Obama denies having inaugural address

[Nambe]

Source: Politico

The Obama campaign, anxious to prevent an image of overconfidence, formally and insistently denied a report — seized on by the McCain campaign — that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) already has a draft of an inaugural address.

In remarks in New Mexico on Saturday, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) accused his opponent of taking a “victory lap.”

“Well, my friends, when I pull this thing off I have a request for my opponent,” McCain said, according to Reuters. “I want him to save that manuscript of his inaugural address and donate it to the Smithsonian and put it right next to the Chicago paper that said, 'Dewey Defeats Truman.'”

“NBC Nightly News” repeated the notion that Obama has a draft inaugural address ready. ...

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14940.html

[BlooInBloo]

1. Yes, it's just another lie.

[Montauk6]

2. Yeah, what's the source?

[BlooInBloo]

8. For any who don't know the backstory....

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/10/the_wages_of_sloppy_journalism.php

[luvspeas]

12. I, Barack Obama am proud and humbled to be elected the first female president of the United States!

:wtf:

Stupidity!

[BlooInBloo]

13. hahaha! They should challenge McLiar to quote the opening to Obama's inaugural!

:rofl:

[Eric J in MN]

29. That blogger calls it "sloppy journalism," but...

...I think the NY Times journalists were just trying to have an angle to their story (that Podesta is so well-prepared for a Democratic presidency that he even knows what he'd like the inaugural speech to be like) and the journalists didn't expect the McCain campaign to take it literally.

[Montauk6]

34. Ah, thank you for posting, now my NEXT question.

What reporter is going to join Dan Rather in getting canned (asked to resigned, forced retirement, WHATEVER)?

[Supply Side Jesus]

3. A sad attempt to mobilize his base

oh, ya....feel the energy up swell! lol

[mshasta]

4. what will be the problem if he does?

Obama needs to be ready.

[CreekDog]

35. Because it's not true, that's the only point --we don't need to defend it

it would play badly with voters, that's one big reason and secondly, the inaugural speech is NOT a priority now. nevertheless, Obama's team has been so good at setting priorities, there is no way in hell i would believe he's had staff working on such a speech.

"– The inaugural address was written and submitted to the publisher in March 2008, during a time when Podesta was supporting Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Podesta re-did the introduction to the book — but not the inaugural address — in June when it became clear that Obama would emerge as the nominee."

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/25/obama-speech/

i don't like us saying "so what if Obama did X" when Obama did NOT do X and when people (i.e. "voters") would not like it if Obama had done X.

got it? :rant:

[tanyev]

5. Don't they both have transition teams already?

Who cares if he did have a draft started?

[Demeter]

6. I didn't think McCain Could get any uglier and less relevant

He has exceeded expectations yet again!

[JI7]

7. stupid lying assholes, just making things up to try to make Obama look bad

fuck you McCain and your shitty choice of VP.

[tridim]

9. Whatever, obviously he's working on all sorts of important things..

to get this country out of the crapper after he's elected.

I'm sure he has also written down ideas for his inaugural address. So the fuck what?

[jamel1999]

16. AND.....

What difference does it make...better that he is prepared, than to wait the day of or the nite before...geez....Are you serious...have you nothing better to discuss? Would you prefer he wait until they announce he has won...you know...kind of like McSame did when he selected his VEEP!!!!

[lavenderdiva]

20. Welcome to DU, jamel1999-

glad to have you here :hi:

[jamel1999]

40. Thanks

Thanks...glad to be here.... :party:

[madeline_con]

10. Like McCain't hasn't made a few notes.

In case he gets elected. Wait... :rofl:

[Mad_Dem_X]

11. FU, McCain

"When I pull this thing off" - yeah, riiiiight. :eyes:

[Doremus]

14. The Maverick doesn't need notes. "My fellow prisoners ....

some people said we'd never make it this far. I'm here to tell you I AGREE WITH THEM!!!"


Asswipe wishes he needed some notes for an inaugural address.

[ErinBerin84]

15. even if Obama did have some ideas for an inaugural address

(even though this "report" seems very sketchy) so fucking what...Obama likes to plan ahead for all possibilities. McCain would just wait until the night before, like with the Palin selection. And someone in GD-P reported a local Palin event in which she said that she screwed up the Couric interview because she was "thinking of more important things". How is that not presumptuous and narcissistic?

[tsuki]

17. McCain has probably had one ready since 2000. nt

[luvspeas]

19. Don't you mean 1930?

He read it to his secretary over a dictaphone, then she typed it up, but it got misfiled. So now he's telegraphing her to see if she can locate the carbon copies.

[bloomington-lib]

18. McCain would do better if

he would just talk about the issues of the country and not so much about Obama. He might not win, but he'd do better. He's just making himself look stupid.

[frickaline]

21. McCain, my friend, your green is showing. nt

[Blondiegrrl]

22. Wow. Could McGramps possibly look any less petty and vindictive?

Apparently not.

[stillcool]

23. God they're so petty and sophomoric...

like little boys in the playground.

[Blondiegrrl]

27. Like this?

[stillcool]

32. no..they're cute..

more like this..

[Blondiegrrl]

33. LOL!

[SeattleGirl]

24. So what if he did?

I wouldn't care if McSame had one prepared.

What an asswipe.

[Eric J in MN]

30. Yes, being prepared is a desirable quality in a president. NT

NT

[Eric J in MN]

25. The NY Times writers were trying to be funny,

...and some people took them literally.

They were trying to weave together that John Podesta is involved in the transition and that he wrote a book containing an example of what he thinks a good inaugural address would be.

Obama isn't going to read a speech from a book published this summer as his inaugural address.

[Uzybone]

26. Great response by Team Obama

Bill Burton, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, issued a statement saying: “While this charge is completely false and there is no draft of an inaugural address for Senator Obama, the last thing we need is a candidate like John McCain who just plans on re-reading George Bush’s.”

[jamel1999]

43. Love it!

I love it...that comment was classic...and its funny...not sure if many of you have watched the daily show with jon stewart...but he had one show where Palin's speech was the exact same speech that Bush gave during the RNC convention in '04...she added a few more 'Mavericks' but it was dead on!

[Hutzpa]

28. Mike Allen

you my Sir, is a FUCKING ASSHOLE



And you call yourself a Journalist...

[tclambert]

31. But McCain does have notes for his concession speech.

[Erin Elizabeth]

36. Yeah, my mother in law sent my husband this Yahoo news article

about how Obama has a transition team in place and she put all these nasty comments about how ARROGANT that is of him, but apparently she didn't read the whole article, because it mentioned McCain's transition team and how it's STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE to have a White House transition team this close to the election unless you are the incumbent.

I told her that. She's my mother in law, but she's dumber than a box of rocks, I swear. I can totally see her pouncing on this non-story too.

[jamel1999]

44. I don't get it...

What is the big deal...shouldn't they have a transition team in place...i mean that may be a big determining factor as to why we vote for either of them...The both hv to do research (well not in McCain's case)...to figure who would be best suited for the job...hell it took longer for my sister to hear from a company about her Director position...lol

[cameozalaznick]

37. Yeah, so what if he does.

It just shows that Obama is always thinking about a little thing called the future. Sounds like strategic thinking to me.

[RollWithIt]

38. I have to say, it's nice to see both Pennsylvania and Ohio Police quickly arresting these people....

Death threats, false reports, etc. Lock em up before they get a gun.

[rainbow4321]

39. On Nov 5th maybe Mclameass can go hang with the Smithsonian dinosaurs

He'll fit right in....being amongst his peers and all.

[baldguy]

41. No inaugural address

But I'm sure he's working on his acceptance speech.

[TrogL]

42. So what??!?!

Everybody going to Oscars has an acceptance speech ready just in case they win.

An inaugural address in these troubled times will need to be carefully crafted. I'd want to get a head start.