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23.07.2008
McCain Takes My Advice

 

After a couple days of nonstop kvetching from the McCain campaign about how Barack Obama gets so much more press attention than their guy, they've decided to cancel his only press availability of the week. Is McCain trying to duck questions about the timelines of the surge and the Awakening and about his comments suggesting Obama was content to "lose a war"? Or did someone on the campaign just realize that less coverage is actually better when you're stumbling this badly?

--Christopher Orr

Posted: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 4:44 PM with 8 comment(s)

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icarusr said:

Nah, he had forgotten to eat his Metamusil for a few days, needs to go home and regenerate.

July 23, 2008 4:58 PM

blackton said:

regarding timetables, it is lucky McCain didn't give Kennedy's moon speech vowing to go to the moon within the decade of the 60's. We would still be waiting for just the right time to go, when every scientist agrees that every condition is perfect, which would be never. Kennedy's commitment lit a fire under the ass of NASA, and without timetables, goals to be reached how is anyone supposed to put faith in McCain?

I am so disappointed with McCain's general election campaign, McCain definitely needs to retune. He might win as the last white man standing, but he will come in as a cipher with no mandate.

July 23, 2008 5:35 PM

ChanRobt said:

blackie writes, "...He might win as the last white man standing, but he will come in as a cipher with no mandate."

Oh, and, even though as you are saying, it still appears to be very close, if Obama wins it will be with an immense landslide and the mandate that goes with it?

July 23, 2008 6:20 PM

FWright said:

Karl Rove has been wrong about a lot of things, but he was right at least once - mandates are bunk.  When you win, you win - only losers talk about mandates or the lack thereof.

July 23, 2008 6:50 PM

thetraytiger said:

Chan, if Obama wins a close election, it'll be because 51% of the country voted enthusiastically FOR him, and he'll have a governing mandate. If McCain wins, it'll be because 51% voted AGAINST Obama. On day 1, McCain's expendable political capital would hover somewhere between milk money and a bucket of warm spit.

July 24, 2008 1:21 AM

psantillana said:

He's TOO white. He looks like Casper the Friendly Ghost. I am at the point of feeling sorry for him, because I know it's only going to get worse. He was coasting when BO and HRC were duking it out, and now that he's getting the scrutiny - finally - it's kind of painful to watch. But I also can't not look.

Look, for example, at this campaign poster:

www.balloon-juice.com

July 24, 2008 4:30 AM

bigfish said:

Haha, psantillana!  That campaign poster looks like it is for a bad movie, or done by some photoshop-adept high schooler who wanted to do PR for the upcoming school play.  Waaay overdone and not Presidential, in my opinion.

July 24, 2008 9:41 AM

blackton said:

channy, it is possible that the Dems might have 60 seats in the Senate. If Obama wins by one vote the Dems sure as hell can claim a mandate, or are you going to say an overwhelming lead in the house and the Senate count for nothing?

July 24, 2008 11:28 AM