McCrypt Aid Tucker Absurdity A(Bounds) Claims Credit For Deal, Says "We're Going Into A Debate" (VID

[jefferson_dem]

McCain Aide Claims Credit For Deal, Says "We're Going Into A Debate"
September 25, 2008 03:01 PM

Shortly before 2pm ET, McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said on MSNBC that his boss deserves credit for the bipartisan bailout deal.

Bounds then apparently went way off message, indicating that McCain would attend tomorrow's debate. "We're going into a debate," Bounds said, adding "I think we're going there strong."

Here's a transcript of his conversation with Andrea Mitchell:

Before John McCain suspended his campaign yesterday, the situation that we're looking at today looked very different then. After he showed leadership and called for bipartisanship, for us to partisanship aside and tackle this solution head on, here we are. And we're going into a debate, I think we're going there strong.

Here's video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vks7PmbCWF4&eurl=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/25/mccain-aide-claims-credit_n_129336.html

This is unlikely to represent an official change in position for the campaign. Earlier in the interview Bounds was more on message, saying that the McCain campaign was "hoping to go into" the debate.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/25/mccain-aide-claims-credit_n_129336.html

[amitten]

1. !

:rofl:

[BattyDem]

2. Wait until the flood of Senators and Congressmen start doing interviews about the bailout

and explain that the deal was worked out before McCain ever arrived in Washington. Richard Shelby, the ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, said today that he hadn't heard from McCain at all! McCain will look like a first-class idiot if he takes credit because that story will depend upon every person in Congress keeping his/her mouth shut ... and I doubt that will happen.


edited: typo :blush:

[Supersedeas]

3. the McCain spokescreeks have to be the strangest looking crew of people

[berni_mccoy]

4. Baghdad Bob's been replaced.

[SuperTrouper]

5. LMAO!!

:rofl:

[Raschel]

6. Bwahahaha

Everyone connected with this campaign sounds like an idiot! Wow.

[yellowcanine]

7. Sorry Tuck, but this doesn't come close to passing the sniff test. McCain's little drive by

negotiation is going to be seen for what it is - desperation. And the real goal - getting the debate put off and having McCain and Obama take the VP debate slot in order to spare the empress with no clothes - can't happen now, so McCain loses twice. Obama adds 5 more points to his national lead over this, I am predicting. And that is before the debate, which will cause some more movement in Obama's direction, imo.