McCain To Be In German Restaurant While Obama Gives Berlin Speech (not a joke)

[kpete]

McCain To Be In German Restaurant While Obama Gives Berlin Speech
By Greg Sargent - July 24, 2008, 12:08PM
Not sure what to make of this. While Obama gives his historic speech in Berlin today, John McCain will be lunching in a German restaurant in Ohio.

Farah Hice, a hostess at Schmidt's Restaurant and Sausage Haus in Columbus, just confirmed to me by phone that McCain just walked into the restaurant and is staying for lunch.

Perhaps the goal is to mock Obama's speech, just as the RNC is trying to do by running ads in three places in the United States called "Berlin." But doesn't it risk making McCain look a bit small in comparison?


Late Update: In fairness, I should add that I really don't know if the goal here is to mock Obama's speech, so perhaps it's premature to suggest that he may look small in comparison. McCain is mingling with small-business owners today.

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[liberal N proud]

1. You have got to be kidding me

McSame is becoming this sad little old man

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. "Ich bin ein Sauerbraten!"

nt

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Oh, man. I haven't eaten at Schmidt's for 12 years. They always had great food when I

ran around German Village!

[tomg]

4. I finally figured out McCain's strategy,

and it's brilliant. He is going to appear so utterly pathetic that finally everyone is going to feel he hasn't got a snowball's chance in hell, and will vote for him out of pity.

Well, it makes more sense than any other explanation I have heard for the way he is running his campaign.

[tuckessee]

5. At least he's campaigning in the States. n/t

[Bill McBlueState]

9. Maybe that should be McCain's new slogan

"At least I'm campaigning in the States!"

That will really tug at the heart strings of the masses and show that McCain is ready to lead.

[wryter2000]

6. You're kidding, right?

Surely, this is something Jim Ward wrote for Stephanie Miller's show.

[hoosier_lefty]

7. probably "dozens" of people there,

compared to tens of thousands for Obama.

LMAO!

[IDemo]

8. Do they have jelly donuts?

[AlCzervik]

10. if it is an attempt to mock Obama it's going to fall flat unless McCain has a crowd

of 30,000 watching him outside that eatery. It really comes off as sad and desperate.

[Solly Mack]

11. That's called bratwurst envy. And McRage is ate-the-fuck-up with it.

[CatWoman]

12. May I suggest the schnitzel , John?

:rofl;

[Alter Ego]

13. He'll be waving a beerstein wildly around and screaming "Look! Look at me!

I can be German too! ICH BIN EIN JACKASS!"

[Supersedeas]

14. Freedom Snausages and American Cheese candidate - there's personality politics and there's

cheese politics

[lebkuchen]

15. McCain is welcomed in Berlin and can give his own speech

nobody is stopping him.

What's funny is that McCain challenged Obama to go to Iraq and beyond, and Obama did, to "explosive" fanfare. McCain fucks up again.