It was announced today that Sen. Barack Obama will deliver his acceptance speech, after his nomination at the Democratic National Convbention in Denver the third week in August, at Invesco at Mile High football stadium instead of the site of rest of the convention, Pepsi Center.
Indoor Pepsi Center will seat around 21,000, while Invesco will seat upwards of 80,000 for a speech. Since they're playing for the television audience, presumably Obama's advisors have calculated that the bigger outdoor crowd will look better on TV.
Cost is a major consideration, since the Denver host committee for the convention is some $11 million short of raising its $50 million budget. And that was before the considerable extra cost of using Invesco. Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean said only "we'll have to help them out with some outside funds."
What a strange society we have become--what a convoluted sense of values we have--that where the speech is delivered is more important than its content.
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