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McCain Doing Fundraiser With Bush Today -- With Minimal TV Coverage
John McCain is now getting closer to President Bush as he seeks to fix his campaign's cash-flow problems -- but in a sign that he recognizes the problem of Bush's unpopularity, he's not getting too close in public.
McCain and Bush will co-host a big-money fundraiser in Phoenix today, the first time they've been seen together in three months. The catch: TV footage of the two of them together will be kept to a minimum.
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Why does McCain treat the President like the girl in the bar at 3AM?
May 27, 2008 8:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
A booty call by any other name is still a booty call.
May 27, 2008 8:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
We as a people are at a defining moment or Choice for our planet -- that of right human relations with people everywhere in the world or the possible annihiliation of our planet due to men with war-mongering minds who want to try and delude us that the continuation of wars with all the nuclear bombs out there will not somehow escalate into a fullblown war of these nuclear and atomic bombs which will surely bring about the destruction of the earth! So the question is, will we and can we chose peace and diplomacy or instead be led towards a steady drumbeat march toward wars and an enventual nuclear proliferation. It is our choice after all!
May 27, 2008 8:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
Because McStain HAS NO HONOR.
May 27, 2008 8:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, Mr. President, get off my lawn!
May 27, 2008 8:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
McSame and his albatross. Gotta love it.
May 27, 2008 9:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
Is Mr. Bush flying to Arizona on Air Force One to campaign for McCain on taxpayer funds? Thousands of gallons of jet fuel that we pay for to help in a partisan cause. I don't know what's worse, using Enron's private jets to ferry the Bushies around during the 2000 election and Florida recount or using the American people's 747 to raise money for his party's presumptive candidate. That was the same plane he used when celebrating McCain's birthday and raising money for the party in 2005 when Katrina hit and the same plane he gazed down at the flood from after ignoring the problem for 3 days.
Can we send Cindy the bill? She can afford it.
May 27, 2008 10:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
The Arizona Republic's website, azcentral.com, has studiously avoided any mention of the fact that the fundraiser was moved from the Phx Convention Center because they sold too few tickets.
May 27, 2008 10:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
NPR also omitted that detail in one of its hourly news updates
May 27, 2008 12:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
If anyone had any doubt whether a McCain presidency would be Bush's 3rd term, his shameful stance of providing educational benefits to veterans exposes McCain as a Bush wannabe. This is all about McCain ingratiating himself to Bush Republicans so that they will cough up bucks to support his Bush-like campaign. This is pure political whoring by a man who has lost his sense of honor and duty to those who have died, have risked and are risking their lives while the rest of us are safely out of harms way. Evidently, McCain believes that the life of a man or woman who has managed to survive in Iraq or Afghanistan one year isn't worth as much as someone who is lucky enough to survive longer. McCain must think that American soldiers have more than "one life" to give for their country. He obviously knows that the longer they are in harms way the less likely they'll survive to receive any educational benefits at all. McCain/Bush economics in action. And some people don't understand why many Americans can use the word "hate" when referring to Bush/McCain Republicans.
May 27, 2008 10:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Let's compare and contrast candidates, shall we, class?
Using the web, Obama raises tens of millions in small donations to his campaign from millions of supporters.
Using the web, John McCain suggests that supporters troll-post on DailyKos to catapult his propaganda, then Mr. Straight Talk, not-beholden-to-special-interests-and-lobbyists resorts to getting Bush's help wheedling big donations from fat cats and lobbyists.
Albatross!
May 27, 2008 12:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oooh, Dubya, I jus luvz kissin yo lil hoo-ha. Specially wid all dem bux flyin outta it. Mmmm, tasty!
May 27, 2008 12:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well now we know why McCain didn't vote for the GI Bill, because it is taboo for ANY Repug to give any taxpayer money to vets since they already promised it all to Unbid contractors in Iraq.
I bet the only people invited are the Republicans ONLY constituency anymore: Halliburton Blackwater, DynCorp, Triple Canopy and Boeing as well as Big Oil and Big Pharm.
And then McCain criticism the way Bush handled the war, but isn't biting the hand the feeds him?
May 27, 2008 12:45 PM | Reply | Permalink