The President just called a Rain Delay

[Perky]

RAIN DELAY: President Obama briefly took the microphone at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery -- just long enough to tell the crowd to take cover due to a torrential downpour.

"We are a little bit concerned about lightning. This may not be safe. I know that all of you are here to commemorate the fallen," Obama said, according to the pool. "What we'd like to do is if possible have people move back to their cars and if this passes in the next 15-20 minutes I'll stick around."

He added: "A little bit of rain doesn't hurt anybody but we don't want anybody struck by lightning." (1:11 p.m.)

[Cha]

1. Good move..I hope

it subsides for them soon enough.

[Turbineguy]

2. No doubt Rush Limbaugh

or one of his ilk will ascribe an ulterior motive to this.

[Jennicut]

5. If only we could send Rush into a lightening storm...

[Turbineguy]

6. Hmmm...... visualizing.....

smoking piece of pork rind.

[Whisp]

7. brings a Caddyshack scene to mind. ;)

[jenmito]

3. It's apparently been canceled. C-Span said it has been "rained out."

I can see the RW attacks now.

[Cha]

4. That's too bad it got rained out..and

the corporatemediawhores will spin it anyway they want but it's Mother Nature and if Chicago is anywhere like here in upstate New York..we could really use some rain.

[Clio the Leo]

8. Video....

http://video.ap.org/?f=KSTOP&pid=Z2iVVRvfSyo6Gbr6JW9_SdfhtDJ2Grol

[treestar]

9. Why didn't he stop that rainstorm?

Lead, Mr. President!

:sarcasm: