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ABC's "Note" reported McCain camp attacks on Obama for written remarks assuming bailout passage, without noting that McCain himself touted his role in failed bill

Summary: ABCNews.com's Terry Davis and Rigel Anderson reported that "[Sen. John] McCain's top policy adviser hammered [Sen. Barack] Obama for a set of prepared remarks which incorrectly assumed that the bailout would pass," but they did not note that both McCain and another key McCain campaign adviser prematurely touted McCain's role in achieving passage of the bill.
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Posted by JLyons

The media makes me sick, they just want to blame Obama.

Posted by Kyle_Broflovski in reply to JLyons

I blame the liberal elite MSM for the current financial crisis.  If the MSM hadn't been in the tank for Obama and his Hollywood liberal socialist Marxist commie elitists, former POW and War Hero John McCain could have prevented this entire thing from happening.  In summary, this crisis is the fault of:

1.  Liberal MSM

2.  Obama and his Democrat buddies who are all Washington insiders

3.  Americans who are 'whiners'

4.  Mexicans and gays (and maybe blacks)

Posted by snoopy in reply to Kyle_Broflovski

You left out gays and lesbians...

Posted by Kyle_Broflovski in reply to snoopy

Snoop-

Sorry for forgetting about the lesbians.  They are certainly to blame as much as anyone who caused this mess.

I also left out Muslims, hippies, sub-prime mortgage lender/brokers, and bears (the greatest threat to democracy) who all share equal blame for this bailout mess.

Posted by snoopy in reply to Kyle_Broflovski

That's OK. Just don't ever, never, blame Newt Gingrich. He had nothing to do with this!

Posted by donaldmaddog5642 in reply to snoopy

To snoopy and Kyle:  You left-wing pink-o!  Lesbians are not a separate group from "gays".  "Gay" is all-inclusive.  Oh, did I leave out "bleeding heart" left-wing pink-o?  Sorry.  Did I forget Welfare Moms "on the dole" by "tax and spend" libs?

Posted by captfoster2 in reply to JLyons

Well...... since Bill and/or Hillary Clinton are no longer either running, are the president-first lady, in the driver seat of the Democratic party, or in the spotlight.....

It is now Obama's turn to be blamed for everything wrong with the rightwing not getting it way!

If Edwards or Richardson or Biden been the choosen among the Dems to be the next president..... it would be no less different: "candidates name" has the most liberal voting record... blah, blah, blah......

Who says the corporate owned rightwing media is not also swimming in the same pool with the Republican party? Ans: the rightwing themselves! Damned projectionists!

Posted by snoopy

[T]his bill would not have been agreed to had it not been for John McCain. … But, you know, this is a bipartisan accomplishment, a bipartisan success. And if people want to get something done in Washington, they just watch John McCain.” — Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, 9/29/08

“Earlier in the week, when Senator McCain came back to Washington, there had been no deal reached. … What Senator McCain was able to do was to help bring all the parties to the table, including the House Republicans.” — Senior adviser Steve Schmidt, 9/28/08

“But here are the facts, and I’m not overselling anything. The fact is that the House Republicans were not in the mix at all. John didn’t phone this one in. He came and actually did something. … You can’t phone something like this in. Thank God John came back.” — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), 9/28/08

“Before John McCain suspended his campaign yesterday, the situation that we’re looking at today looked very different then. After he showed leadership and called for bipartisanship, for us to partisanship aside and tackle this solution head on, here we are.” — Spokesman Tucker Bounds, 9/25/08

Nuff said...

Posted by captfoster2 in reply to snoopy

"Nuff said..."

Not quite...........

Pass the vodka....... and the barf bag!

I think were gonna need it to survive the next 34 days!

Posted by snoopy in reply to captfoster2

How about a beer?

Posted by worrierking in reply to snoopy

Come on Snoop.

We're elitists.

How about a nice French chardonnay instead?

Posted by Kyle_Broflovski in reply to worrierking

Worrier-

That was so funny I almost spit out my non-fat milk half-caf latte!!

Posted by skeptical in reply to snoopy

Snoopy,

Wesley is supposed to p[ost the poll results from RCP.  He was doing such a good job a few weeks ago, I wonder why he stopped?  Hmmmm?

Posted by wzwriter

McCain:  I am a Teddy Roosevelt Republican.

And Teddy Roosevelt's brain has been dead since 1919...

Posted by donaldmaddog5642

Remember when, as your high school football team was losing the "big game", the coach would send out "Stumbles" Mahoney?  The crowd all went, "Oh, NOOOOO!" "Not "Stumbles" Mahoney...please!"