Otherwise, why won't he do the town hall meetings he said that he was willing to do?
Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain squabbled over a format for their first one-on-one debate in the U.S. presidential race, as both pushed their economic plans amid fresh reports of surging inflation and sagging wages.If I were him, I would avoid any public speaking that doesn't include a promoter because it's when he's off script that he usually makes his gaffes.Obama on Friday rejected McCain's proposal for 10 joint town-hall appearances, question-and-answer gatherings before small audiences that the Republican senator tends to favor. The Democrat has performed best at massive, emotional rallies drawing tens of thousands of people.
Obama has offered to meet McCain in five joint appearances between now and the Nov. 4 election, but only one of those would be town hall-style and it would be on the July 4th Independence Day holiday, when few Americans would be watching. McCain called the offer "a very disappointing response."
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"Michele, how long did you peddle the 57 states one?"
It you search the entries on this blog it comes up with zero matches but I thought I wrote a post on it so I will say once.
But since it's the older folks who vote, doesn't that give McCain the edge?
I will concede the point that among the under 30 crowd, even if Obama blows it on historical accuracy, makes logical fallacies and commits newbie foreign policy gaffes, they won't care (or know). As long as he hits their emotional issues, they would consider him the winner.
"And canned response or not, when you use not just the same idea, but the exact same wording as a particular political pundit (Gaffe Machine- Malkin), its perfectly fair to note it."
Sorry but you're ill-informed which is surprising since I posted the link to the ABC News reporter who coined the phrase.
Then you're admitting that you've been using, and reusing someone else's phrase? Did the reporter claim they actually created the phrase? Or did the reporter simply use it. (I doubt the first, since who says 'I coined that phrase').
The usages I've seen mostly involve the Wall Street Journal editoralists and Michelle Malkin.
And most of the examples you used looked like they were almost cut and pasted from Malkin's article.
At least they should be re-worded, perhaps.
And actually checked out the dates.
That article you cited, it came out May 25th. Malkin's first use of the term I could find was actually earlier in May. If anyone coined it, it was Malkin, and it is possible he took (as he did with the list) the term from her.
So he might've been the cut and paster.
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