Stops will focus on 'service' theme
March 28, 2008
Reintroducing himself to voters as the Republicans' presumptive presidential nominee, Senator John McCain will visit several states next week in what his campaign is billing as a biographical tour.
Each stop will represent a chapter in McCain's life and military career and be used to emphasize a "service to America" theme and to highlight issues and aspects of his character.
Logistically and thematically, his campaign continues to make the transition from securing the nomination to girding for a general election contest against the Democrats, who have not yet settled on a nominee.
Final details of the trip were still being worked out yesterday, but some tentative stops were already posted on McCain's campaign website and more were expected to be added.
The tour will extend over five or possibly six days.
The stops include a Monday morning speech in Meridian, Miss., not far from the naval air station where McCain once served as a naval flight instructor and McCain Field is named for his grandfather, a Navy admiral and native Mississippian.
Two Florida events are scheduled later next week - in Pensacola, where, as a hard-partying young officer, he underwent flight training at the naval air station, and Jacksonville, where, after his release as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, he became commander of a large air group that trained crews and pilots for aircraft carrier assignments.
At the end of the tour are tentative stops in his home state of Arizona, including Prescott, where Barry Goldwater, after winning the Republican nomination in 1964, launched his general election campaign. McCain succeeded Goldwater, who is credited with starting the conservative ascendancy of the GOP, in the Senate.
The campaign was also considering tour stops at the private high school
McCain attended outside Washington, D.C., and the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., where he graduated fifth from the bottom of his class.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/03/28/mccains_life_story_will_be_told_on_next_tour/
On a side note: Here is an interesting Op-ed piece from an Arizona newspaper:
McCain needs help from Secret Service
Mar. 28, 2008 12:00 AM
Sen. John McCain's refusal to have Secret Service help during his campaign got me wondering ("McCain says no to Secret Service help in campaign," Republic, Wednesday).We live in a state where concealed weapons are common, in a country where an armed US Airways pilot could not keep his finger off the trigger, and we lead the developed world in numbers of deaths from firearms. Regrettably, violence in the United States is daily front-page fodder. Is the senator nuts, or is he just too old to recognize the dangers of campaigning?
- Peter McKellar, Phoenix
And here is a commenter's response:
I'll answer that! Senator McCain is nuts, and needs a legal guardian.
2 comments:
Nothing wrong with that.
Everyone should "give back" to this coungry in some way...
Either a youth corp or army, volunteer when they are disabled or old.
The narcissism of this President and many of our elected officials should be curbed.
Question.
Why is Hollywood so silent about their choice for President? I haven't seen or heard alot of celeb endorsements, except for "O4O", Oprah for Obama.
Celeste Aida
Interesting thought. I noticed our President skipped out in the time of need, VP got the famous 5 deferments. Most of those cheering the so called War wouldn't go if asked. McCain story as a POW changes with each day. If there was a draft all the troops would be home. As Dick Cheney said he could care less about the soldiers and how many die and the American people just don't want to hear about it.
As for Celebrities their just Americans too. Would any person in their right mind tell their daughter to become Paris or Britney. We honor people like Angelina Jolie who has a history of open sex with her brother and steals married men now she's an Ambassador with a live in mate and kids. We cheer Senator Vitters for hiring prostitutes, Larry Craig for looking for sex from men in any men's room and we allow Mark Foley to molest kids. Our Leaders are crooks and liars. Hollywood is just an image and until people realize that they will continue to live in LaLa Land. Most Actors have moved out of the US because Americans have because brain dead.
Celebrities are no better then any American and Americans should think for themselves.
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