McCain On The Run: Cancels Press Availability

Marc Ambinder reports that John McCain's one press conference of the week has been abruptly canceled:

The one scheduled McCain press conference of the week has just been canceled, we are told. No word as to why. Grumble, grumble.

Why? Scheduling. Which is like answering "food" to "what did you eat for breakfast."

Ambinder offers a relatively innocuous explanation:

My bet is that the campaign much prefers local and regional interviews. Us national press folks will ask qualitatively different questions -- McCain v. the press, McCain v. history, McCain v. Obamania... The priority here in northern Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional district is on getting good local news coverage.

But Ben Smith sees more, pointing out that Obamania is the least of McCain's worries right now:

Despite the press crowd around Obama, McCain's avail today was the one with more promise to make news:

He hasn't explained what he meant by juggling the timeline on the surge and Awakening (though his staff did the best salvage job possible); whether he meant that Obama was deliberately selling out the country; whether he shares his campaign's grievance with the press; or what he thinks of his staff's genocide-themed attack.

And now he's canceled the avail.

Comments

[whiteboyblues]

Tomorrow he will be crying that he doesn't get enough press coverage

[CindyM2008]

Friday he will say he did a press conference on Wednesday.

[terramartom]

McCain should do as Cheney, hide period!

[AMJordan]

I would not talk to the press
It would only depress
So I will not talk to the press

Forgot the Iran and Afgan
Stuck here in Dumbastan
So the Press I will ban

Phil says people are whiny
Cindy says money is shiny
The Press can kiss my hiney

So I will not talk to the Press
I hand with Rudy in a Dress
What I mean? You guess.

[Jessegirl]

Shoot, that was 7

[Jessegirl]

Must post in 6 words or less

[Jessegirl]

ha ha not funny

[Jessegirl]

Can I get a post through guys

[dentuso]

That's 7 words.

[Jessegirl]

I'm screwed....sorry can't talk more

[dentuso]

Incidentally "Can I get a post through guys" was Vlad's campaign slogan, wasn't it?

[AMJordan]

That's a campaign slogan that'll stick with you...

[NochlessMonster]

LOL! I am liking you more by the day.... hahahaha

[AMJordan]

Actually, as a guy, I would really appreciate it if you would post around me. After you post through me, and i take a drink, the water just pours right out...

[dentuso]

Odd. When Lie berman drinks a glass of water, McGoo speaks.

[TchoupitoulasCanal]

Only if you get Rick Springfield to sing "Jesse's Girl" first.....they're watching you.......

[ComnCents]

Take a Joe McCarthy speech and do a global edit.
Replace the word Communism with Terrorism, Communist with Terrorist, etc.

Presto, you have a Mic-Unt speech.

The politics of fear has not changed.
The boogeyman has.

[AMJordan]

"Are you now or have you ever been a terrorist?" Hmmm, you're right, it works.

"Are you now or have you ever been a hobbit?"

"Are you now or have you ever been sane?"

[Paul]

McCain is like the baseball team whose best chance is a rainout.

[VolvoBirkenstock]

Mean Mister Geezer sleeps on the bus
Skips on the tax trying to save money
Sleeps in a hole in the road
Saving up to buy some condos
Keeps a ten-bob note up his nose
Such a mean old man
Such a mean old man

His wifey Cin works with the hops
She never stops, she's a pill popper
Takes him out to look at the queen
Only place that he's ever been
Always shouts out something obscene
Such a dirty old man
Dirty old man

Mean Mister Geezer
Such a dirty dirty
Mean Mister Geezer
Such a dirty dirty
Mean Mister Geezer

[AMJordan]

SING IT!

[CarrieAntigua]

lookout you guys shortbus is gonna crawl out from under his slimy stone...or maybe you managed to get rid of him once and for all!

[VolvoBirkenstock]

Not after his BIG slip up last night.

He posted the cities where the golf courses he allegedly owns are located.

Problem for shortbus...business records prove him to be a liar.

[AMJordan]

What? And give up show business?

[jukesgrrl]

"His wifey Cin works with the hops
She never stops, she's a pill popper"

I'll be singing that for a week.

[fiberoptimist]

Grandpa had to go to Czechoslovakia to check on his offshore oil drilling leases, and then headed off to pay back taxes on his CONDO overlooking the Iraq / Pakistan border. LOL

[scouserinlondon]

Told you already..... He's gone to Rhodesia for talks with Idi Amin.
Crying out loud...... do try and keep up!!!!!!!

[AMJordan]

I thought he was the one that Boosh was taking about at the Kenneset, you know, the Senator who wanted to talk to Hit-ler and get him to stop...

[Jessegirl]

Bush secretly loves this: "looky folks...us do-gooders sometimes 'word fornicate' he he"

[VolvoBirkenstock]

Can't get a post through to main, but the tr0llz can post off topic diversions?

[NochlessMonster]

This surprises you somehow?

[poropo]

you can run but we'll still get you.

[AMJordan]

But we don't want him...

[KansasKowboy]

He had to cancel the press conference because he had reached his quoted of saying "My Friends" for the week.

[afgail]

He had to cancel the press availability because he is suffering from a very bad case of hoof in mouth disease.

[ComnCents]

Actually, his vision is a little off.
He has been mispronouncing a word in all his speeches.

He is supposed to be saying "My Fiends"