| damkira said: McCain draws crowd of 15! McCain lands at Columbia Regional Airport Monday, October 20, 2008 | 10:10 a.m. CDT BY Amanda Kushner, Hayley Tsukayama Sen. John McCain stopped in Columbia on Monday afternoon. The Republican presidential nominee from Arizona landed at the Columbia Regional Airport around 12:30 p.m. As McCain disembarked from the plane, a man yelled, "Go get 'em, John." McCain shook a few hands and embraced Christine Ellinger, the campaign's fourth congressional district co-chair. Ellinger said McCain is going to tour Columbia businesses "and get to know people and what they're doing and daily life." A crowd of about 15 people assembled outside the airport's fence to see him descend from the plane. Florence Phillips was dropping off her daughter at the airport when another of her daughters, Cheryl Daubin, told her McCain was landing. "Your man is coming," Daubin told her. Phillips, who also saw John F. Kennedy at the Joplin Airport in 1962, said she was upset at the small size of the crowd gathered to see McCain. McCain campaign volunteer Jane Stuart agreed. In 2000, when then-Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush visited the airport there was a much larger crowd, Stuart said. News of McCain's plan to stop in Columbia surfaced on Thursday but remained unconfirmed by the campaign until Monday morning. McCain stopped at Buckingham Smokehouse Bar-B-Q after leaving the airport in a motorcade. McCain's stop in Columbia is between a pair of rallies in Missouri — in St. Charles at 9 a.m. and in Belton at 3:45 p.m. Check back with the Missourian for more updates and a full story. ..... He's really closing the enthusiasm gap! |
That's so sad, even in his home state. John McCain deserves more than that even if I am not voting for him.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
