Posted on 02/08/2008 1:25:49 PM PST by TinaJeannes
http://mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressOffice.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=a72aa248-ed25-4ec1-9c20-1386b3ee960c&Region_id=&Issue_id=
February 6, 2006
The Honorable Barack Obama
United States Senate
SH-713
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator Obama:
I would like to apologize to you for assuming that your private assurances to me regarding your desire to cooperate in our efforts to negotiate bipartisan lobbying reform legislation were sincere. When you approached me and insisted that despite your leadership’s preference to use the issue to gain a political advantage in the 2006 elections, you were personally committed to achieving a result that would reflect credit on the entire Senate and offer the country a better example of political leadership, I concluded your professed concern for the institution and the public interest was genuine and admirable. Thank you for disabusing me of such notions with your letter to me dated February 2, 2006, which explained your decision to withdraw from our bipartisan discussions. I’m embarrassed to admit that after all these years in politics I failed to interpret your previous assurances as typical rhetorical gloss routinely used in politics to make self-interested partisan posturing appear more noble. Again, sorry for the confusion, but please be assured I won’t make the same mistake again.
As you know, the Majority Leader has asked Chairman Collins to hold hearings and mark up a bill for floor consideration in early March. I fully support such timely action and I am confident that, together with Senator Lieberman, the Committee on Governmental Affairs will report out a meaningful, bipartisan bill.
This is pretty funny. Thanks for posting it!
Did you know the word "gullible" is NOT in the dictionary?
LOL This will be a “Fun” election....
And this is exactly why we love McCain....he fights back!
Ouch.
The man's got teeth, I'll give him that.
I thought it was a good one. sorry i messed up the first time i posted it but oh well :)
YEP!
One of the many reasons many on this forum don't trust him. He constantly seeks these people out. Kennedy, Feingold, Lieberman. When was the last time your boss reached across the aisle and pulled them over to the right side?
Funny, sarcastic, mavericky. But not presidential.
LOL thats perspective for you... You think because McCain reaches across the aisle he pulls left... I think when he does it he pulls them right...
However, it is going to be fun having a candidate that doesn’t pull punches and tells them point blank what he thinks.. especially when there is such a divide in our political system here...
It will be refreshing to see how many suddenly realize that the Democrats were on the wrong side of history and would have us in a Deep Depression and a million dead citizens here if they were in the drivers seat....
When the whole primary process started McCain was my second last choice...but I gotta hand to him on this one.
On an unrelated historical note, one thing interesting about this election is that with about 99% certainty, a sitting US Senator is going to be elected President (Hillary, Obama or McCain), the first time since JFK was elected.
For what it’s worth.
Who is this 'we' you refer to?
The squishy middle?
THAT says something about the sorry lot of ‘em as well as what the MSM is now forcing down our throats. Sheesh.
This is two years old....
I thought it was very presidential *L*
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