McCain latches onto false NYT story about Obama inaugural address.
McCain latches onto false NYT story about Obama inaugural address.
During a campaign rally in New Mexico today, Sen. John McCain attacked Barack Obama for taking a “victory lap” by claiming Obama has “already written” an inaugural address:
MCCAIN: You know what? We just learned from a newspaper today that Senator Obama’s inaugural address is already written.
You know? I’m not making it up, I’m not making it up. An awful lot of voters are still undecided but he’s decided for them that, well, why wait? It’s time to move forward with his first inaugural address. My friends, when I pull this thing off, I have a request for my opponent. I want him to save that manuscript of his inaugural address and donate it to the Smithsonian so they can put it right next to the Chicago paper that said, “Dewey defeats Truman.”
There’s ten days left in this election. Maybe Barack Obama will even have his first State of the Union address before you head to the polls.
Watch it:
As ThinkProgress noted earlier today, that false claim first originated from a New York Times story that claimed Center for American Progress President and CEO John Podesta has written an inaugural address “for Mr. Obama.” It’s not true. “Asked if there is any truth to the report, an Obama aide said: ‘No,’” according to Politico’s Mike Allen.
While I appreciate Senator McCain's plug for my book, the Power of Progress, his charge is a complete fabrication. He bases this claim on a New York Times story which distorted and confused a chapter I wrote last spring, for a book that was published this summer, with work I am doing this fall on behalf of Senator Obama. The inaugural address in the "Power of Progress" was a literary device I used to sum up the arguments in the book. It was completed well in advance of my work for Senator Obama and has nothing to do with the Obama campaign or pre-transiton. No one involved in pre-transition work has written one word of any address inaugural or otherwise.
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How did Obama find time to write an inaugural address when he has been so busy conferring with his grandmother about drapes for the Oval Office.
October 25th, 2008 at 8:52 pmYou know? I’m not making it up, I’m not making it up.
No John, you didn’t make it up, but someone else did make this one up. No unlike the other shit you have made up.
McCain looks more and more like a loser.
October 25th, 2008 at 8:53 pmJohn, Who made up that shit about the girl with a B on her face that you called to make a big deal out of it? You guys are pathetic with nothing to offer. Go away John.
October 25th, 2008 at 8:55 pmWhen is Flippy McSpin going to start “repudiating” the “fringe”? Oh. That’s right. He can’t very well “repudiate” himself.
October 25th, 2008 at 8:56 pmpete Says:
He can’t very well “repudiate” himself.
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Hmmm… not so fast dere, Pete… you might be onto sumpin’… mebbe McCain can start running against himself! T’ink about it… he could claim to be more against what he stands for than Obama is. Kinda da Mavericky t’ing ta do, no?
“My friends… I’m against what I stand for FAAAAAR more than That One is!!!”
Of course, he might git called out fer bein’ for himself before he was against himself… but then, he’s got nothin’ ta lose at this point, huh?
October 25th, 2008 at 9:02 pmKinda like Ceavon Little threatening to shoot himself in “Blazing Saddles”… it worked fer Cleavon… it jes’ might work fer Da Maverick™… ya never know!
McCain – Against McCain More Than Obama Ever Could Be!!!
October 25th, 2008 at 9:04 pmPoor old John McCain. He buys his trophy VP a $150,000 wardrobe and the little bimbo gets all mavericky on him.
Sarah Goes Rogue
October 25th, 2008 at 9:17 pmWasn’t his campaign saying just a couple of weeks ago that the New York Times wasn’t a respectable newspaper anymore?
October 25th, 2008 at 9:44 pmThis is the same NYT that McCain constantly criticizes and calls liberal. What a hypocrite McCain continues to be. Sad.
October 25th, 2008 at 9:45 pm“You know? I’m not making it up, I’m not making it up…”
People who begin sentences like this are usually making shit up.
October 25th, 2008 at 9:54 pmThe best John McCain has to offer these days is false news reports and false issues.
October 25th, 2008 at 10:03 pmOne more example of the endless attempt to distract and avoid talking about the issues that really matter to the American people. A clear and obvious demonstration of utter desperation. Truly pathetic and better to be ignored.
October 25th, 2008 at 10:04 pmThis is what happens when you take your campaign talking points from Drudge.
Epic fail again, John. Try again. There’s always another news cycle.
October 25th, 2008 at 10:48 pmIn the immortal words of Scott Farkas: “What are you gonna cry now, come on baby cry for me, whaaaaa, whaaaaa”
October 25th, 2008 at 10:56 pm“… My friends, when I pull this thing off, …”
shit.
October 25th, 2008 at 11:04 pmWhen oh when are these a**holes ever going to learn to vet their information before making even more fools of themselves!
October 25th, 2008 at 11:42 pmOf course McCain latched onto it. It’s a lie.
October 26th, 2008 at 12:33 amMcCain – Pitiful.
October 26th, 2008 at 12:37 amThe magnetic Axis of Lies runs from North Pole (the Palin) to the South Pole (the McCain). Maybe both of them are wearin’ those spiffy magnetic health bracelets and they’re just attractin’ all them lies…
October 26th, 2008 at 1:06 amLoser.
October 26th, 2008 at 1:43 amJust like Blinky, latching onto every false hope and idea he can get his hands on to try to win his loser bid for POTUS.
October 26th, 2008 at 2:06 amMcCain is a f u*king idiot.
He doesn’t vet Palin, then he personally calls that B hoax nutjob, now he quotes fictional stories.
John, just retire to your seven homes already and do yourself a favor. You are an international embarrassment at this point.
October 26th, 2008 at 2:19 amLatching onto false stories about Democrats is what Republicans do. In case you hadn’t noticed, Repubs instantly and uncritically believe all nasty rumors about Democrats, no matter how ridiculous. This is a quirk of right-wing psychology. If you dissect a Republicans’ brain after he dies, you will find thousands of putifying accusations against Democrats which have accumulated over the years.
The Mess We’re In:
October 26th, 2008 at 7:00 amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiBWkNFtrEg
There goes John McInsane spouting off before having all the facts in order or actually just lying……actin’ all mavericky and stuff. Wonder what he would do in a presidential crisis?
October 26th, 2008 at 8:14 amHe can dress up his campaign in $150,000 worth of designer clothes and smear lipstick all over its clueless face, but it’s still just a blind pig rushing down a long trail of lies into a swamp of self-delusion.
It’s not pretty and people are starting to notice the smell.
October 26th, 2008 at 8:16 amI would love to see McCain go “oops, that story turned out to be false.” But he won’t, because it will be admitting to just one more embarrassing moment for this completely embarrassing campaign. He will continue to repeat the story like they have with every other story, hoping that with repetition, it becomes truth.
Sad. Very sad.
October 26th, 2008 at 9:36 amMcCain, like the rest of his mis-managed campaign and career, will wait until June 8, 2009 to begin writing his inaugural address. This is actually a good thing for McCain since he won’t waste any time preparing for a presidency that Obama will win.
October 26th, 2008 at 9:58 amEven if he did, I don’t understand the problem. Who wouldn’t want to get a head start on something that significant? If he doesn’t win, oh well, it gets thrown out.
October 26th, 2008 at 11:14 amSomebody really should have vetted this McCain guy.
He’s incapable of distinguishing actual knowledge from specious, off-the-cuff claims. If he hears something out of the corner of his ear, he accepts it as a fact, if it suits him.
October 26th, 2008 at 5:23 pmI truely believe that Barack Obama is having thousands of candidates being vetted for his Cabinet and Administration at this very moment and beyond.
October 26th, 2008 at 6:33 pmIt is only natural because that is the way he thinks.
He will not start off with hundreds of Trojan Horses to undermine agencies that he wishes to marginalize.
Nothing like how Bush started out and continued throughout, and certainly as McCain has done with Sarah Palin.
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