It's getting down to the wire, and the surrogates are out across the country, firing up supporters to get the word out for Obama-Biden. Big name pols and the other famous faces have been visiting local Obama offices in towns and cities to help spread the word, and we were able to capture a couple.
Sen. Kerry in New Hampshire
Sen. Kerry spent Saturday morning in Nashua to rally volunteers, and in Manchester for a veterans' phone bank for Obama. The Senator's speech was biting, as he took McCain to task for the nasty lies coming from his campaign, and called on NH Sen. John Sununu to stop the vicious robocalls coming from the McCain camp to voters in NH and across the country.
"Let me say something to John Sununu, those robocalls that are being run here in the state of New Hampshire by John McCain's campaign somehow trying to scare people and link Barack Obama with a past that he had nothing to do with are utterly disgraceful and have no place in American politics," the Boston Democrat said. "I call on John Sununu to break his silence and come out and tell the people of New Hampshire that those calls have no place in the Granite State."
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
The Senator finished up the day in Norwood, off the campaign trail, for a medals ceremony, where he presented the family of the late Armit Tilgner with replacements for awards that were lost decades ago, sometime after the Chief Warrant Officer's helicopter went down in Malaysia. More on that soon.
Pittsburgh "Gets Smart"
In Pittsburgh, Barbara Feldon, aka Agent 99 from the hit 1960's TV series "Get Smart", stopped by the Moon Township Obama office on Saturday to speak to volunteers about campaign issues that are important to her, especially health care and women's concerns, and explain how they lead to her strong support for Barack Obama.
"I think that there are very few times in history that there is someone with the leadership qualities that he has, that rise out of the mass of people and to not take advantage of that would be just a very sad thing for the country."
Her remarks were interrupted briefly by someone's cell phone, at which point Ms. Feldon started to take off her shoe before realizing the call wasn't for her. She continued with stories of her youth in Pittsburgh before seeing volunteers off to canvass.
I was able to snap a few photos of the Obama volunteers paling around with the spy.
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
I wish I had thought to ask her about the 'cone of silence', and if, like McCain, Max ever said he was in it when he wasn't -- but I missed her by that much, so we may never know.
Sorry about that, Chief.
