Odd - McCain Is Limiting Press Access - Not Taking Greater Advantage Of Obama's Absense

While Obama has been in Hawaii, McCain has been pretending he is President by trying to start a war with Russia with his FP advisor, Randy Schuemann, former Georgia lobbyist. However, when he is not issuing threats and ultimatums that he cannot back-up or avoiding answering questions about Randy Schuemann, McCain has not been taking advantage of Ovama's absense by running more events.

Think about it. This is a man who has been doing his best impression of Jan Brady by complaining about Obama's news coverage, and McCain's lack of news coverage. So, Obama goes away, and what does the McCain campaign do? Limit access to John McCain! Is this is what McCain's campaign has been reduced to? Limit the damage of having our candidate out in the public, and try to have Karl Rove win it by smearing Obama, and trying to prove a war, then claim credit if no nuclear holocaust ensues.

Maybe the McCain camp is discovering that the more exposure McCain gets, the more people figure out that he is a George Bush with an anger management problem. So, just tuck John McCain away, and blame it on liberal bias regarding why McCain is not being seen in the media more.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080814/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_campaign;_ylt=Amly8RJSbAe6R5isaCQGWWLCw5R4

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ASPEN, Colo. - For months, John McCain's presidential campaign was a near-constant swirl of free-ranging chats with voters, garrulous sessions with reporters and quips from the candidate that often had little to do with the day's planned message

No more.

With a dozen weeks to go, McCain's campaign has notably limited his exposure to national reporters and even voters, devoting more time to private fundraisers, interviews with local journalists and events designed for TV cameras.

This week, for example, McCain conducted only one large "town hall" event and one full news conference, but at least seven fundraisers and a string of interviews with reporters mostly from local newspapers, radio and TV stations.

From here on, "you'll see a campaign that is better at staying on message," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a close associate who probably travels with McCain more than anyone outside his staff and family.

McCain will still hold town hall forums and take questions from national journalists, Graham said in an interview aboard the campaign plane Thursday. However, he said, "our problem is to keep these interactions to a manageable point."

McCain's advisers have long struggled for ways to keep him more disciplined and focused without entirely sacrificing his rambling talks with reporters on his bus and voters in gyms and meeting halls. McCain thrives on such activities, and they often show an appealing, impish side.

But they also subject him to questions of all sorts, making it impossible to focus on a chosen message. Worse, they sometimes prompt McCain to ponder the questions with a long, puzzled expression — as he did last month when a Los Angeles Times reporter asked about insurance coverage for Viagra and birth control — that opponents love to distribute on the Internet.

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of money from Abromoff cronies and other assorted criminals...

....him.

Obama camp should 'mention' that - somewhere. Obama doesn't limit access like that and has no problem with people asking him ad hoc questions.

Why is that?

and figure that after 3 months of the best Swift Boating that money can buy,
amplified ten thousand times by the Mighty Slime Machine,
that Obama will be so destroyed that McAin't can win by default,
or at least make their massive election fraud believable.

It worked last time.

Just put him out for short, scripted appearances. No questions. Ads don't even feature him, just photos of him as a young man or clips of him from 2000 and before, back when he was more mentally sound.

If an actual reporter crept in they might ask about Carol McCain and we know, according to Sean Hannity, if you can't trust a man to be faithful to his wife, you can't trust him to run the country.

a flood of negative ads by McCain.

being off the campaign trail again. Now Obama will be back tomorrow.

and he's equally bad at reading the scripted stuff. Remember his quasi-meltdown in Sturgis before he offered up Cindy as Miss Buffalo Chip? That "long, puzzled expression" is pretty much the only one he has. He can't speak off the cuff and has to be managed just like * or he'll wander off message or stand there looking stupid.

wtf?

If he hides, the right-wing Big Media will lie, spin, and attack for him. Sounds like an easy choice to me.

dopes slaps from behind when he's rambling off-message.

;)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080814/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_campaign
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That goal, he said, is behind McCain's increased use of photo opportunities in which reporters and microphones are sometimes barred. At a breakfast diner in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., for example, McCain sat down Thursday with what the campaign called "four women facing everyday economic struggles." But all reporters and microphones were hustled from the room before they began talking, so no one beyond the four women know what McCain said about their struggles.


That's not a big problem, Graham said, contending that the campaign is doing much better with "visuals."
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