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Gibson Interviews McCain
October 09, 2008 2:11 PM
ABC's Tom Nagorski from Indiana:
It can get tough remembering where you are on a bus tour (Bowling Green, OH yesterday morning; Indianapolis in the afternoon; Northbrook, IL at night; up into Wisconsin early today) but there was no doubt we'd come to the right place as we turned a corner in downtown Milwaukee this morning. There was a bus the size of ours, parked outside the Pfister Hotel. "McCain-Palin '08," it said on the side. Senator McCain and Governor Palin were there, and within the hour the Senator hopped on the OTHER bus (i.e., ours) for an interview with Charlie Gibson.
Senator McCain bristles at the suggestion that he is somehow weaker than his opponent when it comes to the economy (Sen Obama's "been all over the place on all of his tax proposals. I have the experience and the knowledge and the judgment to make the right decisions…"); he calls the current global credit crisis "in many ways…the same situation we faced during the Great Depression"; and he certainly believes attacking Senator Obama's past -- including his relationship with the bomber-turned-academic Bill Ayers is fair game.
Charlie: "You don't think he's been thoroughly vetted, having gone through all the primaries and all the campaigning, running for president as long as you have? Two years?"
McCain: "No, actually I don't. In fact, Senator Clinton in their debates said that the American people didn’t know enough about him, including his relationship with Mr. Ayers. That’s what she said. And I agree with that. He said he was a guy in the neighborhood. We know that’s not true. He said – he wrote down a piece of paper that he would take public financing for his presidential campaign if I would. He betrayed the trust of the American people there."
It's hard to know how this plays out there; we do know -- from voters we've met along the way -- that this isn't a question we've heard raised much, on the road.
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McCain gets more erratic and pathetic every day. No wonder Palin has taken over the campaign. Poor ole John, he just doesn't understand that his day is done and he's a figure of the past.
Posted by: JR | Oct 9, 2008 2:30:00 PM
"Right judgement"???? Like putting Sarah Palin one heartbeat away from being the most powerful person in the world.
Posted by: doug | Oct 9, 2008 2:31:07 PM
This will be another liberal slanted interview. Won't bother watching...I'm sure Charlie will have his glasses hanging off the end of his nose like a disapproving professor. Saw his interview of Obama and it was nauseating!
Posted by: maverick_mom | Oct 9, 2008 2:31:50 PM
I think if Mccain would have picked a credible VP and concentrated on what he could do for us then maybe he would have a chance, but most people cannot take sarah Palin seriously and Mccain sounds more and more like an angry old man who is out of touch.
By the way of course to Mccain healthcare is a responsibility, he has never NOT had health care. First he was a military brat with coverage then he enlisted and was covered, and since he has been back from vietnam he has had coverage, His family does not know what it is like to suffer, to be sick, and not be able to get the care you need.
Posted by: Donna. | Oct 9, 2008 2:32:44 PM
The Obama family has been the most vetted family for 2 years but nothing on the Palin family Sara wont even do interviews for gods sake THE QUESTION IS WHO IS THE REAL SARA PALIN this lady is a heartbeat away from the presidency and we know nothing about her her life in alaska nothing, WE DO KNOW THIS
1-SHE MAY HAVE ABUSED HER POWER AS GOVENOR
2-SHE HAS A TEENAGE DAUGHTER THATS PREGNANT
3-SHE HAS LIED ABOUT BRIDGE TO NOWHERE
4- HER PASTOR SEEMS TO BE SOME WITCH DOCTOR
5- HER FIRST DUDE BELONGED TO SOME ANTI-AMERICAN CLUB A BUNCH OF INDEPENDENT ALASKINS THAT HATE AMERICA AND DONT WANT ALASKA PART OF THE US
now weather these things are true or not WHO KNOWS she will not do NO interviews to talk about these issuses out there about her, she will only go on fox news WHY? Michelle Obama has done more interviews then her and shes not running for vp
Posted by: angie | Oct 9, 2008 2:38:12 PM
Did you see the fox news interview of the man who's family home was bombed by Obama's buddy Ayers?
And he said of Obama's assertion that he didn't know about Ayers: "then Obama must be the dumbest man to graduate from Harvard and Columbia"!
LOL!
Notice, that through all of Obama's distractions, he STILL NEVER talks about his relationship with Ayers, which spans years. What is he covering up? Why is he lying?
And why is ABC news not sending their investigative hounds in to look at this issue, as they have looked into Palin's, as far as digging through her trash bins?
Bias? of course, would not expect anything more, and the country will suffer for it.
Posted by: liberati | Oct 9, 2008 2:39:40 PM
mccain doesnt matter. americans have had enough republican b/s. obama will win this election easily without the core low brow republican supporters who will vote republican just because they dont know any better.
obama will win because MANY republicans are SICK of the way this country is going and rightly dont believe the republican hyperbole and rhetoric anymore ,not from bush cheney mccain palin or ANY republican.
i have heard many republicans say they were not going to vote at all ,and many others are actually voting democratic ,at least for the presidency. anyone is better than a republican , that is the new gospel.
NO MORE REPUBLICANS IN ELECTED OR APPOINTED OFFICE ,EXCEPT FOR DOGCATCHER AND SEWER MAINTENANCE .
Posted by: bah | Oct 9, 2008 2:41:07 PM
McCain is right on target. Such a wise man and thank goodness the next President!
McCain-Palin 08!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Rayk | Oct 9, 2008 2:41:41 PM
Obama Calls McCain Mortgage Plan ‘Risky’. Obama said the "surge" would not work! Obama doesn't want anything to help America...don't bring the troops to come home before he is elected...Obama is FIRST, not America. Vote Obama, crash America.
Posted by: Ann | Oct 9, 2008 2:46:15 PM
McCain:
"Changing the Face" can change
nothing. But "Facing the Change"
can change everything.
Don't complain about others; change
yourself if you want to be successful.
Posted by: FM | Oct 9, 2008 2:46:50 PM
How much vetting did Sarah Palin get?
Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | Oct 9, 2008 2:47:31 PM
Senator McCain bristles at the suggestion that he is somehow weaker than his opponent when it comes to the economy (Sen Obama's "been all over the place on all of his tax proposals. I have the experience and the knowledge and the judgment to make the right decisions…");
Then why doesn't he start making them? He has shown he is erratic every step of the way in this campaign starting with his gas tax holiday proposal. His selection of Palin, when ability to serve as president was his own stated most important criteria in selecting a VP continued the perception of McCain as impulsive and has backfired. The suspension of his campaign exasperated a heated political situation in the face of a crisis did not show steady leadership when it was sorely needed. His resorting to personal attacks when he once railed against such tactics showed a lack of principles. His surprise buy-out package that wasn't thought through careful and now must admit it contained mistakes in the original version showed a rush to pander voters. His overall demeanor that doesn't embrace folks but rather scolds them and he looks like an angry old man. In my 40 years of being eligible to vote I have never seen anyone run a worse campaign than John McCain. Not just in spirit but in tactics. He is what he is. Erratic, impulsive, and a bit mean spirited when pressed. John McCain deserves to loose the election and it won't be because the economy went bad. It will be because McCain was a bad candidate. I would suggest Republican intellectuals (and there are many) regroup and think about what their core values are and how to intellectually present them.
Right now the Republican of which McCain is the leader is intellectually adrift.
Posted by: indy_voter | Oct 9, 2008 2:49:26 PM
NO MORE REPUBLICANS IN ELECTED OR APPOINTED OFFICE ,EXCEPT FOR DOGCATCHER AND SEWER MAINTENANCE .
Posted by: bah | Oct 9, 2008 2:52:20 PM
bah, sorry to disagree with you, I want my toilet to work, so scratch sewer maint. off your list....
Posted by: Paul K. | Oct 9, 2008 2:53:59 PM
same team same tactics
9th year
get angry America
throw these lying bums out!
Posted by: dl | Oct 9, 2008 2:56:08 PM
McCain has probably run the worst campaign politically than any candidate I have ever seen. I am not talking dirty campaign (though he certainly). I am talking about strategically and tactically. I am sure many, many, Republicans will blame this election on the bad economy. I would suggest you to look again. McCain has demonstrated impulsiveness, erratic behavior, mean-spiritness, and poor judgement that the Republican party has tried to put a good face on. Republicans need to learn from this and become a party of ideas. Right now they are not. The package McCain threw together to buy housing is an example. It looks like it was thrown together with little thought to pander to voters. If Republicans come out of this election believing the economy was the cost for them losing they will have learned nothing. They chose a terrible candidate with little to say whose true character (or lack of) has been demonstrated in this campaign.
Posted by: indy_voter | Oct 9, 2008 2:58:34 PM
Bill Ayers’ wife Bernadine Dohrn, also one of the original leaders of the Weather Underground, and the woman who took credit for the bombing at our home and other New York targets, Bernadine Dohrn was a attorney by training. She couldn’t get admitted to bar because of her crimes. Bill Ayers’ family got her a job at a large Chicago law firm, Sydney and Austin in the 1980s. She was contemporary at that law firm in the 80s with Michelle Obama. It was the firm where a year later Michelle and Obama met.
Obama - not my president
Posted by: jeff | Oct 9, 2008 2:58:48 PM
McCain/Palin, old 19th century mentallity, time to come into the 21st century...Obama/Biden...
Posted by: Paul K. | Oct 9, 2008 2:58:50 PM
Funny thing is, everyone thought Obama would lose for not picking Hillary! Now, with the economic crisis, can you imagine if McCain would have only selected Mitt Romney for the VP slot? The GOP would actually still be close...Oh how the tables have turned:)
O and Joe '08
Posted by: PoliticsAsUsual | Oct 9, 2008 3:00:05 PM
A New York Supreme Court justice family's home was targeted by Bill Ayers, put out a statement Wednesday claiming "Barack Obama's friend tried to kill my family." Fact that Barack Obama lied when he says Bill Ayers is just a man that lives in my neighborhood. Bill Ayers held a campaign event in his own home for his friend Barack Obama in 1995. Obama and Ayers served TOGETHER on the Annenberg Challenge board FOR YEARS! Have you ever heard of Factcheck.org well it is owned by the Annenberg Foundation ---the same group that Barack Obama let look at his “birth certification”, not his original birth certificate to tell the public it is okay. The American public has be HAD!
Posted by: Ann | Oct 9, 2008 3:00:07 PM
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