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"On June 4, John McCain invited Barack Obama to join him at 10 town hall meetings to discuss the important issues facing our nation. Senator McCain and the American people are still waiting for Obama to agree. Obama's latest proposal is for one town hall meeting on July 4th, when most Americans will be with family and friends watching fireworks. Obama's proposal is nine town hall meetings short of what Senator McCain proposed. Obama's inaction over the last nine days -- despite his offer to meet 'anywhere, anytime' -- is another case where his rhetoric doesn't match his actions"

6/14/2008 12:15:10 PM

lol come onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn


there are like 5 months til november we have plenty of time...this is just a stupid thing right wingers will cling to since they know their candidate is in the shitter

6/14/2008 12:21:03 PM

Since you're posting from GOP.com, I guess I don't mind posting from dailykos:

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"On the day John McCain challenged Barack Obama to join him in a series of old-style town hall meetings, he said: I believe they should be people who are selected randomly, who come and enjoy the oldest form of democracy in America, and let them tell us what’s on their minds and let each of us make a response. What a maverick. What a straight talker. What a load of garbage. Yesterday, after the McCain campaign spent the day hyping an event as a town hall meeting where McCain would "answer questions from real voters," and tsk, tsking Obama for not being there to "revolutionize our political process and start a real change in the tone in politics," there was clarification, as reported by Fox News’ Shepard Smith, at the end of the broadcast: I reported at the top of this hour that the campaign had told us at Fox News that the audience would be made up of Republicans, Democrats, and independents. We have now received a clarification from the campaign and I feel I should pass it along to you. The McCain campaign distributed tickets to supporters, Mayor Bloomberg, who of course is a registered Republican, and other independent groups. And other attendees: Sens. Joseph Lieberman...and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. Others were culled from McCain e-mail lists and from independent voter groups. Well, you can't get much more random or real than that, can you? And by the way, today the Associated Press is reporting that: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday rejected Republican rival John McCain's proposal for 10 joint town-hall appearances, offering instead to have just one on the July 4 holiday. [...] McCain told reporters traveling with him in New Jersey that was "a very disappointing response." ...but not a word about last night's stacked deck. "

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/13/143046/949

That town hall meeting, if I remember correctly, was the one where McCain out-and-out lied about his past stance on the privatization of social security.

With all that being said, I still think Obama--while he did agree to four debates and one town hall meeting, instead of John McCain's proposed ten town hall meetings--should first of all stick to his word and meet with McCain as much as possible as long as cameras are present. This can do nothing but help Senator Obama.

6/14/2008 12:30:44 PM

so he distributed tickets to republicans and independents...

i wonder who would have gotten to distribute tickets to the democrats if they would have attended

6/14/2008 12:35:41 PM

Its disappointing that they have not able to negotiate this, at least yet. Its notoriously difficult to arrange debates between candidates - but clearly we all gain by as many formats and opportunities we have for both of them to debate.

A combination of several each of traditional style, town hall style, and lincoln/douglas style debates would be awesome.

6/14/2008 1:16:55 PM

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"so he distributed tickets to republicans and independents... i wonder who would have gotten to distribute tickets to the democrats if they would have attended"

If he wants to have a little Republican shindig, that's fine. What is at issue is that they originally misled the media in saying that the audience was made up of a broad group of people, when in fact it was primarily John McCain supporters.

6/14/2008 1:34:12 PM

perhaps, the article didn't really state whether the campaign actually told them that (not sure why they would mislead the media and then point it out)

i guess they should just say from now on that all meetings will have dems, reps, and inds if the dems decide to participate in politics that day

6/15/2008 6:22:35 PM

6/15/2008 7:28:44 PM

^ LOL

6/15/2008 7:34:25 PM