Yeah. The expectations for this speech will be ridiculously high.

The GOP will be beating the drum for Obama to offer "specifics" (because if they taunt him into giving a policy speech, it'll be much more boring). Remember the Wisconsin speech? He was taunted into giving a typical political speech (tons of facts, figures, policy proposals) and it was not so great.

He needs to just ignore that and give a more general speech that addresses why he's proud of the country and why he wants to change it.

Also, for those of you who don't live in Colorado, Coloradoans prefer to call it Mile High Stadium.  The only people who call it Invesco Field are in the media and they only call it that because their sponsors would have a fit.

But, good luck finding tickets! Those tickets will be harder to come by than Super-bowl tickets if the Broncos were playing.

To be fair to Obama, the convention city was chosen long before he became the nominee. It was chosen before a single primary or caucus vote had been cast.

I am sure they will be free, but the hardest part will just be getting them.  They will probably be giving a lot away to volunteers first, so if you live near Denver, you should probably sign up for helping out the party.  I think that is going to be your best shot to get a ticket

Yeah it's almost as if this is a Democratic blog supporting a Democratic candidate for president!

Not likely. That's dry season in Colorado. And even if it rains, that would make for an even better visual (75k diehards braving the rain in ponchos to see Obama).

They don't need a free concert to fill the stadium.

Obama could pack about 200,000 for his acceptance speech if he wanted with no other incentive than the speech.

Entertainment is probably a good idea though, since security measures will mean that people have to sit around bored for a few hours before the thing starts.

It's funny that that's the conclusion you draw, since Jeralyn only wondered what entertainment would be available - not that it was necessary to fill the stadium up.

Oh wait a minute, you're the troll who's written birth certificate diaries and diaries containing manufactured quotes about abortion, so I guess your misrepresentation isn't a surprise after all!

If he gets the Decemberists again, I'm there.  Screw all my other plans.  But he probably won't, he'll totally go mainstream.  I loved Obama before it was cool. :(

when Jeralyn is ever going to write a post worth reading again.

Camalot was not associated to Kennedy until AFTER he was dead.   Jackie gave an interview in December 1963 where she stated that Jack used to like to listen to the soundtrack at night.

There was no Camelot in Summer 1960.  For Crying out loud, the show didn't even open until after the 1960 election.

I'd prefer not to barely avoid nuclear war and wiretap civil rights leaders, if possible.

Thankfully Obama is more frequently presenting Abraham Lincoln as a model, not Kennedy.

Obama promises to be just as inspirational but much more sober than Kennedy was.

The seating capacity of the LA Coliseum in 1960 (the Dodgers played there before Chavez Ravine opened in 1962) was about 101,000.  The crowd estimate at the Kennedy convention speech was about 75,000.  134,000 went to see Billy Graham there in 1963.

haha i saw that.  Only further evidence to prove a third term for Bush...

It WON'T hold an extra ten thousand -- remember, they will have to close off the areas behind the stage to seating, same as a large concert.  So even if there are ten thousand people on the field (which seems a bit of a stretch), a significant part of the stadium will be shut off.

Well, unless they do something like the Beastie Boys did in their "In the Round" tour.

I'm so jealous! I live in Virginia and am seriously thinking about flying to Denver just to be there for this historic event.

pretty cool on google earth too.