Biden Cancels GOP Convention Trip – Obama Campaign Rolls On…

The official reason for the cancellation of Joe Biden’s visit to Tampa the same week that city hosts the GOP convention was given as consideration for Tampa having to deal with possible damage from Tropical Storm Isaac.  In the meantime, the Obama campaign has decided to push full ahead with campaigning during the GOP convention – a rather unusual (some might even say rude) move for a sitting president:

EXCERPT:

President Obama this week will take the unusual step of campaigning during the opposing Party’s convention.

Vice President Biden was even scheduled to be in Tampa Monday, the day the Republican convention begins in the city, but has cancelled his appearance.

The reason given is that the very considerate people in Obamaland want the city to be able to focus entirely on dealing with Hurricane Isaac, which is supposed to pass nearby in the Gulf of Mexico, and not have to worry about the logistics of hosting the vice president.

But maybe the Obama people thought better of such an obviously classless move – even for the Obama campaign – or became concerned Biden might pull some buffoonery that would provide red meat for the conventioneers.    LINK

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The question UlstermanReport.com readers have though, is if the Obama campaign will still attempt some version of distraction politics in the coming days as warned to us by Insider last week:

That Biden visit to Tampa got my wheels spinning.  What the hell are they up to?  How far is Biden willing to go to remain relevant?  To stay on the ticket?  So I put some feelers out to the WH.  Got lots of people willing to talk and share these days.

…I’m giving you and your readers a heads up here.  False flag.  The real deal.  They will try and control it but make it look uncontrolled.  Dangerous.  Make it reflect poorly on the Republicans and their supporters.  A dangerous and desperate operation here.  Even a dimwit like Biden has to know how dangerous.

Will update if more becomes available.  The Old Man is on it now.  Pushing heavy influence to deflect.  One or two secure media sources made aware.  The Romney people will be alerted, though they might have already been thinking along the same lines.  Trying to confirm that now.  If this thing is legit, we are going to try and shut it down within the next 48-72 hrs.  Won’t say more on that.

WHITE HOUSE INSIDER ISSUES WARNING – FALSE FLAG PLANNED FOR GOP CONVENTION?

 

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43 Comments to Biden Cancels GOP Convention Trip – Obama Campaign Rolls On…
    • gena
    • Looks like it was legit and looks like they shut it down. Thank God for them and the work they are doing for our Country. Thank God they trust you enough to share it with you. Through them and your other sources you keep us one step ahead of the Obama team.

    • CHHR, VA
    • I had to laugh, just as I was reading this post, this spam came into my inbox…

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      • Obeline
      • I, too, have received some hysterical Nigerian correspondence/solicitations over the years.

        Sadly, there are people who don’t recognize a scam when it smacks them in the face.

        Zero’s supporters must be the prime patsies.

        ABO

      • Namecookiegramma
      • Sadly it also sounds like it could be much more. Why change the way states choose delegates and empower the biggest donors? I thought that the party needed to represent itself as being more than the party of the executives and other wealthy. The Ron Paul people may be an issue, but this is not the way to bring them into the fold and could split the vote in the long run by forcing them to see the libertarian candidate as the only option. This move also does smell very much like the insiders are attempting to close the door on the very group that put them in control of the House. The only thing that continues to give me hope is the choice of Paul Ryan as Vice presidential running mate.

        • CHHR, VA
        • I thought the same thing. Unfortnately, I don’t know enough to know how or what this is really trying to accomplish… I do know that there are many times everything is allowed in a resolution vote with the idea of shutting down an argument…

          It just doesn’t seem smart of even the “insiders” to want to split the party, which, as you rightly observed, would be the logical outcome.

          I checked with a couple of friends that are in Tampa, this letter has been given to every delegate there and they are holding break-out groups to explain the issues posed in the document. It will be interesting to see how the actual vote goes down. Interestingly, the resolution vote was supposed to be held yesterday, the feigned huricane fear just gave the opponents of resolutions 12 and 15 an extra day to solidify votes in favor of their position…

        • CHHR, VA
        • Looks like an all out fight was averted:

          http://www.humanevents.com/2012/08/28/rules-change-agreement-averts-floor-fight/

          “Averting the fight

          With Republicans poised for their first fight over party rules on the convention floor since 1972, supporters began reaching out to opponents early in the week. At noon on Monday (August 28), Human Events learned, a closed-door meeting was held on the tenth floor of the Marriott Hotel in downtown Tampa between Republican National Committee members Henry Barbour of Mississippi (nephew of Haley), Ron Kaufman of Massachusetts (a close associate of Romney), John Ryder of Tennessee, and Bopp. After considerable discussion, Bopp took out his own legal pad and wrote a substitute rule.

          “[Proponents] wanted delegates bound to a candidate, and I wanted the state parties to have the complete say over who was a delegate,” Bopp later told us, “That was agreed to.” Bopp’s words were then put in the language of party rules and Romney campaign lawyer Katie Bieber Chin, was contacted to give her approval.

          But to call this the “Bopp compromise” is a bit of overstatement: since state party rules have long required delegates to be bound to candidates who win primaries, the new rule simply stated the obvious but now made clear that who those delegates would be was up to state parties and no one else.

          Put another way, the rules change that threatened the party with so much controversy was gone and the goal of conservatives was put on the books. In the process, a debate and a distraction was avoided that would have caused nothing but problems for Republicans—notably Mitt Romney.”

    • InTheKnow
    • UM, the distraction will be hurricane Isaac.

      Just watch the media coverage. The theme will be “Elitist, Racist GOP stages convention while New Orleans crumbles from hurricane.”

      Obama’s gang could not have picked a better incident than this, nor could they have staged a better distraction device than this.

      • CHHR, VA
      • Can’t wait to see that spin… it’s awfully hard to compare a Cat 5 with one that barely clasifies as a Cat 1. Besides, it will also be bringing a lot of rain to an area of the country really suffering from drought.

        Remember also, it wasn’t Katrina that caused the bulk of the destruction, it was the broken Levees. They spend $15b to fix them and now there’s a 133-mile chain of levees, flood walls, gates, and pumps that serve to protect the levee districts of New Orleans.

        • InTheKnow
        • Good points, CHHR. But I saw last night during NBC’s preseason football coverage that they are already setting it up, the mainstream media. It’s coming, for sure.

          Sad and cynical, but this is a desperate Obama campaign and a desperate Obama media.

        • Obeline
        • Democrat and Mayor Ray Nagin’s name is linked with the mess that was Katrina – Bush isn’t the only one to bash if Isaac brings memories of the horrors seven years ago.

          He’s been on the lecture circuit advising and consulting about emergency preparedness, and coming from an official who botched New Orleans, it’s nothing short of a big joke.

          Hillary appointed him to head the delegation advising post-earthquake Haiti.

          It’s a laugh a minute with the Left.

          • CHHR, VA
          • Then I say, bring it on. Romney may wish to keep his campaign strictly focused on the issues facing this country, as he should. But that doesn’t mean we have to allow the Democrat hacks off the hook either.

            As I think of Katrina, I immediately remember the home for seniors under water with the residents dead inside (of course the managers of the place got out) and who can forget the hundreds of school busses all under water in their parked positions. I mean, hey, what’s right is right. Those boys trying to leave the 9th ward deserve to have their memory vidincated and Nagin & his goons fully identified for the criminals they are.

            Nagin’s an ass – and I for one would love the opportunity to take this criminal to task. All in the name of full disclosure of course.

      • truthandjustice
      • It is on the front page of the wonderful PR arm for the Commies – The Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/military-terror-plot-murd_n_1833435.html

        I think it says this latest info didn’t come out until today. So still time for it to go viral to help the regime’s subversive plan to maybe have some staged false flag attack and blame it on the military/”extremists” that are so “hateful” to Obama Admin. Don’t know of course – could all be “legit” but I’m skeptical (can’t imagine why) — but even so, I would think they’d want to have this go viral. We’ll see – maybe another thing that WHI can thwart.

        • CHHR, VA
        • Must have, HuffPo was the first place I looked before I posted…

          Interesting, they finally found a military group that’s frustrated over what’s not being reported in the military… oh wait, isn’t one of the reasons for the frustration related to the deaths of 13 in a “workplace violence” situation?

          God hath no fury like a… well, these days, we can fill in the blanks with just about anything.

      • Rurik
      • Jeez! Is it live or is it memorex? Four low-ranking doofuses form an anacthist militia? Isn’t anarchist militia something of an oxymoron?
        And to think they call us conspiracy theorists!!

    • julie
    • Could the cancellation of Biden have to do with the GOP threat of the Birther issue. I don’t think for a minute Romney’s comment in Michigan was a joke. It was a WARNING and they are crappping their pants. Look how fast they responded to the comments. Was Romney even off the Podium, when dems replied? They are like scurrying RATS for their life.

    • ThroughtheLookingGlass
    • “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” The Demoncrat Motto.

      Isaac could be just the crisis they need to make fools of themselves with their obvious blame Bush spin, when it’s as plain as the noses on our faces that Democratic Mayors and Governors have blood on their hands.

      • Obeline
      • Never let a good crisis go to waste, indeed . . . Ray Nagin deserves some serious scrutiny and publicity. Post-Katrina documentaries tear him to shreds: time to air the clips.

        And this, from a couple months ago:

        “Corruption allegations on Ray Nagin warrant swift action from prosecutors: An editorial”

        Published: Wednesday, June 27, 2012, 6:47 PM
        Updated: Wednesday, June 27, 2012, 7:03 PM
        By Editorial page staff, The Times-Picayune

        A contractor’s expansive allegations of corruption involving an official known to be former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin warrant swift and aggressive action by prosecutors.

        A contractor has admitted to bribing a New Orleans official known to be former Mayor Ray Nagin.
        News reports indicated months ago that a federal grand jury had been investigating the former mayor. But the extent of the bribery alleged by contractor Frank Fradella, and the brazenness suggested in his guilty plea Wednesday, are staggering.

        Neither Mr. Nagin nor his attorney made comments Wednesday. The former mayor has denied wrongdoing and has not been charged with a crime.

        But as part of his plea agreement, Mr. Fradella confessed to transferring a $50,000 bribe on June 23, 2008, to a city official. The factual basis filed in the case doesn’t name the official, but prosecutors’ description and other information make it clear it’s Mr. Nagin. Mr. Fradella, whose firm got millions of dollars in recovery work from Mr. Nagin’s administration, allegedly delivered the $50,000 payment through the bank account of a board member of his company “in an effort to disguise the illegality” of it, the document said.

        Prosecutors alleged the mayor then provided the board member documents that would purportedly give him ownership in a firm Mr. Nagin owned, to try to legitimize the payment. The purported ownership sale was never recorded with the state. The person and the firm were not named in the court document. But sources close to the probe and federal securities records identified him as Michael McGrath Jr., a former mortgage bank chief who is in prison for fraud.

        Mr. Fradella has also admitted to giving “numerous truckloads” of granite to Stone Age LLC, the counter top business owned by Mr. Nagin and his two sons. The factual basis also said that after Mr. Nagin left office in May 2010, he went to work as a paid consultant for Mr. Fradella for $10,000 a month, which Mr. Fradella allegedly paid until March 2011. Both the alleged bribe in 2008 and the later payments came after public scrutiny focused on Mr. Nagin’s relationship with Mr. Fradella and on Stone Age.

        There’s a sad irony to these allegations. Mr. Nagin was elected in 2002 in great part on promises to clean up the patronage and corruption that tainted City Hall during the Marc Morial administration. Mr. Nagin supported numerous corruption probes early in his tenure, and prosecutors convicted several people with ties to Mr. Morial. But those cases never extended to Mr. Morial himself. Instead, it’s Mr. Nagin who now faces allegations that he sold his office.
        Mr. Nagin’s public image already was severely tainted. Former technology chiefs Greg Meffert and Anthony Jones were convicted of taking $880,000 in bribes from contractor Mark St. Pierre, and the bribes bankrolled lavish gifts, trips and other gratuities for Mr. Nagin and his closest relatives. According to Mr. Nagin, he didn’t know he was mooching from a city contractor; he thought Mr. Meffert was paying. But many New Orleanians were appalled that Mr. Nagin didn’t even seem to grasp the ethical implications of the scandal.

        If Mr. Nagin is formally charged with a crime, he will join officials across metro New Orleans who have been accused of abusing their stewardship of our recovery to enrich themselves. Most have pleaded guilty or been convicted, and they all should get stiff sentences. Taking advantage of the public trust is a grave offense at any time. Doing so during our region’s most desperate time was unconscionable.

        New Orleanians needed honest and efficient government in the years after the storm. Instead they were ripped off by corrupt officials and contractors.

        The main question now is whether the thievery at City Hall reached all the way to the mayor’s office, as Mr. Fradella has alleged. Prosecutors must continue to aggressively seek that answer, and to bring anyone who broke the law to justice.

        http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2012/06/corruption_allegations_on_ray.html

        No doubt, just the tip of the iceberg.
        (Racist subject?)

        ABO

        • Obeline
        • And, just last week (this stuff is begging for national exposure):

          Ex-New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin won’t take grand jury for granite
          Written by Jeff Crouere
          Tuesday, 21 August 2012

          Ray Nagin, the worst Mayor in New Orleans history, will appear before a federal grand jury on Friday. According to WDSU-TV, Nagin has been issued a subpoena and ordered to testify.

          We may soon know whether Nagin will join the ever growing list of Louisiana politicians who have been indicted or whether he will be able to weasel out of any charges. Indictments are no big deal in the Pelican State as former Congressman Billy Tauzin famously quipped that “One half of Louisiana was under water and the other half was under indictment.”

          Unlike many notorious Louisiana politicians like Bill Jefferson or Derrick Shepherd who had a long track record of questionable behavior, Nagin was initially elected as a reformer in 2002.

          A coalition of white and black business leaders supported Nagin as a fresh face who would bring his corporate skills to City Hall and clean up corruption.

          In reality, these business leaders were completely fooled as Nagin had no corporate skills and only brought corruption and a pile of phony promises to City Hall.

          Besides false assurances of reform, Nagin claimed that he would recruit a world class administration of the best and brightest staffers. Instead, he mostly recruited friends and cronies from his former employer, Cox Cable, and erratic egomaniacs like former Chief Administrative Officer Kimberly Williamson Butler.

          His administration was a flop from the beginning, but was fully exposed after the horrors of Hurricane Katrina. His lack of judgment and ability soon became apparent to a worldwide audience in the days and weeks after the storm ravaged New Orleans. Nagin provided New Orleans with more than just embarrassment after Katrina, but tremendous obstacles that thwarted the city’s recovery.

          He made the recovery mission much harder by making a stream of asinine statements about a variety of subjects and hiring an incompetent and buffoonish “Recovery Director” Ed Blakely, who lived in Australia, not New Orleans.

          What will interest the federal grand jury is not Nagin’s utter incompetence, but his propensity for corruption. Some of his “world class” staffers turned out to be criminals. Former Technology Directors Greg Meffert and Anthony Jones have both been convicted. Mark St. Pierre, the contractor who bribed these directors and in the process received all of the expensive high technology and crime camera work for New Orleans, was convicted on 53 counts and is serving a 17-year federal sentence.

          St. Pierre also lavished Nagin with expensive airfare to Hawaii, Jamaica, Chicago as well as $1,500 in lawn care for his Park Island home. The technology contractor also held a pricey fundraiser for Nagin in the Windy City. Yet, St. Pierre was not the only businessman to provide Nagin with free travel to Chicago. Indicted contractor Aaron Bennett flew Nagin and his wife to Chicago as well as Las Vegas. Not surprisingly, Bennett received a City Hall technology contract which basically just funneled more money to St. Pierre, who despite making big money on the contracts, was unable to deliver working crime cameras to a city inundated with violence.

          Nagin was not content to enjoy free travel and lawn care; he was also interested in growing his family’s counter top business, Stone Age Granite, LLC. This fledgling operation landed a valuable contract with Home Depot as the company was negotiating with the city over permits for its new store. The Nagin family business was also provided with numerous truckloads of granite, worth thousands of dollars, by convicted businessman Frank Fradella. In return, Fradella’s company received plenty of expensive recovery contracts on everything from the French Market renovations to parish prison work. After his mayoral term ended, Fradella paid Nagin $10,000 a month in mysterious “consulting” fees which gave the Mayor a nice financial cushion after his City Hall salary ended.

          In June of 2012, Fradella pleaded guilty to conspiracy to bribe a public official. Federal prosecutors claim that Fradella gave a public official $50,000 in bribes in June of 2008 as well as a $10,000 a month consulting contract. While Nagin was not named as the public official in question, there is no doubt that he was the object of Fradella’s bribes.

          To objective observers, it certainly seems there is overwhelming evidence that Nagin was engaged in wrongdoing, but of course the federal grand jury will have to determine whether it rises to the level of criminal behavior.

          Whether or not he is indicted, there is no doubt that Nagin was a painful joke on the people of New Orleans. Of course he was great fodder for our Politics with a Punch show, but aside from comedy, Nagin delivered misery to the people of New Orleans.

          He was only re-elected in 2006 by dividing the city on racial lines with his ill-advised “chocolate city” speech. From his horrible selection of staffers to his idiotic statements to his greed and corruption, Nagin held back a robust New Orleans recovery. Thankfully, New Orleans recovered from Katrina in spite of Nagin not because of him.

          He was the worst leader at the just the worst time. The citizens of New Orleans are still paying for his incompetence two years after he left office and will pay for his reign of error for many years to come.

          At this point, he seems to have left New Orleans. His New Orleans house has been sold and he now presumably spends more time at his “vacation” home in Dallas.

          Hopefully, he will officially move to Dallas or prison for his continued presence in New Orleans is a painful reminder that elections have consequences, serious, dire consequences.

          http://www.bayoubuzz.com/buzz/item/59742-ex-new-orleans-mayor-ray-nagin-won’t-take-grand-jury-for-granite

    • ThroughtheLookingGlass
    • “In reality, these business leaders were completely fooled as Nagin had no

      corporate skills and only brought corruption and a pile of phony promises to City

      Hall.

      Besides false assurances of reform, Nagin claimed that he would recruit a world

      class administration of the best and brightest staffers. Instead, he mostly

      recruited friends and cronies from his former employer, Cox Cable, and erratic

      egomaniacs like former Chief Administrative Officer Kimberly Williamson Butler.”

      Chicago links? What was he doing in Chicago, Crime & Corruption Central of the

      US?

      “He was only re-elected in 2006 by dividing the city on racial lines with his ill-

      advised “chocolate city” speech. From his horrible selection of staffers to his

      idiotic statements to his greed and corruption, Nagin held back a robust New

      Orleans recovery. Thankfully, New Orleans recovered from Katrina in spite of

      Nagin not because of him. ”

      “He was the worst leader at the just the worst time. The citizens of New Orleans are

      still paying for his incompetence two years after he left office and will pay for his

      reign of error for many years to come.”

      Irony of all ironies. Does any of this sound familiar? Was Nagin a foreshadow of

      things to come with Barry?

      hmmmmmmmmmm

    • IS
    • Lets hope the disrupters understand the extent to which Tampa police are willing to go to keep their city safe.

      Tampa-Area Police Are Prepared for So Many Protesters They Cleared Out an Entire Jail to Make Room

      http://www.theblaze.com/stories/tampa-area-police-are-prepared-for-so-many-protesters-they-cleared-out-an-entire-jail-to-make-room/

      “If you had any doubt about what the Tampa police were expecting for the GOP convention next week, look no further than the local Hillsborough County jail. There, police have cleared out an entire jail in preparation for the influx of protesters they’re expecting to arrest. In fact, the temporary facility has been outfitted with a command center, a court room, and even a medical facility.

      Colonel Jim Previtera told WFTS-TV that the jail is preparing for up to 1,000 new arrests.”

    • IS
    • RNC Protestor Arrested For Carrying Machete Strapped To His Leg

      http://cowboybyte.com/11745/rnc-protestor-arrested-for-carrying-machete-strapped-to-his-leg/

      According to Hillsborough County Sheriff’s officials, Jason T. Wilson, of Tallahassee, was arrested as he walked in the RNC Event Zone carrying a “full size” machete. When deputies approached Wilson, they said he continued to walk away despite orders to stop.

      “When deputies caught up to Wilson, he advised he did not have to stop and that he was allowed to carry whatever he wanted,” HCSO spokesperson Larry McKinnon said.

      When deputies attempted to physically stop him, Wilson allegedly began resisting arrest and was physically restrained. Wilson was arrested and taken to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office on charges of prohibited items in event zone and resisting arrest with violence.

    • IS
    • Anarchists To Disrupt GOP Convention

      http://www.westernjournalism.com/anarchists-to-disrupt-gop-convention/

      Anarchists are gearing up to make their anger at Republicans very visible even as solid barriers around the convention perimeter are being put in place. …

      “Exploitation and oppression are stitched into the fabric of our society,” say organizers who feel affinity with the Arab Spring and Occupy Movements which Barack Obama favors. Under the Weather Underground heading, listed at a location called Davis Islands, Tampa, FL, an admonition is carried to “write the number of the National Lawyers Guild on your body,” and another warning is telling law enforcement, “Don’t F (bleep) with us. We’ll sue you.” So as street medics train to deal with everything from sex assaults and handcuff injuries to impaired decisions and encampment situations where protestors are staying while in the Tampa area, organizers (cyclists@riseup.net) are describing preparations for diversified tactics and basic civil disobedience…

      Former Black Panther activist turned conservative community facilitator Brandon Darby said he “…..just couldn’t take it anymore when he happened upon a video training session by anarchist leaders showing gullible young men how to make Molotov cocktails to shut down the RNC in Minneapolis in 2008.” Darby is warning that anarchists have shown volunteers how to throw Molotov cocktails made with tampons for the oil laced wicks “to better stick to the skin” like homemade napalm simply because “they didn’t like what the Republicans are saying!” …

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