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*Main Topics*: Candidates' Wives, Offshore Drilling, McSame
*Summary of Shift:* The debate over offshore drilling continues with pundits
from local to national weighing in on the effects and timeline of removing
the moratorium. Today begins a back and forth between the McCain and Obama
camps over the legitimacy of attacking their spouses. Obama announces that
he will opt out of the public financing system. Floodwaters in the Midwest
have yet to recede and the Army Corps of Engineers says that up to thirty
levees may be at risk.
Highlights:
1) Candidates Wives
a. Candidates' wives may be fair game, especially if you are using their
jet
b. Making the candidates' wives fair game is tantamount to enacting a
policy of mutually assured destruction
c. Cindy McCain addresses tax release and her private jet controversies
in interview with John King
d. Cindy gets out of her usual "designer suits and pearls" to help out
Operation Smile
2) Offshore drilling
a. Fallout in FL on drilling may pale in comparison to gains in other
swing states
b. Gingrich pushes for drilling, applauds McCain's sudden change on the
issue
c. McCain's drilling plan brings him closer to Bush
3) McSame
a. Colbert's "Word" hits McCain as McSame
b. Joy Behar proclaims McCain is same as Bush and people have had enough
4) Condoleeza Rice emphasizes her lack of interest in the VP spot
5) Leno makes joke that McCain is still calling Iraq Mesopotamia
6) Carlos Mencia does a PTSD skit about McCain
7) Independent strategist, John Avalon, says on CNN about McCain, "The
only reason they have a fighting shot at the White House in Washington is
because of John McCain's independents
8) DC's CBS station has local pundits on to discuss drilling and the
candidates' wives
9) Local DC NBC station reports on the back and forth over terrorism and
offshore drilling [no clip]
Clips:
Highlight #1
*Candidates' Wives May Be Fair Game, Especially if You Are Using Their
Jet *(MSNBC
06/19/08 9:39am)
[Clip of Cindy McCain on *Good Morning America* commenting on Michelle
Obama's "proud" remark]
CHRIS JANSING: [reading remark from the McCain camp] "Senator McCain agrees
with Senator Obama that spouses should not be an issue in this campaign.
Unfortunately, when the DNC was attacking Mrs. McCain, he was not . . .
strong enough to stand up and speak out against the outrageous charges
leveled at her by his party chair, Howard Dean. Obama's silence speaks
volumes." Andrea, should the guys back off on this then?
ANDREA TANTAROS: No, look, you know, I think that's absolutely true. This
isn't a one-way street here. Both Candidates have seen their wives come
under scrutiny. Cindy McCain under scrutiny for the cookies that she baked .
. . look, I think if both spouses are going to be used on the campaign
trail, which they are, they are fair game. . . they absolutely are. For the
Obama campaign to say, "No, hands off" . . . I think that was a mistake . .
.the man may be the head of the White House in this situation but the
woman's going to be the neck . . . it's in the context of what fair game?
[. . .]
LAUREN SCHWARTZ: . . . when McCain's people put out that statement about
the DNC leveling charges against Cindy McCain, I think it's important to
look at what those charges are because there's a legitimate issue and
concern that both the Democratic National Committee and GOP lawyers have
raised. And that is when John McCain was suffering economically in his
campaign last summer, he used Cindy McCain's corporate jet to fly in for
McCain events that he has not yet reimbursed for that travel and that
violates the means of his own campaign finance reform. I was a trip director
to Theresa Heinz-Kerry and she had a private plane that we used every day
that was methodically credited back and the campaign paid for that use. And
that is a legitimate issue and Cindy McCain is of course involved in that
because it was her company's jet that John McCain was flying on. So I think
it's important to put in context those legitimate issues like the DNC and
GOP lawyers have been talking about for the last
week.<https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/vi2vd74n4w>
*Making the Candidates' Wives Fair Game is Tantamount to Enacting a Policy
of Mutually Assured Destruction *(MSNBC 06/19/08 6:14am)
JOE SCARBOROUGH: The thing is, while Cindy McCain and others have kind of
been poking at Michelle Obama, trying to gain an advantage and perhaps it is
gaining advantage in states like West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio . . . it
is what military strategists termed during the Cold War, basically the
political equivalent of . . . Mutually Assured Destruction.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: I agree
SCARBOROUGH: If you go after wives you may gain a short term advantage, but
in the end, you are assuring your own
destruction.<https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/egnth8nwg0>
*Cindy Gets Out of Her Usual "Designer Suits and Pearls" to Help Out
Operation Smile* (ABC 06/19/08 7:15am)
KATE SNOW: *This is the Cindy McCain you don't see on a campaign stage. No
pearls, no designer suit*, at a hospital on the coast of Vietnam helping
Operation Smile screen children to see if they qualify for a life changing
surgery. She got involved years ago, after adopting a daughter from
Bangladesh who needed the same operation.
[…]
Cindy McCain hasn't done a lot of interviews until recently. *The latest ABC
News poll found that fewer Americans had a favorable opinion of her than
Michelle Obama, and more than a third said they had no opinion of
McCain. *There
seems to be this mystery about you, people don't know you.
CINDY MCCAIN: *I don't think I'm very mysterious. I've just lead my life
differently,* and I'm not the candidate, I've never been front and center. *I
do the things that I enjoy, I do the things that are important to me, and do
them in a way that I like to do them.*
SNOW: If they say, she's just kind of up there and posing, what would you
say to people who think that?
MCCAIN: Get to know me! I'll talk to them.
SNOW: Her husband, the senator, has been actively courting women voters. But
women's rights groups say that once women discover that he is anti-abortion,
they may change their minds. So why should women support her husband?
MCCAIN: Well, supporting our troops the way he does, supporting our young
men and women, right now, who are serving so gallantly is very pro-women,
because every mother, wife, sister, aunt, feels the way I have felt. The
things that he does doesn't make him any more pro-women, pro-man, or
anti-anything. He's about America, he's about making America strong, America
strong is good for all of us.
SNOW: Would you feel safe with Barak Obama as your president?
MCCAIN: I would feel safe with my husband as president. I think Barack Obama
is a fine man. I think Michelle Obama is a fine women. This is about who
would be better, and I think my husband would be
better.<https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/lq5mz0zcww>
Highlight #2
*Fallout in FL on Drilling May Pale in Comparison to Gains in Other Swing
States *(MSNBC 06/19/08 6:40am)
JOHN HARWOOD: I want to say one thing about oil. I do not think it's a
winning position in Florida per se but John McCain's up eight points in
Florida . . . what John McCain is playing to is . . . Ohio and Pennsylvania
and Michigan and these blue-collar voters who say, oil's four dollars a
gallon right now, do something different . . . I think that John McCain has
the potential to be on to something here because we're in a new circumstance
on energy and I think he's adjusting to it . . . when you see not only John
McCain but Charlie Crist going, people say he's playing to be John McCain's
vice president, maybe so, but still he's a Florida politician. Would he take
that position if it were so toxic right now? I'm not sure?
[ . . .]
PAT BUCHANAN: I think John Harwood is exactly right . . . $4 a gallon
gasoline, everybody talking about . . . energy independence . . .so McCain
says that's right, we've got to throw out some of the old ideas and really
move forward aggressively . . . I think McCain is moving toward a winning
position . . . I think that's a stronger position than don't disturb the
caribou up there in Alaska . . . and let the Chinese drill off the coast of
Florida. <https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/qqkg2qxwk0>
*Newt Ginrich Pushes For Drilling, Applauds McCain's Sudden Change on the
Issue *(FNC 06/19/08 8:31am)
BRIAN KILMEADE: Hey Mr. Speaker, I'm wondering how this whole issue, we're
talking about oil, gas, drilling, and we know the success you're having with
your petition. But has John McCain, in your mind, played this issue
correctly? He's diametrically opposed, the opposite to where Barack Obama
stands.
NEWT GINRICH: *Well, I think Senator McCain's moved in the right
direction.*He's come out for drilling, he's for clean coal technology,
he's for nuclear
power, he's for alternative fuels including wind power and solar power. So
he's clearly moving to a position that we ought to have more production and
lower costs, and I think that's a pretty powerful contrast with Senator
Obama, who is apparently sticking with a higher regulation, higher tax, and
higher price which I think, frankly, is a losing hand in the long
run.<https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/lblqtcmckk>
*McCain's Drilling Plan Brings Him Closer to Bush *(CNN 06/19/08 7:22am)
JOHN ROBERTS: Sen. McCain's new stance on offshore drilling than one he had
just a few years ago. It is now a stance that mirrors President Bush's.
Something he has been trying to avoid. . .
ED HENRY: Republican John McCain is trying to appeal to independent voters
by saying he's no President Bush.
JOHN MCCAIN: The next president must be willing to break with the energy
policies not just of the current administration but the administrations that
preceeded it . . .
HENRY: And yet the president and McCain are marching in lockstep on how to
deal with $4 a gallon gas . . .
GEORGE BUSH: I know that the Democratic leaders have opposed some of these
policies in the past. Now that their opposition ahs helped drive gas prices
to record levels. I ask them to reconsider their positions.
HENRY: A clear attempt to spread political blame . . .
[. . .]
HENRY: A fascinating family drama . . . it was the president's father who
signed that order banning offshore drilling while his brother Jeb . . .
opposed such drilling as governor of Florida. And the president's embrace of
McCain's proposal for more drilling could complicate the Senator's efforts
to distance himself from this White House and appeal to the
middle.<https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/crv9ih1c0g>
Highlight #3
*Colbert's Word Mocks McCain as Being Same as Bush* (Comedy Central,
06/18/08, 11:40pm)
STEPHEN COLBERT: *It's no secret that one of John McCain's biggest
challenges as a candidate is to distinguish himself from President
Bush.*I'm not sure why he's so eager to spurn the President's
supporters. I mean
that's walking away from almost 29 percent of the American electorate, and
nearly half the Bush children. But he's so different than Bush already. *The
only issues they agree on are education, immigration, Iraq, abortion,
supreme court judges, social security, tax breaks for the wealthy, wire
tapping, trade, health care, the Middle East, same-sex marriage, and
Medicare.* But, they could not be further apart on Katherine Heigl's feud
with her Grey's Anatomy producers. Luckily, John McCain has found away to
put distance between himself and the President, and it's tonight's word.
Lexicon artist. Folks, language is very important in politics, particularly
when it comes to war. (Weapons of mass description) For years, the Bush
administration used the words, "war on terror". Which was replaced with the
names, "global war on terror". (Bush loves nicknames) Then it was the
"global struggle against extremism" then briefly it was the "long war"
before they settled on the new name, "hey, maybe we should bomb Iran." (The
"maybe" proves they're diplomats) To prove, to prove that he's his own man,
John McCain has his own words to describe America's ongoing conflicts. See
if you can spot it.
[Various McCain "We're facing a transcendental challenge" clips shown]
That's right. The war is now transcendental. (Transcends voter approval) No
surprise, after all Toby Keith's anti-terrorists lyric, "we'll put a boot up
your ass, it's the American way" originally appeared in Henry David
Thoreau's "Walden". Now there are some questions about McCain's new buzz
word, it's not entirely clear what he's trying to say. (Another way he's
like Bush) Now, does he mean, does he mean transcendent? Which, according to
Webster's means "exceeding usual limits?" Because the war has certainly
exceeded the time limit. (And the Constitution) Or is he intentionally using
the word transcendental? Which is defined by Webster's as "of or relating to
experience as determined by the mind's makeup." In which case he's saying
the war on terror is all in our heads. (Along with Cheney's buckshot) *Now
maybe, maybe, he didn't mean to describe a transcendental experience at all,
maybe we misheard him because he was having trouble with his dentures.
(Fixodental challenge)* Now clearly, clearly transcendental has too many
interpretations*. John McCain needs to come up with a new word.
(Retirement?)* You know what, Shakespeare, I mean think of it folks,
Shakespeare invented words all the time. He invented over 1,200 words
including, and this is true, accused, torture, and zaney. (From play "much
Abu about Ghraib") Now everybody knows I've coined a few words myself.
Truthiness. Wikiality. (Explitive)-turn. Which I can not define due to a
pending lawsuit. (And upcoming Fox reality show) So, Senator, Senator let me
help you. From now on, keeping our troops in the Middle East isn't just
necessary to win the war. It's downright "Iraq-rosanct". (Iraq-rosanct)
Holding people indefinitely at Abu Ghraib is "divine inter-detention."
(Divine inter-detention) And secretly sending prisoners to other countries
where torture is legal is no longer extraordinary rendition. It's called
"offshore drilling." (Offshore drilling) *Now I hope those help, because
using language to turn failed policies into ideals that transcend debate is
the best way to get people to think of you as "transcen-presidential."
(Transcen-Presidential!) And that's the
word.*<https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/4v6bf7nggc>
*Joy Behar Proclaims McCain is Same as Bush and People Have Had
Enough!*(CNN, 06/18/08 10:30pm)
LARRY KING: How close is this race going to be?
JOY BEHAR: How close? I think that Obama is going to have a landslide, but I
don't want to say it because I want him to be the underdog.
KING: You just said it!
BEHAR: But I do believe that. I do believe it*. I think, you know, that
people are really going to come to their senses and realize that John
McCain, and I'm just repeating what everybody else says, but I believe it.
That he is just more and more of George Bush and people have had it! I mean
how many more times do we* have to get smacked in the face by the Bush
administration before people say,
enough!?<https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/gcxz8answg>
Highlight #4
*Condoleeza Rice Emphasizes Lack of Interest as McCain's Running Mate, Says
Time for New Blood* (FNC 06/19/08 7:24am)
STEVE DOOCY: There's been a lot of speculation regarding who Barack Obama
and John McCain are going to be selecting as their running mates. And I
don't know if you've read about this, but there are a lot of people who
think you would make a great vice presidential running mate for John McCain.
To all those people who say, yeah she would be on my short list too, what do
you say to them?
CONDOLEEZA RICE: Well, thanks very much, obviously it's dearly flattering to
have people think that way. But, no, it's time for me to go back to
Stanford, *I mean 8 years is a long time, particularly in the circumstances
that we've gone through.* I am quite certain that Senator McCain is going to
find a really great running mate. He, himself, is a terrific patriot and
he's a good friend. But it's time for me to do something else.
DOOCY: Oh, come on, you'd like the job.
RICE: No, no I wouldn't. Government service is a wonderful thing, Steve*,
but you have to know when your time is up, and it's time for new blood and
let us leave.* I've got six months still to try to complete some of the
important tasks the administration's taken on. The President's got a very
active agenda, we're going to sprint to the finish. And then I'm going to
sprint back to the west coast.
<https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/du6oudm4og>
Highlight #5
*Leno Makes Joke That McCain Calls Iraq Mesopotamia, Still* (NBC, 06/18/08,
11:35pm)
JAY LENO: And Barack Obama says that he will visit Iraq, *or as John McCain
still calls it, Mesopotamia.* He's going to go there. You know*, old habits
die hard.* That's what it is.<https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/kgrzf6hvk0>
Highlight #6
*Carlos Mencia Does Skit Pretending John McCain Goes Crazy Due to
PTSD* (COMEDY
CENTRAL, 06/18/08, 10:30pm)
CARLOS MENCIA: By the way, my uncle was no P.O.W. He never went through what
John McCain went through. This dude, eventually, is going to snap from PTSD.
Now I know some of you are saying, "Well what would really happen if John
McCain became president and snapped Carlos?" Maybe you don't have the
imagination to conjure up such images. But thank the lord, Carlos Mencia
does and this is what I think is going to happen.
REPORTER: Mr. President, you say you have plans for withdrawing down troops
in Iraq, why?
JOHN MCCAIN: My statements on the subject are on the record, thank you.
REPORTER: Sir, you need to answer the question.
MCCAIN: (McCain sees reporter turn into Vietnamese soldier) John McCain,
Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy. Serial number #62487.
REPORTER: Uh, Mr. President, we're talking about troop deployment in Iraq.
MCCAIN: I will only give name, rank, and serial number!
REPORTER/SOLDIER: AH! YOU ANSWER QUESTION NOW!
MCCAIN: You got questions, son? I got answers! You want answers? Check out
my answer! Ha Ha! (McCain attempts to take suicide pill)
SECRET SERVICE: STOP HIM!
REPORTER: Iraq sir, we're talking about withdrawal of troops.
(McCain attempts to strangle himself)
MCCAIN: *I will become president and I will bomb the (expletive) out of you!
*(McCain continues to scream)
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Evan Whitbeck
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