O’Fallon crowd cheers McCain, Palin
O’FALLON — John McCain presented his new vice-presidential running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, to thousands of cheering Missouri supporters at a sun-drenched Sunday afternoon rally at the home of St. Charles County’s minor league baseball team.
“I have found the right partner,” the Arizona senator said at T.R. Hughes Ballpark. “She’s exactly who I need. She’s exactly what the country needs to fight the same old Washington politics.
Many in the crowd, which the campaign estimated at 23,000, seemed to agree, breaking out at one point in a chant of “Sar-uh, Sar-uh.”
McCain recounted Palin’s election as governor in 2006 and how she took on a “corrupt” political culture in her home state that had become a national disgrace. He also pointed out that Palin had vetoed “one big pork-barrel bill after another.”
“If you’re sick and tired of the way Washington operates, you need to be patient,” McCain said. “Change is coming, change is coming, change is coming.”
Palin also spoke about her record and said she had fought special interests, lobbyists, oil companies and “the good-old boy network.”
She also said she had opposed the often-criticized “bridge to nowhere” that an Alaskan in Congress had pushed for in an appropriations bill.Ron Bauwens, 58, a retired teacher from Weldon Spring, said he was impressed with McCain’s new running mate.
“The biggest thing I got out of that was Sarah. I think she can really pull it in for him.”"She’s going to be a bulldog.”
Some Democrats have attacked Palin’s experience. But Kathy Pfeffer, 56, of Fenton, said was impressed with her record of ethics reform and reducing government spending.
“She’s proven she can do it just as good as a man, if not better,” she said.
—- Michele Munz of the Post-Dispatch staff contributed to this report.
It seems like her brother-in-law tropper threatened his wife with violence. The same people who complain that she did try and get him fired would complain that she was protecting him.
She sure did a lot about corruption in the 1 1/2 years that she has been governor. And she did more before.
They will complain about her every move and they will continue to dismiss her int he hopes of saving their Obama Idol.
I find some of the comments on this board extremely comical, but seriously scary!! How much brainwashing have you endured when you see Obama as a “safe” choice. Before you throw your vote in this dangerous direction, research his background. Additionally, he and Biden are two of the MOST liberal in the Senate.
On a happier note, McCain & Palin are the perfect combination of experience and knowledge and I can’t wait for them to take office!! They balance one another out and that they will truly make this country stronger economically, strengthen our military defense and take the proper steps to improving our environment (to name a few).
Here’s to educated voters!
I find some of the comments on this board extremely comical, but seriously scary!! How much brainwashing have you endured when you see Obama as a ”safe” choice. Before you throw your vote in this dangerous direction, research his background. Additionally, he and Biden are two of the MOST liberal in the Senate.
On a happier note, McCain & Palin are the perfect combination of experience and knowledge and I can’t wait for them to take office!! They balance one another out and that they will truly make this country stronger economically, strengthen our military defense and take the proper steps to improving our environment (to name a few).
Here’s to educated voters!
dw- you’ll like this video of this drunk a heartbeat away from the presidency:
http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/biden-drinking-on-the-job/
AHHHHH! The possibility of 4 more years of this Republican nightmare is almost too much to take. Where have you people been? In a vacuum? In la-la land? Oh, no….you’ve been in St. Charles!
War. Debt. Health Care. Education.
I-got-mine-how-you-gonna-get-yours-it’s-all-about-me-mentality-has-to-stop.
Viva Obama and Biden! STOP THE INSANITY!
“Whew, and I’m nuts.”
— D. Walker 12:24 am September 1st, 2008
Eureka! He finally acknowledges what we’ve always known.
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A CENTRIST,
Now why on earth would you and your ilk try to make Biden out to be the a alcoholic just because our leader President Bush really and truthfully is one? Everyone knows that Biden is not a alcoholic.
Typical thinking of you and your kind CENTRIST.
SPP6118 - wow, what a witty comment! you must be pretty proud of yourself, smearing the Governor and all in a comment board. What a joke you are. It’s apparent that your form of discourse is limited to absurd and immature comments like these; Gov. Blunt is a honorable guy with a family - you may not agree with his policies, but spreading around lies like this is just sad and pathetic.
Planting seeds of rumor are wrong, wrong, wrong.