This reminds me of the Stephen Colbert segment, Who's Honoring Me Now?
Except in McCain's case, it's Who's Dissing Me This Weekend?
Colin Powell turns out for Obama, and not just for Obama, but completely dissing McCain in some detail in his remarks to the media after the announcement.
Obama raises $150 million in September!
And McCain? He can't even get Joe the Plumber to come to his Ohio rallies this weekend.
The LA Times sums it up beautifully in noting that John McCain's weekend included
"a pair of lackluster rallies in Ohio, a battleground state that the Arizona Republican insists he must win if he is to capture the White House on Nov." (see http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/...
In the first, his crowd covered a basketball court. Yes, a single basketball court! The adjoining indoor court was left empty. (Did I forget to mention Obama drew 175,000 at rallies in St. Louis and Kansas City this weekend, in case you didn't hear and missed the incredible pics.)
But here's the insult-to-injury part:
"McCain's afternoon event, at a half-filled convention center in Toledo, seemed even more desultory. The crowd barely responded at times to his applause lines.
"McCain gave them little cause for excitement. He delivered the same stump speech both times, almost word for word, with little emotion. He rushed through both so quickly that he left both events ahead of schedule.
"Perhaps he was upset about who didn’t attend: Joe the Plumber."
See, the McCain camp was there in Joe's backyard, and a McCain spokesman told the press corp that McCain himself phoned Joe and said they'd "love it" if Joe joined McCain on the campaign trail.
So, where was Joe?
"He took his son and his father to New York City and appeared Saturday night as a guest on "Huckabee," the Fox News talk show hosted by former GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee."
That's right. Joe not only dissed McCain, but he did it for that former rival of McCain's, Mike Huckabee!
Wouldn't you love to have had a government wiretap on that phone call between McCain and Joe?