McCain: Convention now a call to action

Posted: Sunday, August 31, 2008 2:27 PM by Mark Murray
Filed Under: Republicans

From NBC's Kelly O'Donnell
In Mississippi today, McCain said that with Hurricane Gustav bearing down on the Gulf Coast, the GOP convention will change from a party to a call for action, according to the pool report.

“We must redirect our efforts from the really celebratory event of the nomination of president and vice president of our party to acting as all Americans," McCain said. "We’ll change our program and I’ll be announcing details of it in the next few hours. But there’s very little doubt that we have to go from a party event to a call to the nation for action, action to help our fellow citizens in this time of tragedy and disaster, action in the form of volunteering, donations, reaching out our hands and our hearts and our wallets to the people who are under such great threat from this great natural disaster. I pledge that tomorrow night, and if necessary, throughout our convention if necessary, to act as Americans not Republicans, because America needs us now no matter whether we are Republican or Democrat."

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Breaking News!!!!!

Cnyexpat is reporting about a story in the Upstate New York newspapers about Gov. Sarah Palin’s former press secretary:

The Syracuse Post-Standard has an interesting article this weekend on Auburn, NY native Meghan Stapleton, Palin's former speechwriter.

Friday, Stapleton, a former TV news anchor in Anchorage, was fielding calls from fellow reporters from all over the U.S., as well as urgent requests from the McCain campaign. "They (the McCain campaign) just called and said, 'Hey, can you write a summary statement on the governor's accomplishments?' " Stapleton said. "They don't' really have anybody up here to do this."

So the McCain folks, as of Friday when they were rolling out the Palin pick, didn't know enough to write a summary of Palin's accomplishments? Perhaps because McCain had only met her once before he picked her?

For more interesting stories, go to: http://cnyexpat.blogspot.com/

David Kolva, MD Oswego/Syracuse, NY (Sent Sunday, August 31, 2008 2:33 PM)

WELL HOPEFULLY SENATOR MCCAIN WON'T DO A PHOTO-OP LIKE HE DID IN IOWA WHEN THE GOVERNOR REQUESTED HE STAY AWAY BUT NOT MCCAIN, HE WANTED THAT PHOTO-OP BAD

PHOTO-OP (Sent Sunday, August 31, 2008 2:36 PM)

Oh please.

McFossil now knows that his VP pick is going down in flames, and no respectable Republican would attend the convention anyways.

Might as well try to look like to good guy.

Obama and Biden BFF Anytown, USA (Sent Sunday, August 31, 2008 2:36 PM)

It is difficult for me to swallow what these Republicans are attempting to feed us. They do not care about the poor residing along the coast. I believe they are only concerned about wealthy business owners and/or fellow Republicans. After Katrina, the governor of Mississippi was allowed to misuse federal money set aside for Katrinia victims. To my understanding, Governor Barbour told the federal government that people did not want to leave their trailers and therefore, he was given approval to give the money to local business owners. I hope that the federal government does not allow Barbour to obtain more money for the wealthy and while the poor will end up in an even worse situation.

Concerned Social Worker (Sent Sunday, August 31, 2008 2:40 PM)

His heading to the hurricane area shows MORE bad judgement......the local police, fire fighters, secret service etc are all needed to help the efforts of THE PEOPLE, not be distracted by McCain.

Test #2 and McCain FAILED, once again putting COUNTRY LAST

I could NEVER vote for McCain now (Sent Sunday, August 31, 2008 2:47 PM)

Mighty Democratic of you!! Thanks, it's the right thing to do! You're still going to lose!!

UNCLE SAM (Sent Sunday, August 31, 2008 2:49 PM)

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