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Senator McCain Sent Obama to his Room
Sentator John McCain

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=


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ebruary 6, 2006 Washington D.C. ­– Today, Senator McCain sent the following letter to Senator Obama regarding ongoing Congressional efforts towards bipartisan lobbying reform. The following is the text from that letter:

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.

1 posted on 02/08/2008 1:25:52 PM PST by TinaJeannes
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To: TinaJeannes

This is pretty funny. Thanks for posting it!


2 posted on 02/08/2008 1:28:46 PM PST by Parmenio
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To: TinaJeannes
I concluded your professed concern for the institution and the public interest was genuine and admirable

Did you know the word "gullible" is NOT in the dictionary?

3 posted on 02/08/2008 1:29:59 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: TinaJeannes

LOL This will be a “Fun” election....


4 posted on 02/08/2008 1:30:03 PM PST by BigEdLB (BigEd)
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To: TinaJeannes

And this is exactly why we love McCain....he fights back!


5 posted on 02/08/2008 1:31:26 PM PST by HappyinAZ
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To: TinaJeannes
But I understand how important the opportunity to lead your party’s effort to exploit this issue must seem to a freshman Senator, and I hold no hard feelings over your earlier disingenuousness. Again, I have been around long enough to appreciate that in politics the public interest isn’t always a priority for every one of us.

Ouch.

The man's got teeth, I'll give him that.

6 posted on 02/08/2008 1:32:04 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Parmenio

I thought it was a good one. sorry i messed up the first time i posted it but oh well :)


7 posted on 02/08/2008 1:35:26 PM PST by TinaJeannes
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To: HappyinAZ

YEP!


8 posted on 02/08/2008 1:36:29 PM PST by TinaJeannes
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To: TinaJeannes
I am confident that, together with Senator Lieberman, the Committee on Governmental Affairs will report out a meaningful, bipartisan bill.

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?

9 posted on 02/08/2008 1:36:59 PM PST by cgk (I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
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10 posted on 02/08/2008 1:39:14 PM PST by RoadKingSE (How do you know that that light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash?)
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To: TinaJeannes

Funny, sarcastic, mavericky. But not presidential.


11 posted on 02/08/2008 1:39:52 PM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (It is not good to be better than the worst.)
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To: cgk

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...


12 posted on 02/08/2008 1:41:37 PM PST by tomnbeverly (If Islamic Jihad is an existential threat then the candidate that should be POTUS is a no brainer.)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

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....


13 posted on 02/08/2008 1:43:57 PM PST by tomnbeverly (If Islamic Jihad is an existential threat then the candidate that should be POTUS is a no brainer.)
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To: HappyinAZ

When the whole primary process started McCain was my second last choice...but I gotta hand to him on this one.


14 posted on 02/08/2008 1:44:01 PM PST by perez24 (Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap.)
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To: TinaJeannes

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.


15 posted on 02/08/2008 1:47:36 PM PST by ConservativeDude
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To: HappyinAZ
And this is exactly why we love McCain....he fights back!

Who is this 'we' you refer to?

The squishy middle?

16 posted on 02/08/2008 1:52:17 PM PST by JOAT
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To: ConservativeDude

THAT says something about the sorry lot of ‘em as well as what the MSM is now forcing down our throats. Sheesh.


17 posted on 02/08/2008 1:54:28 PM PST by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .....)
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To: TinaJeannes

Related:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1966442/posts


18 posted on 02/08/2008 2:01:53 PM PST by jdm (A Hunter Thompson ticket would be suicide.)
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To: jdm

This is two years old....


19 posted on 02/08/2008 2:06:12 PM PST by Technical Editor
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

I thought it was very presidential *L*


20 posted on 02/08/2008 2:06:22 PM PST by TinaJeannes
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