CNN: McCain to highlight differences with Bush in New Orleans

[Bleacher Creature]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/03/mccain-to-highlight-differences-with-bush-in-new-orleans/

Posted: 12:45 PM ET

From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby

McCain will give a prime time speech in New Orleans Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Just days after holding a closed door fundraiser with President Bush in Arizona, presumptive Republican nominee John McCain will put space between himself and the president tonight in a prime time speech to be given just outside of New Orleans.

McCain adviser Steve Schmidt appeared on CNN’s "American Morning" on Tuesday and said the speech will be "about the future" and outline differences between McCain’s vision for America and that of of Barack Obama, who is expected to claim victory in the Democratic primary race tonight.

But Schmidt also signaled that the setting of the speech in New Orleans, where McCain last visited in April, is intended to highlight differences between McCain and the current Republican occupying the White House. The city, Schmidt said, "signifies to the American people what is broken about our government."

(snip)

I just have one thing to say to this story --

[MidwestTransplant]

1. As in tonight while everybody is focusing on the Dem race? Good timing morons.

[LisaM]

2. This is why I feel his candidacy is not a serious threat

No matter whom our nominee is.

[Indenturedebtor]

7. It's not his candidacy I'm worried about

It's another stolen election that keeps me up nights.

Here's a snipet of his speech on pre-release:

"My Friends Bush likes Freedom Fries. While I prefer Onion Rings my friends. Bush was largely owned by the Oil Industry. I am owned by all Industries. Bush was famously moronic. I am famously senile and insane. So you see my friends I offer the change that those of you who voted for Bush DESERVE! My friends, my friends, my friends, POW POW POW my friends."

[leftchick]

3. lots of luck gramps

like the residents of NO don't know he was eating cake with the king while they were drowning.

[Journeyman]

4. The difference is obvious: McCain holds the right half of the cake. . .

Bush supports the left half, and both laugh while poor people in New Orleans drown.

A very clear, very stark difference.

[tridim]

5. Gee, I can't wait.

Bwhahahah :rofl:

McLoser.

[blondeatlast]

6. McMore is already on the defensive--YES! Good luck with that, Mr. Wonder Bread.

:rofl:

[EOTE]

8. My hair is ivory, Bush's is more of a salt and pepper?

Now let's move to our choices in jackets and ties...

See? We're completely different.

[seasat]

9. Yet he voted against investigating the failed response to Katrina.

I was curious about John McCain's record on Katrina and found this article at the top of a Google search.

John McCain's Time for Action tour arrived in New Orleans Thursday, where McCain toured the hurricane-damaged 9th Ward and criticized both the Bush Administration and Congress for its handling of the disaster. Lamenting the pace of recovery, McCain said, "I want to assure you it will never happen again in this country. You have my commitment and my promise."

But McCain's record on Hurricane Katrina suggests that he was part of the problem, not the solution. McCain was on Face the Nation on August 28, 2005, as Katrina gathered in the Gulf Coast. He said nothing about it. One day later, when Katrina made landfall in Louisiana, McCain was on a tarmac at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona, greeting President Bush with a cake in celebration of McCain's 69th birthday. Three days later, with the levees already breached and New Orleans filling with water, McCain's office released a three-sentence statement urging Americans to support the victims of the hurricane.

Though McCain issued a statement the next week calling on Congress to make sacrifices in order to fund recovery efforts, he was quoted in The New Leader on September 1 cautioning against over-spending in support of Katrina's victims. "We also have to be concerned about future generations of Americans," he said. "We're going to end up with the highest deficit, probably, in the history of this country."

That attitude was borne out in McCain's actions and votes. Forty Senators and 100 members of Congress visited New Orleans before he did; he finally got there in March 2006. He voted against establishing a Congressional commission to examine the Federal, State, and local responses to Katrina in med-September 2005. He repeated that vote in 2006. He voted against allowing up to 52 weeks of unemployment benefits to people affected by the hurricane, and in 2006 voted against appropriating $109 billion in supplemental emergency funding, including $28 billion for hurricane relief.

[GoesTo11]

10. Dear John, Thanks for reminding us of how your party handled Katrina!

[KamaAina]

11. "just outside of New Orleans"

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/06/mccain_holds_rally_today_in_ke.html

McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee, will stage a rally tonight at the Pontchartrain Center in Kenner. Doors open to the public at 7 p.m, spokesman Jeff Sadosky said.

Kenner IS NOT New Orleans!!!! :grr: The airport may indeed be located there, but politically, it might as well be on another planet: it was the last known address of Gov. Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (R-Jonesing for VP Slot) when he represented the gerrymandered 1st District in Congress.

So basically, McSatan is getting the best of both worlds: the M$M is biting on the "McCain goes to New Orleans" bait, while he's actually in safe Red territory in the 'burbs.

You might say he's "having his cake and eating it too"...

[blondeatlast]

12. I can spare 15 seconds; it ought to be entertaining at least... nt

[Vinca]

13. So how many news outlets will switch from Obama to McCain tonight?

Even Fox will be hard pressed to cover the geezer with all the Obama excitement.

[Johonny]

14. what is broken about our government

Republicans?

[SpiralHawk]

15. "The republicon future is coming." - McSame

[NRaleighLiberal]

16. What...one plays lead guitar, the other rhythym, or bass?

One has "my friends", the other can't string a sentence of more than 3 words with 2 syllables"
One cavorts with crooks, the other cavorts with crooks (whoops...no difference there).
One gets a hard on about war, one can no longer get a hard on, but war would do it if he could?

etc

[blondeatlast]

17. OHMIGOD! One of them (gasp) dresses LEFT?! nt