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AMERICAblog: Empty seats on the floor of the GOP convention, 45 minutes ago

  • gsthomas606 · 1 year ago
    Bush's Speech: Empty of content, 2 minutes ago
  • LunaStick · 1 year ago
    snort!

    What if you threw a convention and NOBODY came? Perhaps they're all in the airport men's room tapping their toes.
  • Happy_Housewife · 1 year ago
    Well, it's the GOP. It's mostly old people, with a few young people who are looking to be left something in the will. Old people need to go to the bathroom a lot. And they eat early. Has anybody checked the Denny's?
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    How low will the stock market fall during the Rethug festivities???
    Pickles seems a little peremptory and the Decider hungry for Mumsie and Da's approval and for appearing somewhat less than the utter failure he is and will be to future generations....
  • FunMe · 1 year ago
    Anyone else watching the COMEDY HOUR with those CONs?

    Yeah, the CONservatives, neoCONs, and republiCON are all having their CONvention and what do they do? THey show Reagan instead of bush. TOO FUNNY!

    I feel like I'm watching an SNL showing what with Laura bush looking like THE JOKER from the Batman series. She did have botox, right?
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    Botox and a Benson & Hedges...
  • gumbygirl · 1 year ago
    ...a couple of vodkas and a handful of valium...nighty-night Pickles!
  • Deacon_Blues · 1 year ago
    The one solitary black face in the picture appears to be looking around for a way out.
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    What about the Obama lookalike who lead the prayer?
  • blackwolf · 1 year ago
    LOLLLLLLLLLLLLll......haha. Keep the good work Deacon.
  • moreleesafer · 1 year ago
    OS! I see who you are talking about. one lonely black woman in the middle. she's probably thinking "I think I read the sign wrong....." or "Where is the guy who said he was going to give me $50 to sit here....?
    Shoot I could be back at my shift at McD's"
  • scottinsf · 1 year ago
    Those people are rowdy. Calm them down.
  • gumbygirl · 1 year ago
    That's what I'm saying! Hose these fuckers down quick, before they bust a Hokey-Pokey on our asses!
  • Chris From Maine · 1 year ago
    Who the hell would want to be there tonight?

    Bush, Thompson, and Lieberman.. It's one big cure for insomnia.
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    they all look a tad sick...

    btw, i read today that Obama Bin Ladin t-shirts with a mushroom cloud in the background were selling for $20.00 outside the GOPer convention.

    and they scream about smears and dirty tactics. they wrote the book.
  • Chris From Maine · 1 year ago
    wow.. Fred Thompson is out of his freakin mind.

    He just said we should elect Palin because she can field dress a moose. I'm not kidding.
  • gsthomas606 · 1 year ago
    if you can field dress a moose you can field dress a terrorist!
  • coolcatdaddy · 1 year ago
    He just said we should elect Palin because she can field dress a moose.

    Thank goodness! It would relieve Condi Rice from that duty when foreign dignitaries come for a state dinner!
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    Minneapolis M4M on Craig'sList is busy, busy, busy again tonight...
    This guy sounds like a GOP congressman...His headline, "Masc Top for Poor College Kid (18-21) ":

    Just looking for a college kid who could use some support... masculine businessman here, 5'10", 185#, br/gr, 7"c, white, mostly smooth, total top. I can host or travel, into a one-time thing, or an ongoing fuck-buddy throughout the school year. Wouldn't mind finding a kid to take on some trips with me. No games or BS... if you're interested, reply with stats and pic.
  • houstonray · 1 year ago
    Anyone know if Foley is in town??
  • coolcatdaddy · 1 year ago
    Wow - I haven't seen this much enthusiasm since I saw five people coming out of a screening of "Meet the Spartans"....
  • SuperWaterMan · 1 year ago
    They must have all slept late with hangovers from the "Hookers & Blow" Party

    http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/02/what-h...
  • tbhull · 1 year ago
    Man is Fred Thompson boring old fart.
  • shrrrr · 1 year ago
    He sounds like McSame has died, or something. Really upbeat
  • Jim Olson · 1 year ago
    This is just painfully boring.
  • donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago
    It's like a Concern Troll convention!

    "A Million Points of Bytes"
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    The giant telescreen is a disaster!
    I was keen on the Dem screen but this giant Rethug version makes everyone look like an ant...pity.
  • AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago
    Fred Thompson going on and on about John McCain's life -- it's excruciating. We're still on wife #1 and already it's been going on way too long.
  • martha · 1 year ago
    This is really wierd. Thompson keeps talking about how wild and crazy McCain is and I'm feeling most people want smart and serious and solutions. I know, silly me..
  • devis1 · 1 year ago
    OOh didn't know the pow's groin was pierced. Hmmm..
  • Chris From Maine · 1 year ago
    Wow.. Thompson is so boring Joe Lieberman goes "dude.. pep it up a bit".

    Americans are flipping the channel to watch paint dry as we speak.
  • Jim Olson · 1 year ago
    Would someone please put Fred Thompson out of our misery?
  • gsthomas606 · 1 year ago
    "he refused to abandon his conscience and his honor".... until he ran for president
  • Chris From Maine · 1 year ago
    Someone should add :

    "They did horrible things to John McCain.. things we now do to people at Gitmo."
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    Ha! Freddy's sight reading...He should have said "The incredable heat beating on the tin roof" but he said, "The incredable heat..." pause "Beating on a tin roof"...
  • doug · 1 year ago
    CSPAN rules for showing this picture of an empty audience. you wouldn't see this on Fox, CNN or NBC.
  • grandma · 1 year ago
    Can't remember if it was CNN or MSNBC earlier...the commentators were at the Convention saying it was the smallest venue for a convention that they had ever seen.......and also that because it was so small on TV it will give the impression that it is packed....standing room only.

    Guess the GOP can't even fill a small room.
  • Chris From Maine · 1 year ago
    Thompson : "Being a POW doesnt qualify you to be president".

    Wow.. isnt that what the right destroyed Wes Clark for saying???
  • gsthomas606 · 1 year ago
    keith olbermann just brought this point up... it'll be interesting to see if it plays out among the commentators
  • EvilPoet · 1 year ago
    Via CJR

    Off Message
    By Clint Hendler

    Earlier tonight, things finally got underway at the post-Gustav RNC. As the honor guard made its way to the stage, CNN took the life feed, but Fox did not. So while the auditorium stood at attention, Shepard Smith kept talking.

    That’s odd enough. But then Fox chose to play, for analysis sake, a new anti-McCain ad from Obama’s camp. So, at a solemn moment, while the floor was silent, some televisions ringing the open hallways surrounding the Xcel center’s seating were blaring lines like “We just can’t afford more of the same.”

    A young man wearing an Orange convention volunteer shirt half-heartedly tried to jump up and press the off button. He failed.

    http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/off_message.php
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    Aw...Doro Bush got very slightly semi-moist-eyed...
  • Upland_Oddball · 1 year ago
    Must have been a flashback to the memories of the hot, sweaty nights in the sheets she spent with my congressman, David Dreier. Can you imagine living with those kind of memories?
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    Kissing a man wearing your exact shade of lipstick...
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    Oh, the Obama and the Congress, hmmmm. Why do I not like Fred Thompson let me count the ways! Oh hell, there are just too many to count.
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    Oh, the Obama and the Congress, hmmmm. Why do I not like Fred Thompson let me count the ways! Oh hell, there are just too many to count.
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    pages and pages of m4m in Craigslist.

    It's like Craigslist in NYC.

    page after page after page.
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    I pity the dom top who answers Lieberman's ad...
  • houstonray · 1 year ago
    Oh what a great opportunity that would be for some undercover investigators!
  • tas · 1 year ago
    They are so EXCITED to be there. Does someone need a new Depends?
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    Whoa...somebody spiked the Metamucil.
  • AndrewIN · 1 year ago
    God that speech was boring. That weird cough thing he did after he made a snarky comment got old really quick. Did anyone see more than two people of color during his speech? The place is full of relatively old white people.
  • houstonray · 1 year ago
    "I see white people..."
  • blackwolf · 1 year ago
    You're making my day here:)
  • blackwolf · 1 year ago
    Haha...funny indeed. I'm relying on you folks for play by play action. I don't want to go to bed ill tonight.
  • houstonray · 1 year ago
    I have to tune in and out. too much and my ears start bleeding...
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    Oh that is just sad. That hall is really empty. Once in awhile the camera man must lose his mind and we get a shot of the empty seats. I heard one of the pundits say the RNC deliberately picked a smaller hall so that when it was filled it would look like a huge crowd. Never gonna equal 84,000!!!!!!!
  • houstonray · 1 year ago
    Boy, not much excitement for Lieberman...I love how at one point he said something and there was awkward silence and he said "right???" and then they applauded...
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    Are those Alaska First signs?
  • houstonray · 1 year ago
    Is it just me? I am so freakin' tired of the whole 'country first' thing...like we don't care about it but they do...
  • An_American_Karol · 1 year ago
    I appreciate you guys watching that pablum. I don't want to be counted as a viewer, well, that and my stomach isn't strong enough.
  • houstonray · 1 year ago
    Does it still count if you aren't a member of some Nielsen thing??
  • An_American_Karol · 1 year ago
    They knew how many tuned in to watch Obama.
  • houstonray · 1 year ago
    I figured it was just the usual Nielsen rating estimate? I didn't realize they could check regular cable boxes. I'll have to change it right away! haha
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    He'll carry a cold into the White House next January???
    911 a great natural disaster???
  • SouthernYankee · 1 year ago
    You know that could happen if he wins. You know that religious right really really love Palin. I wouldn't put anything pass those religious nuts. She is one of those that believe religion and government go hand in hand. Gosh I hope Obama can defeat those nuts.
  • WatchmanD · 1 year ago
    Where are the black republicans? I guess the Tueday speakers are not exciting enough to draw black republicans. People in black face don't count.
  • houstonray · 1 year ago
    I saw the rarest of the rare, a black female just a few minutes ago...
  • houstonray · 1 year ago
    Does anyone remember the Middle Eastern people in the turbans that they would frequently show at the Dem convention, can you imagine if they showed up there? That place would be evacuated...
  • gumbygirl · 1 year ago
    It must have been the cleaning lady.
  • moreleesafer · 1 year ago
    Someone probably darted and tagged her and set her free back in the kitchen where they thought she belonged.
  • Mollie · 1 year ago
    What is with Lieberman and Thompson constantly clearing their throat ? It's getting on my nerves. Get a life Lieberman, yours is over ! Can't they afford signs other than the ones that are painted ? Liebermans wife sure is getting old looking. She looks just like Cindy, they could be sisters.
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    Throat cancer...
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    Dems need to end Joe's chairmanship before he jumps fully Rethug in December...
  • An_American_Karol · 1 year ago
    The Republicans will need him to shore up their minority. lol
  • High Crimes & Misdemeanors · 1 year ago
    I'm pretty sure I noted last week this CONvention is gonna be like a funeral.... these REPUKES are going down. It's no longer about trying to convince them, its about winning the election by the numbers. Drag 100 of your closest friends, demand they vote (assuming of course they are gonna vote Obama). Make sure they bring 100 of their best friends. Thats how Obama wins.
  • houstonray · 1 year ago
    Daily Show on live, I cant' wait!!!!!!!
  • High Crimes & Misdemeanors · 1 year ago
    btw, i have pictures of the protest from yesterday, gonna try and post them. some pretty good ones.
  • rexkc · 1 year ago
    Well, to be fair I think Hooters has 2 for 1 PBR's on Tuesday nights. So, that explains it.
  • GAYWILL55 · 1 year ago
    If John McCain is a "True reformer" who will reform all that is wrong in Washington, why wasn't George W Bush booed during HIS speach? It's George W Bush's failed policies that John McCain is running against.

    How can you applaud the disease, and then applaud the cure??
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    Easy when your drug company monopoly is horizontally and vertically integrated and expensively lobbied.
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    I think they better find some hats for most those convention attendees, their buzz cuts are going to pop the final night balloons
  • MC_Haiku · 1 year ago
    they all look sooooooooooooo HAPPY!
  • FlightAttendants4Obama · 1 year ago
    I want a shot of the guy who keeps yelling YEAH! Can't he switch it up and shout something else?
  • Upland_Oddball · 1 year ago
    What happened? Did someone in the RNC run off to Vegas or Atlantic City with the money normally used in past Republican conventions to rent a crowd of black, latino and asian faces? The audience was overwhelmingly older, white and very very very FRUMPY. The crowd was polite to Lieberman, but I could sense that it would have been out of its mind with rage if he had been speaking to it as the V.P. nominee. I almost wish that had come about just to see the audience tear apart and eat Lieberman. It would have been like good, gothic Tennesee Williams, like Sebastian Veneble on the beach. Instead, it was like a church social in a very large mortuary.
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    One word, formaldehyde.
  • moreleesafer · 1 year ago
    oh that is too bad. schadefreude in full effect mode.
  • kirkaracha · 1 year ago
    How do the crowd and enthusiasm level compare to when Obama spoke at the same venue earlier this summer?
  • Joneses · 1 year ago
    They looked so sad.
  • SouthernYankee · 1 year ago
    Jon Stewart show tonight showed an overview of the convention seating area. The top was empty. They had alot of empty seats.
  • sukabi1 · 1 year ago
    New music for McCain's events ... Tears of a Clown....
  • nsr · 1 year ago
    Maybe Brother Theodore there scared em off. "Teeth, you fools, TEETH!"