PHILADELPHIA - 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.
A large contingent of Obama supporters showed up, mixed with some who had bumper stickers reading “Democrats for McCain”.
“It’s time to leave the talk behind and start shaking up Washington and fixing our economy, taking care of the problems facing our families. We’re going to give a tax cut to every family with a child,” he said.
His words were barely audible.
McCain’s supporters shouted “John McCain”, “John McCain,” “John McCain”. The duelling chants nearly drowned out the presidential hopeful’s voice.
“Pennsylvania is a battleground state as we can tell,” McCain said.
Meanwhile Palin, the Alaska governor, was on a flight back to her state.
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When Sarah Palin was first presented as the gop v.p. pick, the media asked, “Why” Clearly Palin is an energizer for the gop base, but I believe there are other reasons as well. Oil interests continue a presence in the gop campaign. It was surely awkward to have a popular governor of Alaska, who not only talked back to the party, sniffed out corruption, but had also at least considered an independent Alaska. Sarah Palin has been co-opted. In addition, on today’s CNN coverage of Palin’s speech, she referred to John McCain as “a friend of Alaska”. Didn’t she see the three letters recently embedded in McCain’s eyes: O I L. If Palin believes McCain is a friend of Alaska, she is not ready to negotiate with world leaders and world crooks, what ever the case may be.
- Posted by Sharon RickardI am so sick of this Obama sent people out. Understand this McCain was in PHILADELPHIA, PA not Mississippi. Philadelphia is an ENTIRELY DEMOCRATIC city. Has not voted for a Republican in all of my lifetime and I am over 30. Wrong city and the dumbest location to stage a rally anyway. So for all of you people not from here that don’t know anything about this city please stop with the accusations. I can GUARANTEE McCain would never come close to pulling Philly off so he should have stuck to the burb’s. We don’t want him here!!!
- Posted by Nicole a PhiladelphianIn case we have forgotten what this election is about, here is a sobering reminder…
- Posted by Susanhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnyUPktNI P0
Hmmm, I’ve been reading a lot of these blogs lately and they’re mostly anti GOP. I must say the GOP has a false sense of confidence with regards to this election. It’s a new day, get use to it.
- Posted by ToniTo DS. Do you think the government should limit how much a person can make in our country? If not, do you think a person should be punished with higher taxes if he makes over a certain amount?
Let’s say I’m a rich person, which I’m not. I get dinged for two or three times the amount of taxes I pay now. I don’t invest as much either directly in a business I own, or, in stocks that help other businesses. Those businesses don’t have the capital to expand, so, they can’t hire any more workers (i.e. the poor downtrodden masses). In fact, some of those businesses have to lay off a few to make up for their losses.
Yup, trickle down really does work, in both directions.
- Posted by Steve HollarJohn McCain always has to hide behind someone:
His wife
Joe Lieberman
Lindsey Graham
Barack Obama (Remember the Town Hall mtg dares?)
Sarah P
Why can’t John McCain function on his own?
Why elect a man who knows he doesn’t have what it takes?
No Pain, NovoCain
- Posted by Carol MartinIs that what our country has become.
Obama’s supporters are all over the place rudely interupting events. It is a bad reflection on Obama and the new politics he promised.
It is just prove that Obama and his click should not get anywhere near any kind of power, if that is how they conduct themselves.
Where is the respect? You won’t see that kind of behaviour by McCain’s supporters.
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MMMM….if you READ you can see that this article talks about McCain supporters shouting too! McCain and Palin are idiots - McCain is Bush on Steroids (after all he supported Bush 90% of the time), and Palin is completely unqualified and not even supported by the people in her own State of Alaska. Give me a break.
- Posted by jeffrey SmithFreedom of speech folks! To cry foul at protesters showing up at a stump speech is like the pot calling the kettle black. As if McCain supporters have thus far conducted themselves beyond reproach. Please!
But what about the issues? This country is in hundreds of trillions of dollars in debt. To cut taxes is unpatriotic in my view. McCain (who has attempted to co-opt the word “patriot”) knows this yet he continues to dangle the same carrot of a tax cut. This is shaking up Washington? I think not. Cutting taxes, particularly for the very rich and corporations, particularly when we are in so much debt AND in two wars (Iraq and Afghanistan, is bad policy and further hobbles the infrastructure of america. The people of this country ought to BE patriotic and pay their fair share of taxes. In a healthy democracy the government has sufficient funds to support and empower programs that are there to protect americans: social security, disease control and public health, safe food, disaster relief, health care, consumer and worker protection, environmental protection, highways and bridges, etc. To support these programs benefits of ALL of us. We need taxes. Taxes are good.
The Republicans have reinvented the wheel for their own narrow purposes by redefining words and political issues. They have painted taxation as being “bad” and we (all of us) have accepted that definition. But it is FALSE.
Enough is enough!
- Posted by IEBSeems as tho this has been the Palin for president campaign. Evertime Palin and McCain appear together she is the one speaking and he is off in the sidelines.
maybe mcsame should step down and have her run for president. at least than the beauty contest would be over and she would have to display real talent and answer the questions. ( she said on cnbc that she had no idea what a VP does)
The press needs to get back to their job and quit focusing on her every move. It just allow the Mccain group to stray off the issues.
- Posted by terry maineyou people, republicans and dems alike, are the worst spellers I’ve ever seen. Between accept/except, their/there, shameful/ashamed and the whole slew of just misspelled words, I’m pretty sure I don’t trust any of you!
Oh wait, I may have just given myself away as a dem: that’s right, I see intelligence as an asset!
- Posted by HOllyCitizens need to know and speak the truth and the facts - the relentless lying, smear and deceit churned out by the McCain campaign is already starting to be exposed for the garbage it is.
- Posted by Proud AmericanDid Grampy McCain get to the right place without a younger woman to guide him? Is he answering any real questions yet or is he trying to burn another day without discussing anything of substance? Have the republicans hid Paling in Alaska so that she will not have to answer any questions. It is not good when both candidates on the same ticket are low on the intelligence scale.
- Posted by rich in fairfax[...] mujeres con las que había cenado McCain comenzaron a cantar canciones y a gritar el nombre de John. Nadie oía nada. Un desastre total. McCain no podía hablar. Así que, enfadadísimo, se bajó del podio y se [...]
- Posted by A McCain le cuesta estar solo :-( « Calle16John McCain has nothing to offer but an old war story and now a pretty sidekick to help him embellish it. With her gone, it was just too hard to face down the opposition.
- Posted by Perlabut… but I was a pow, for five years I didn’t have a beautiful VP beside me day and night… I was a pow… a pow… a pow I say…. please
- Posted by carterThats right, lets just all keep it down so Mcshame can lie, cheat, and steal from us all
- Posted by MoretablesforMcShamein peace.
Good…someone need to drown out all of the blatant lies that have been coming out of the mouths of McCain, Palin and their pundants. They stand before GOD and everybody and tells straight our lies from the PITS OF HELL and think nothing of it. They are advocates of the devil him or herself! The nerves of the bloggers on this piece to accuse the Obama supporters of being disrespectful.
I am convinced that the Republicans that call themselves religious people but have no sense of decency and NO Godly convictions. Anytime all of you KNOW THAT THE REPUBLICANS ARE TELLING ONE LIE AFTER ANOTHER…what hypocrites you are! To blow something out of proportion as small as lipstick as a big deal…is pure EVIL and DIRTY. You dirty republicans will get what you deserve in the end. Cause in the end you rightwingnuts will have be judged by ONE greater than us and yourselves. NOW CALL JESUS CHRIST A LIE!
- Posted by CherylWhen Sarah Palin’s lipstick fades, and Ole John McCain begins to ramble on about who knows what, the country (or at least half) will see what we’ve seen for the past eight years: John McCain giving ole W a warm and loving embrace.
See my Obama poster on my website and you’ll know what I’m talking about.
- Posted by MISTAHCOUGHDROPMcCain is completely lost without Palin by his side - this is what SOULMATE does to one. The poor old man is battling between Cindy and Sarah - CAT FIGHTS.
- Posted by Susan - TXI am so proud of the people in Ohio who tried to shut up the stream of lies coming out of John McCain’s mouth in a great state that has felt the pain of lost jobs, lost homes, and unavailable health care. We must make sure that McCain’s Bush economic policies of continuing the same tax breaks for the rich and Big Oil and the Middle Class is on its own “trickle down” absurdity loses in November. He has no real plan to help the working class people in this country. DO NOT BE FOOLED AGAIN.
- Posted by WomanforPeaceSanity