CONTINGENCY PLAN(S)

 

DNC readies 'contingency plan,' watches weather for Obama acceptance speech

 

 

.... On Thursday, President Obama – and Vice President Biden - are slated to deliver acceptance speeches at the OUTDOOR Bank of America Stadium. The stadium seats just over 73,000.

Forecasts show the potential for rain and possibly thunderstorms on Thursday for Charlotte, creating the potential for the soaking of the tens of thousands of attendees and casting a cloud over the carefully-staged event.

"There's been some conversations that the forecast is already predicting storms," one convention official said. While stressing that no decisions have been made, the official said: "Of course there's some conversations about contingency plans." 

.... When asked to outline what options that plan might include, the source said, "We will only announce contingency plans in the event that an emergency/severe weather actually arises, so that we can be sure that we communicate only one plan, the one that is accurate and relevant to the situation at hand."

 

And that's not the only "Contingency" under consideration:

The Reagans, Clintons, and second Bush family all had their post-presidential homes purchased quietly on the side by friends when their times in office were coming to an end. The Obamas are doing the same thing now.

Barack and Michelle Obama will be moving to Hawaii in January of 2013 and preparations are now being made to purchase an estate in close proximity to land owned by the University of Hawaii, where the Obama presidential library and “political center” will be located.

 

This and more gossip at LiveLeak -- where it's being supposed, from "all the clues we've been given," that this $35 million beachfront estate is the Obamas' destination.

 

.... Democrats are already working to locate an acceptable property in Hawaii for the Obamas to live; this land and its complex of buildings must be ready to move-into in January and must meet all the requirements the Secret Service demands since the Obamas will be granted continued protection, by law, for nine years after Barack leaves office.

 

 

... The University of Hawaii will host the Library, Musuem, and “Political Action Center.” Most likely, it will be called the Obama Center, like the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Just like the Carters, the Obamas want to live as close to the Library complex as possible so Barack can hold court there, give speeches, and walk through a replica of his Oval Office to relive past glories (which is what Jimmy Carter does on a regular basis, FYI). 

 

 

... Barack Obama will want to be able to commute easily to the “Obama Center”, wherever that is built. He’s a young-for-an-ex-president man, so he’s got a good 40 years ahead of him to make use of that Obama Center when it’s built…and I imagine he wouldn’t want to drive any further to it every day than Jimmy Carter does to the Carter Center in Atlanta.

 

Where’s a good location that the University of Hawaii would want to build his library, so that it becomes a tourist attraction for Hawaii and also afford the University the Prestige of having it on a campus? The University will be picking up a lot of the cost of the Library’s construction as private fundraising for this project has thus far been anemic. In Chicago, Penny Pritzker has already started making soft calls to inquire if people would be willing to be generous to the Obama presidential library project and she’s gotten mostly polite declines (and some hang-ups). Someone who works for Penny told me that...

 

Like I said... gossip. But hey, in this recovery recession, we can all use a cheer-me-up.  Our thanks to LiveLeak. We'll be keeping these images in mind as we watch the storm(s) in Charlotte.

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

Surely Gaia the Great Earth Mother -- the deity at whose altar Obama has worshiped for many years -- wouldn't pull a dirty trick on this most faithful of her votaries by raining on his parade. Or would she? Is this the recompense a communicant in the Gaian church gets for making daily sacrifices at her feet -- sacrificing the jobs of millions by nixing the Keystone pipeline, sacrificing whole industries like coal, sacrificing sanity itself in favor of such madness as Cap and Trade ...? Shouldn't all those sacrifices count for something? Is this what the poets mean by "the fickleness of the gods"? Stand by ...

[trade options]

The recession is here, but sure it has not the same impact on everybody. For us, regular citizens concerning the economy, the "best-cheer-me-up" I can think of is dealing with options.