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McCain Didn't Really Suspend His Campaign, Part 9,472
Not that it really matters anymore, but here's the latest installment, courtesy of HuffPo:
The Huffington Post called up 15 McCain-Palin and McCain Victory Committee headquarters in various battleground states. Not one said that it was temporarily halting operations because of the supposed "suspension" in the campaign. Several, in fact, enthusiastically declared the continuation of their work. Others hadn't even heard that the candidate for whom they were devoting their time had officially stopped campaigning.
Related question: Why does MSNBC have a chyron saying McCain suspended his campaign when the network itself had a McCain adviser on attacking Obama today?
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I know they haven't suspended their radio ads here in Sarasota County. I heard them this morning.
September 25, 2008 3:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain: "I hereby withdraw my nonundesuspensionization deauthorization"
September 25, 2008 3:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
best
word
ever
September 25, 2008 3:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow. Just wow.
Granted, I was born during the Carter administration, so I'm relatively new to all this. But has a presidential candidate ever been so insultingly, so unflinchingly dishonest? What does it say about the American people, that we accept this (or, as we say so commercially now, "buy into" it) so willingly?
September 25, 2008 3:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thrice in my memory: 1974, 2000, and 2004.
September 25, 2008 3:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can't help think that if you time-warped McItsallaboutme's campaign into say 1953, '73 or even '83, the movers and shakers in this country would be very pissed-after they had gotten up off the floor from laughing so hard.
September 25, 2008 5:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
CRAP! I'm scoring at home, and missed points 9,423 through 9,468.
Anyone? Anyone?
September 25, 2008 3:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't sweat it. Points 9,451 and 9,458-9,460 would just give you a brain aneurysm and cause your head to explode anyway.
September 25, 2008 4:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain would never lie to us. How dare you call him a liar?
For five and a half years, he didn't even have the chance to lie!
September 25, 2008 3:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, that's a good explanation-- that he's simply making up for lost time.
September 25, 2008 3:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually...he did.
September 25, 2008 3:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Related question: Why does MSNBC have a chyron saying McCain suspended his campaign when the network itself had a McCain adviser on attacking Obama today?"
I love you guys (TPM and all, or almost all, its readers): You really make the rest of the world think. The MSNBC host should have realized that he/she should have challenged the chyron for even coming on the show. Let's keep it up to November & beyond.
September 25, 2008 3:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just got my email recruiting for Saturday and Sunday (oh my- Sunday too!) walks for John and Sarah- I guess they are off, but the machine is still churning.
Not really suspended is it?
From: Virginia Team McCain
To: XXXXXX.com
Sent: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 2:17 pm
Subject: Join a weekend walk or phone bank in Fairfax County, Arlington County or Alexandria Cit
Join a weekend walk or phone bank in Fairfax County, Arlington County or Alexandria City!
Each week there are many opportunities in Northern Virginia to help John McCain!
This Saturday, September 27th and Sunday September 28th, we will continue canvassing the Commonwealth to identify voters favorable to John McCain and recruit volunteers for our Republican ticket. Please meet at one of the following rallying locations to help:
September 25, 2008 3:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey,
You ought to write them back and forward them McCain's announcement about the suspended campaign. Heck, you could even carbon copy your local news media!
September 25, 2008 3:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
YES!! Do that!!
September 25, 2008 3:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
So why are you getting team McCain emails?
September 25, 2008 4:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Same reason a bunch of us do - you end up catching them shooting themselves in the foot like this.
You tend to slip up a lot more when you don't expect your readers to be critical.
September 25, 2008 4:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't tell me you never joined a liberal org with the purpose of getting their email - I've done any number of times.
September 25, 2008 4:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
god I butchered that - I can't believe I wrote that.
sheeeeeeit.
I've joined any number of wackjob righwing orgs online in order to get their emails. I think I belonged to Reed's group at one point. You just fill out a form and then you can blog about the hilarious things they send you.
September 25, 2008 4:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Do you blog? If you did, I'd definitely read it (especially as a fellow DFWan).
September 25, 2008 5:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
While I do come here to see what the "whacked out left" has on their minds I can truely say that I've never signed up for an organization or campaign I didn't believe in just to monitor them...seriously.
September 25, 2008 4:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well Wallace, between just signing up for emails from the right, and trolling a liberal board from the right, I'd say signing up for emails is a lot less noxious, especially on the ob side of noxious.
;)
September 25, 2008 4:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
It'a all beacuse Obama didn't agreed to those townhalls, or if that's not good enough. POW,POW.....POW,POW and POW.
September 25, 2008 3:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obviously when he said he was "suspending" his campaign, he meant the American Workers are the fundamentals of the...
Wait a minute...
-- ARG
September 25, 2008 3:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain stood up Vietnamese thugs and their torcher for 6 yrs, but he can't stand up to Barack Obama. McCain's a chicken-shit politician. I hope Barack makes McLame look stupid on Friday.
September 25, 2008 3:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain's campaign spokesperson Nicole Wallace sounded really immature today on Morning Blow saying Obama would bring his Greek columns on the airplane with him to tomorrows debate in Mississippi.
September 25, 2008 3:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's returning them to the RNC, borrowed from Bush's 2004 acceptance.
September 25, 2008 3:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Latest: Dems Suspect A Trap
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/25/14826/3093/1021/610214
September 25, 2008 3:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here's the mistake made by the author of the conspiracy:
"The fact is that, by 2pm yesterday, the House and Senate Democrats had settled their most important differences, the White House had caved on CEO pays, and the two sides were coming close to dealing with the bailout's oversight mechanism, its posture toward homeowners, and whether taxpayers would get ownership stakes in taken-over companies. Then McCain airdrops in --well, he's not actually in DC yet, so it was a virtual airdrop -- and it compresses the timeline even more."
One more ingredient that's required for the deal is missing. Sec Paulson called McCain's people and asked for his help in delivering it.
September 25, 2008 4:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
See, if McCain knew how to email, this would be a done deal.
September 25, 2008 4:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Any deal can get done without a single Republican in the house...nothing gets done without 9 Republican Senators...McCain's in town to deliver them. That's why Harry Reid said he needed his help, until he said he was coming, then Harry changed his mind.
September 25, 2008 4:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
I really didn't notice that happening, Wallace. That's about as made up as it gets. What makes you think McLame could deliver 9 senators? I don't think he could - he's not popular in the party.
September 25, 2008 4:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Please...let's not fool ourselves. McCain's in town at his own invitation for a photo-op.
September 25, 2008 4:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
No shit. Barney Frank said that McLame had absolutely NOTHING to do with the final bailout proposal. NOTHING. He was NOWHERE in the process.
He was getting his picture taken.
September 25, 2008 4:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama and his surrogates need to be sure to keep pounding that point: McCain played no role in this deal.
September 25, 2008 5:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
The GOP presidential nominee can influence nine whole votes in the US Senate.
Impressive.
September 25, 2008 4:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, and McCain could "deliver" his votes from Oxford, Mississippi, if he could learn how to operate one of them fancy BlackBerry do-hickies.
September 25, 2008 5:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is that like, Mayor Daley "delivering" votes for er uh, anyone?
He's a self-important schmuck. If he was a true "maverick" he'd vote against it!
September 25, 2008 5:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain is in town because they told him it wouldn't happen without him. Not because they need him to deliver votes, but because they need him to vote yes on it so his own party won't take the bill they said they had to have, flip backward and try to use it as a way to campaign against the democrats. They need him there like you need a pre-nuptuial agreement when you get married. He's not there to deliver anything, he's just an insurance policy against his own party. You forget that it is Bush's white house asking for a bill, then for some reason his own party is now NOT with their president, or his bill request.
When did the republican's have a secret meeting and decide to start pretending to be conservatives again? It must have been sometime around when people started deciding all their spending and running the country into the ground was idiotic.
September 26, 2008 1:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think we can safely conclude at this point that the "campaign suspension" aspect of this was a sham. What is much more concerning to me is the actual showdown that is going to play shortly out in DC. If what Kos has reported is true and McGoo is going to vote against the bill, the spin over the next week will be dizzying.
What, I wonder, is Obama planning?
September 25, 2008 4:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's planning to hit a few home runs on Friday night. It'll be especially easy if no one on the other team is bothering to stand near the bases.
September 25, 2008 4:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think McCain has just jumped his last shark.
His final noble deed reminds me of another famous interaction:
King Arthur: [after Arthur's cut off both of the Black Knight's arms] Look, you stupid Bastard. You've got no arms left.
Black Knight: Yes I have.
King Arthur: *Look*!
Black Knight: It's just a flesh wound.
Denial is a wonderful thing if you've become hopeless and helpless.
I thought my attempt at humor was a good one. But, again, real life is even funnier (see "Mighty Mouse") http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/25/barney-frank-gop-colleagu_n_129322.html
Enjoy
--
Kevin B
I'm saying it now: President Barack H. Obama, Jr., 2009 - 2017
www.VoteForChange.com
September 25, 2008 4:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
WTF. I go surfing for a few hours and come back to find:
1. A tentative deal
2. McCain gets credit
3. The debates will likely happen
As predicted yesterday.
September 25, 2008 4:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who is giving him credit other than his own spinmeisters?
September 25, 2008 4:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
CNN
September 25, 2008 4:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
You got a link? I can't find anything on their website.
September 25, 2008 4:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is the imaginary CNN that fogu2 watches in his head.
September 25, 2008 7:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Some asked why I am getting emails- I donated to him in 2000 in his (R) primary against W here in Virginia. His last stand, if I remember right.
He's been my best ever e-mail pen pal since.
September 25, 2008 4:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
My bestest email pal is my horrible Repug rep, Jeb Hensarling. I have emailed him to rail at him and insult him more times than I can count, and Jeb just put me on his email list so I get all his office updates.
LOL!
September 25, 2008 4:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Curious to ask if anyone else has heard the rampant rumors about McCain's health--that the true reason for him wanting to call "time out" is that he's heading into the hospital for a procedure of some kind.
Thom Hartmann this a.m. had quite a lengthy piece on McCain's "Droopy Face Syndrome." And it wasn't because he hearts Joe LIEberman so much.
Have any credible news sites reported on this?
September 25, 2008 4:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
...and he engineered the financial crisis as a cover? (Coo-coo!)
September 25, 2008 4:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
You don't read very well, do you?
September 25, 2008 4:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
if only Obama had agreed to all those townhalls The Maverick wanted, the economy wouldn't be in this mess and we'd have Victory in Iraq!
September 25, 2008 4:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bob Barr at the Debates tomorrow.
September 25, 2008 4:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Where you seeing that Barr will be there?
September 25, 2008 4:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
I just heard Harold Ford telling David Shuster that he would have done the same thing (suspend his campaign) if he were John McCain.
Ford notwithstanding, it is striking to see congressional Democrats so united and on message.
September 25, 2008 5:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Harold Ford is useless. I came to that conclusion the night of McCain's infamous "green-screen" speech after which Ford said McCain had done a good job.
September 25, 2008 5:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Harold Ford is useless. I came to that conclusion the night of McCain's infamous "green-screen" speech after which Ford said McCain had done a good job.
September 25, 2008 5:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ford is not just useless. Ford actively damages the Democratic message by going out and being "bipartisan".
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September 25, 2008 6:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's what Admiral Hyman Rickover used to call (with some disgust) "the old say-do" -- you say that you're going to do something, but you don't do it, and then you take credit for doing what you didn't do.
McShame is a past master at the game.
September 25, 2008 5:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain will now move to a designed retrograde.
September 25, 2008 5:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Crash McCain is a lying, hypocritical coward.
This is not even a stunt because they’ve suspended nothing. This is a fraud being perpetrated upon the world.
McCain saw that the Dems w/ Obama’s actual participation were close to getting a bipartisan agreement and he had not even read the original bill and had not even been talking to the congressmen negotiating the deal.
His economic retardation was ready to be fully exposed. So, he had to make it seem like he rescued the deal. Pretending to be the hero/maverick.
The media should suspend coverage of McCain and refuse to give any facetime to these lying scumbags.
John McCain is no patriot; in fact, this entire incident proves that McCain cares only about winning, the country be damned.
The first question for McCain when he finally takes questions should be: Why did you lie to the country about suspending your campaign? Are you afraid to face the consequences of your lifelong, misguided quest to deregulate the market? Enron? Keating 5? Our economy in the toilet? Allowing your greedy, filthy rich friends to defraud America for the last 30 years?
September 25, 2008 5:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
John McCain hasn't suspended a damn thing. I am angry and livid at the idea that any intelligent American would even fall for this pandering. He is a self-serving senile idiot for insulting the intelligence of the American people. And Ms. PALIN...
Sarah Palin is a sick reminder of what lengths some in this country will go to. John McCain's utter lack of regard for his country exhibited by his choosing this moron is evident every time she opens her babbling mouth. "Take the fight to Iraq...so they'll never do what they did on 9/11". IRAQ HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11...Miss Caribou!!!
Meanwhile, the U.S and Pakistan are exchanging gunfire today. Will the Bush doctrine bite us in the ass one last time before he heads into the history books?
September 25, 2008 6:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Does this mean the morons in my neighborhood will yank the McLame signs from their lawn due to his 'suspension?'
September 25, 2008 8:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
why expect them to be honest and truthful now lol
September 25, 2008 9:23 PM | Reply | Permalink