’)- Reporter tries hard to get Mccain to say Obama is an elitist
- McCain concedes were probably in a recession yet of course a few weeks ago he didn’t think so
- Says finger of blame for economy can be pointed at Bush, congress. Of course his party has been in control of both to date
- Claims he didn’t flip flop on mortgage bailout plan
- Said “greedy” execs also to blame. Wonder how his legislative record matches that
- Says we haven’t reached full equality
- AP reporter (Liz Sidoti) apologizes for asking him a question he won’t like then asks him about his age. The deference is pretty stunning.
- Ron Fournier asks if McCain would have Obama or Clinton would serve in his cabinet. He says no. McCain says this will be “a respectful campaign”. McCain says he’s tired of 527s. Yet he rallied with one last week.
- Says he will be able to increase military enrollment by “inspiring” people
- Szdoti asks him how would win the war if he doesn’t win the election. What a weirdly constructed query.
- Reiterates opposition to torture and waterboarding. Yet the other day didn’t he sign on to something else entirely? And why is it I know that standing over here yet the press can’t/won’t ask a follow up
- McCain says he doesn’t support Roe vs Wade, promises to nominate constructionists
OVERALL: He didn’t exactly make any serious news. The basic attack on the “bitter” remarks seems to be to say that rural/small town America has been the backbone of our society, especially the military. Of course, this construction requires a deliberate distortion of Sen. Obama’s remarks and as they demonstrated here the press will let him get away with it. He also said that he has proposed “green” legislation that he thinks can stand up versus Clinton/Obama. But the media won’t note that McCain is practically a zero on environmental networks.
She had better apologize if she wants ribs!
The basic attack on the “bitter” remarks seems to be to say that rural/small town America has been the backbone of our society, especially the military.
Well, that makes sense when all the industry in your town closes or goes offshore and there is literally NOTHING LEFT for you.
Szdoti asks him how would win the war if he doesn’t win the election.
Um….the power of prayer? What?!?
Dude, can’t you throw him some heat from where you are? Or do you have to be a newspaper dog and/or pony?
The TradMed ass kissing of McBush is stunning. Not because they softball him questions but because of the whole apology thing. I mean WTF!!!
Yeah you have to be one of the “professionals” to ask questions here, though I did hope to see one of his spinners so I could ask them a few uncomfortable queries.
Says finger of blame for economy can be pointed at Bush, congress. Of course his party has been in control of both to date
McCain is a Democrat now?
Bush is a Democrat now? Sell stupid somewhere else farris. We’re all full here.
He is today, in front of this crowd. Stay tuned.
Call me elitist, but how is rural/small town America the backbone of our society? I know it’s a needed platitude for a politician, but come on. Cities and their suburbs are home to more than 1/2 of the population and pay a great majority of the taxes. Aren’t we the backbone of society?
“Aren’t we the backbone of society?”
Only in the sense that urban dwellers complete the small town/rural mythos as the godless, decadent heathens that the “real folks” need to be saved from. That seems to be the role us city dwellers play in national politics and media discourse.
But hey, at least we have a role to play!
My apoligies EL. I could have SWORN that I read somewhere that the Democratics took control of the House & Senate in 2006. I guess that was just my overactive imagination.
“Says finger of blame for economy can be pointed at Bush, congress. Of course his party has been in control of both to date.”
Can you read your own bleatings? The statement above says that Bush and Congress have been under the control of McCain’s party. You had to interject and say “McCain’s a Democrat?”, which means that you must think Bush is a Democrat also.
You wanted to be the wiseass, I’m just reading your words. Not my fault if you can’t read or write.
Meanwhile, Obama is holding steady in Rasmussen and going UP in the Gallup tracking polls (he’s got a ten-point lead on Hillary and a two-point lead on McCain today):
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4/14/105421/976/959/495355
TO DATE.
I guess you missed that part. Your bleatings would be totally justifed had Oliver said “up until 2006″, but Oliver didn’t go there because it took off just a little too much rhetorical edge for his tastes. Hence, the more damning (yet more innacurate) “to date”…
PS: If you’d have appended “HTML” to your last statement, you’d be TOTALLY justified!
Yes, Farris, back when you were predicting BIG wins for the GOP. Remember that? Good times….
STFU farris. Better yet, go suck on an exhaust pipe. Make sure you put premium unleaded in the car first.
[...] off of this controversy either, though it is important to note, as Oliver Willis brings to light, McCain seems to be softening on his attacks against Obama being an elitist. This makes me believe that at least McCain seems to understand the potential for blowback that [...]
Hey, Oliver, nice Jack Abramoff icon. Is that in honor of the news that Obama collected $125,000 from Abramoff’s lobbying firm?
I think I need to whip up a Tony Rezko icon for myself.
J.
Mr. Tea? OW has been using that icon for more than a year. You just now notice it?
Actually I didn’t go there because I was writing the flipping thing in real time on an iPhone. Ok, for 1 out of the last 7 years of Bush we’ve had a a Democratic congress – a Democratic congress with an obstructionist Republican minority in the Senate.
JT, I haven’t heard about Obama getting money from Abramoff’s law firm. Link?
Enlightened, right here: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/politics/ny-usobam0413,0,6020233.story
J.
Wait a minute, you posted the wrong link. That link talks about money that Obama got from lawyers who work for the law firm that formerly employed Abramoff and fired him when he began to be investigated.
Don’t see that he got a nickel from the law firm and don’t see any connection to Abramoff. Surely you wouldn’t have been lying when you said
“Is that in honor of the news that Obama collected $125,000 from Abramoff’s lobbying firm?”
Of course at first I figured that you forgot to insert “former” before lobbying firm, but no, that’s still wrong because he didn’t collect any money from the lobbying firm, just its employees who support Obama. And I guess you didn’t read page 2, where it stated that McCain raised $138,000 from firm employees. If you read it you would also have found that Mrs. Clinton raised $139,000 from the same firm’s employees.
This wouldn’t be another example of the sloppy reporting that Wiz is known for, right?
Typical quote from a repug whose party has nothing left but their own garbage to suck on. Their party no sucks because it has been destroyed by GWB, Dick Cheney and Karl Rove. Their candidate, McSame sucks because he has transfigured himself into a political reincarnination of Bush. We all know Bush sucks. What else do you expect from the whats left of the party that sucks?
The insinuation that Obama was taking money from “Abramoff’s lobbying firm” is an outright lie. This was from the employees who worked there and not the firm. I believe that’s illegal. Of course lying is a typical tactic of the followers of people like Nixon, Bush, Cheney, Rove and McCain.
McCain has a Warren Jeffs-like control of the media
Pardon me for sounding elitist but if equality of principles were applied in the wingnut wankosphere shouldn’t Kenneth Lay’s dontaions the the Bush presidential run get a teenie bit of a scrutiny as well?
IOKIYAR
No worries, OW. Liz brought doughnuts!
In the late 1960’s sports reporting changed to a more journalistic approach from the earlier approach where sportswriters wrote only in admiring terms without talking about players flaws.
The difference was that earlier reporters were completely sponsored by the team- their meals, travel, dry cleaning and everything. When reporters began to be reimbursed by their newspaper their reporting became- well, reporting.
Maybe if the same thing happened in politics then we would get some real insight into St. McCain rather than the usual pablum.
No, PD, doesn’t count. Ken Lay is dead, so all bets are off. I guess.
Another thing- I was watching Access Hollywood last night about the Britny Spears accident. If we assigned THOSE reporters to McCain his chances would be over in 15 minutes. Britney Spears is actually asked critical questions, but our presidential candidates are not. How wrong is that?