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| 2008-10-09 |
The McCain folks are more helpful and generally friendly. The schedules are printed on actual books you can hold in your hand, read, and then plan accordingly. The press aides are more knowledgeable and useful to us in the news media. The events are designed with a better eye, and for the simple needs of the press corps. When he is available, John McCain is friendly and loquacious. Obama holds news conferences, but seldom banters with the reporters who've been following him for thousands of miles around the country. Go figure. The McCain campaign plane is better than Obama's, which is cramped, uncomfortable and smells terrible most of the time. Somehow the McCain folks manage to keep their charter clean, even where the press is seated. The other day in Albuquerque, N.M., the reporters were given almost no time to file their reports after McCain spoke. It was an important, aggressive speech, lambasting Obama's past associations. When we asked for more time to write up his remarks and prepare our reports, the campaign readily agreed to it. They understood. Similar requests are often denied or ignored by the Obama campaign aides, apparently terrified that the candidate may have to wait 20 minutes to allow reporters to chronicle what he's just said. It's made all the more maddening when we are rushed to our buses only to sit and wait for 30 minutes or more because nobody seems to know when Obama is actually on the move. Maybe none of this means much. Maybe a front-running campaign like Obama's that is focused solely on victory doesn't have the time to do the mundane things like print up schedules or attend to the needs of reporters. But in politics, everything that goes around comes around. Is that a promise, a threat, or both? |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #9 Don't be too sure about the MSM turning on Obama. First, it would require adimtting that they were wrong. Second, they're still on the same team as Obama; with some exceptions the press is an active player, not non-partisan newsgatherers. |
| Posted by: DoDo 2008-10-09 16:41 |
| #8 Obama SUED CITI to force it to make bad loans. |
| Posted by: Woozle Unusosing8053 2008-10-09 12:05 |
| #7 DV, you're right. And lots of the congressional donks from conservative districts will be unwilling to go along with his crazier ideas for fear of another 1994. So there will be a lot of public sulking and passive aggression. He is not a leader once the charisma wears off. And that's already started, but not far enough along to keep him out of the White House. That, and he's using ACORN to game the general election the way he gamed the caucuses. There will be lots of questions about the legitimacy of his election. And I don't think the trunks will be a quiet as they were after 1960 because it will be more blatant, more demonstrable, and the atmosphere will be a lot nastier. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-10-09 11:45 |
| #6 I don't see anything on FreeRepublic about a Kenya birth cert. Could it have been scrubbed already? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-10-09 10:24 |
| #5 I have a feeling that if Obama wins, he will be very shocked at the press turning on him and will take it personally. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-10-09 10:22 |
| #4 Indicative of self-centered liberal assholes in general? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-10-09 10:20 |
| #3 A foretaste of an Obama administraiton? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-10-09 08:07 |
| #2 It's just buyer's remorse. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2008-10-09 07:52 |
| #1 See FREEREPUBLIC on alleged discovery of OBAMA'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE in KENYA??? ALso from SAME > UNCONFIRMED DEATH RUMOR OF KIM JONG-IL IN NORH KOREA??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-10-09 03:12 |