McCain bringing Campaign Advisor Holtz-Eakin to WH meeting/Obama told not to bring a campaign aide

[maddezmom]

McCain bringing campaign advisor to White House meeting
John McCain suspended his campaign to go back to Washington, D.C. and work on the bailout, but it sure seems like he's there as a candidate, not as a Senator just working to get a bailout deal done.

As Politico's Jonathan Martin noted, based on a pool report that had McCain conferring with Rick Davis, his campaign manager, and Sen. Joe Lieberman, a top surrogate, "it's increasingly implausible to think that what doing is anything different than he'd be doing on the campaign trail, except he's in person now instead of on his cell phone."

And when it comes time for the big bipartisan meeting that will be happening at the White House less than an hour after this post goes up, McCain will be accompanied not by one of his Senate staffers but by Douglas Holtz-Eakin, his campaign's top economic policy advisor. That's especially interesting because Barack Obama is bringing his legislative assistant. In fact, ABC News' Jake Tapper reports, Obama was told not to bring a campaign aide. An Obama spokesman confirmed that report to Salon.

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/09/25/mccain_staff/index.html?source=rss&aim=/politics/war_room

And update here:
UPDATE: The McCain campaign calls and says Holtz-Eakin has been "bounced" and will not be at the meeting; they had also been told not to bring campaign staff so there was some sort of mix-up.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/mccain-campai-2.html

[TexasObserver]

1. Because without his lobbyists, McCain doesn't know what his position is.

[Pirate Smile]

2. They are such assholes. Just like the 9/11 event which was supposed to be between the candidates

but Cindy had to go because McCain can't go anywhere alone. Pathetic.

[AlCzervik]

3. What a really stupid move. May the trend continue.

[alsame]

4. He needs someone to whisper in his ear when he gets confused.