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1. #1
   On February 1st, 2011 at 4:40 pm, walterc said:

   “I defy you to find a labor hotel for these delegates, for all the AFL-CIO folks coming to Charlotte.”

   No hotels available in Detroit?

   Are they going to use the goose stepping youth with their “O” salute this time?

   Are the New Black Panthers going to provide security?

   All these important details are yet to be determined I guess.

   Should be a riot (ala 1968 Chicago).

2. #2
   On February 1st, 2011 at 4:41 pm, Teddy Kennedy said:

   Errah, How many Charlotte bamks received a bail out check and will be able to cut a check for the DNC and O?? Quite simple math here.

3. #3
   On February 1st, 2011 at 4:42 pm, walterc said:

   One more thing, are they saving the WTF logo for the BO campaign? I’m thinking it would be good choice for the whole Peoples Democratic Party.

4. #4
   On February 1st, 2011 at 4:47 pm, gco said:

   Right away I thought that “The People’s Convention” had a distinctive hammer-and-sickle quality. In her public announcement on picking Charlotte, Michelle O. praised the city’s barbecue, which was odd considering that she wants to personally dictate the national menu in the name of our health, and barbecue isn’t health food by her supposedly enlightened standards. So they should change the convention theme to “Barbecue for me, not for thee.” “Let them eat red slaw” could also work.

5. #5
   On February 1st, 2011 at 4:49 pm, SHoward said:

   Isn’t Charlotte the home town of Bank of America?

6. #6
   On February 1st, 2011 at 4:50 pm, hadsil said:

   I still remember the 2004 convention “debacle”. John Edwards pompously derided the Republicans for choosing New York City to exploit 9/11. The truth is Mayor Bloomberg invited both parties to have their conventions in New York City as a symbol of solidarity, strength, renewal, patriotism, defiance, etc. The Republicans said yes immediately. The Democrats declined because the Republicans would be there.

7. #7
   On February 1st, 2011 at 4:50 pm, DougT said:

   I thought you were going to say “Beijing”.

   I don’t know, it just felt natural.

   Very disappointing.

8. #8
   On February 1st, 2011 at 5:01 pm, rambler said:

   Commies of the world unite.

9. #9
   On February 1st, 2011 at 5:05 pm, TooMuchTime said:

   …the MSNBC host couldn’t resist hitting Kaine from the left as she scolded Democrats for selecting a right-to-work state.

   Once again, all states are right-to-work states. If just one citizen has a right, then all citizens have the same right. That is a fact that cannot be denied. No gov’t can select which people get a right and which do not.

10. #10
    On February 1st, 2011 at 5:05 pm, txvet2 said:

    As soon as these Marxists label anything “Peoples’” you know that the only people they’re talking about are themselves. Everybody else is destined for slavery.

11. #11
    On February 1st, 2011 at 5:06 pm, txvet2 said:

    On February 1st, 2011 at 5:05 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    But it says a lot about the Marxists that they are opposed to the right to work. Or, the need to work, for that matter.

12. #12
    On February 1st, 2011 at 5:08 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    The People’s Convention was a “people’s government” that was proposed by communist elements in the United Kingdom…Many of the founding members were members of the People’s Vigilance Committee, which had been formed by communists expelled from the Labour Party.

    Hey! Why don’t the democrats expel the socialists and communists from the democrat party? Sorry, I forgot. There’d be no one left…

13. #13
    On February 1st, 2011 at 5:09 pm, chapoutier said:

    If just one citizen has a right, then all citizens have the same right.

    What? Right to work is a state statute. You can’t possibly be arguing that all states should have the exact same state laws.

14. #14
    On February 1st, 2011 at 5:12 pm, Lockstein13 said:

    My only question:

    Will they have the “honesty” [sic] to re-name the Chevy Volt “The People’s Car”?

    No need to translate that into German for our readers, oder?!

15. #15
    On February 1st, 2011 at 5:15 pm, Hangfire said:

    Off-Limits to Democrat Conventioneers:

    Krispy Kreme
    Bojangles Chicken n’ Bisquits
    Hardees
    Sonny’s BBQ
    Po’ Folks

16. #16
    On February 1st, 2011 at 5:17 pm, Hangfire said:

    Also Off-Limits:

    Harris-Teeter SuperMarkets
    Food Lion SuperMarkets

    (If I remember correctly, Piggly Wiggly is union now, so they’re okay.)

17. #17
    On February 1st, 2011 at 5:24 pm, WrshpMzshn said:

    Chap said: You can’t possibly be arguing that all states should have the exact same state laws.

    I suspect he was talking about natural rights as opposed to government-provided rights.

18. #18
    On February 1st, 2011 at 5:25 pm, TK-421 said:

    You’ve got to be ——- me. (Would you like to buy a vowel?)I mean I knew about it being in Charlotte but really “The Peoples convention”? Yeah I’ld love to see them pull that crap in the none Liberal Ran parts of NC. And as Racist as this sounds and I’ve been told it by blacks so not racists I’m guessing? The only reasson BHO won NC was because pretty much every project black got out and voted.

    I mean really in a state you barely won that houses a huge percentage of US military Forces and is generally Rural and Red (Not that Red Lulz) and they are going with a communist look a-like show. Just Wow.. And whats Sadder given Changes in NC I suspect the only whining from Raleigh is that it didn’t get the con.

    Wow is it sad that I’m not surprised by this at all, or the fact I suspect it will have a good number of people at it?

19. #19
    On February 1st, 2011 at 5:27 pm, sdillard said:

    I hope all the good people of Charlotte nail everything down and get an alarm system.

20. #20
    On February 1st, 2011 at 5:47 pm, Buy Danish said:

    We You are the one’s we’ve been waiting for, comrades

    But what’s really special about next year’s convention is that it’s all about you. We’re bringing it to your backyard and your communities. We intend to make this the People’s Convention—one that embodies your ideas and visions for the future.

    I’m preemptively instituting the NIMBY rule. Just to be sure it’s effective, I’m ready to purchase one of those “Attack dog on premises, no trespassing” signs.

21. #21
    On February 1st, 2011 at 5:49 pm, RedDog said:

    The radical Leftist Dems are upset the DNC is not still pandering to the unions? Those SOBs siphoned off billions of taxpayer dollars in graft and payola from the present crooks in power and the Left wants to give them business? What dummies. It would be smart for all the principals to lay low. If I had my way I would have the FBI and the Justice Dept. on their a**es 24-7.

    The RNC should have their convention at Ground Zero. Stuff it you Collaborators.

22. #22
    On February 1st, 2011 at 6:25 pm, bear1909 said:

    The promotional copy sounds like community organizer/activist drivel in which the guerilla elitists tell their puppets how this is YOUR showcase.

    Utter bullsquirts. They chose it so they could have some great riots. The cops in major cities are so nadless now they wouldn’t turn on the roaches who are going to get bussed in to break windows and “charge the barricades”.

    Officer Bubba won’t play that game. This convention will be resume building time for the Commies following the orders they’ve been getting from Frau Pivens.

    The bloodier the better so they chose a non-union state. A perfect setup to illustrate how just they are and how evil the cops and rednecks are. What bunch of blowholes. An American disgrace. Too much time hanging around in Paris coffee houses.

    More garbage from “the couple with a purpose”.

    OT: Moo-chelle Obinkee makes me sick to my stomach. What an absolute miscreant. And her junkie husband is less than that. Have a nice convention experience stepping down. ROFLMAO

23. #23
    On February 1st, 2011 at 6:28 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    But it says a lot about the Marxists that they are opposed to the right to work.

    Yes! Curious, isn’t it? How do you call yourself “The People’s Convention” when you want to deny people one of their rights? I guess it’s all in the socialist definition of work.

    work n. (wurk) What the little people do to support their glorious leaders.

24. #24
    On February 1st, 2011 at 6:31 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    What? Right to work is a state statute. You can’t possibly be arguing that all states should have the exact same state laws.

    What? Rights are for everyone; they’re not granted by the gov’t — you are born with them. You can’t possibly be arguing that one citizen has a right but other citizens don’t have the same right.

25. #25
    On February 1st, 2011 at 6:37 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    I suspect he was talking about natural rights as opposed to government-provided rights.

    Yeah. Silly me. The gov’t provides so many rights. Let me see, those would be…um, uh wait a sec…uh, hmmm. Damn! The gov’t doesn’t provide any rights! I’m born with my rights. It’s the duty of the gov’t to protect them. When the gov’t grants you something, it’s a privilege; which they can revoke at any time.

    I’m guessing WrshpMzshn that you were being sarcastic.

26. #26
    On February 1st, 2011 at 6:39 pm, RedDog said:

    On February 1st, 2011 at 6:28 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    Yes! Curious, isn’t it? How do you call yourself “The People’s Convention” when you want to deny people one of their rights? I guess it’s all in the socialist definition of work.

    It’s not about a “right to work” it’s all about the right to collect a paycheck, preferably direct deposit, so they don’t have to leave the couch. There’s a big difference.

27. #27
    On February 1st, 2011 at 6:43 pm, RedDog said:

    TooMuch: Lighten up. chap’s workload has fallen off since the November elections. He’s back to chasing ambulances. He may even have to move from Silver Spring to… say… Billings, Montana.

28. #28
    On February 1st, 2011 at 6:49 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    It’s not about a “right to work” it’s all about the right to collect a paycheck…

    Yeah. What they really mean is “the right to a job.” But having a job is not a right, so the socialists can’t say that. They want to, though. Except that it sounds too, you know, Marxist. So they lie and say “right to work” to confuse as many people as possible into believing that some people have a right to work and others don’t.

29. #29
    On February 1st, 2011 at 7:02 pm, chapoutier said:

    The gov’t doesn’t provide any rights! I’m born with my rights.

    Which theory of natural law, exactly, covers contract law between businesses and unions?

    Which one, for that matter, covers the proper statute of limitations on a tort claim?

    The notion that ALL rights in a society derive from natural law is insane. Even Jefferson said men are born with “certain inalienable rights.” He didn’t say man was born with all of them.

30. #30
    On February 1st, 2011 at 7:03 pm, wildcat84 said:

    Which convention of the people is this? The People’s Front of Judea or the Judean People’s Front?

31. #31
    On February 1st, 2011 at 7:04 pm, rocketman said:

    ***
    What a poor choice for a “democratic” convention. San Francisco is the only logical and apropo site. Just consider the great alignment between the Frisco values and the liberal / socialist / marxist / communist party agendas.
    ***
    Anti-business. Check.
    Pro illegal alien. Check.
    Anti-military. Check.
    Anti-police. Check.
    Pro abortion. Check.
    Pro drugs. Check.
    Pro gay. Check.
    Green. Check.
    Pro tax. Check.
    Socialist Education. Check.
    ***
    And the real bonus–SanFranNan can swoop into the convention on her broom like the witch in the Wizard of Oz. No need for a cross country flight.
    ***
    What’s not to like about holding the convention in the City by the Bay? The Kalifornia values fit much better than do those of Charlotte, N.C.
    ***
    John Bibb
    ***

32. #32
    On February 1st, 2011 at 7:04 pm, tre said:

    On February 1st, 2011 at 5:15 pm, Hangfire said:
    Off-Limits to Democrat Conventioneers:

    Krispy Kreme
    Bojangles Chicken n’ Bisquits
    Hardees
    Sonny’s BBQ
    Po’ Folks

    …and the Lowes Motor Speedway.

33. #33
    On February 1st, 2011 at 7:27 pm, jsr said:

    Considering their view of themselves as enlightened world citizens and the rest of Americans as racist, provincial rubes I’m surprised they they are even holding their convention on American soil. Will the delegates be advised to make sure their hepatitis vaccines are current?

34. #34
    On February 1st, 2011 at 7:45 pm, cicerokid said:

    Michelle O. praised the city’s barbecue

    Solar powered, of course.

35. #35
    On February 1st, 2011 at 7:48 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    What’s not to like about holding the convention in the City by the Bay?

    Racisim, for one. A family member experienced the following.

    During the hotel workers strike in SF a while ago, the pickters were making lots of noise early in the morning. A patron of the hotel stuck his head outside his windows and told them to be quiet — he’d had a late flight and wanted to sleep. One of the picketers replied, “Shut the f*** up, N****R!” The patron was a black man. Isn’t liberalism just so wonderful?!?!

    Also, the prices in The People’s Socialist Quagmire of California are astronomical. The democrats are probably saving big bux. Kind of like how the AFL/CIO HQ in DC was built with non-union labor.

36. #36
    On February 1st, 2011 at 7:48 pm, plymouthacclaim said:

    Anything that goes out of it’s way to call itself “people’s” isn’t.

37. #37
    On February 1st, 2011 at 8:18 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    If you want a true explanation of why they are calling it “The People’s Convention”, it’s because they are trying to strengthen and build up an area that they acknowledge is weak for them right now…

    The [SOTU] speech is also a product of the lack of political and organizational capacity of the labor and people’s movement – something that AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka spoke of a week before the president’s address. And until that changes, it is difficult to see how the nation’s politics will tack too far in a progressive direction. Transformative moments require transformative mass insurgencies.

    Expect this convention to promote “transformative mass insurgencies” a la Egypt… which has been instigated by the “labor and people’s movement” there…

    As Glenn Beck has shown repeatedly, this is the Communist Revolutionaries saying “Top down, bottom up, inside out”. They achieved “top down” with Obama and the 111th Congress, but they were legitimately shocked that their “bottom up” attempts (10/2 Rally) paled in comparison to the Tea Parties and Beck’s 8/28 Restoring America Rally.

38. #38
    On February 1st, 2011 at 8:19 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    By the way, follow that link and see where it goes…

39. #39
    On February 1st, 2011 at 8:23 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    A better and peaceful world is possible — a world where people come before profits. That’s socialism. That’s our vision.
    We are the Communist Party USA.

40. #40
    On February 1st, 2011 at 8:25 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Hey chapoutier,

    I honestly and sincerely ask you to compare and contrast the Program of the Communist Party USA with that of the Democratic Party.

41. #41
    On February 1st, 2011 at 8:36 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On February 1st, 2011 at 5:25 pm, TK-421 said:

    as Racist as this sounds and I’ve been told it by blacks so not racists I’m guessing? The only reasson BHO won NC was because pretty much every project black got out and voted

    I personally know conservative blacks in NC who voted for Obama because of his skin color. I quote them directly:

    It’s History, Man!

    To vote for, or against, a candidate based on their skin color is, yes, RACIST.

    They voted for the color of his skin, not the content of his character nor his political ideology.

    And yes, black turnout (plus some help from an ACORN office in Durham, NC) helped put not only Obama but also Kay Hagan over the top in 2008. Hagan defeated Elizabeth Dole, who had replaced Jesse Helms in that seat upon his retirement.

    So Obama helped a Democrat win the Senate seat once held by Helms.

    But that turnout was not repeated in 2010, so Republican Richard Burr won re-election to his Senate seat fairly easily.

    The Dems clearly hope to hold NC in 2012 for Obama, but I don’t think that is likely to happen. The Tea Party is very active in NC. Many conservatives who may have been lazy about voting in the past are now fully awakened and voting.

42. #42
    On February 1st, 2011 at 8:52 pm, Flyoverman said:

    The People’s Convention?

    Will the convention open with the Young Pioneers singing The International?

    If you had any doubts that the Democrat Party had not gone totally Socialist, Anti-American, and dedicated to the destruction of the Constitution, this should eliminate them.

43. #43
    On February 1st, 2011 at 8:53 pm, Flyoverman said:

    I honestly and sincerely ask you to compare and contrast the Program of the Communist Party USA with that of the Democratic Party.

    The mathematical term is congruent.

44. #44
    On February 1st, 2011 at 9:15 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Yes, Flyoverman, I agree that they are congruent.

    I’m very interested in Chap’s viewpoint on this. How, exactly, is the Democratic Party anything other than the modern-day Communist Party USA? They even both call themselves “progressives”.

45. #45
    On February 1st, 2011 at 9:20 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Adding to what I said earlier:

    But that [2008] turnout was not repeated in 2010, so Republican Richard Burr won re-election to his Senate seat fairly easily.

    The Dems clearly hope to hold NC in 2012 for Obama, but I don’t think that is likely to happen. The Tea Party is very active in NC. Many conservatives who may have been lazy about voting in the past are now fully awakened and voting.

    I forgot to mention that in 2010, Republicans won both houses of the
    NC legislature for the first time since 1870 (Reconstruction)!

    And the Governor does not have a veto power over what will be a Republican-led redistricting. Democrats Mel Watt and Brad Miller can say good-bye to their gerrymandered disticts (NC-12 and NC-13). I think Republicans will gain at least 2 more seats in the U.S. House from NC’s 13 Congressional districts in 2012.

46. #46
    On February 1st, 2011 at 9:29 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    More on NC…

    Since 1898, Republicans had only been in charge of one chamber — the House from 1995 through 1998.

    [Now], Republicans will hold a 67-52 advantage in the House, with one unaffiliated House member who is aligning himself with the GOP. In the Senate, it’s Republicans 31, Democrats 19.

    For the past two years, Democrats led 30-20 in the Senate and 68-52 in the House.

    Republicans have a veto-proof majority in the Senate
    and fall just four votes shy of one in the House.

    From: 2011-12 NC General Assembly at a glance

    Got TEA?!?

47. #47
    On February 1st, 2011 at 9:39 pm, Straight_Talk_Luigi said:

    Conventions will bring people and local establishments will benefit…..the ones that aren’t vandalized anyway.

48. #48
    On February 1st, 2011 at 9:47 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    Gee, silence from chappy on RedPill’s challenge.

    Congruent/convergence?

49. #49
    On February 1st, 2011 at 10:45 pm, shimauma2 said:

    http://my.democrats.org/PeoplesConvention

    put your suggestions in here!!!! do it!!!

50. #50
    On February 2nd, 2011 at 9:22 am, John Deaux said:

    With all the great things we’ve been told about how Democrat policies have turned Michigan into a literal paradise, why pray tell, isn’t the convention being held in their crown jewel of Detroit?

51. #51
    On February 2nd, 2011 at 9:53 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Good point, John Deaux.

    Democrats have had exclusive hold on the Mayorship of Detroit since January 1962… almost five full decades.

    Now, Detroit looks like North Korea, or the former East Germany.

    And that is no coincidence.

    Marxism fails everywhere it is tried.

    One can’t “Spread the wealth around”…
    One can only “Spread the poverty around”.