It was a ploy.
The Minnesota Independent reports getting hold of the GOP Memo: ‘McCain-Palin TIME OUT’ sent to the wrong list.
….talking points accidentally sent out by a GOP spokesperson on how to discuss the suspension of McCain’s campaign. The memo, titled “TALKING POINTS: SUSPENDING THE CAMPAIGN,” was sent out in error to the entire Colorado media list by McCain represenative Tom Kise. It includes his warning: “Please do not proactively reach out to the media on this.”
According to PolitickerCO’s Jeremy Pelzer, Kise wasn’t pleased when he discovered that the list, meant only for volunteers, was so widely distributed. “F*ck, tell me I didn’t send it to the wrong list,” he reportedly said. The eight-point memo begins:
~ To address our nation’s financial crisis, John McCain will suspend his campaign and return to Washington. He has spoken to Senator Obama and informed him of his decision and asked Senator Obama to join him. The campaign is suspending its advertising and fundraising.
Obama, in a press conference Wednesday, agreed that “there are times for politics and there are times to rise above politics and do what’s right,” but says the debate must go on: “This is exactly the time when people need to hear from the candidates.”
The Obama campaign contests the McCain camp’s assertion that the Republican candidate had “asked Senator Obama to join him,” — as the talking points state — saying it was Obama who initiated the communication about joint action on the economic crisis.
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Sounds a bit more than a simple postponement of the debate. Why suspend advertising and fundraising?
Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) told BloombergTV last night, “a deal is 98% done and Bush is trying to help out McCain by parachuting him into to the middle of negotiation which will slow things down”
I may add, slowing down negotiations will give McCain his rationale for postponing the debates.
McCain stated his ultimatum. “No bailout deal by Friday, no debate. As Obama pointed out, We both have jets to fly in for the debates and back to DC.
The University of Mississippi, host of the debate on Friday, is reported as stating the debate will be held. Obama has said he’ll be at his podium.
The VP debate is scheduled for October 2. Senator Lindsey Graham told CNN that too is to be postponed.
As for the McCain’s ploy of “postponing the debates” Bloomberg reported on historians noting “that the Civil War, the Great Depression and World War II didn’t prompt suspensions of presidential campaigns.
This is the real McCain. Reckless. A cowardly hero who can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.
This may just foil Bush-McCain’s attempt to politicize the process for photo-ops
Reuters:
Senator Chris Dodd says there’s still work to do.
That’s a huge price to pay for some short-lived political victory. We give away trillions of dollars to criminal bankers in exchange for McCain looking bad in suspending his campaign.
This describes the Democratic party in a nutshell. Give away the store and then pretend that they’re actually “winning” or even offering any sort of meaningful opposition.
Newsflash
What’s not being told. The $700 billion is only a down payment for a hugh mortgage – in the multiple trillions – that does not include Frannie and Freddie’s deal.
We’re hyper-inflating away trillions of debt. It’s called defaulting on debt.
The VP debate will be postponed and never rescheduled. Allowing Palin to debate will end the McSame campaign overnight. They know this. You will never see Palin and Biden go at it before the election. Ever.
But make no mistake: while canceling the VP debate is secondary, the primary goal is Mutual Assured Destruction of a Bailout Bill that both McSame and Obama are forced to sign. Wall Street gets our money and the economy goes off the table for both sides as a campaign issue.
It’s a pretty good plan. McSame gets to Save Washington and the economy vanishes as an angle of attack for Obama.
I just hope Obama see what is going on here.
Bill Clinton is in the tank for McCain:
Send Bill a GOP application form
That’s funny.
McSame’s playing to lose, because Obama has to be President for Plan Palin 2012 to work.
Clinton’s trying to help McSame, because McSame has to be President for Plan Hillary 2012 to work.
I’d laugh, but we’re facing a depression either way and we all end up losing no matter who wins.
The McCain gamble — playing well, poker:
Obama to McCain; “hey I see you and raise you ten”
Nice. Very, very nice.
Some tell Bill that Hillary Lost. if the economy is in such a crisis why is McCain still going the Bill’s Global Initiative Conference?
Damn Bill, should quit backstabbing the Democratic Party.
In my opinion, either you’ve ‘been had’ (which is the view I favor) by the McCain campaign in describing this as a gaffe or, much worse, you’re running their talking points for them.
Now, I don’t really think the latter, so I’m sticking with the view that you’re really just being naive.
I read the linked memo. Question: Just where is the text you assert it contains???—
“It includes his warning: “Please do not proactively reach out to the media on this.”
???
It’s not anywhere I could see in the Colorado Independent’s report, the secondary source of your image of the memo, nor is it found in that paper’s cited source, “Politickerco.com” (by Jeremy Pelzer) [see http://www.politickerco.com/jeremypelzer/2387/mccain-suspends-campaign-according-accidentally-sent-e
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Instead, it looks to me like the supposedly erroneously sent memo was intended to reach exactly those to whom it was supposedly mistakenly sent.
You don’t even recognize a perfectly obvious and non-damaging rationale for the campaign announcing (that is announcing, not necessarily actually suspending) the suspension of its paid ads?
Sheesh!!!
“Thanks alot” for your keen insights. I think I’ll stay with my own instincts.
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how about suspending the fundraising too?
And let’s not depend ONLY on the printed. McCain went on TV or did you miss that? Then look at his schedule….needed to be in DC but instead yesterday morning he was meeting with Lady de Rothchild and today in New York at CLinton’s Global Inititative. Oh forgot, the urgency. Gimme a break.