It seems the normal way to get to a Convention is to participate in local grassroots effort to effect a candidate or a change in the platform.
It takes time and hard work.
The convention IS campaign workers, delegates, and media. It is in Time-Warner Cable Arena. The speech is in the much larger Bank of America Stadium. Sorry SN, but much ado about nothing.
Seeing as how our founding fathers saw nothing wrong with a drink or two it seems appropriate.
"In 1787, two days before they signed off on the Constitution, the 55
delegates to the Constitutional Convention partied at a tavern.
According to the bill preserved from the evening, they drank 54 bottles
of Madeira, 60 bottles of claret, eight of whiskey, 22 of porter, eight
of hard cider, 12 of beer and seven bowls of alcoholic punch."
I was not implying to keep any class of people out of conventions.
Everyone that earned a spot through hard work should be welcomed.
The hard work includes having enough interest in the subject to devote time and effort at the local level to their particular cause.
I didn't say anything about "those kind" of people.
I said giving out free tickets in bars to hear a Presidential acceptance speech is trashy.
Perhaps I have different standards than yours.
Well, maybe they can give out some free booze, free birth control pills, free condoms, and cocaine to get even bigger crowds.
Obviously, desperate times call for desperate measures.
Harry Reid has given out free chicken dinners to get votes.
Democrats have given out free cigs to get votes.
And just to make sure no one is "disenfranchised" even dead people can vote for Obama.
Hey, this is America - anything goes.
Maybe President Romney will get involved in a racially charged police controversy and invite everyone involved to a caffeine-free Coke summit. :tongue3:
I guess so. I still believe that whenever possible political events should for everyone, not just the upper crust and the well to dos. I like fact that the president is giving his acceptance speech in such a way that big numbers can attend.
BTW, the leap from free tickets to the president's speech to free cocaine was well suited for 2012 - it was Olympian in its nature!