We don’t know that. The advance team might have struck out everywhere else on the block and decided that the donut shop was as good as they were going to get. Or decided to go in cold.
This is how you do it - Walz is awesome!
Wow, that’s a big hot pocket!
Seriously. How hard was it to just be a regular guy? And not make it…(wait for it)…weird?
As noted by other posters, (1) Vance was awful at trying to be folksy, and just at trying to have a human interaction with the people in the shop, (2) doing this kind of appearance at a random store, rather than one that your campaign staff has already vetted and set up to give you a friendly audience, is a crapshoot, and (3) if an appearance like this doesn’t produce good video and friendly soundbites, then, for the love of Pete, why do you, as a campaign, release the darned thing to the public?
it did seem a little like a commercial
BigT: your link (which the site right now won’t let me quote) says nothing at all about this particular video; it’s entirely about difficulties in fact checking the jizz cups. Do you have some reason to think this specific video is fake?
Um… BigT was responding to a post talking about the jizz cups. It seems appropriate to link to a video debunking the jizz cups. I’m not sure why you’d expect it to debunk something else he’s not replying to…?
You’re going to have to use the @ with his username if you want him to know you’re responding to him.
@Atamasama – I missed that, probably because the previous several posts had been about the coffee shop visit.
@needscoffee – true. Apparently I needed some coffee.
I don’t even drink coffee and sometimes I think I need coffee.
Well there’s your problem!
It is better to be at the right hand of the devil rather than in his path. Or something like that.
Yeah. I’d just learned about it being fake, and thought the Dope might want to know, so I found the thread where it had been discussed. And then the question I quoted gave me the perfect opening.
Yeah, sometimes telling fact from fiction can get you in a sticky situation.
ewwww
A Dem plant walking around with a big yogurt faux facial would have been humorous.
That was my first thought about Vance’s donut shop fiasco. Everywhere he went during that Ottawa visit, Obama was treated as a superhero. Vance seems to be basically reviled, and has the spontaneous folksiness and charisma of an overripe turnip.
“OK, here’s a box of sense: get the hell out of my store!” 
Is that better or worse than a wilted lettuce?
Brussel sprouts. Turnips have more charisma than brussel sprouts.