The third and final night of the Democratic National Convention was scheduled to be held this evening at Bank of America Stadium, but citing weather concerns, has been moved indoors. Republicans believe the explanation is a ruse -- Dems were struggling to fill Charlotte's football stadium, they argue, which forced a change in venue.
Leave it to Charles Krauthammer to take this line of thought to its logical extreme.
For those who can't watch clips online, Krauthammer argued, "It wasn't the weather, they knew what the weather was going to be months ago. This was clearly a response to the fear of a sea of empty seats, and that's why this is being done."
How did Democrats know what weather conditions would be like in Charlotte "months ago"? I have no idea, but Krauthammer seemed quite confident about this.
For the record, I don't know if Democratic organizers were having trouble filling the stadium or not, but given what we saw earlier this year in Michigan, I'm a little surprised Republicans would cause such a fuss about the importance of candidates filling such a venue.
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People keep forgetting what is being learned here about our educational system and that desire to want to make it all private. First off it will not work, since certain people have that inherent nature to want to make huge amounts of money as in a business such as people like Romney. Thus that end result will be forcing teachers to be paid much less, inadequate school supplies even more, insufficient nutrition at school and the average person getting a very poor education as these private schools just ripe off the government. The only reason some private schools are showing a better education is because they have to compete with public schools. You take away public schools no matter what our education system will drastically suffer and decrease, because regardless of rules and regulation for private education the only agenda will be to make more and more profits at the cost of the child’s education. Look at how these big businesses are ripping off the government now do you actually think it will not happen in our educational system? Human nature never changes.
My appeal to the DNC organizing committee, with their incredible powers of prognostication, is that they tell me in advance what the Powerball numbers will be this coming Saturday. Don't post them here. I don't want everyone knowing them. Just send them to my email. I have confidence you'll magically know the right email address. Thanks in advance, as I know in advance that you'll do this for me.
So the RNC knew about the hurricane during their convention? Why didn't they let the people of LA know that it was going to hit them and not Tampa?
Because Democrats are all powerful and know how to predict the weather!
It's true - I'm a Democrat and I can predict for years in advance any brainstorms in Charles Krauthammer's head; for the foreseeable future, it's a 2% chance of freezing drizzle; otherwise no activity whatsoever.
Is Charles Krauthammer still alive?
TCinLA,
Not so's you'd notice. He has been a pompous, arrogant right-wing propaganda machine for many years.
Everyone knows that the DNC is composed almost entirely of witches and other Satan-worshipers (they didn't mention God in their platform!) and thus they have foreknowledge and partial control of the weather.
Meanwhile, the faithful GOP moved the hurricane away from Tampa and towards Godless New Orleans, because Jesus > Satan. It's totally obvious, if you live in the 16th century (which the GOP does).
Charles Krauthammer can't even fill his own pants. What a pathetic, negative little man.
The Crypt Keeper to you . Uncanny resemblance no?
can I have the DNC committee tell me when the best date for a wedding ceremony is? It seems that they are even better than say Pat Robertson for determining when things will occur. Poor Pat has failed every prediction he makes.
Krauthammer is such a nitwit.
Fox must be worried that they aren't the only ones with a direct line to God. SourKrauthammer had to make something up to distract from the power of the Democratic speakers.
Better than Nancy Reagan and the tarot cards..........
"They knew what the weather was going to be months ago?"
Huh?? If the Democrats can forecast weather months in advance, they're missing an opportunity. They can make a killing in meteorology. Even the National Weather Service and the best private weather forecasters will tell you that they're going out on a limb when predicting the weather a week in advance.
I'm beginning to wonder how connected to reality some of the conservative analysts are.
I'm beginning to think that the farce played out in the primaries was only the show opener.
If the Democrats knew "months ago" that Hurricane Isaac was going to miss Tampa, hit NOLA, turn and dump it's leftovers on Charlotte, they really outdid Pat Robertson, especially if they knew that they would have too few people to fill an outside arena and would need an excuse. That's as idiotic as the idea that President Obama's mother figured 50 years ago that she would have to fake his birth in Hawaii because he would even be nominated for President. I was there in 1950/60 and the turmoil our country was in, it would have been highly doubtful that any minority person would ever run for the office. We were still pretty ugly back then. Most of us have grown up and know that genius doesn't discriminate, we really are all brothers and sisters and are thrilled with the accomplishments of our President.
Charles Krauthammer should be checked for senility - or put in a nice quiet, padded room.
They never let objective reality get in the way of their favorite lies.
Maybe he was confused because Democrats understand climate change, and he thought that meant they could predict the weather months in advance.
Well, now I feel stupid. Last month, we made hotel reservations out on the Cape for the coming weekend. Given the forecast for the weekend, I'm guessing there won't be much beach or golf time. Had I known that the DNC knew about the weather months ago, I would have consulted them before booking the hotel.
This is just more evidence that Obama wants to punish success.
Charles Krauthammer, mean spirited, small of character and empty - all he has left is projection. The rethugliCon convention was a bunch of sorry, fear filled liars and I saw more than a few "empty seats" at their convention..Why this man still has a shred of credibility left is far beyond me.
Because he tells lies that many people want to hear.
Well of course they knew. Everyone Knows Democrats have been manipulating the weather for years in order to trick people into believing in this "global warming" nonsense. It's a critical part of their Soros-inspired Agenda 21 plan to sell America to foreign invaders in UN blue helmets.
Well duh!?
Who do ya think caused that hurricane that the RNC had to pray away last week?!
(scuse me while I peel my tongue out of my cheek)
Sometimes you just have to sit back and take stock.
On this, let it sink in that, of all the people in the country, of all the people you know, understand that Krauthammer is one of the few people that this society picked to have a voice.
Let that sink in.
If we have learned one thing in the last twenty five years, its that the easiest way to get into a hard core conservative's wallet is to tell him things he thinks he already knows laced with as much bile and vitriol as possible.
(Liberals don't have to pay for it because we give our opinions away for free on the Internet.)
It must suck to be a Republican these days...
I watched Terminator 2 last night, and I realized that it's both sad and funny how the GOP sounds like Sarah Connor trying to explain to her shrink that Judgment Day is coming. The difference being, of course, that in the real world the crazy things she believed would never have happened.
But, hey, we'll get to see the GOP version of T2 with Obama as the villain when that stupid new "documentary" about him comes out.
Actually, I feel like Sarah Connor trying to explain Judgment Day to her shrink every time I try to explain what's been going on in the Republican Party for the last decade to people who "hate politics" and don't pay much attention to the news but still, for some reason, feel like they should vote.
If it rains, he will look like a fool in front of his own audience.
Well, if Obama can promise to slow the rise of oceans, why couldn't he predict the weather months in advance?
"The journey will be difficult. The road will be long. I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people. Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth."
getting things to slow requires the American people, not just President Obama. good we know that the GOP had intentionally decide to do all they could to avoid this. sigh....
Rush Limbaugh said Obama controls the weather, so it must be true!
If Democrats could predict months ago that it would rain in Charlotte, how come Republicans couldn't predict that there would be a hurricane in Tampa (during hurricane season)?
The main problem I have with that ignorant statement is that Fox viewers will completely believe it.
So let me get this straight....
We can't predict weather ahead of time when it comes to global warming because meteorologists say that weather changes hourly and even more realistically minute to minute. Because of this global warming deniers argue that there is no way for a model to predict what will happen with weather going forward into the future even by a few months.
But when it comes to Obama we not only can predict weather ahead of time accurately, but we can do so months and months ahead of time. So does that now mean Krauthammer has admitted that global warming is at least plausible since we now, apparently, have accurate abilities to predict weather months and months into the future?
Oh no wait I figured it out: Obama has a time machine. The same one he used to go back in time and falsify his birth records with the sate of Hawaii. Got it.
I was surprised at the Faux panel, as I was floating around the dial; it was no wonder that TRMS and MSNBC won the convention ratings for the first time. Krauthammer and Van Susteren were the only two big names on their coverage; no BillO, no Palin, nothing. I think it is a sign that the right has given up. I hate to remind Krauthammer that there were 19 thousand on the waiting list, and we are sending the 64 thousand extra people over to the Faux news studio to prove it to him. Krauthammer came up with some lame excuses about Clinton, but did admit it was a very effective speech. All of the Faux panel hosts had the deer in the headlights look.......
Rest assured we will run your blockade in November and remove any doubts you may have about Obama's popularity during this era of GOP idiocy.
I chalk it up as the same drivel that Faux listeners like to say ratings are bad and we are more popular therefore, everyone thinks just like us. Nothing about where they get their "facts', teaching people that facts are what we say, not them.
It's their blankie, they cry if you try to tell them they're not as popular as they think, too. Whatever, I can;t say I never watch Faux, but I definitely don't watch what they call "news".
this has allowed for some wonderfully funny snark!
Reminds of the old Magnificent Carnac - hee hee
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x802iz_johnny-carson-as-carnac-from-1974_fun
Only Carnac knew the hurricane was going to miss Tampa and hit NO months ago.