Why May 5th?

[Statistikhengst]

Ben Carson and Mike Huckabee are both planning to announce their presidential campaigns on May 5th, 2015.

I would not be surprised were a couple other GOPers to also announce on this day, which is going to be a Tuesday.

But why May 5th?

1.) Well, here is this day in history.

2.) And then there's Cinco de Mayo. As a sign of respect for the Latino community, this would be a good day to make a presidential announcement.

But there is one more reason:

3.) May 5th was the day that the search and rescue mission from the Oklahoma City Bombing was ended and there was the official memorial service.

So, May 5th offers a prospective presidential candidate an interesting historical background from which to launch a campaign, with cinco de mayo, an important date in the Oklahoma City Bombing tragedy, and a Tuesday that is 18 months (1.5 years) away from election day 2016.

Of course, this assumes that the campaigns have done some simple historical research.

 

[Stephanie]

Ok I give up

why?

 

[Statistikhengst]

OMG.

 

[guno]

OMG.

Amazing no?

 

[Statistikhengst]

OMG.

Amazing no?

Astounding!

 

[Statistikhengst]

Postings 2, 3, 4, 5 -

cereal_killer - you see, I CAN be minimalistic!

 

[Manonthestreet]

so its a fitting day for losers to announce they will lose.......

 

[Two Thumbs]

Hucks got no chance, so his day needs to be epic.

Carson didn't gen up enough buzz when he hinted at it, so another

 

[Statistikhengst]

So, I take it you two gentlemen are none too excited about May 5th....

 

[Two Thumbs]

So, I take it you two gentlemen are none too excited about May 5th....

couldn't care less

May 6th when Corona and limes go on sale?

fuck yea

 

[Statistikhengst]

So, I take it you two gentlemen are none too excited about May 5th....

couldn't care less

May 6th when Corona and limes go on sale?

fuck yea

Alrighty, then...

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Oklahoma city bombing?????

 

[Pedro de San Patricio]

Ben Carson and Mike Huckabee are both planning to announce their presidential campaigns on May 5th, 2015.

I would not be surprised were a couple other GOPers to also announce on this day, which is going to be a Tuesday.

But why May 5th?

1.) Well, here is this day in history.

2.) And then there's Cinco de Mayo. As a sign of respect for the Latino community, this would be a good day to make a presidential announcement.

But there is one more reason:

3.) May 5th was the day that the search and rescue mission from the Oklahoma City Bombing was ended and there was the official memorial service.

So, May 5th offers a prospective presidential candidate an interesting historical background from which to launch a campaign, with cinco de mayo, an important date in the Oklahoma City Bombing tragedy, and a Tuesday that is 18 months (1.5 years) away from election day 2016.

Of course, this assumes that the campaigns have done some simple historical research.

So a lot of important historical events happened on that day, just like every other day of the year. I'm not sure what your point is here.

To put it into perspective, here's the day after May 5 http://www.historyorb.com/events/may/6 and... I dunno... July 23 http://www.historyorb.com/events/july/23 at random. There isn't a day that at least something noteworthy happened somewhere in the world.

 

[Statistikhengst]

Oklahoma city bombing?????

Yes. There is a connection. Read it in the OP.

 

[Statistikhengst]

Ben Carson and Mike Huckabee are both planning to announce their presidential campaigns on May 5th, 2015.

I would not be surprised were a couple other GOPers to also announce on this day, which is going to be a Tuesday.

But why May 5th?

1.) Well, here is this day in history.

2.) And then there's Cinco de Mayo. As a sign of respect for the Latino community, this would be a good day to make a presidential announcement.

But there is one more reason:

3.) May 5th was the day that the search and rescue mission from the Oklahoma City Bombing was ended and there was the official memorial service.

So, May 5th offers a prospective presidential candidate an interesting historical background from which to launch a campaign, with cinco de mayo, an important date in the Oklahoma City Bombing tragedy, and a Tuesday that is 18 months (1.5 years) away from election day 2016.

Of course, this assumes that the campaigns have done some simple historical research.

So a lot of important historical events happened on that day, just like every other day of the year. I'm not sure what your point is here.

To put it into perspective, here's the day after May 5 http://www.historyorb.com/events/may/6 and... I dunno... July 23 http://www.historyorb.com/events/july/23 at random. There isn't a day that at least something noteworthy happened somewhere in the world.

So, I see you didn't read the OP....

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Oklahoma city bombing?????

Yes. There is a connection. Read it in the OP.

It's just fucking dopey.

Is that your weird sense of humor

 

[Two Thumbs]

op is trying to play up "its disrespectful"

 

[Statistikhengst]

Oklahoma city bombing?????

Yes. There is a connection. Read it in the OP.

It's just fucking dopey.

Is that your weird sense of humor

Not really. Politicians look for little details like that.....

And dopey was in a film.

 

[Pedro de San Patricio]

I clearly did when I quoted it. You seem to be trying to make a connection to an act of terrorism and the day the Mexican army defeated Napoleon's repo men near Puebla because Mexico wanted to get out of paying its bills that damn bad.

 

[Statistikhengst]

op is trying to play up "its disrespectful"

Uhhhh, nope.