Stark differences in how the McCain and Obama campaign workers treat the “little people”. I’ve always said that you can tell the character of a man by the company he keeps. I think this includes the employees and volunteers he draws to his cause(s) as well.
Example:
An article from the Chicago Tribune Wednesday, Sepr 10th, showed another glimpse into the campaigns.
Michelle Walsh wanted to teach her 2nd-grade Girl Scout troop about the presidential election.
What the Naperville mother got was a lesson about the rough-and-tumble world of political finances.
Walsh said she called both campaigns and asked for free trinkets she could give the 7-year-olds to help them learn. If they did well, she explained, each Scout would earn her “Ms. President” patch. The tchotchkes would provide added incentive.
A representative for John McCain responded immediately, sending Walsh a box filled with stickers and signs.
The Barack Obama camp wasn’t quite so generous, Walsh said.
The troop leader said she called Obama’s Chicago campaign headquarters and explained why she needed the curios. Walsh said she was directed to Obama’s Web site—where she could buy all the buttons and posters she wanted.
The article says that after the gaff became public and the upper echelon of the Obama campaign cleaned themselves off and changed pants, they sent a free box to the girl scout troop and threw the unidentified campaign worker (who they make sound like just walked off the street and started answering phones without anyone realizing she was doing it) under the bus and claimed totaly ignorance of the incident.
This reminds me of the report about the Obama supporters who in order to get tickets to his speech had to sign up for manditory campaign duty of they wouldn’t get tickets.
But it all worked out for the girl scouts and they lived happily ever after. The End.