Just shows how stupid the McCain camp is... Everyone knows what Philly fans are like... They threw snowballs at Santa Claus for Chrissake!  Batteries were a common object at old veteran's stadium...

If you wanted to do a hockey event in PA, you should have gone to Pittsburgh... She would have had a much better reception there...  Philly is Obama country... they should have known that!

To the Philadelphia Inquirer headline also from today. http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaki ng/20081011_Thousands_cheer_Obama_at_fou r_Phila__stops.html

Thousands cheer Obama at four Phila. stops

Supporters turned out by the thousands, an estimated 20,000 in West Philadelphia alone. They cheered his speeches and jumped for joy as his motorcade passed.

"No question, the mayor [Michael Nutter] and I were clamoring to get him to do this kind of day," said Gov. Rendell, who, along with Nutter, Sen. Bob Casey Jr. and numerous other Democratic officeholders accompanied Obama on his tour. "Think of the buzz this will create."

Tony Goodwin, 58, a retired firefighter from the Logan section, already had all the buzz he needed.

"The dream is becoming a reality, thank God," said Goodwin, wearing an elaborate Obama T-shirt at Progress Plaza in North Philadelphia, where the line started forming at 11 p.m. Friday. "I've already got president and first lady shirts, five of them. If he doesn't win, I'll stroke out."

At all four stops, Obama gave a variation of the same speech. A key element was a thank-you of sorts to his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain.

On Friday, at a town hall meeting in Minnesota, McCain had drawn boos when he defended Obama as a "decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as president."

Said Obama: "Now, I want to acknowledge that Sen. McCain tried to tone down the rhetoric yesterday, and I appreciated his reminder that we can disagree while still being respectful of each other. I've said it before, and I'll say it again - Sen. McCain has served this country with honor, and he deserves our thanks for that."

For the most part, though, Obama talked about the economy, blaming the Republicans for the current crisis and laying out his own plans to cut taxes for families making less than $250,000 a year and to invest $15 billion per year in renewable energy.

"I don't quote Ronald Reagan that often, but are you better off than you were four years ago?" Obama asked the crowd outside the Mayfair Diner, his smallest of the day. "Are you better off than you were four weeks ago? We've had enough, and it's time for a change."

A McCain spokesman, Tucker Bounds, described Obama's words as "pie-in-the-sky rhetoric" and said the Democrat's tax plans would burden small business.

In the four speeches, Obama engaged in give-and-take with his audiences at times.

Looks like Gov Pallin has a "white working class" problem!

My friends, that's not hockey we can believe in.

It would be good to point out that they're not just boo'ing SP, but some are probably boo'ing the owner of the Flyers.  He's the one who brought politics into the game.  (He also has donated $20k+ to the RNC.)

Atrios called this.  Philly fans would boo Nelson Mandela if given half a chance.

One of my friends told me that Sarah Palin isn't really even a "hockey mom," because none of her kids have played hockey.

Anyone know whether this is true?

I assumed that Track must have played hockey. Maybe he played in some kind of kiddie league but not in high school?

....on thin ice.  

Sarah Palin: Go to the penalty box, two minutes by yourself, feel shame.

She is loathed by everyone except the terrorist crowds she draws at campaign events.  I have yet to meet anyone (including my Bush fan friends) who like her.

Drudge isn't saying peep about this.

I wonder: will Drudge still rule their world come November 5th?

Philly is one of the only 3 counties that Obama won in the primary in PA. I am not sure how well McCain did there, but in the state he got only 60 or 70 percent of the total Pug vote, even though he was the only real legitimate Republican running there.  The other votes went to Ron Paul, and Huck. So, it has a bigger than normal Obama crowd. I can't hear that much booing in the video, but I'll take everyones word for it.

As a Penguins fan, I'm hard pressed to say anything nice about Philly or their fans.  But, in this case I don't think it happened just because she was in Philly.  Pittsburgh may not have been much better for her.

Fact is that hockey fans, particularly those who can afford tickets to games, tend to be more white collar than most other pro sports.  This has been the case for years, and was recently confirmed again: http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/081002/0439417.h tml

So, the overlap between the wing of the Republican base that Palin most appeals to, and the people you will see at the game, are pretty thin.  And nowhere I've been have hockey fans been slow to voice their opinion...

All in all, well deserved and a dumb idea both to have Palin drop the puck, and even more so for her to subject her daughters to it.  I genuinely believe that decision probably did reduce the volume of the boos, so maybe it was the right political move.  

At least her younger seemed a bit oblivious to it in the video.

how long until some moron GOP media stooge tries to make booing sports fans morally equivalent to yelling "kill him" at a political speech?

What did people expect?  In PA, before Couric (where America first really saw how dumb Palin is), it was a 2 or 3 point race.  Afer the Couric interview, it immediately jumped to 7 or 8, and after her train wreck of a debate, it immediately jumped to 12 and no poll post-debate has been less than double digits.  Of course there have been other things like the economy affecting the race, but I do think that Palin is a large factor in the PA polling numbers of the McCain ticket plummeting.  That stupid but cute act (where winking at the camera is a legitimate debate strategy) and far-right fundie beliefs might play well in some places around the country, but PA is not one of those places.  She personally ensures that PA is not in play, and there is no one I know that likes her around here at all.

BTW, I watched the game tonight on the Flyers' Comcast Sportsnet and they cut all of the on-ice mics from the audio, so all you heard on TV during her ceremony was the announcers and some background music, but none of the crowd.

(Snyder being the owner of teh flyers and teh sixers,our 2 failures of sports organizations and one of the biggest supporters of republicans in teh country) I say god bless philly, she was rightfully rejected and snyder would not do the same for Democrats.

I loved how the Flyers on the bench just sat there disinterested when she walked out. They didn't even bother to stand and very few were banging their sticks to make any noise for her. Sure, they're mostly Canadians and Europeans, but it was clear they couldn't have cared less about her.

Oh, and the Flyers gave up four goals in the first period. This woman really is cursed.