DKOS poster: McCain stands up Ohio. The Week's Townhall meeting cancelled with no notice.

[dkf]

Stood up: "This Week" Town Hall cancelled with no notice
by histopresto
Sun Sep 28, 2008 at 07:59:10 AM PDT

Some of you are probably sitting home this morning watching John McCain on "This Week". Stephanopolous and McCain are sitting at the Newseum doing a pretty straighforward interview. So what's wrong with this picture? I know! They're supposed to be sitting on the stage of the Great Southern Theater in Columbus, Ohio doing this show in front of a Town Hall. Except it got cancelled yesterday and nobody bothered to tell the audience.

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The staff from "This Week" spent several days getting a group of independents together, even soliciting questions in advance from members of the audience. They were then invited to come to downtown Columbus so they could watch the show. So, all the people invited were told to get there early to get through security. They got to the Great Southern Theater at 7:30 on a Sunday morning to get through security, only to discover that the event had been cancelled on Saturday afternoon. The manager at the theater told my pal (who wrote a Social Security question) that the Secret Service pulled out yesterday. Except nobody told the guests about that. As histo's pal said "People were LIVID!"

Right now, McCain's on TV denying any responsibility for the way that House Republicans backed out of the bailout negotiations earlier this week He's humbly refusing to take any credit for a role in the whole debacle. As this airs, carloads of "LIVID" swing voters are making their way home from the theater. They were told that there would be another Town Hall at Capitol University, maybe tomorrow, and that maybe Caribou Barbie would be there. Wooo!!!

I'm knocking on doors today for Obama. Believe you me, I'm going to be mentioning this one every chance I get. Ohio just got a preview of what a McCain administration would look like, which is a lot like a Bush administration treated the Buckeye State. We were stood up for the dance, and a whole lotta independent voters are going home wearing their wilted corsages, ready to tell their friends all about it. Way to go, Johnny!

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/28/10375/5065/22/613231

[Bicoastal]

1. Obama's campaign would NEVER do this--too well-organized.

If they absolutely had to cancel, it would be done way in advance with plenty of notice.

[Curtland1015]

2. Nice. This might help us a bit...

*finger's crossed*

[crazylikafox]

3. Geesh, the guy can't even keep a schedule.

Will he cancel his Presidential duties whenever he gets constipated????

[NewJeffCT]

4. He's suspending his campaign again

in order to prep Sarah Palin for her debate with Biden.

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

5. McDouchebagg's campaign is unravelling before our eyes.

[napi21]

6. How to piss of the voters in one easy move! Heck of a job Johhny! n/t

[madmax]

7. John?

John, you can't go around nixing every venue in which he may not be comfortable. The 'people' are going to get pissed off!

[Hansel]

8. Obama should put together an ad with clips from Letterman. n/t

[Barack_America]

9. Campaign in meltdown.

That's what we're seeing here.