Empty Seats Greet McCain at Fla. Rally


By Robert Barnes
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Republican presidential nominee John McCain held his first rally without running mate Sarah Palin today, and let's just say there were seats available.

The McCain "Road to Victory" rally was originally scheduled to be a pancake breakfast, but the campaign said there was such an outpouring of enthusiasm the event was shifted to the 15,000-seat Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena.

The may not have been the best idea: There were almost no supporters in any of the cavernous arena's 24 upper-level seating sections, and only eight of the 21 sections downstairs held fans. Only four of those were filled, though some supporters crowded around the stage on the arena floor.

McCain and wife Cindy made a point of thanking supporters for coming out on "a Monday morning'' for the 9 a.m. rally.

McCain said he had a soft spot in his heart for Jacksonville, because his first wife and his children awaited his return from a Vietnamese POW camp at a nearby naval base. "The years I was away in prison, the people of Jacksonville and Orange Park took care of my wife and children,'' McCain said. "My children had about 50,000 parents while I was gone.''

McCain noted the sharper criticism of him that has been coming from Democratic rival Barack Obama and his running mate, Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware. He said it didn't bother him.

"Friends, Senator Obama's been saying some pretty nasty things about me and Gov. Palin,'' McCain said. "That's OK, he can attack if he wants. All the insults in the world aren't going to bring change to Washington and they're not going to change Senator Obama's record.''

McCain has also come up with a new formulation that allows him to resume his war against congressional earmarks and keep Palin in the mix.

He said last week that she had not asked for earmarks as governor, something that is not true. In fact, she hired a lobbyist and asked for $256 million in projects her first year in office, and in the current fiscal year, her second, is seeking $197 million.


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That's right, buster...nothing you can say to take away from the fact that his record is much better than yours...ahem...and he draws a bigger crowd too....asshole.

Please, he couldn't draw a large crowd if he lay decomposing in a field for a week and the crowd were all flies.

I just find it amazing she is the centerstone of his campaign....what attracts these dumb asses to her....

On the other hand, I wouldn't quibble with anyone who wants to say she's the best thing he's got going for him. Alas, few on that side would recognize what a dreadfully sad fact that is. I mean, when Sarah Palin is your HIGH point, your nose is a long way from poking out over the edge of the hole.

WHile he was in VN, his wife was living in Arkansas, I know this because yesterday his cousin wrote an oped in the Tampa Bay Journal, in it he says that his dad tried to help her as much as he could because she lived an hour away from them. In Arkansas. ANOTHER LIE BY MAGOO.

You can find it on BoomanTribune.com

This present administration has lied to America time after time again. It is now an incorrigible habit. Lie lie lie, propagate the propaganda, catapult the bull crap. This is what is called brain washing. Say it over and over and an uneducated, undisciplined mind will eventually start repeating it.

They believe that America is brain dead. The election will dictate whether they are correct.

LOL, very funny, and so true.

I LOVE IT - ESPECIALLY SINCE I LIVE IN J'VILLE !!!

RL--Spot on, we have been killing them in numbers of registered voters. This will be a landslide, and we will be rid of Magoo and Tina fey, I mean the skenk.