Rick Perry drops out; I pout and move on
**Posted by Phineas
In the first month of your Presidency, you would:
I’m feeling a little tired and uninspired tonight, and somewhat in the dumps about the future of the GOP presidential race. So I’m putting the Presidency in your hands … in a pretend sort of way. 🙂
Confirmed: #DNC2012 acceptance speech will take place at BOA stadium
It’s been speculated about for months, and the Bloomberg news outlet put a more official stamp on the rumors last week. Today in a presser, Democrat National Convention Committee officials confirmed that President Obama will indeed make  his acceptance speech not at Time Warner Cable Arena as originally scheduled but at the much bigger Bank of America Stadium instead:
DNC Chair uses hateful rhetoric in indirectly blaming ‘hateful rhetoric’ for Giffords’ shooting
You can always tell when an election year rolls around. Democrats who are normally at DEFCON 2 on the Hatemeter scale kick it up a notch to DEFCON 1, and they aren’t above using someone’s death or serious injury (or sickness) in the process .
Dems may move Obama’s #DNC2012 speech to BOA Stadium – to attract wealthy donors
Bloomberg News reports an intriguing bit of info on the possibility that the Democrat National Convention Committee may be moving the site of Obama’s 2012 nomination acceptance speech to Bank of America stadium – because they desperately need cash from wealthy donors to pay for convention costs: