McCain campaigns by speakerphone after travel snafu forces cancellation

[sabra]

Source: Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Two television cameras were focused on a small table where microphones and tape recorders were piled like kindling around a speakerphone projecting the disembodied voice of Sen. John McCain.

It was not the best visual an advance man could script, but it was all the McCain campaign could manage yesterday after US Airways frustrated the Republican presidential candidate's plan to headline a fund-raiser at the Marriott City Center, Downtown.

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It might be tempting to take the logistics snafu as a metaphor for a campaign that has lost a whole layer of top media and political strategists after a disheartening fund-raising report for the first half of the year. But Mr. McCain, greeting his supporters by long distance, insisted that there was plenty of life left in a campaign now concentrating on crucial early states including South Carolina and New Hampshire.

"We still have a strong political and financial base," Mr. McCain said.

"I can out-campaign any of these candidates," he insisted.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07212/805632-176.stm

[Deep13]

1. McCain chances dead, buried, shovelled over with dirt.

Someone should put that campaign out of its misery.

[MUAD_DIB]

3. Don't. It's fun to watch.

Is Johnny's seat up in 08?

[stressfulreality]

6. thank God. seriously. McCain is a war-mongering dirty man. nt

[babylonsister]

2. Now that's just...sad.

:rofl: :rofl:

[Schema Thing]

4. "come back here, I'll bite your leg off" added the frustrated Senator

[liberal N proud]

5. Teleconfernce is a huge cost savings utilized by most companies

My guess is he is trying to save money by canceling trips and campagning by teleconference.

[Cronus Protagonist]

9. Teleconferencing involves cameras and video - he's on speakerphone

That's so.... well, so 20th century.

:P

[EnviroBat]

7. Aww fer Chrissakes! Just give up already! n/t

[DrDan]

8. I think the SNAFU centered on paying for the travel

They found out they would have to do so, so decided to cancel the trip.

He will be campaigning on his cell phone before long - that way he can avoid those pesky long distance charges.

[rocktivity]

10. McCain was "frustrated" by US Airways? How?

Was the flight delayed or cancelled? Or did the airline refuse his credit card?

:evilgrin:
rocknation

[Neshanic]

11. Hi, McCain here in my hotel room with a gay sweater and no pants, and I am here to get your vote!