Guy who didn’t want to be there at all says guy that was there can’t take any credit
Daft.
Obama this morning: McCain Gets no credit for Wall Street Bailout
Asked if McCain deserves the credit, Obama said no.
“I was on the phone every day with Secretary Paulson and the congressional leaders, making sure that the principles that have ultimately been adopted were incorporated into the bill,” Obama told CBS’s Bob Schieffer, explaining, “I think, [that] is an indication of the degree to which, when it comes to protecting taxpayers, I was pushing very hard and involved in shaping those provisions.”
McCain this morning:
“I’m never going to not get engaged when the taxpayers and middle class of America are in danger of losing everything, literally, that they’ve worked all their lives for,” McCain told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. Adding, “I won’t claim a bit of credit.“
Also enjoyable:
“We have to remember how we got here, not so much to allocate blame as to understand the choices that are going to face the next president,”
Of course we shouldn’t be throwing around any blame at my close allies in Congress, who protected the status quo at all costs. We’re above blame. Blame is so 20th century.
And the polls keep spinning him up, and up, and up.
No related posts.
for instance here and here.
Dig deeper than the headline. This is a very loaded headline.
McCain Then: “I won’t claim a bit of credit.“
Now: Politco: McCain takes credit for bill before it loses