!
CA....
Decent location. Would love right in front of the Old Statehouse though more. That would be awesome.
Was just there over summer and trying to remember what it looks like. Hope enough room for the crowds considering have lots of shops in the area.
Love Boston...if only it wasn’t Taxachusetts would try to move there in a heartbeat. I assume they would have any big speech outdoors at Copley Square.
Multiple T stops right there as well for crowds to join.
Where did you find this? Only found reference to him being here for the primary.
I think he just wants to be away from riots but still able to call for a national state of martial law.
I would not call the MSM the Ministry of Truth
Actually, both are accurate.
Given what the Ministry of Truth’s job is in 1984 - to change facts to fit current political expediency (i.e. we were always at war with Eurasia) - I think referring to the MSM as the Ministry of Truth is spot on.
The Pun is strong with this one....
In no way do I assume that Obama will give a concession speech, even after a landslide for Romney.
Just ain't his style and way of thinking.
Serious about that statement.
Cajun
Cumin!
In order to curry favor he’ll be shukin’ and chive-in all night......
I just hope the police won’t have to use their mace..........
grain. of. salt.
I’m still suggesting the Chicago stockyards for Obamuzzie’s last stand. The crowd is already there and any newbies can wait in line for the train to the meat shop with them. After the loss you know the dem crowd is going to look like they’ve all been hung.
:-)
I think Zippy knows he will lose. He is demoralized and it shows. It pains him to have to come out and face Romney in the debates because he knows he is so out-classed in every way.
I am actually surprised when I hear soundbites of Zippy campaigning the day after a debate. I wonder what drugs he is on to get him through the day.
>>Obama’s first debate performance, or lack thereof, may have been an indicator that he already knew ‘it was over’ and, thus, there was no need to appear aggressive. His second debate performance was more aggressive, but it was filled with empty rhetoric and platitudes.
Agree completely.
I wonder who is stuck with the unenviable job of giving him the pre-debate pep talk and sending him out on stage.
My only nit to pick is that I doubt obamas will be staying at Hyde Park, granted that it is only minutes away. Comes the night of November 6, he's got one foot in the ocean at his Hawaiian mansion. By morning, both feets in the water.
I can’t help but think Obama has figured a way to skim some of his campaign donations.
From McCormick Park straight to Leavenworth(just dreaming).
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It’s a wonderful dream and we can only hope an investigation begins the day he moves out of the people’s house!
I think they’re prepared to lose and maybe even convinced it will happen. Why else would that have FOO buying that $35 million mansion in HI?
While the decision to use McCormick Place will tamp down the crowd size, it will provide the president with greater security.
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Why the worry over security now? Was there not a reason to worry about security when he was partying in Grant Park?
Seems fishy to me.
Remember that a cardinal trait of narcissists is expertise in blame-shifting. I would expect a description of all the ways generalized others are responsible for his failed attempt at governing, and how maybe we just weren't ready for the gifts he had to offer.
I’m still suggesting the Chicago stockyards for Obamuzzie’s last stand.
Huh?
Stockyards closed 42 years ago.
The only riots I foresee are when the Hawaiians realize they are gonna be stuck with the bozos.
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