McCain Used Wall Street Crisis To Fundraise Too
The RNC communications shop just sent out an email blasting the Obama campaign for "invoking the crisis on Wall Street" in a fundraising email.
Here's the statement from Alex Conant of the RNC:
"This is the definition of political opportunism - not leadership. It raises serious questions about Obama's judgment when millions of Americans are losing their jobs and savings, and his response is to ask for a campaign contribution. ... The crisis on Wall Street should be a bipartisan call for government reform - not a selfish call for political contributions."
Either this is purely faux outrage, or the RNC hasn't been reading the McCain campaign's emails, which also brag about McCain's leadership on the Wall Street crisis and ask for donations.
In a series of state-focused emails sent out by the campaign yesterday, supporters are encouraged to "Help John McCain and Sarah Palin run full steam ahead by donating! To provide your generous gift, click here."
Just below the solicitation, supporters are guided to stories such as, "McCain Promises to 'Clean Up Wall Street,'" featuring McCain's line, "The American economy is in a crisis. It is in a crisis."
The McCain email also links to the campaign's recent ad "Dome," which begins, "When our economy's in crisis, a big government casts a big shadow on us all. Obama and his liberal Congressional allies want a massive government, billions in spending increases, wasteful pork."
Clearly, Team McCain is fishing for some facts to justify its (apparently baseless) claim that, as McCain put it, "Sen. Obama's own advisers are saying that the crisis will benefit him politically."
They'll need to keep looking.
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First Posted: 09-19-08 05:33 PM | Updated: 10-20-08 05:12 AM