http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2008/07/07/daily16.htmlDemocrats: Rain won't move big Obama speech indoors
Denver Business Journal by Mark Harden
Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2008, 2:09pm MDT - Last Modified: Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 1:03pm MDT
Planners of the Democratic National Convention, meeting with hundreds of media representatives Tuesday, said presidential candidate Barack Obama will deliver his nomination-acceptance speech at Invesco Field at Mile High come rain or shine.
An August evening rainstorm will not move the convention's climactic moment back to the Pepsi Center, which was to have been the site of the Aug. 28 speech until a venue change was announced Monday, Theodore LeCompte, director of media logistics for the 2008 Democratic National Convention Committee, said at a media "walk through" at the Pepsi Center.
LeCompte did say that especially severe weather might delay Obama's speech "until it's safe." He did not say how bad the weather would have to get to trigger a delay.
So what's the difference?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-obama-shows-you-can-go-home-again-to-raise-funds-20120601,0,1705204,full.storyObama in town to raise funds and sleep 'in my own bed tonight
Staff report
9:53 p.m. CDT, June 1, 2012
President Barack Obama is in Chicago for three fundraisers tonight, and plans to sleep in his own bed for the first time in a long while.
About 350 people were in the Chicago Cultural Center ballroom at 78 W. Washington St. for the first event, where they danced and talked while waiting for the president.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel opened his introduction of Obama with a riff on his power to deliver: "The president arrives, the rain stops, the sun comes out. Coincidence? I think not."
Emanuel went on to point out Obama could have worked for a high-powered law firm out of law school, but "he picked the South Side, with steelworkers."
If he can supposedly make the sun come out upon arrival, why couldn't he do it again last night?
