McCain On The Run: Cancels Press Availability

[CatWoman]

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.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/23/mccain-on-the-run-cancels_n_114539.html