UPDATE: I posted this on July 3, and four days later it's official. Obama will make his acceptance speech at Invesco Field. Remember -- you heard it here first!

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Rumors are flying hot and heavy that Barack Obama will make his acceptance speech on the last night of the Democratic convention not at the Pepsi Center, which can seat 21,000, but at Invesco Field (formerly "Mile High Stadium").

That's the home of the Denver Broncos, and seats 75,000!

What better way to end a convention? Of course, that begs the question -- from where do they drop the balloons? On the other hand, it may be for the best after the balloon disaster at the 2004 convention in Boston (I'll never forget watching CNN and hearing somebody off-camera yelling, "where's the f***ing balloons!").

On the street corners of many a black congressional district, you would often hear soul-folks saying: “no big thing but a chicken wing”. This can be heard whenever there is a fuss about something or the other that soul-people think is being overblown. On corners of white congressional districts (and by white and black, I am only alluding to where the majority of the residents are of that color; that’s all), you may hear the same sentiments expressed this way: “much ado about nothing”. Well that’s how I feel about all this super-delegate noise, coming out from many tense corners of hot and heavy political competition; like the kind taking place between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama- as they compete for the Democrat’s presidential nomination.

Look people, rules are rules. That’s it; period. Once you agree to play by the rules, then ethics dictate you are bound to abide by said rules. So here we have both camps talking all kinds of “stupid shit” about the super-delegates, in attempts at chicanery; they ought to be ashamed of themselves. And this goes for both campaigns. Both campaigns need to chill.  read more »