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Obama Declines McCain's Town Hall Invite
Right Up Front ^ | 06/12/2008 | Katy L Vidales

Posted on 06/13/2008 10:36:01 AM PDT by KatyLoraleyVidales

Senator Obama refused Senator McCain's offer for the two of them to appear in 10 joint Town hall Sessions between now and the November Election. Camp McCain offered to join Senator Obama in 10 Town hall session through out the country leading up to the November election immediately after Clinton called it quits. These town hall session which McCain has become increasingly comfortable with were a great play from Camp McCain... Realizing that Obama doesn't do well without a script infront of him or being told what to think, McCain seized the opportunity to capitalize on this and pitched the offer. These Town hall meetings would be rather information, with no moderator, no pre-selected questions, scripts, or prompters. The questions would come from your Average Joe Americans attending the event. David Plouffe, campaign manager for Obama, offered 5 joint-appearances on behalf of his candidate with one of them being the Town hall session. Obama's inability to commit to the olive branch extended by McCain camp portrays him as unable to commit to a simply conversation with his opponent at the expense of the American voters. This displays Obama's insecurity with public speaking, especially after his Jerusalem comments, "mistake of a baby" comments, and lets not forget his "57 states" comment. Improv is not Senator Obama's strong suit...

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: 2008; barackobama; bitter; chicken; electionpresident; elections; mccain; obama; obamatruthfile; townhall
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1 posted on 06/13/2008 10:36:01 AM PDT by KatyLoraleyVidales
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To: KatyLoraleyVidales

Wonder if the GOP will be smart enough to make an issue of this.


2 posted on 06/13/2008 10:37:20 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (http://www.iraqvetsforcongress.com ---- Get involved, make a difference.)
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To: KatyLoraleyVidales

So much for a change in the system of debates. Obama is scared. He knows he needs the media darlings to hand deliver him softballs and a townhall Q&A can’t deliver that.


3 posted on 06/13/2008 10:37:42 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache (Democrats worry about winning peace prizes , Republicans worry about winning wars)
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To: MNJohnnie

Smart and the GOP do not go hand in hand these days. Just look at the idiot we have for the party’s nominee.


4 posted on 06/13/2008 10:38:19 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache (Democrats worry about winning peace prizes , Republicans worry about winning wars)
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To: MNJohnnie
Wonder if the GOP will be smart enough to make an issue of this.

Are you kidding? C'mon, this is the GOP we're talkin' about.
5 posted on 06/13/2008 10:38:51 AM PDT by Bobkk47
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To: KatyLoraleyVidales
"How many states are in the Union?"

"Hmmm... errr... uhhh... hmmm... errr... uhhh..."


6 posted on 06/13/2008 10:39:00 AM PDT by avacado
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To: MNJohnnie

“Wonder if the GOP will be smart enough to make an issue of this.”

Some will mention it but it will not become an issue. I’m beginning to believe this is all just a “go through the motions” election.


7 posted on 06/13/2008 10:39:30 AM PDT by unkus
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To: MNJohnnie
"Wonder if the GOP will be smart enough-"

Nope

8 posted on 06/13/2008 10:40:58 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: Bobkk47
Wonder if the GOP will be smart enough to make an issue of this.

Are you kidding? C'mon, this is the GOP we're talkin' about.

Even if they were smart enough, all that would happen is Obama would raise his voice saying "NO!" and the GOP would whine and wet the floor like a scared puppy.

9 posted on 06/13/2008 10:41:13 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (the Clinton dream of being a two impeachment family goes right down the drain. - Letterman)
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To: KatyLoraleyVidales

10 posted on 06/13/2008 10:41:16 AM PDT by Coffee200am
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To: KatyLoraleyVidales

Chick, chick, CHICKEN!!

Obammy, the Stepford candidate. The Manchurian candidate. The Empty suit, the marxist, the leftist, the crypto Muslim.

Obama is the end of the US if he’s elected.


11 posted on 06/13/2008 10:42:15 AM PDT by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now, courtesy of Islam. TWP VRWC)
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To: KatyLoraleyVidales

O is afraid someone will ask him a question like “what’s your name?”.


12 posted on 06/13/2008 10:42:36 AM PDT by the anti-liberal (Write in: Fred Thompson)
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To: avacado
"Which party abolished slavery?"

"Hmmm... errr... uhhh... hmmm... errr... uhhh..."


13 posted on 06/13/2008 10:43:00 AM PDT by avacado
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To: Coffee200am

Free Range?/Just Asking - seoul62........


14 posted on 06/13/2008 10:43:23 AM PDT by seoul62
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To: KatyLoraleyVidales

Obama = yella
bock bock bock chicken
neener neener


15 posted on 06/13/2008 10:44:06 AM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: avacado
"What is your middle name?"

"Hmmm... errr... uhhh... hmmm... errr... uhhh..."


16 posted on 06/13/2008 10:44:24 AM PDT by avacado
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To: seoul62

lol


17 posted on 06/13/2008 10:45:58 AM PDT by KatyLoraleyVidales
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To: avacado

Obama: “Hussein...no Muhammed...wait. g*damnit...I mean Allah damnit”. Gotta love Jeff Dunham.


18 posted on 06/13/2008 10:46:54 AM PDT by KatyLoraleyVidales
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To: the anti-liberal

Barry is afraid he’ll be asked something not scripted in advance and approved by the DNC, which is why he’ll stick to the “objective” TV network debates.


19 posted on 06/13/2008 10:47:38 AM PDT by manapua
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To: seoul62

Tonights stew...


20 posted on 06/13/2008 10:47:51 AM PDT by Coffee200am
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To: MNJohnnie

If GOP is smart, have McCain do them without Obama, and then challenge Obama during the meetings. The O-camp will have to respond at some point.


21 posted on 06/13/2008 10:47:52 AM PDT by Clock King (Under revision...)
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To: My Favorite Headache

I’d rather suffer an idiot than a treasonwhore as president.


22 posted on 06/13/2008 10:48:14 AM PDT by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (Obama - not qualified to be president or dogcatcher!)
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To: garyhope

“Obama is the end of the US if he’s elected.”

Get prepared in as many ways as possible. The stuff is going to hit the fan before a year is out.


23 posted on 06/13/2008 10:48:17 AM PDT by unkus
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To: MNJohnnie

GOP and smart in the same sentence? Ha!


24 posted on 06/13/2008 10:48:20 AM PDT by rintense (McCain can pound sand.)
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To: KatyLoraleyVidales

If I were John McCain...I would go ahead and schedule those Townhalls....and show up with my VP candidate....


25 posted on 06/13/2008 10:48:52 AM PDT by mo
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To: avacado

what’s the wingspan of an african swallow?


26 posted on 06/13/2008 10:49:28 AM PDT by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (Obama - not qualified to be president or dogcatcher!)
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To: manapua
He and Hillary! both - what's with the Democrats these days?

They sure don't make 'em like they used to.

27 posted on 06/13/2008 10:49:39 AM PDT by the anti-liberal (Write in: Fred Thompson)
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To: My Favorite Headache
So much for a change in the system of debates. Obama is scared. He knows he needs the media darlings to hand deliver him softballs and a townhall Q&A can’t deliver that.

Exactly. He's great doing his standard speech off the teleprompter in front of the adoring crowds, but when you take away his security blanket of his fans and the teleprompter he's helpless.

I'll bet that he's a coward and doesn't agree to even one of these town hall meetings.

28 posted on 06/13/2008 10:49:52 AM PDT by jpl ("Don't tell me words don't matter." - Barack Obama, via Deval Patrick)
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99

I’d rather suffer an idiot than a treasonwhore as president.


That makes no sense. The end result can be the same.


29 posted on 06/13/2008 10:50:42 AM PDT by unkus
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To: jpl
No need to bet - he's already declined them.

I like the suggestion to do the Town Hall meeting anyways, and ask O questions without him present.

Make a jab at the fact that he's too cowardly to be there, and put the question out - making him a coward again if he doesn't answer in some way (his blog?).

30 posted on 06/13/2008 10:53:20 AM PDT by the anti-liberal (Write in: Fred Thompson)
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To: mo

good idea....now if only he had a vp candidate lol


31 posted on 06/13/2008 10:53:29 AM PDT by KatyLoraleyVidales
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To: Clock King

Invite B. Hussein and when he doesn’t show (boc bock bock bock), just have McCain hold them by himself.

They can run ads later:
John McCain is willing to speak to the American public [show clips of the townhall debates] while Barrack Obama [show an empty chair with crickets chirping in the background] is not.


32 posted on 06/13/2008 10:53:41 AM PDT by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (Obama - not qualified to be president or dogcatcher!)
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To: the anti-liberal

Ya know we’ll probably see something about this just being a cruel and vicious rumor on his smear website later...pft.


33 posted on 06/13/2008 10:54:24 AM PDT by KatyLoraleyVidales
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To: KatyLoraleyVidales

If he isn’t confident enough to go to a few meetings, how is he going to be confident enough to face all the ruthless people and defend this country?


34 posted on 06/13/2008 10:58:53 AM PDT by Niuhuru (Don't burn a bra, burn a feminist!)
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To: KatyLoraleyVidales

Town hall meetings and round-table discussions are far more informative than so-called presidential debates.


35 posted on 06/13/2008 11:00:32 AM PDT by skr (I serve a risen Savior!)
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To: KatyLoraleyVidales
“Tell the old geezer we'll debate during my morning runs on the beach... ”


36 posted on 06/13/2008 11:00:47 AM PDT by johnny7 (Don't mess with my tag-lines!)
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To: Niuhuru

Easy!! He said he would simply negociate with President Ahmudinejad and VIOLA! peace!


37 posted on 06/13/2008 11:05:15 AM PDT by KatyLoraleyVidales
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To: KatyLoraleyVidales
"Ya know we’ll probably see something about this just being a cruel and vicious rumor on his smear website later...pft"

In which case he'll have to substantiate as being rumor by accepting McCain's invite.

38 posted on 06/13/2008 11:05:15 AM PDT by the anti-liberal (Write in: Fred Thompson)
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To: garyhope

I think you mean “Barack, Buck Buck Buck”


39 posted on 06/13/2008 11:11:34 AM PDT by WayneH (If you don't know where you are going, any path will get you there.)
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To: johnny7

Good lord....O!bama has moobs like me.


40 posted on 06/13/2008 11:13:48 AM PDT by Coffee200am
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To: Coffee200am

I need the recipe./Just Asking - seoul62........


41 posted on 06/13/2008 11:19:22 AM PDT by seoul62
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To: KatyLoraleyVidales

En estafado de pollo de menu de hoy-(on todays menu, chicken stew)*/Just Asking - seoul62.......


42 posted on 06/13/2008 11:21:14 AM PDT by seoul62
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To: seoul62

Wait....let me scan the recipe from grandmothers 1950 cookbook..( I’m “series”)....


43 posted on 06/13/2008 11:22:51 AM PDT by Coffee200am
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To: KatyLoraleyVidales

Every time McCain opens his mouth he turns more people off. He should decline his own invitation, sit back, and wait for people to get sick of Obama.


44 posted on 06/13/2008 11:22:51 AM PDT by indylindy (I had almost forgotten that McCain is the nominee. Too bad I was reminded.)
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To: unkus
The end result can be the same.

But with the idiot, there's a chance he might do the right thing. With a treasonwhore, you KNOW things will be bad.

45 posted on 06/13/2008 11:36:55 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall cause you to vote against the Democrats.)
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To: unkus
The end result can be the same.

But with the idiot, there's a chance he might do the right thing. With a treasonwhore, you KNOW things will be bad.

46 posted on 06/13/2008 11:36:56 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall cause you to vote against the Democrats.)
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To: seoul62
I need the recipe./Just Asking - seoul62........
Here ya go...
Chicken Stew
47 posted on 06/13/2008 11:37:49 AM PDT by Coffee200am
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To: Coffee200am

Thank you./Just Asking - seoul62......


48 posted on 06/13/2008 11:38:15 AM PDT by seoul62
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99
If the Grumpy Old Party won't make some good ads, perhaps some FReepers should get together and make some.

They probably wouldn't be PC, but they sure would take that boy down a few pegs.
49 posted on 06/13/2008 11:49:18 AM PDT by Fichori (I'm always getting spam advertising drugs and replica watches; Who do they think I am, a gangster?)
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To: KatyLoraleyVidales

The Clintons were supposed to be the masters of managing the press, but now that the press is in the tank with Obama they must marvel at the kind of rope-a-dope Obama is getting away with.


50 posted on 06/13/2008 11:50:54 AM PDT by AZLiberty (Wipe the national hard drive and reinstall the Constitution.)
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