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

[BlueZoo]

If he'd only cancel his news conferences for the duration, I'd be ecstatic!

[AMJordan]

Better yet, maybe the press ought to cancel it's coverage of his campaign.

[Chillinout]

That would actually be doing him a huge favor. As long as he isn't talking to or in front of the press he doesn't make any gaffes.

[TXfemmom]

McCain and his campaign have complained that they do not get enough attention from the press, and then they do this.

He cannot stay on theme, cannot remember the facts, and is down right mean, and they are attempting to shield him from this. This is just another sign that the man is totally unfit for office, any office, and especially the Presidency.

[NochlessMonster]

Ummm...... He complains about not getting a fair and just amount of coverage from the press and then cancels a press conference­...... Yeah.... sounds about right for his Maverickness

[tlhwraith]

bingo, what's up with that?

[dentuso]

Look at me! Look at me! Hey! Look at me!

Why is everyone looking at me? Leave me the f**k alone!

[Chillinout]

That reminds me of a t-shirt I saw on a girl once. She was pretty well endowed and in pretty small print on the front of her shirt it said "Stop Staring at my T i t s." It was hilarious!

[CuriousPerson]

LOL

[afgail]

McGaffe-a-day had used up his number of age related errors for the month,

[SeriousBlack]

The simple, sad truth is that John McCain and his campaign cannot stand up to scrutiny.

End of story.

[AMJordan]

First you cry about the press being mean to you then CBS edits it's interview with you and the New York Times won't print your op-ed both to just hide the fact that you are totally clueless on foreign policy. Now you won't even come out to play.

Is that gratitude?

[LeftLeanWing]

Maybe he had too much oatmeal and prune juice this morning , Thus starting another Surge that he doesn't want to talk about.

[ComnCents]

Thanx for the laugh.
Pepsi is coming out of my nose.

[Stringer32]

LOL!

[scouserinlondon]

Just stay downwind of him and you'll be safe.
Oh, and don't light up one of them Eye-ranian ciggies.

[Wild West]

Maybe it was just nap time, you know old guys they need midday rest ..

[gladys46]

sometimes they don't wake up.

[CLAIREFORVP]

Breaking News

( Chicago ) Insiders at the Obama campaign say that he has decided on Claire McCaskill “because she thinks along the same lines and can help articulate his issues”. The announcement will come by the end of July……

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[dentuso]

If he was going to pick a woman, he would have to pick Hil, unfortunately. If he didn't have to pick her, he'd unquestionably go with Sebelius.

We all like Claire, but it's just not realistic. I appreciate the fact that you're trying to advertise for your gal, but you're not going to find too many who follow politics to bite on that one, I'm afraid.

[Liberoservative]

I love her but she is as freshman a senator as he is and I want her to stay in Missouri!!!! We need her there

[dtrain51]

not a bad choice,Wesley Clark to the stae Department.

[JBelbute]

He had to cancel for a Dr appointment for an alzheimers screening

[logicprevails]

On another note, who would possibly run with this guy at this juncture? Talk about picking winners, running with him is like betting on the Dolphins to win the super bowl, or betting W has a soul...

[SeriousBlack]

More like betting on the Washington Generals not just to beat the Harlem Globetrotters, but to win the NBA championship.

[logicprevails]

Remember that guy in college? You know, THAT GUY? The guy who could only speak condescendingly; the guy who thought he had everything figured out; the guy who no matter what you argued about felt as though he was ALWAYS right?

Well, that guy's name is John, and he's running for prez. Let us take this time to altogether wave goodbye to this guy's HUBRIS and shot at the oval office.

BYE! Au revoir!

[soapington]

The janitor, you mean?

[AMJordan]

If I find a quarter in there...

[kay]

It's mean, but I can't help it. I love that they had to cancel the oil rig photo op because of a massive fuel oil spill.

[Chillinout]

But, but, but....the new derricks are so safe.

Now, with the loss of all that oil, we are REALLY going to have to drill some more.

[cjk002]

"Now, with the loss of all that oil, we are REALLY going to have to drill some more."


You may have just given us a preview of the next Republican talking point on energy.

[ErnestineBass]

A barge collided with a tanker in the Mississippi north of NO. (Just so's you know ;-])

[gladys46]

LMAO .... not mean ... fact!

[AMJordan]

Senator Mc-Cain is the walking embodiment of irony.

[RaraAvis17]

I heard JMc is having an exor cism by Jin dal after his recent gaffes and misstatements about O. He was channelling Geo rgeW and they had to stop it before it took him over completely.

[scouserinlondon]

I heard that as well, George stated that he was" too Maverickateous and needs some Bushification in order to continufy my Presidenti­allisness"

[Bitsko]

"I spent my summer running for President and all I got was this lousy Lieberman.­"

Sorry for hitting the button too quickly. It used to go like this, now it goes like that.

[bongogirl]

Got no where to run to McCain. Got no where to hide McCain. Dementia is a serious condition and you need to acknowledge your problem and get the help you need. Post Traumatic Stress is a serious condition as well. YOU NEED AN INTERVENTI­ON!!!!!!!!­!!!!!

OBAMA '08