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September 25, 2008
Bubba Defends McCain's Request To Obama For Postponement Of Friday's Debate
Topics: Political News and commentariesAs Sister Toldjah observes, this is coming from a guy who's supposed to be helping Barack Obama but won't officially start campaigning for him until after the upcoming Jewish holidays:
ABC News' Nitya Venkataraman Reports: Former President Bill Clinton defended Sen. John McCain's request to delay the first presidential debate, saying McCain did it in "good faith" and pushed organizers to reserve time for economy talk during the debate if the Friday plans move forward.Other than the fact that what Bubba said appears to be an honest observation and analysis, it's decent of him to set politics aside and state the facts as he sees them, albeit his common sense defense of McCain's decision certainly isn't helpful to Obama who he's ostensibly suppose to be going balls to the wall helping Obama defeat McCain. That kind of honest observation and analysis is what one would expect from a John McCain, and what we are seeing lately from Bill Clinton, but never from Barack Obama; after all, Obama's adherence to the Alinsky political model would require him to frame it for his own agenda to the detriment of the "enemy camp."Appearing on Good Morning America Thursday, Clinton told ABC News' Chris Cuomo that McCain's push to postpone the debate would only be a good political move if both candidates agreed. McCain announced on Wednesday that he would "suspend" his presidential campaign to come to Washington to help negotiate a financial bailout bill.
"We know he didn't do it because he's afraid because Sen. McCain wanted more debates," Clinton said, adding that he was "encouraged" by the joint statement from McCain and Sen. Barack Obama.
"You can put it off a few days the problem is it's hard to reschedule those things," Clinton said, "I presume he did that in good faith since I know he wanted -- I remember he asked for more debates to go all around the country and so I don't think we ought to overly parse that."
If the debate moves forward as planned for Friday night, Clinton says "they should be able to talk about this some of the debate because it is a security issue."
And in regard to what triggered McCain's decision to go into crisis mode, apparently it was due to a "3:00 AM call" of sorts after Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told McCain surrogate Lindsey Graham that he feared the bailout bill would fail unless McCain got involved (scroll down):
Posted by Abdul at September 25, 2008 10:57 AM
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