McCain PROVES he's not in Obama's shadow by going to a PA grocery store and pointing at tomatoes

[Amerigo Vespucci]

With Foe In Limelight, McCain Gets Folksy
CBSNews.com Reports: Republican Counters Obama's Foreign Trip By Spotlighting Pocketbook Issues At Home

July 25, 2008



Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., walks with Renee Gould and her daughters Morgan Gould, 3, through the produce section of King's Supermarket in Bethlehem, Pa., Wednesday, July 23, 2008. (AP)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/25/politics/main4292630.shtml?source=mostpop_story

As Barack Obama was meeting with dignitaries in Israel on Wednesday afternoon, John McCain was in a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania grocery store, trying to make a point about high food prices. It was there, as Newsweek reports, that the presumptive GOP nominee was jokingly asked, during some "stilted" small talk near the check-out registers, if he was going to be bagging any groceries.

It's been that kind of week for McCain: The following day, as his Democratic rival was speaking to an estimated 200,000 plus enthusiastic Germans at Berlin's Victory Column, McCain was talking with a few dozen people at a German restaurant - in Ohio. Political pundits have seized on these sorts of contrasts to characterize the McCain campaign as "flat footed" or worse, arguing that Obama has completely dominated his opponent this week.

Ask the McCain campaign, however, and they'll tell you that the situation is nowhere near as grim as the pundits suggest.

"I don't think the national media is in touch with what's going on out there," McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said. He said that the McCain campaign has gotten "tremendous local and regional coverage" this week, pointing to news reports in places like Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and Rochester, New Hampshire.

[Colobo]

1. It's sad. Very sad. I feel sorry for him to a certain extent.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. Yes, and once I pass that extent, I immediately launch into the taunting banana dance.

[jobycom]

2. You call that campaigning? He calls it cruising.

Cindy ain't no spring chicken anymore, you know. Time for Daddy to move on, eh? He's pointing at the tomatoes but he's saying "Next week I turn forty-two, you know."

[WinkyDink]

4. I made this thread here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6533200

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. I support you in this time of great loss...

...so close to the "Straight Talk Express," and yet so far...

:rofl:

:toast:

[AllentownJake]

5. McCain loves my town

I swear we see him every two weeks.

Obama has 3 offices up and running...McCain 0.

[Zavulon]

6. Fuck. We're done for.

Obama came so far, too. But now he has no chance.

Why, why, WHY didn't we think of pointing at tomatoes for the camera? WHY?

[nc4bo]

7. What a maroon........

That woman standing next to him should have went on a tirade about the FDAs bumbling investigation regarding the recent salmonella outbreak linked to tomatoes, peppers. She should have stressed the importance of overseeing food imports from other countries especially countries that don't adhere to the same guidelines as we do and she should have been very outspoken about NAFTA and Mexico's role.

She REALLY REALLY should have invited him to her home to enjoy some fresh homemade salsa.

McElmerFudd is such a magnificent maverick :sarcasm:

[BrotherBuzz]

9. Jeez Louise, he's blaming the tomato even after the pepper was found to be the culprute