Little Old Lady Suggests McCain VP Pick To Standing Ovation
You know, if you’ve never done it, you should at least once a month have a good conversation with a senior citizen. Someone who’s been around the block a few times, and was able to vote when gathering around the radio in the evenings was the thing families did…make sure they’re not suffering from Dementia, like my dear old Grandma was…God bless her, every now and then she’d look at my Ma, her only child, and say “And who are you again, dear?”
I kid you not, I truly believe that my Grandma was one of the happiest people in the world in her Dementia, always laughing and smiling and asking your name and where you went to school and all of that. Despite being “out of touch” with reality, I know..I know she was happy as a clam.
Anyway, not saying this nice little old lady was demented or senile, I don’t think she was and here is the story as related by Jonathan Martin over et The Politico today…
A priceless moment from McCain’s town hall in Nashville this afternoon.
An elderly white-haired lady named Marguerite Campbell from Columbia, Tennessee, sat right in front of the stage and waited patiently until she finally got her turn at the mic.
The exchange went something like this:
Campbell: “Sen. McCain, have you chosen your vice-president?”
McCain: “No, m’am, I have not.”
Campbell: “May I make a suggestion”
McCain: “Can I say, I’ve had a few. I could always use another.”
Campbell: “Now, from the state of Tennessee that kept Albert Gore from being president [loud applause] my suggestion to you, our good friend, Fred Thompson [loud and sustained standing ovation]
McCain: [Smiling widely, puts cordless mic under chin and looks upward, keeps smiling] “I kind of got the impression that if he were the candidate, I wouldn’t have to spend a lot of time in Tennessee.”
Fred, just a few paces stage right from McCain, was about the only person aside from the press corps who remained seated.
Campbell said after the event that she liked Thompson because of his grasp of the Constitution.
She also, unprompted, told me this: “If we had the same news media then that we do now, we’d still be speaking German or Japan[ese]”
(Politico)
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