Biden pitches broadband to Erie County gathering

Despite overcast skies and unseasonably chilly weather, about 50 people lined up outside Seneca High School in Wattsburg two hours before a scheduled noon speech by Vice President Joe Biden in the gymnasium.

[nautilus]

hardly anyone showed up.It was sooooooo cold.

News phonies.

[great entertainer]

nautilus wrote:

hardly anyone showed up.It was sooooooo cold.
News phonies.

They were all down getting their pictures taken with Ty Pennington.

Priorities, you know.

[Heres The Scoop]

Is getting broadband internet to the sticks a priority? Really???

[mary p-]

Didn't Bush just speak there recently to a sold out crowd? Wow, that had to have been bad for O Biden's ego.....

[Salena Zito implausible]

Biden will speak to full house No tickets remain for Vice President Joe Biden's appearance today at Seneca High School.
http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article...
But the broadband message that Biden brought Wednesday to about 500 people in the Seneca High School gymnasium would directly benefit rural residents such as Sara and her parents, Jeff and Shelly Ochterski.
http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article...

[SalenaZito is implausible]

Biden will speak to full house No tickets remain for Vice President Joe Biden's appearance today at Seneca High School
http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article...

But the broadband message that Biden brought Wednesday to about 500 people in the Seneca High School gymnasium would directly benefit rural residents such as Sara and her parents, Jeff and Shelly Ochterski.
http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article...

[Primadona]

Keep in mind that this post is from a conservative political analyst who "honed her skills working on the campaigns of George H.W. Bush, Senator Rick Santorum, Bush2000, Bush-Cheney 2004 and served on the senate staff of U.S. Senator Arlen Specter." If you want an accurate count of how many people attended this event, visit goerie.com and see for yourself. Erie's Brian Sheridan, a journalist working for WJET TV, also filed an objective report, carried live by the Erie station.

[Primadona]

Tickets were limited to 500 because of the space. The Wednesday event was announced on Monday, with tickets available at Seneca High School only from 4-7 p.m. on Tuesday, the day portions of Erie County were declared in a state of emergency after the flood. The Route 8 interchange, which leads from Erie to Seneca High School, was closed for part of Tuesday due to severe flooding.

The entire population of Wattsburg is only 378 people.

It is unfortunate that this inaccurate blog post was picked up by USA Today and other national news outlets.

[Chandu]

Topix Republicans strut their ignorance yet again. Biden is Vice-President yesterday, today, and tomorrow and whether local yokels get broadband is something that depends not on him but on our own local yokel's interest in it.

As expected, the availability of Limbaugh and cheap meth is more important to local Republicans.

[Salena Picaresque]

No tickets remain for Vice President Joe Biden's appearance today at Seneca High School
http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article...

[REK]

Hope they handle this better than the HD conversion.

[Amy4peace]

mary p- wrote:

Didn't Bush just speak there recently to a sold out crowd? Wow, that had to have been bad for O Biden's ego.....

I see mary p is still a little slow on the facts.

[Dallas]

Let's have a Federal program that makes broadband available to rural districts -- or...these folks could actually buy a satellite card for about $20.
Hmmmmmm.

[watson]

nautilus wrote:

hardly anyone showed up.It was sooooooo cold.
News phonies.

UM...it was a full house, and the temp was fine. Stop watching 'weather for dummies'.

[watson]

Chandu wrote:

Topix Republicans strut their ignorance yet again. Biden is Vice-President yesterday, today, and tomorrow and whether local yokels get broadband is something that depends not on him but on our own local yokel's interest in it.
As expected, the availability of Limbaugh and cheap meth is more important to local Republicans.

Yea, those cheap-meth-smoking local yokels sure are ignorant. Thanks for the heads up.

[skylab]

Dallas wrote:

Let's have a Federal program that makes broadband available to rural districts -- or...these folks could actually buy a satellite card for about $20.
Hmmmmmm.

Good advice from the Lone-Brain State

[Salena Sasquatch]

Primadona wrote:

Tickets were limited to 500 because of the space. The Wednesday event was announced on Monday, with tickets available at Seneca High School only from 4-7 p.m. on Tuesday, the day portions of Erie County were declared in a state of emergency after the flood. The Route 8 interchange, which leads from Erie to Seneca High School, was closed for part of Tuesday due to severe flooding.
The entire population of Wattsburg is only 378 people.
It is unfortunate that this inaccurate blog post was picked up by USA Today and other national news outlets.

O RLY?

[Dallas]

skylab wrote:

<quoted text>Good advice from the Lone-Brain State

Typical response from the "no-brain State"

[Mark Twain]

Isn't "broad band" a lady's undergarment?

[CRANK]

jacques custodian wrote:

since it was FREE... all of erie should have been there.

Why? They don't need to go see Biden to see a politican with a foot in their mouth.