McCain gives "Twitterview" to ABC [defends Meghan, tries to distance himself from bailouts]

AFP ^ | 2009-03-17

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — John McCain was mocked during his failed presidential bid against Barack Obama for a supposed lack of tech-savvy but the Republican senator made a little bit of Web history of his own on Tuesday.

The 72-year-old McCain conducted what was billed as the first "Twitterview" -- an interview via micro-blogging service Twitter -- with ABC television political talk show host George Stephanopoulos.

McCain, whose messages on Twitter are followed by nearly 225,000 people at @senjohnmccain, replied to around 10 questions from @gstephanopoulos sent in the 140-character-or-less Twitter format.

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SenJohnMcCain: i voted for first tarp but that doesn't mean i voted to bail out AIG.

SenJohnMcCain: @GStephanopoulos to follow up - first AIG bailout was pre-tarp.

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/03/the_stephanopou.html

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[Professor_Leonide]

John McCain being John McCain.

[NeoCaveman]

As they say on twitter: @Seator McCain, #epicfail, #fail.

[what's up]

first AIG bailout was pre-tarp.

I don't think Congress was involved in the first AIG money.

I think that was disbursed from Treasury.

[Joe Boucher]

McCain is a tired, very old fool.
Go home John, take care of your idiot child.

[stockpirate]

I hate McCain.

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...ping, in case you were bored and wanted to play with GIMP some more...

[meandog]

SenJohnMcCain: i voted for first tarp but that doesn't mean i voted to bail out AIG.

I'm confused...I always thought it was GEORGE "DUH-pee-yew" BUSH (the hero around here of the majority here) who initiated the g-d bailouts!

[theDentist]

We can file this report under "Big Effin' Deal"

[reagan_fanatic]

What did we do to warrant getting stuck with this a-hole, anyway?

[newfreep]

I received a fundraising email from mccain, replied I do not support RINOs and listed some of his RINO accomplishments. It was returned a few days later.

[DirtyHarryY2K]

I've got to cross the isle more so I can be a chick magnet like my buddy Howard..

[50mm]

Can’t wait to GIMP the Queeq, but I’m not going to be home for a few hours. I can’t do graphics from my phone.