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the booby prize
No. Not for McCain; for US.
Mr. Obama has quietly consulted Mr. McCain about many of the new administration’s potential nominees to top national security jobs…
Mr. McCain, meanwhile, has told colleagues “that many of these appointments he would have made himself,...
The new administration is already preparing to introduce legislation echoing a previous McCain bill on [a commission to cut “corporate welfare,”] idea, Mr. Emanuel said, adding, “We have been very respectful and solicitous of his ideas.” ...
Some Senate Democrats have complained that Mr. Obama failed to seek their contributions about certain appointments ... But the Obama transition team has consistently sought advice and feedback from Mr. McCain, ...
“Not only is it good politics,” Mr. Graham said, “it gives you an insight into who we are dealing with.”
Lindsay Graham thinks it’s “good politics.”
But here’s why it’s really, i>really good…
President Bush did not talk to his defeated opponent, Senator John Kerry ... until Mr. Kerry visited the White House in March 2005 as part of a large group to celebrate the Red Sox victory ...
...after Mr. Bush defeated Mr. McCain for the Republican nomination in 2000, the two had only perfunctory contact and often-adversarial relations for nearly two years.
See? Not-Bush. ∴ Goood.
The difference, of course, is that Kerry was a jerk (and probably still is, if the Media decides to acknowledge his existence).
Posted by ZZMike on 01/19/09 at 12:27 PM
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