If Thursday is sunny and bright, we will be bluer than blue. The credentials we have to attend President Obama's speech Thursday cannot be honored, we learned today. That's because organizers had to move the speech from the 70,000-seat Panther stadium to the convention arena, which seats 20,000 max, on account of likely bad weather. Instead the POTUS (President of the United States) will call us -- and 50,000 others who had speech tickets -- Thursday afternoon in a conference call. No clue how that will work yet. We are told he will offer his regrets and a future opportunity to attend a Presidential speech before November. The news capped an all-around bummer day for getting into places and events. Everywhere we turned -- the ImaginOn theater where the Daily Show is set up, or the museums, or the hotels -- we needed special coded tickets, like a coat of many colors. Either you had to get the passes waaaay in advance ( last year) or the place was booked for an "invitation only" or"pre-registration required" event that neither sob stories nor money no longer could buy. Miryam got turned away at the heavily fenced-off site of the Daily Show, which I hope makes Jon Stewart's free spirit squirm. Lesson learned: we are looking to either officially join a caucus or form our own the next time around. To get in the party events, it helps to be in the party.....
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