"convening a meeting like this is easy for the victor, but much more difficult for the loser."

Disagree.

McCain, like many ordinary men, is noble when nothing is at stake.

I am not going to dump on the man for grace in defeat. Beyond that, the meeting was a political win-win for both going forward

...convening a meeting like this is easy for the victor, but much more difficult for the loser.

I commend McCain for his grace in defeat, and for accepting this show of unity. I just wish our "liberal media" would be more honest in admitting that the moral and ethical standards they seem to take for granted from the left are never applied to any serious degree to the right.

Interesting point here, but of course anyone who watched The West Wing sees the life-imitating-art trend of Obama's campaign (largely as Jimmy Smits' character was loosely based on Obama) But were he (god forbid) to offer McCain a role in his administration, it would be yet another creepy parallel

Just thought I'd throw that out there

OT: I find it particularly pathetic John "Center Right" Meecham is telling us what Obama can learn fron his new book now we all know the President Elect has a particular inclination toward Team of Rivals.

I find Meecham disgusting. And I'm certain he has something do to with the "Is Obama Anti-Christ?" headline in the recent edition of Newsweek.

IF McShame has a conscience, and IF he feels some measure of guilt over the sleazy way his campaign was run, and IF he no longer feels the need to kowtow to the the wingnuts, then cooperating with Obama on issues where there's potential for common ground -- like climate change and ethics, as noted -- is a perfect way for him to try to restore his legacy. If all this comes to pass -- regardless of his motives -- that would be a good thing for America.

Obama and McCain need to work together, we all need to think about what unregulated oil prices and futures mean to the World economies.

I hope that both of them realize that the American consumer is the one in need of a bailout.

Everyone in the oil industry should be up on treason charges for letting the price per barrel of oil be manipulated by the futures market and go as high as 147 USDollars per barrel.

The American consumer is broke and not paying there bills because they and the world economy has be robbed by the oil companies.

If one penny ( 1 cent ) per gallon of gas amounts to 1/4 Billion dollars and the price of gas goes from $1.00 before the secret energy meeting that V.P.Chaney had - at the beginning of the Iraq war - with the oil companies to recent past were up to nearly $5.00 per gallon.

How much money is that being sucked out of the American consumers pockets and the World economy?

That 1 cent or 1/4 Billion increase in expense for gasoline multiplied times 400 percent is 100 Billion dollars being sucked out of consumers pockets per day.

Is it any wonder the economy is broken the consumer is in debt up to there eye balls paying for gas to get to work and back.

With wages and income taxes stagnating for the last 20 years the only hope is to refund all income taxes collected last year to everyone that paid taxes last year without exception. How's that for a bailout idea?