A political analyst and New York Times bestselling author says it's increasingly evident that 2012 will be a far cry from 2008 for President Obama at the Democratic National Convention.
The Associated Press has reported that desperate Democrats handed out tickets to students and volunteers in a scramble to fill seats at the 74,000-seat Bank of America stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina for President Barack Obama's Thursday night acceptance speech. Then on Wednesday, the Democrats announced that the acceptance speech would be moved to a smaller location indoors because of weather.
Dr. Jerome Corsi, a tea party activist and author of The Great Oil Conspiracy, says doling out seats to just about anyone is a far cry from the "hope and change" fervor that permeated the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver. And indoors attendance has not even been all that good.
"The Democrats have put the delegates up in the bleachers because they have so few people attending this convention," he observes. "The truth is I think millions of Americans have seen through the hypocrisy of the Democratic Party, the lies. This is a statist Democratic Party. They want central government planning, just as much as any communist government wanted it."
And Corsi suggests Obama will not be able to truthfully respond "yes" to the Republican question, "Are we better off than we were four years ago?"
"I expect the flowery language and the lying to continue, even though Obama cannot show that we are better off than we were four years ago," he tells OneNewsNow. "By any objective criteria, that's not the case."
If Obama wins, Dr. Corsi believes the country would be headed into a depression that will make the 1930s look like a yard picnic.