dyn.politico.com — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and his top aides took credit for building a winning bailout coalition ? hours before the vote failed and stocks tanked. The rush to claim he had engineered a victory now looks like a strategic blunder that will prolong the McCain?s campaign?s difficulty in finding a winning message on the economy.
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Closed AccountSep 29, 2008
Will he also take credit for his campaign before it loses?
hillsfarSep 29, 2008
Not only did McCain brag about putting together a coalition to vote for the bail-out plan - which subsequently failed......He lied about his role. Barack Obama spoke some 7 to 8 minutes at the hastily convened meeting between House and Senate, Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House. McCain barely said anything and contributed NOTHING - and this the Republicans admit to.