All About McCain

[sleepyjeff]

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...and if Obama had beat McCain to the punch would any of you have the same level of , um, "outrage"...?

No, instead we would be hearing how McCain is uncaring and Obama is rolling up his sleaves blah, blah, blah...

And I thought I was a hopeless partisan

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

McCain is a douche.

Obama is the douche: the douche we need after eight years of not feeling fresh.

Then McCain counters: Yes, my friends, Obama may be a douche, and douching may feel good and smell nice, but if you think it prevents pregnancy or STDs, you're wrong. My friends, we don't need a douche, we need a great big bag of Evercleanse to scrape the accumulated fecal matter out of the colon that is Washington, and I am that bag.

Then Obama: Ladies and gentlemen, we've just had eight years of a president who thought he was the world's Evercleanse . . .

Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

...and if Obama had beat McCain to the punch would any of you have the same level of , um, "outrage"...?

No, instead we would be hearing how McCain is uncaring and Obama is rolling up his sleaves blah, blah, blah...

You might be right, but part of the problem is that the two campaigns were preparing to issue a joint statement regarding a bipartisan approach to the issue, and then McCain jumped the gun. I think if Obama had pulled a similar stunt, that would be an instance where I would dub him too clever by half.

[Tenigma]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

You might be right, but part of the problem is that the two campaigns were preparing to issue a joint statement regarding a bipartisan approach to the issue, and then McCain jumped the gun. I think if Obama had pulled a similar stunt, that would be an instance where I would dub him too clever by half.

I think the joint statement still got released by Camp McCain. Except that only half of the statement was joint, because there's a huge-ass long postscript that McCain's folks tacked on at the end that was not part of the original statement.

By the way there are reports that while Obama was waiting for McCain to return the call yesterday morning, McCain was busy visiting with Mrs. Rothchilde.

As for "had Obama done what McCain" did, a) Obama was already talking in private with Chris Dodd, Paulson, and others on a regular basis so that he could be apprised of what was going on. b) Did not want to inject the presidential campaign into the actual workings going on in the committee right now, so he stayed away on purpose. c) Would not have asked to postpone his debate with McCain because apparently Obama is more comfortable multi-tasking.

...can we have the election NOW, please?

[mousepod]

Originally Posted by Tenigma

I think the joint statement still got released by Camp McCain. Except that only half of the statement was joint, because there's a huge-ass long postscript that McCain's folks tacked on at the end that was not part of the original statement.

By the way there are reports that while Obama was waiting for McCain to return the call yesterday morning, McCain was busy visiting with Mrs. Rothchilde.

As for "had Obama done what McCain" did, a) Obama was already talking in private with Chris Dodd, Paulson, and others on a regular basis so that he could be apprised of what was going on. b) Did not want to inject the presidential campaign into the actual workings going on in the committee right now, so he stayed away on purpose. c) Would not have asked to postpone his debate with McCain because apparently Obama is more comfortable multi-tasking.

...can we have the election NOW, please?

Yesterday, I thought that the joint statement was half-joint, half-Obama.

[mousepod]

Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

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...and if Obama had beat McCain to the punch would any of you have the same level of , um, "outrage"...?

No, instead we would be hearing how McCain is uncaring and Obama is rolling up his sleaves blah, blah, blah...

And I thought I was a hopeless partisan

But he didn't.

Since you're a hopeless partisan, why don't you defend your candidate and his decisions instead of questioning a response that never occurred over an action that didn't take place?

I'll bet if a progressive posed as many hypotheticals as you, all of his friends would point at him and laugh.