Straight Talk Express Leaving Stabler Arena

[utubeusa1]

Very exciting, great video.

[bigdjindustriez]

Well he seems to have plenty of money for GMC Cargo vans, looks like he bought out a whole dealerships worth.

[bkolvek]

I think the white vans with the tinted windows are filled with paid supporters who travel with McCain from rally to rally in order to fill his arenas.

[tomomatic]

Actually...I enjoyed the video.....regardless of the campaign, it is interesting to see the behind the scenes stuff. Where was this intersection located (I know the area pretty well)?

[ailsagoh]

Thank you. Yeah, there isn't any particular point to the video. I was just at that place at the right time and captured that clip.

Counting the number vehicles seems more interesting than the actual sound captured in the van (Lehigh's shuttle bus), which was a lot of silence, some loud sniffling and comments like, "There's enough lights on that car, it's like a Christmas tree."

It's at the intersection of Seidersville Rd and Service Dr (down the hill from Lehigh's Mountaintop campus).

[djnavigator83]

I respect the security of mccain .... come on people a person running for the us presidency has to have security.... I'm a democrat and I will vote Obama... I don't understand the point of the video thou!

[Randy53215]

Hence why you're voting Obama, you're not "informed"...

[D34dH053]

"Hence why you're voting Obama, you're not "informed"..."

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Yeah...didn't you get the "informational" speeches about "socialism", bill ayres, the Palestinian guy...?

Or did you get the "informational" facts that destroyed those speeches? Like the fact that John McCain gave the Palestinian over a half million dollars 10 years ago.

[Randy53215]

Honestly did you just read what you wrote? A half a million dollars, even if that is true what is a half a million dollars to the Palestinian government? You're friend Clinton tried being friends with the middle east and gave them our old weapons and gave them some training as well. So don't try to come at me all "educated."

[D34dH053]

"Honestly did you just read what you wrote? A half a million dollars, even if that is true what is a half a million dollars to the Palestinian government?"

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Yes. I read it. And you think a person is a government by your reading skills.

[D34dH053]

"You're friend Clinton..."

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Aside from your lack of knowing the difference between "your" and "you are"...

During the 1990s(Clinton's era), while McCain served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), the group distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi.

A 1998 tax filing for the McCain-led group shows a $448,873 grant to Khalidi's Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank, the Post notes.

[TheRealtMG]

Three things:

1) Did you just happen to be the first in a line of stopped traffic, or were you waiting there purposely to catch this vid? (Love the music, btw; perfect feel).

2) Of course he has to have that many people with SS, press, etc. I'm sure Obama has a similar entourage. I agree that are nutjobs out there, and that makes this sort of security necessary.

3) Can anyone type up what the radio transmission at the end is saying?

Go Obama!

[ailsagoh]

1) I was on my way home and happened to be first in line when vehicle#1 swerved around and block the traffic. The music is called "Breakbeat Long" (from iMovie).

3) The radio transmission is not real :) I added that sound effect called "Walkie Talkie Gabble" (also from iMovie).

[TheRealtMG]

Thanks so much for explaining it all! My kids play around on imovie, but I'm too busy, so I just let them make our family vids (also on imovie).

Anyway, this was a great video. Your perspective is perfect, including the composition of the shot, nice angles of the corner and everything. So cool!

Did you just happen to have your video camera or do you have a really good phone video function?

[ailsagoh]

I had my small flip video with me.

[ventaphineas]

I think all those vehicles are for transporting the audience! You can't count on attracting a standing room only crowd of foaming-at-the-mouth extremists at every rally. Some areas just don't have an sufficient supply. You have to carry them with you from event to event. I witnessed this process in my own town in PA a week or so ago. Driving through town I saw busloads of red-shirted haters being dropped off. In contrast, at a Biden rally a few days before, huge crowd, no buses in sight.

[gladpalm]

Do you think that the campaign asked for all those escorts and I wonder how many were news people?

[HybridGoddess]

What a waste of GAS!!!

[topdog925]

Too bad you didn't jump out and try to stop the bus. That would have been great journalism.

[topdog925]

You stupid idiot.

Those were converted OBAMA supporters!

[RockTheFacts]

Glad to see it, there are so many evil people in this country who want Sarah Palin dead! And her family travels with her, and McCain's wife and daughter were on that bus. You can't be too careful when you are dealing with nut cases who would attmept to kill over an election.

[haiduz]

With Palin as VP, the secret service just started taking mccains safety and well being a lot more seriously