A crowd estimated at 10,000 to 15,000 attended a Monday afternoon rally for John McCain and Sarah Palin in Delaware County.The Delaware County Daily & Sunday Times had wall-to-wall coverage of the event.
The newspaper noted the audience was twice the size of one that showed up to see Ronald Reagan in 1984 at a similar campaign stop.
From the story by reporter Alex Rose:
During his remarks, McCain chastised his opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., for voting "present" nearly 130 times during his stint as an Illinois state senator and for offering no plan to fix the current financial crisis.Read the full story and check out video of the event at the newspaper's Web site.
"You don't get to vote 'present' when you are president of the United States of America," said McCain, challenging Obama's leadership skills.
He proposed a high-level board oversee the distribution of $700 billion in bailout funds from the Federal Reserve System to failing financial institutions and ensure the government is a careful stewardship of taxpayer dollars, while holding accountable executives who recklessly run their companies "into the ground."
McCain also urged transparency with the process, saying taxpayers have a right to know which firms will be bought out, what that selection will be based on and how much it's going to cost, all of which should be available online.
"What we need in any reform is accountability for Wall Street, accountability for government, and a commitment for protecting people's homes and life savings and restoring our financial markets," McCain said.
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