The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    McCain: I'd run a clean campaign if I weren't desperate

    By acanuck on Fri, 09/12/2008 - 8:32pm |
    On The View, McCain was confronted about the lying, gutter-level approach his campaign is now taking.
    His excuse: The campaign's tone would be better if Obama hadn't rejected his proposal for an endless string of townhall meetings.
    Huh? What's the connection?
    Well, the conventional wisdom is that McCain shines in the townhall setting.
    If Obama had let himself be suckered into that exclusive format, McCain might be coasting to an easy win right now, rather than in a statistical tie (as Gallup now calls it).
    And if so, McCain wouldn't need to go down and dirty.
    That's how I read his response.

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    I just thought it was a non-sequitur. What ever his reasoning behind it was he ended up sounding really LAME. It looked to me like Walters was starting to get on his nerves big time. I did not see the whole thing - just the clips posted on Huffington Post.


    by bluesplashy (not verified) on Fri, 09/12/2008 - 11:39pm