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So John McCain sent out a message yesterday afternoon, proclaiming that he was suspending his campaign and returning to Washington to “solve the financial crisis”:
Tomorrow morning, I will suspend my campaign and return to Washington after speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative. I have spoken to Senator Obama and informed him of my decision and have asked him to join me.
I am calling on the president to convene a meeting with the leadership from both houses of Congress, including Senator Obama and myself. It is time for both parties to come together to solve this problem.
Since McCain’s ads are still running, his flacks are on TV attacking Obama, and he gave a major campaign speech today, I wondered what kind of campaign activities McCain was actually planning on suspending. So I sent an e-mail to the local McCain field office, posing as a conservative eager to help out:
Dear Lane,
I found your e-mail address on the Missouri for John McCain website. I’m a staunch conservative who has had my fair share of disagreements with Senator McCain. Still, I can’t stand the idea of seeing the liberals take over the entire government, especially this Barrack “Osama Lover” Obama as our Commander in Chief.
I’ve seen Senator McCain take a little bit of a dip in the polls in the last few days, and it concerns me a great deal. I feel like I have to do something. I have some time from this evening through Monday, and again on future weekends, to help out. What can I do??
Thank you,
Kenny Bennett
Needless to say, in his response (posted below the fold) the local field director gave no hint of a suspension of the campaign, impending or otherwise. Only slightly less surprising is the lack of acknowledgement that McCain’s opponent was being called “Osama Lover.”
Since McCain hasn’t actually suspended any part of his campaign operation, despite his call for America to come together to work toward a common solution, we can definitely call this the gimmick that it is.
Thank you very much for your willingness to help out on the McCain campaign. There are many was to help, but phone-banking and door knocking are the areas which we need the most volunteer help.
We phone bank Monday – Saturday 9am – 9pm and Sundays 9am – 7pm. Phone banking occurs at our headquarters. Our address is 921 Fee Fee Road, Maryland Heights, 63043. We are right across the street from Westport Plaza .
We go door to door every Saturday in two shifts: 9am – 2pm and 2pm – 6pm. We most often meet near or in the precincts we are walking.
Please call (314)-542-9060 to schedule a time to come in.
Every time you complete 1,000 dials in our phone bank you’ll receive an awesome McCain Team Leader hat. Once you reach 1500 dials, you’ll receive a McCain Team Leader T-Shirt.
Every Saturday we have our “Women for McCain” phone bank. Each female phone banker will receive a free “Women for McCain” yard sign. (Men invited to help!)
Thank you again for your willingness to help! Only a short bit until November 4th! Let’s make the push together.
Lane Koch
Field Director – St. Louis
Victory 2008
314.542.9061
lane@mogop.org
… had as much substance as the Palin pick. McCain’s going to Maverick himself to losing by ten points come November.
Letterman had interesting things to say about it:
In anticipation of Democratic victory in November the Bush Administration is using scorched earth policy to burn the house down to assure the mess will have legs through the next four years.
Trillion for Iraq (delivered to Defense Industry). Trillion for the banks (bailing out Wall Street handlers).
Bankrupting our nation, it’s the ‘enron-ization’ of our economy. Scorched earth — shock and awe.
It really shows that the markets truly control DC, unfortunatly, in large respect control delivered by both parties feeding at that same Wall Street trough. The long term solution is to sever those fiscal tentacles wrapped around our Republic’s neck. Separation of buck and state.
McCain suspending the campaign, was another attempt at playing the news cycle like they did with the Palin announcemnt immediately after Denver.
McCain knew the Prez was making the sky is falling ‘financial panic’ speech and pre-emptively piggybacked. Gaining more time for Palin insulation and attempting to throw Obama off-beat (along with the Bush summoning Obama to HQ).
It is cynical times in which we live.
Look — Amy Goodman made top ten downloads on Youtube.
Scary stuff though.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYxTzDFofZQ&hl=en&fs=1%5D
Above and beyond the Obama Presidency we have some waking up to do.
Like Kucinich said, “Wake Up America!”