Here is my prediction for the points McCain will make in his opening statement.
1. I invited Barack a week ago to join us. He will talk to Castro but not to us.
2. Barack will raise everyone’s taxes. He says the rich (at which point McCain will make air quotation marks) but he means everybody.
3. I am a candidate of change. I authored the new surge strategy. That is change. And its working.
4. We are here in NY and you have a great Senator. She ran a great race but party insiders chose the new guy.
She and I are friends and respect each other.
So far so good. The first minute or two he was a little stiff but he seemed to hit his stride when talking about the mother that asked him to wear the bracelet of her son who died in Iraq.
I was there, seated in the front row. I called McCain national headquarters at 3:00 this afternoon and asked for a ticket to the 7:00 event. No one asked me if I was a Republican! The woman next to me was a Democrat, a Hillary supporter furious with the way Obama had treated Hillary, now very friendly to McCain.
No one tried to pre-screen or coach the questions. Anybody could have gone in there and asked anything they wanted. McCain indeed does very well in these forums, if anyone takes the time to LISTEN to him, he just might win this election.
Fox first announced that the audience was a random selection of D’s, R’s and I’s, but later corrected that and said the McCain campaign handed out the tickets to supporters and gave a chunk to Bloomberg.
Overall I agree with Jason. If Rassmusen were to poll whether voters want to see more of that, the response would be overwhelmingly “no.”
June 12th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Here is my prediction for the points McCain will make in his opening statement.
1. I invited Barack a week ago to join us. He will talk to Castro but not to us.
2. Barack will raise everyone’s taxes. He says the rich (at which point McCain will make air quotation marks) but he means everybody.
3. I am a candidate of change. I authored the new surge strategy. That is change. And its working.
4. We are here in NY and you have a great Senator. She ran a great race but party insiders chose the new guy.
She and I are friends and respect each other.
June 12th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Dang! No 2nd stool! There should be…!!!!
June 12th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Reform. Prosperity. Peace.
Not bad… It’s pretty much what the American People are demanding these days, isn’t it?
June 12th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Apparently Fox News nixed the empty stool idea.
June 12th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
McCain is so much better in this format it’s not even funny.
June 12th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
So far so good. The first minute or two he was a little stiff but he seemed to hit his stride when talking about the mother that asked him to wear the bracelet of her son who died in Iraq.
June 12th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Shoot! I have to run for a second. Someone keep an eye on the place until I return
June 12th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Is there anywhere to see this online?
I don’t get Fox News.
June 12th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Did you check the Fox site?
June 12th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
I think McCain just had a senior moment, but he covered it nicely.
June 12th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
thats it?!
June 12th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Nice stacked crowd. Not impressed, could have had some tough questions, not a love fest.
June 12th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Not a stacked crowd.
I was there, seated in the front row. I called McCain national headquarters at 3:00 this afternoon and asked for a ticket to the 7:00 event. No one asked me if I was a Republican! The woman next to me was a Democrat, a Hillary supporter furious with the way Obama had treated Hillary, now very friendly to McCain.
No one tried to pre-screen or coach the questions. Anybody could have gone in there and asked anything they wanted. McCain indeed does very well in these forums, if anyone takes the time to LISTEN to him, he just might win this election.
June 13th, 2008 at 1:49 am
Fox first announced that the audience was a random selection of D’s, R’s and I’s, but later corrected that and said the McCain campaign handed out the tickets to supporters and gave a chunk to Bloomberg.
Overall I agree with Jason. If Rassmusen were to poll whether voters want to see more of that, the response would be overwhelmingly “no.”
June 18th, 2008 at 1:08 am
Hi all!
G’night