McCain Raises Funds with “Raymond” Wife
EmailABC News’s Bret Hovell reports: John McCain may call his opponent, Democrat Barack Obama, the celebrity in the race for the White House, but Monday on the campaign trail, McCain traveled with his own set of stars.
Actress Patricia Heaton introduced McCain at a fundraiser in Sacramento, a few hours after he received the endorsement of Latin Grammy winner Daddy Yankee.
Heaton, who played Ray Romano’s wife Debra on the Emmy-winning sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond,” said that Obama was had a lot more to prove than McCain.
“As an actor, I recognize that our opponent, someone who thinks that if he puts on the right costume and stands on the right set, that we will all believe that he is presidential material.” Heaton said. “But John McCain doesn’t have to pretend because he walks the walk.”
Heaton said it was hard being a pro-life Republican in Hollywood, but that John McCain gives her inspiration.
And she liked the visual a few weeks back of John McCain in a supermarket while Barack Obama was speaking in Berlin. She referred to the picture of McCain in the cheese aisle of the store.
“You know what I thought when I saw that photo? I thought, ‘yeah baby, we are going to win this election,’” Heaton said. “Because I am in the cheese aisle in the grocery store a lot more often than when I am in Berlin, and so are most other Americans.”
She also showed a lighter side, pretending to be disappointed that she was unable to introduce McCain’s wife Cindy.
“I was a little bit disappointed in not being able to introduce Cindy as was originally planned, as she is a beer heiress and I’m Irish-Catholic,” Heaton joked to laughter. “I have a vested interest in seeing her becoming First Lady so I get invited to those White House keg parties.”
Heaton rode along on McCain’s plane from Sacramento back to the LA area. Earlier in the day, Daddy Yankee also flew on the plane, from Phoenix to Sacramento.
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Yeah….Patricia…..couldn’t have expressed it better…the sock puppet my look and ACT like Denzil Washington, but McCain IS PRESIDENTIAL AND WALKS THE WALK.
Cindy couldn’t be there as she is on her way to Georgia to visit the wounded. Way to go McCains….SERVICE TO THIS COUNTRY ROLE MODELS!
McCAIN ’08!
Posted by: Debra | August 25, 2008, 6:37 pm 6:37 pm
Dear Mrs “Everybody Loves Raymond”:
Those were our ALLIES that Barack Obama was talking to in Berlin. And did you notice how they were waving American flags? What is the last time you saw a rally outside the United States?
Do you even know what allies are? I know this doesn’t come up in your very important job, but you see we want to have allies so that they help us with information and the right to use their bases when we discover where the bad guys are and want to bomb them.
Or to put it another way, we want to have allies so that we don’t have to be in a war with everyone at the same time! Of course, having a president who isn’t a hot-head is important too.
Posted by: John's conscience | August 25, 2008, 6:41 pm 6:41 pm
This woman makes no sense. What a load of garbage. So if I saw a photo of McCain in Iraq juxtaposed with a photo of Obama grabbing a coffee from Dunkin Donuts, I should definitely support Obama, by her logic, as I am at Dunkin Donuts more often than I am in Iraq.
Posted by: Rubbish | August 25, 2008, 6:42 pm 6:42 pm
McCain and his 7-10 houses is totally out of touch with the middle class.
Posted by: vickie | August 25, 2008, 6:43 pm 6:43 pm
Maybe she was expressing opinions for millions of us who thought the presumptive unknown, did a world tour and payed Reamonn (a platinim selling German band) to give a free concert in the park..complimentary beer and flags. Did I forget to mention removed the BIG US FLAG PAINTED ON THE TAIL OF HIS JET, so he could put his “O” logo on instead…the rock star of nothing.
No bozo….McCain all the way!
Posted by: Debra | August 25, 2008, 6:49 pm 6:49 pm
Everybody loves Raymond is off the air. McCain will be too in November.
Posted by: Jennifer | August 25, 2008, 6:51 pm 6:51 pm
Me and my mobster mansion are totally in touch with the common man. Oh, my wife gets paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to sit on the boards of companies in my pocket too. Yeah, I’m definitely a different kind of politician — an even more crooked version who likes to disenfranchise women. My wife is almost proud of her country now…
Posted by: Barack | August 25, 2008, 6:55 pm 6:55 pm
Tell that b to sit down and shut the f up — my man Barack is in charge now. Sheeee!
Posted by: Ludacris | August 25, 2008, 6:57 pm 6:57 pm
As a woman, I am disgusted by the Obama camp and its arrogance — they have no regard for the amount of hard work and dediction that Hillary poured into her campaign. Obama associates with scum that likes to marginalize and dismiss women (keeping that glass ceiling in place). There is absolutely no way that I will vote for Barack Hussein Obama.
Posted by: Joanna | August 25, 2008, 7:01 pm 7:01 pm
This actress I’ve never heard of is right about one thing, at least. George W McCain belongs in the cheese aisle more than he belongs in Berlin…or Paris…or Washington DC.
Posted by: wilder5121 | August 25, 2008, 7:02 pm 7:02 pm
Joanna- So you would rather vote for the candidate that responded “That’s an excellent question” to the person at a town hall meeting asking ‘How do we beat the b***h?” referring to your candidate? The man with the worst voting record on women’s issues? Your voting against your candidates wishes? Not buying it – sorry. Good work on behalf of your Republican party.
Posted by: Paige | August 25, 2008, 7:07 pm 7:07 pm
So McCain as the BatSh*t crazy fading Hollywood loons on his side…sweet.
Posted by: Daddy | August 25, 2008, 7:08 pm 7:08 pm
Posted by: Debra | Aug 25, 2008 6:37:29 PM
Yeah….Patricia…..couldn’t have expressed it better…the sock puppet my look and ACT like Denzil Washington, but McCain IS PRESIDENTIAL AND WALKS THE WALK.
Cindy couldn’t be there as she is on her way to Georgia to visit the wounded. Way to go McCains….SERVICE TO THIS COUNTRY ROLE MODELS!
McCAIN ’08!
Debra, tell me how does he(McCain) walk the walk?
You can disagree with someone, without being mean,sock puppet? No one can walk the walk as President, unless You are the President. People want to attack Obama, because the people in Berlin, took time out their day(THEIR DECISION)TO COME AND HEAR HIM SPEAK. By the way Mrs. McCain doen’t have to be here, this is the DNC.
Posted by: fempharoh08 | August 25, 2008, 7:21 pm 7:21 pm
Patricia Heaton can shove off. (& she’s a terrible actress…)
Posted by: dem in chicago | August 25, 2008, 7:38 pm 7:38 pm
Carefull Patricia — all of those Hollywood Liberals will black list you if you don’t agree with them
Posted by: susie | August 25, 2008, 7:41 pm 7:41 pm
No way any of those open-minded leftists would blacklist anybody. : )
Posted by: stickety | August 25, 2008, 7:51 pm 7:51 pm
Wow, a voice of reason in hollywood.
Posted by: Colleen | August 25, 2008, 8:30 pm 8:30 pm
I’ll take four years of a moderate republican over four years of an extreme liberal any day. Raise taxes in a weak economy? That is econ 101 and Obama obviously missed it.
Posted by: melly | August 25, 2008, 8:32 pm 8:32 pm
It doesn’t matter who says it — fact is, Obama is an empty suit with no credentials. It’s as simple as that.
Only mentally challenged people can read anything significant into what Pelosi’s puppet says.
Posted by: Martin Slueg | August 25, 2008, 8:43 pm 8:43 pm
Melly,
Check the FACTS: Obama proposes cutting taxes on people who earn less than $150K a year. McCain wants to cut the tax rate on the HEDGE FUND MANAGERS who make $100 MILLION.
Of course, since McCain and his wife are $100 Million rich, he probably doesn’t have any friends who make less than $150K per year.
McCain says that “rich” means that you earn $5 Million a year. In other words, to John McCain, if you only make $4 Million you count as middle class!
McCain is so completely and utterly clueless that in his big economic speech this spring said that the problem with the economy is that regulators had imposed too much oversight.
GIVE ME A BREAK. Mortgage brokers were signing up people to no doc “liars loans”, adding up to the reckless and corrupt practices that threaten not only the U.S. economy but that of the entire world. And McCain says there was too MUCH oversight!
You want this clueless hot-head to be president? Are you KGB?
Posted by: John's conscience | August 25, 2008, 9:18 pm 9:18 pm
Everybody loves Raymond is off the air. McCain will be too in November.”
….. Yes….. but not THIS November!
He’ll have a long and successful run…. just like EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND!
Posted by: EYES WIDE OPEN.... | August 25, 2008, 10:57 pm 10:57 pm
McCain/Bush: Great Minds Think Alike.
McCain: Internet? What Internet?
McCain: I Got Snakes in My Head!
McCain: Shia? Shmia! Let God Sort Them Out!
McCain: Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran…heh, heh- I’ll be a Fun President, y’all!
McCain: “Honey, show these nice Bikers Your Great Knockers.”
McCain: I Dumped My Crippled Wife After Her Near-Fatal Car Accident to Wed an Heiress- hehehe.
McCain: “I invested 360k with Con-man Keating, and let him pay for 9 of my luxury family vacations including my babysitters, Even Though My Wife is Richer Than God, Before I Bullied Regulators Not to Prosecute Him”
McCain: Slimy, Corrupt Lobbyists Run My Campaign
McCain: My Wife is a C..t!
McCain: Cindy, Where the hell are my Depends, goddamnit!
Posted by: Digger | August 26, 2008, 12:18 am 12:18 am
Everybody loves Raymond is off the air.
No,,,it still showing every night on some channels.
Posted by: catleya | August 26, 2008, 12:33 am 12:33 am
I’m so confused…I don’t know who to vote for this November. Typically, I’ve always voted for my party, but I don’t feel strongly about him nor his opponent. Would it be a waste for me to write in someone who has no chance of winning but would make a wonderful president than to vote for the two options provided? At least I can say I voted… Being a second-generation immigrant, this is what I love about America and this is we always have the right and freedom to believe what we want to believe.
Posted by: divabydefault | August 26, 2008, 11:53 pm 11:53 pm
Are you better off now than you were 8 years ago? Can you trust McCain to do anything he says he will since he’s changed so many of his positions to agree with GW Bush (the worst US President in history – including Herbert Hoover). Does McCain, with his 7,8,9,10, or 11 houses, understand what it’s like to wonder which bills to pay and what to put off? Do you trust the world situation to a hot tempered man whose first reaction to every political situation will be “troops”?
I’m sorry. I prefer someone who “Will never negotiate out of fear but will never fear to negotiate.”
Also, one thing that the national media didn’t pick up on is that McCain said he’s in favor of a draft. Google in and find out for yourself.
There is only one true choice in this election. Obama/Biden.
McCain – right for the far right. Wrong for the country.
Posted by: exnyerinca | August 28, 2008, 4:24 pm 4:24 pm
A very dishonest comment by a person I actually adored for long time. Not interested in watching ELR anymore. Raymond, what were you thinking? Oh, who knows. May be Raymond is John McCain fan too.
Look I agree with Republicans on many issues. Same low tax rates for all, pro life (when it comes to new born only tho), family values, responsibility. But I in no reasonable and sensible mind can support a party that has been behind one brainless war after the other. The neocons rule that party. How can pro-life people be so favorable of waging war and cause blood of thousands and millions. Hard for me to comprehend. Actually, fair to say democrats are like that too. Didnt majority of democrats voted and do vote like Republicans when it comes to issues like that? At least republicans are being openly pro war. Originally I was for Ron Paul. Unfortunately he could not make it.Obama seems like a better choice among two. He opposed the war when all others, republicans AND democrats voted for it. Thats the only reason I would vote Obama. Other than that, I do not have a reason to vote for him. We cannot afford to have another neocon run the country for another term, and lead us into another war. Let some common sense prevail, please people.
And Patricia, you should be ashamed of yourself for discrediting Obama as just an actor with right costume at right place. One does not reach where he has by being phony. Oone does not earn millions of votes, and beat a Clinton in democratic primary by being incapable. If you still insist that he is some phony guy, a fluke, with no talent, and has made it to the top without any qualities, I ask you to wait for some harsh realities.
Posted by: Rick | August 29, 2008, 12:14 am 12:14 am