Thoughts on McCains invite to Obama for town hall meetings...

[mscuedawg]

Good idea?
Bad idea?
Do you think Obama will consider this? When? Why?

Just curious as to what's the consensus on this...

[whistle]

1. McCain will drag Palin along on these right?

[enough]

2. McCain needs Barack to bring in crowds. Without Obama or Palin, nobody

wants to see him.

I thought this issue was settled long ago.

[mscuedawg]

4. Friday and today again...McCain has made it sound like Obama wont "come together"

...with him in his invites to town hall meetings....again, just curious.

[EC]

19. He's trying to use it as an excuse for his lieing negative ads...

It's being a bully...do this and I'll stop hurting you, kind of logic...

[cliffordu]

3. Why give McCain any audience at all? let him stew in his juices.

[fugop]

5. Scaredy cat McCain

McCain can't get anybody to come see him when he's alone. If he and Obama do town halls together, he can force an "even" crowd, a mix of D's and R's, thus making us forget that no one wants to go see him. I expect that's why he wants to campaign more with Palin - not because of their magical "click," but because with her, he at least gets thousands of freaky right-wingers. I'm glad Obama told him to stuff his town halls. Obama doesn't need McCain to draw a crowd of fired-up supporters.

[simmonsj811]

6. Short ANSWER NO!

LONG ANSWER HELL NO! NOWAY! NO HOW!:argh: :puke:

[Sensitivity]

7. Too late. With McCain becoming a SMEAR merchant it would give him TOO MUCH RESPECT

[dancingme]

8. McCain camp will plant people to ask Rev Wright questions

I think they have planned to ambush Obama with questions about Wright and why Michelle Obama wasn't proud of her country (they claim) before Barack ran for Pres. They would never allow Obama to discuss actual issues. It's all a plan to bring back Wright's videos on the news 24/7.

[scheming daemons]

9. He's going to be debating with him in 11 days..... no point in doing that now

[RT Atlanta]

10. it's a reach from the challenger....

nothing more

[Hard Leftt]

11. He has been inviting Obama to these for a long time now

McCain is a poor public speaker, he does better in these town hall thingys, Obama is the opposite, he's an incredible public speaker and ok at the town hall deal. Obama is smart to play to his own strenghts and not to his opponents.

[ellacott]

12. Obama's pretty good in Town Halls

The media just doesn't show it to you.

[zbdent]

13. McCain only dreams of that many people shouting his name ...

wait a minute ... wasn't there chants of "ass-hole, ass-hole" before in one of his appearance?

[mscuedawg]

14. Thanks all....cant wait for the debate!!!

I think its more SHOW for McCain...if he tells his cronies that he's asked for the open forum meetings and Obama has "disregarded"...it makes McCain look like the one who tried... Dishonesty...just what we DONT need for another 4 yrs...

[icanthelpit]

15. This is why Obama's advisors get paid the big $$'s

They obviously have to weigh the pros and cons. Before Palin, Obama would never consider it. Why risk it when you're ahead? But now that they are back on their heels, they may consider it. The problem is the American viewer doesn't want to sit through long answers, even though you can't describe an economic plan in two sentences. So in this respect, McCain's simple answers "connect" with people. I watched the Saddleback forum and McCain was sharp and engaged the audience. Obama seemed aloof and his answers weren't nearly as sharp. I for one hope that he doesn't do a town hall, because then it would mean that they are shifting their strategy.

[firedupdem]

17. Fuck McCain! Nobody has to bow down to his wishes! n/t

[BeyondGeography]

16. Seven weeks to go w/three debates scheduled plus one VP debate

Ignore it.

[PVnRT]

18. Cheap publicity stunt

Now he'll start whining about how Obama is "ducking" him, and "doesn't want to face the people" or some such bullshit.

[krkaufman]

20. It's stupid for Obama, strategically

Having frequent/weekly Town Halls would prevent Obama from getting out to those states that his campaign is targeting, giving the candidate with the greater name recognition the advantage.

There's not much Obama can do about the media's failure to call McCain on using the absence of town halls as an excuse for his hyper-negative attack ads.