McCain Comes Out Flat Without Palin To Boost Him

7:40 pm EST September 10th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 13 Comments

You could almost call it a Bob Dole moment.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain cut short his first public appearance without running-mate Sarah Palin after chanting supporters of Democratic rival Barack Obama interrupted his speech.

After lunching with a roundtable of women at Philadelphia’s Down Home Diner, McCain shook hands with supporters and strode up to a podium to deliver a statement. But as he spoke, chants of ‘Obama, Obama, Obama’ filled the room.

Reporters craned forward trying to hear the Arizona senator. Unfortunately for McCain — and possibly overlooked by aides who planned the event — a section of the diner opened up to a market where a crowd had gathered behind a cordon.

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13 Responses to “McCain Comes Out Flat Without Palin To Boost Him”

  1. jr says:
    September 10, 2008 at 10:20 pm

    “hurry up Sarah’s reeducation camp!”-Carol McCain’s abandoner

  2. Jaim says:
    September 10, 2008 at 10:30 pm

    Jeez. They won’t let Palin out in public. Now the can’t let McCain out in public.

    Way to go, Republican handlers!

  3. Rheinhard says:
    September 10, 2008 at 11:03 pm

    Here’s a better article from the local paper. The restaurant in question adjoins the Reading Terminal Market (the “market” referred to in your link). If you don’t know it, Reading Terminal Market is a major Philly cultural institution, featuring many open-air market stalls from various ethnic neighborhoods in the area, from the Italian pastries of Termini Bros. to the German sausage of Walter Rieker and the Penna. Dutch. It’s always got a crowd representing a wide cross-section of urban Philadelphians – you know, actual city-dwelling working people! The McSame camp must be deluded to think their “4 more years” guy could walk into the middle of a Philly hometown crowd and not have Obama supporters around him! Guess the old audience filters don’t work so good outside deep-red wingnut strongholds and made-for-TV conventions, huh John?

    Go Iggles!

  4. PD100 says:
    September 10, 2008 at 11:05 pm

    Mooselini is back in caribou country giving a pep talk.

  5. TV's Nelson says:
    September 11, 2008 at 12:42 am

    hA-Ha!

  6. datadave says:
    September 11, 2008 at 8:24 am

    Moosolini!! ha ha

  7. Sean D. Martin says:
    September 11, 2008 at 10:02 am

    From the article Rheinhard links to:
    “ “That’s why McCain tells lies,” Rendell said. “He has a worse economic plan, but pretends that it would be a good plan. But the McCain tax cuts does not benefit families.””

    That should become the refrain of the Obama supporters and campaign. “They are lying.” Keep saying it. Keep pointing it out. Make it the common Pavlovian reaction people have every time McCain or Palin speak.

  8. Frank DiSalle says:
    September 11, 2008 at 10:35 am

    So, Obama’s supporters shouted down the Opposition Candidate , and the story is about … Palin?

    What’s next? Burn down the Reverend Wright’s Church, and blame it on McCain?

    Are you all blind?

  9. Duros Hussein 62 says:
    September 11, 2008 at 10:45 am

    Reporters craned forward trying to hear the Arizona senator.

    Why? They already know what he’s gonna say.

  10. Sean D. Martin says:
    September 11, 2008 at 10:52 am

    Frank DiSalle: ,i>So, Obama’s supporters shouted down the Opposition Candidate , and the story is about … Palin? … Are you all blind?

    No, the story was about how McCain could not be heard and left early. The only mention of Palin is that she wasn’t there.

    Can’t you read?

  11. CTYankee says:
    September 11, 2008 at 1:34 pm

    This goes to show one thing. McCain WAS nothing before Palin, and still IS nothing without her. So our fight has to hit her and hit her hard !

    And about that comment on burning down Rev. Wright church and blaming them! That is exactly the tricks that Rove has always played. Do a nasty trick to yourself and blame the other campaign.

    I worked on Lieberman vs Lamont campaign, and Lieberman’s cheap chinzy computer system broke down, and they came out and said it was the Lamont computer people who did it! It was later investigated and determined that Lieberman had crap for a system, but by then it was too late ! And people of course believed every word

  12. SOB231 says:
    September 11, 2008 at 3:41 pm

    Good one MOOSOLINI; better than CaribouBarbie.

  13. Repack Rider says:
    September 11, 2008 at 9:14 pm

    Speaking of Alaskan nicknames, they have a name for the fantastic weed that they grow up there under twenty hours of daylight.

    They call it the Matanuska Thunderf#@k.

    Good name for the hockey mom’s future hockey Son-In-Law. It was the f#$k heard ’round the world.

    Hope he at least bought her dinner and took her to a movie.