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Obama Reaches Out for McCain’s Counsel [McBama barf alert]
The New York Times ^
| 2009-01-19
Posted on 01/18/2009 7:09:59 PM PST by rabscuttle385
BY DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
WASHINGTON Not long after Senator John McCain returned last month from an official trip to Iraq and Pakistan, he received a phone call from President-elect Barack Obama.
As contenders for the presidency, the two had hammered each other for much of 2008 over their conflicting approaches to foreign policy, especially in Iraq. (Hed lose a war! Hed stay a hundred years!) Now, however, Mr. Obama said he wanted Mr. McCains advice, people in each camp briefed on the conversation said. What did he see on the trip? What did he learn?
It was just one step in a post-election courtship that historians say has few modern parallels, beginning with a private meeting in Mr. Obamas transition office in Chicago just two weeks after the vote. On Monday night, Mr. McCain will be the guest of honor at a black-tie dinner celebrating Mr. Obamas inauguration.
Over the last three months, Mr. Obama has quietly consulted Mr. McCain about many of the new administrations potential nominees to top national security jobs and about other issues in one case relaying back a contenders answers to questions Mr. McCain had suggested.
Mr. McCain, meanwhile, has told colleagues that many of these appointments he would have made himself, said Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and a close McCain friend.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: rabscuttle385
0be’s doomed if he takes any Media Maverick advice.
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posted on
01/18/2009 7:11:29 PM PST
by
Paladin2
(No, pundits strongly believe that the proper solution is more dilution.)
To: MaggieCarta; indylindy; roamer_1; calcowgirl; djsherin; Sunnyflorida; SoConPubbie; Sybeck1; ...
It was just one step in a post-election courtship that historians say has few modern parallels, beginning with a private meeting in Mr. Obamas transition office in Chicago just two weeks after the vote. |
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posted on
01/18/2009 7:11:32 PM PST
by
rabscuttle385
("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
To: exit82; DoughtyOne; TADSLOS; AmericanInTokyo; Extremely Extreme Extremist; cripplecreek; Liz; ...
"Somebody's poisoned the water hole!"
"There's a snake in my boots!"
McCain + Obama + Graham = Brokeback Mountain on the Potomac...con carne
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posted on
01/18/2009 7:15:31 PM PST
by
rabscuttle385
("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
To: rabscuttle385
Reachin’ across the aisle, is he?
Let’s see, is it the left hand or the right hand...?
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posted on
01/18/2009 7:15:52 PM PST
by
bigbob
To: rabscuttle385
Of course he needs McTraitor ... for the 60 seat majority.
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posted on
01/18/2009 7:19:59 PM PST
by
VRWC For Truth
(Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bail out)
To: Paladin2
Then maybe he should HURRY UP and appoint McPain to something... like chief “opposition” Counsel! We’d be rid of the pair of them in NO time...
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posted on
01/18/2009 7:20:59 PM PST
by
dcwusmc
(We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
To: rabscuttle385
McCain’s been doing all the reaching out for some time.
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posted on
01/18/2009 7:23:54 PM PST
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
To: rabscuttle385
It all makes sense. McCain never planned to win the office. He did everything he could to sabotage the campaign. Election night he could barely wait to concede.
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posted on
01/18/2009 7:25:21 PM PST
by
ladyjane
To: rabscuttle385
This is what I think of those two:
To: rabscuttle385
great sign....
consider this
stolen reusable.
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posted on
01/18/2009 7:27:07 PM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(just b/c you're paranoid, doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you.. :^)
To: rabscuttle385
Mr. McCain, meanwhile, has told colleagues that many of these appointments he would have made himself, said Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and a close McCain friend. That sentence sums up the election loss and the sorry state of the Republican Party.
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posted on
01/18/2009 7:29:08 PM PST
by
oldbill
To: rabscuttle385
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posted on
01/18/2009 7:29:16 PM PST
by
lonestar
To: rabscuttle385
John McCain will gravitate to wherever he thinks that he can attach himself to some power. Like Lindsey Graham.
They have no principles or conscience.
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posted on
01/18/2009 7:52:15 PM PST
by
Bahbah
(Typical white person-Snow white)
To: rabscuttle385; Bahbah; VRWC For Truth
Definitely.
Obama is no fool. He has seen how McCain loves the adoration of his enemies. And how useful he is as a spoiler.
He’s off on the right foot here, McCain just wants his ears scritched and his belly tickled. Then he’ll go fetch.
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posted on
01/18/2009 7:58:10 PM PST
by
sinanju
To: rabscuttle385
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posted on
01/18/2009 8:19:41 PM PST
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote.)
To: rabscuttle385
Sure, Obama only has to pick off one Senator to prevent filibusters. It's time for McCain to leave the Senate.
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posted on
01/18/2009 8:47:49 PM PST
by
GAB-1955
(Kicking and Screaming into the Kingdom of Heaven!)
To: rabscuttle385
Mr. McCain, meanwhile, has told colleagues that many of these appointments he would have made himself, said Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and a close McCain friend. Freaking WHAT?? McCain would have had many of the Obama/Clinton heads that Obama has brought on??
Folks, we were screwed with either of these men. At least now, we have an opportunity to push a true conservative next time.
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posted on
01/18/2009 9:37:03 PM PST
by
ConservativeMind
(What's "Price Gouging"? Should government force us to sell to the 15th highest bidder on eBay?)
To: ladyjane
It all makes sense. McCain never planned to win the office. He did everything he could to sabotage the campaign. Election night he could barely wait to concede.
too many times we were so disgusted that McCain never hit back, never went at Obama even when the door was standing wide open - our vote wasn't for McCain, most McCain votes weren't, but we convinced ourselves to hold our noses, vote for America and prayed Palin would help shape the presidency. We will never vote for McCain again, not for dogcatcher, not for any office. He doesn't even know when he's being punked fcol. The fool.
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posted on
01/18/2009 10:28:18 PM PST
by
blueplum
Creepy.
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posted on
01/19/2009 2:53:54 AM PST
by
Impy
(RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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