McCain admits he's out-of-touch . . . Obama camp agrees

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September 12, 2008


In a conference call with reporters on Friday morning, the Obama campaign seized on a comment by McCain in Thursday night’s ServiceNation forum in New York, where the candidates appeared separately on the seventh anniversary of 9/11.

McCain was defending his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a former mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, population 9,800. Asked by Judy Woodruff of PBS about her stint as “a small-town mayor,” McCain replied: “Listen, mayors have the toughest job, I think, in America. It's easy for me to go to Washington and, frankly, be somewhat divorced from the day-to-day challenges people have.”


A new Obama ad out this morning uses the phrase “out of touch” and mocks McCain’s confession that the was still learning to go online by himself: “Things have changed in the last 26 years. But McCain hasn’t. He admits he still doesn’t know how to use a computer, can’t send an email. Still doesn’t understand the economy. And favors two hundred billion in new tax cuts for corporations, but almost nothing for the middle class. After one President who was out of touch, we just can’t afford more of the same.”

An Obama official says the campaign’s message is “out of touch, out of touch, out of touch.”

“John McCain can’t bring about change when he is completely out of touch with the lives of regular Americans,” the official said.


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1. Yeah I heard that last night. I was like

:wtf: I know it's true, just didn't expect him to admit it.