The Democratic National Committee announced that it has chosen Charlotte, N.C., for its 2012 presidential nominating convention the week of Sept. 3.
The announcement that Charlotte had bested St. Louis, Cleveland and Minneapolis to become the host city first came in an email from First Lady Michelle Obama to DNC members.
“I am thrilled to make sure you are the first to hear some very exciting news,” she wrote. “Charlotte, North Carolina will host the 46th Democratic National Convention in 2012.”
You’d better stop drinking that sweet tea and eating your traditional fatty meats, Charlotte. Michelle’s not going to allow fatties at her convention.
Also, why does she act like it’s a done deal that her husband will be nominated? Tell that to Matt Bai, lady! [WSJ]
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Do you get the feeling that the sale of Confederate flags is going to skyrocket there? Very sad.
Time for a good 'ol fashioned flag burning. Confederate flag burning, that is.
My cynicism is only tempered by my laziness. My inner cynic (which beat up my inner child, btw) wants to design t-shirts with vaguely racist sayings and confederate flags and sell them via cafe press…make a lot of money off of the teabaggers, I bet. But my laziness (which is on speaking terms with karma) says, "meh…why bother?"
Yankees at Tara!
Will there be a march to Myrtle Beach, or something?
We could burn down Florence, S.C. on the way.
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Silly. Florence is already burned out, as are most all of the towns in SC.
Get a load of Andrews on your way to Myrtle if you think I'm kidding.
Charlotte is basically a corporate extension of Wall Street that just happens to be geographically in the South. So probably not going to be as much outright racism as we'd see in, say, Columbia, SC or even Raleigh.
Basically, this is Obama saying he's seen the polling numbers and NC is in play, bitches.
That was my first thought. He won it pretty handily last time, but numbers are creeping down a bit, but not so far as to be unsalvageable.
Unlike the rejected Missouri
I thought it was won by something like 14,000 votes, so maybe more of a nail-biter.
Bush
lostwon by less.As I am typing right here in Columbia, SC, I highly represent that remark.
The whole town is owned by Big Banks, racism there is the kooky kind not the klanny kind.
Speak up, Michelle. I couldn't hear you over the sound of Jesse Helms rolling over in his grave.
The coup de grace would be if they could train their biracial European dog Bo to poop on his grave, also.
The Helms Center, the library where they keep his papers is in a Charlotte suburb, so maybe a field trip will be scheduled.
"Charlotte had bested St. Louis, Cleveland and Minneapolis"
They really shouldn't make these decisions in the middle of winter. I'm sure the competition commitee looked at today's weather map and said "Fuck those places, let's head south!" despite the fact that the convention will be held during the summer.
I don't think it matters what season it is, if you're choices are Cleveland and St. Louis, the response is probably going to be "fuck those places, let's head anywhere else."
North Carolina? They'll have to fucking bus in their supporters. North Carolina knows a little sumpin' sumpin' about busing people.
Reminds me of an old song…
She's Charlotte, the harlotte
The girl I adore
She's Charlotte, the harlotte
The cow poker's whore.
There once was a lady called Charlotte,
Who's a very unfortunate harlotte,
She slept with the town,
So they put on her gown,
A letter in the color of scarlet,
Too bad the Mound City didn't win. It's got real character, and at least as much racism as Charlotte, which is just a US Airways hub with bad restaurants.
Alvin Greene's keynote address is gonna blow some minds.
Like Obama in Boston. Times 10^16.
John Edwards will be able to show everyone the spot where he impregnated Rielle.
Her vagina?
Yay, since Edwards' busy face was covering that spot up in her documentary.
Maybe John-Boy and Billy can get Sarah Palin to do convention coverage on their morning radio show.
Maybe John-Boy and Billy can get Sarah Palin to do
convention coverage"color commentary" on their morning radio show.Fixed.
Meanwhile, the GOP will convene secretly in Fred.
Talladega Nites 2: The Legend of Reese Bobby.
He's not just a patsy.
"It was hell," recalls former Charlottean.
I predict fisticuffs from politicians vying for photo-ops in the limited amount of space in front of the NASCAR museum.
I hope it's held at the Lowe's Motor Speedway.
Why don't they have it in a city instead? Charlotte doesn't count — it's just a gross agglomoration of suburbs and strip malls with any semblance of a city removed.
Well, after all, the RNC decided to take a dump on NYC not that long ago, and then had the gall to parade down to "9/11" in the middle of the whole thing, in case the significance of them holding the convention in the city they despise wasn't lost on anyone.
So, maybeDems could do a bit of turnabout, and hold a candlelight vigil at the Charleston harbour, (which is of course miles and miles away) for all the patriotic lives lost to the War of Treasonous Southern Unsurrection, Because of Slavery.
4/11/61 NEVER FORGET
Wait no, I forgot, Democrats are pussies.
I think that's going to be in Tampa in 2012.
Must be more gender-specific.
Hot. Sweaty. Great for the old tea party people standing in the sun all day in spangles.
At least we know that all the hookers will be Christians.
St. Louis is just one big advertisement for McDonald's, Cleveland is the home of the Cleveland Steamers, and MSP is Bachmann's back yard.
It was Charlotte by default.
I was rooting for Qatar.
Or, as I like to call it, Less-Crazy Carolina.
If that isn't the very definition of "damning with faint praise", then I don't know what is.
just another act of northern aggression…this means WAR! and not so civil this time yankees..
According to the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce website (please forgive me) Charlotte and the county (Mecklenberg) rank 8th in the number of Corporate headquarters located there–tied with St. Louis, and one ahead of San Francisco: Bank of America, Loew's, Nucor Metals, Goodrich Corp (defense and aerospace), Sonic Automotive, SPX, and Family Dollar with a total 2009 revenue of $199.7 billion. 365 of the Fortunme 500 have a facility within the county. The Party of Big Bidness–who knew?
If the South secedes, maybe this time we won't spend the next 150 years arguing over why.
Totally turning off the snark, this is fucking brilliant. I'd do it one better and have it in Charleston or Savannah. It's time to be provocative, again, and take it right into their territory. We need to dress Obama up in a NASCAR suit and deliver this bitch from Charlotte Motor Speedway for good measure, and feel the stands with ironic hipsters dressed up as "patriots", and have John Stewart give the keynote in a Southern drawl.
And their speeches should be liberally sprinkled with the phrase "hot damn!"
Oh, and assorted "boy howdies", "that dog wont hunt" and "gah-lee". Oh, oh, and lots and lots of music blaring over the track sound system by a local Lynyrd Skynyrd cover band.
Sweet Home Alabama all summer long, indeed, in North Carolina, no less.
Aww…who the hell am I kidding? There are more Yankee transplants in Charlotte than native Carolinians.
Hey, that's within driving distance! Road trip!
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