so....how was it? Ping me, will you?
I attended Senator McCain’s Townhall Meeting in DM today. The Secret Service didn’t even try to disguise themselves. The topic was Healthcare.
The hall was slow to fill because there was only one metal detector and we all had to go thru it. I am not an expert on Healthcare issues, but I hang out with people who are, so many of the things he talked about were familiar to me.
I was impressed with the way McCain was so quick on his feet with someone who managed to infiltrate the crowd and then ask a ‘crude’ question. The Senator didn’t bat an eye,, just stated that language of that nature was offensive to many people in the crowd and that he was moving on to the next question.
I was really bothered by the slowness of the SS to react to this guy. They just sort of wandered to the front to take the microphone away from him and head him toward the back. I’d have been on top of him with a sledge hammer. After they got the guy moving in the right direction, they sort of backed off,, so he approached the press table and held up a sheet of paper with a message on it. I don’t know what was on the paper. I didn’t recognize all the press people, as you would expect with a national campaign. But I was impressed that most of them totally ignored they guy. Finally, the SS approached him and escorted him out of the hall.
There was a nice sized crowd for the middle of the day in the middle of the week.
I sat one row in front of the press, on the isle so I had a pretty good view of the crowd. The Senator was well received (except for that one guy) and people hung around afterwords to get in the rope line.
McCain has some really good people on his Iowa staff. Highly skilled and able to produce. They indicated Iowa will be targeted again this election cycle, and the Senator said he’d be back in time to attend the Iowa State Fair,,, and that he wanted another Pork Chop on a Stick and a deepfat fried Snickers. (So much for Healthcare Discussions)