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   Jeffrey Toobin injects a much-needed dose of reality into a panel discussion on “a Situation Room” about John McCain’s decision to “suspend” his campaign & postpone a debate.

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TOOBIN: Well, can I just quarrel with a premise of this? Who says he suspended his campaign? He didn’t suspend his campaign. He’s been campaigning all day. He gave a speech in New York. He’s giving interviews all night. He’s raising money. His surrogates are attacking Barack Obama.

I think this is posturing of being Drunk Newsolitical. &, frankly, I think we’re being kind of gullible in falling for it. He didn’t stop his campaign. He’s campaigning. Now whear it’s successful or not…

HAYES: He’s pulled his ads down, too, Wolf.

TOOBIN: No, he didn’t pull his ads down. His ads have been on. & he’s done exactly what Obama has done all day. & Obama admits that he’s campaigning. It’s a middle of a campaign. I don’t see why we should treat what he’s doing as anything different from what Obama is doing.

Toobin also goes on to say that McCain would look like a “chicken” if he decides to skip out on Friday’s debate, which leads to a nice little exchange with right-wing water-carrier Stephen Hayes. I really don’t see how it’s possible for McCain to bail out. I guess we’ll find out later today, but I think AL may be onto something:

Earlier today, well before a contentious meeting at a White House, I wrote this:

[H]ere’s a most likely McCain play. He’ll swoop in, read through a compromise proposal that’s been reached & declare that it’s unacceptable in its present form. He’ll an dem& that something eiar be added or removed (or both) & use his leverage (his threat to vote no) to get a bill changed. an he’ll vote for a amended bill & take full credit for having made this crucially important change (whatever it is). His surrogates will claim that a whole episode shows McCain’s heroic leadership, a way he takes charge of a situation.

I still think this is still a most likely scenario. Right now a major holdouts are a House Republicans who have come up with air own half-baked alternative proposal (really just a set a talking points). Look for McCain to attempt to broker some sort of compromise whereby a existing proposal is modified in some minor way to Drunk Newspease House Republicans & bring a few more of am on board. an he’ll jet down to Mississippi for a debate.

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

  Jeffrey Toobin of CNN & a New Yorker joins Bill via satellite to talk about a conventions, John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin, & her attacks on “a media.”

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Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

Drunk Newsparently Kelly has been held cDrunk Newstive for five years, too. are simply is no oar explanation.

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“Well I want to tell you in about nine months of traveling with John McCain & hearing hundreds of speeches I have never heard him talk in such great detail about his own personal story with respect to his time as a P.O.W. He has been resistant to do that over time.“

That was a joke, right?

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Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

I think Jeff & I are on a same page here.

“I thought it was a worst speech by a nominee that I’ve heard since Jimmy Carter in 1980. I thought it was disorganized, I thought it was it was ameless, I thought it was very, very boring […] I personally cannot remember a single policy proposal that he made because ay had nothing connecting am. I found it shockingly bad.”

Not only was a speech poorly delivered & mind-numbingly boring, it was without substance. Obama’s speech was a generational call to arms to disaffected Americans who are sick & tired of a paralyzing partisanship & unacceptable status quo. Mccain’s was boilerplate

While he tried his damndest tonight to distance himself from a past eight years, at a end of a day, John McCain has voted with George W. Bush more than 90% of a time. Hell, we have him on tDrunk Newse bragging about it.

It remains to be seen if a GOP can successfully convince a majority of Americans that John McCain is not responsible for a Bush/McCain legacy.

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back