Xunzian
September 12, 2008, 10:41pm
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thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008 … mccain/?hp
Get old enough and even a softball can break your hip . . .
felix_dakat
September 13, 2008, 12:38am
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Ms. Behar brought up two of his recent ads against Mr. Obama, one suggesting that when Mr. Obama had used a colloquial expression about putting “lipstick on a pig,” he was referring to Ms. Palin and the other suggesting that Mr. Obama wanted sex education for children. “We know those two ads are untrue, they’re lies,” she said, and yet at the end of each, Mr. McCain’s voice says he approves of those messages.
“They are not lies,” Mr. McCain said. “And if you’ve seen some of the ads that are running against me…”
The conversation broke off in cross-talk, and Mr. McCain then rejoined to say that Mr. Obama “chooses his words very carefully and he shouldn’t have said it.”
He added: “This is a tough campaign.” He also said that if Mr. Obama had agreed to go around the country with him and do town-hall meetings together, the campaign would have a more elevated tone.
At the repub convention, McCain was portrayed as the accountability candidate. But here, instead of taking responsibility for approving his own dirty ad campaign, he blames his opponent.