Steve Kerrigan (DNC Convention Chief)

“We have been monitoring weather forecasts closely and several reports predict thunderstorms in the area, therefore we have decided to move Thursday's proceedings to Time Warner Cable Arena to ensure the safety and security of our delegates and convention guests.”

- The plan was to have the speech at Bank of America Stadium - or whatever the DNC changed its name to stay away from a bank affiliation - which holds over 75,000 people...The arena holds around 20,000.

Wait a minute!  Obama can 'lower the oceans and cool the planet', but he can't keep it from raining during his speech?  I refuse to believe it.

“The president arrives, the rain stops, the sun comes out…Coincidence? I think not….He arrives, the sun comes out, and things are beautiful again.” – Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D – ChiTown, June 2012)

Maybe Obama chose not to control the rain - rain which never came, and wasn't predicted at a very high risk of coming.  Maybe there's another problem.
 
“But convention sources exclusively told the MailOnline on Tuesday that the real reason behind the switch was fears within the Obama campaign that there would be large numbers of empty seats in the 74,000-seater stadium. The Time Warner arena has a capacity of just over 20,000.” – Toby Harnden

Ah, now I get it.  Obama can control the planet and the weather, but he can't control the American people, and the optics of seeing the President give his 'lecture' to a half-empty stadium would have been horrible.