Republican presidential candidate John McCain is taking his campaign to Ottawa, Canada today for lunch!
When Republican hopeful John McCain walks into the ballroom of the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa today, he won't be there to win votes from the assembled crowd. No, he hopes to win votes back home over an issue that he believes could be problematic for his rival, Barrack Obama.
The optics of taking a presidential campaign to a foreign nation might just allow McCain's spin doctors to rub Obama's nose in negative comments he made during the US primaries concerning the North American Free Trade agreement .
You can bet that McCain will find a warm greeting from the assembled Canadian Right Wing business establishment. Canadian Conservatives, by and large still think that Bush's foreign policy is sound and simply cannot understand why Americans are rejecting him. They do not represent the opinion of most Canadians who find Bush an incompetent and misguided leader. So much so, that Canada's Conservative Prime Minister has cautioned his Members of Parliament and staff to avoid the McCain luncheon lest his political opponents try to focus on connections between American Republicans and Canadian Conservatives.
John McCain is using an entire nation as a political prop. Hopefully, his opponents south of the border will call it what it is.
McCain Brings Campaign To Canada - CBC News
-Ottawa Sun
-National Post