McCain laments selection of Ifill - Mike Allen - Politico.com
Hours ahead of the vice presidential debate, Sen John McCain (R-Ariz.) criticized the selection of PBS’s Gwen Ifill as moderator because she is writing a book called “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.”
…“But I have to have confidence that Gwen Ifill will handle this as the professional journalist that she is. …
“Life isn’t fair, as I mentioned earlier in the program.”
Couldn’t they have gotten Keith Olbermann to do it? Or Obama himself?
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Johnny “teh Mavrick” McCain just signed onto this joint statement encouraging us to support the admittedly “flawed” bill that the Senate just larded up and passed (despite the Constitutional rule that spending bills must originate in the House).
This is bad economics and worse politics. Why is it that Mr. Maverick always seems to aim his mavericking at making the real Conservatives in the GOP look bad? I know, rhetorical question.
Is it too late to go back to backing Bob Barr? Quixotic, I know, but I’m just even more disgusted with McCain than I was before.
Bill, the more I watch this Presidential race, the more I think McCain is not very serious about wanting to be President. If he keeps this up, he’s going to lose big.
That’s very likely what I’ll end up doing. Quixotic? Maybe. But when events indicate you’ve made the wrong decision, what else can you do but change it?
My real problem with McCain is that he appears to be nuts.
My guess would be, Olbermann was much too busy, looking for a mirror large enough for him to properly admire his ego…
Obama, of course, would be excluded on the basis of equal time (since that would mean he would get an additional TeeVee appearance in a “political forum” over McStain) - after all, you’ve gotta have some rules, right??…
BTW:
Appears more to me to be willing to lose, in the interest of bending over backwards to appear “fair” and “statesmanlike” and “a good sport” -
He says that just as though being a “professional” in PBS-style journaljism is a good thing…
Word up, Johnnie: There is no necessary correlation between “professional journalist” and “impartial moderator” (particularly in this instance).
Unlike the previous “debate,” this one I intend to watch - it should be instructive.
I agree. If I were McCain I would start connecting the banking crisis to the democrats and point out that Obama has advisors from those failing institutions on his staff and has taken money from them as well. All McCain has to do is tell the truth about what happened and who was responsible (btw, isn’t it interesting that the two biggest crisis’ in modern times - 9/11 and the mortgage crisis - that the name Gorelick pops up front and center?). Why do the Republicans do this time and time again? Why are they such idiots? Bob Barr’s stance on the war on terror isn’t any different than Ron Paul’s, so I can’t vote for him. I’m back to letting Obama win and proving to be the disaster I know he will be while I hunker down and ride the storm.
Ace believes that McCain is holding fire until after the bailout bill passes. He expects that McCain will follow passage by claiming to be the bipartisan leader, and Obama and the Democrats the partisan porkers.
We’ll see.
This is why the whole “McCain is our best shot at winning in a bad year for the GOP” argument was never completely convincing to me.
Based on the environment the GOP is facing, a “maverick” may have been our only hope, but the “maverick” would still need to be partisan enough to fight rather than bending over
forwardsbackwards in order to be a good sport.In a “circumstantial” sense, McCain might be the best bet, but his temperment means he’ll be the last guy to take advantage of his own strengths.
It’s like a left handed reliever taking himself out of the bullpen and putting himself in right field.