So, McCain wants to do a series of joint "Town Hall" appearances

[smoogatz]

with Senator Obama. Fine. Let's do the first one in NOLA's 9th Ward. Free and open to the public!

[LakeSamish706]

1. And we can have the Pic of McCain/Bush cutting the cake together.. n/t

[texastoast]

2. Obama will slay him

That old fart better be careful in asking for something like this.

[Sherman A1]

3. I believe it's McCain's only hope

to get some (any) attention. Look at the crowds Obama draws as opposed to McCain. I order to get that level of audience McCain needs Obama to be in the same room (or stadium) with him. He knows he cannot get folks energized on his own.

Just my 2 cents.

[Old and In the Way]

4. Excellent idea.

No screening of questioners, either.

[kentuck]

5. What he really wants...?

Is very small crowds where he can make it look like the loyalties are evenly split. He would not want any large loud crowds cheering on Obama. Also, it gives him credibility to be on the same stage with Obama. Obama should try to ignore him as much as possible. John McCain has proven himself irrelevant with his support of the policies of George W Bush. No doubt, the networks will set up some debates and that is all that Obama should agree to, in my humble opinion.

[KharmaTrain]

6. He Wants Relevence...

Look at the stunts he's tried to pull this week. First was the "Countdown" clock trying to goad Senator Obama into taking a wasted trip to Iraq...then there's trying to "upstage" him on the tube last night...and now this crap (btw, he tried this one before). It's noise to make noise. It's an attempt to get the cable networks to talk about him rather than Obama. For the most part, he's been getting his ass handed to him with all the attention to the Democrats over the past few days...he's trying to throw some raw meat out there.

Senator Obama will have a great time to have a "townhall" with Gramps. It should be in September and it's called the debates. I'm not sure Gramps will be looking forward to that. Right now Gramps hopes Obama bites at one of his goofy schemes and then goes "gotcha". Sheesh.

[Johonny]

7. I don't like that

Why give McCain anything? Right now McSame can draw a crowd big enough to fill a private home. Let him talk to his private home filled with whoever is stupid enough to see him. Obama draws soooooo many people, why give McSame a free crowd?

[smoogatz]

8. Anytime McCain gets on the same stage with Obama, McCain loses.

Big crowd, small crowd—doesn't matter, although there's no reason you wouldn't want to do both. What you don't do is make a single concession on format, media availability, venue, location, moderators or audience—who gets to attend or who doesn't. Let McCain make a huge deal of this, and then after a few weeks go by you say "Okay, you want it? Fine. Here's how we'll do it. First we go to the 9th Ward and we talk to voters there. Then we go to a closed GM plant in Michigan and we talk to voters there. Then we go to a charity hospital in Atlanta and we talk to voters there." And so on. You can do the show, but you don't concede the agenda. You make it about YOUR agenda. And if McCain refuses (which he would), then you can say hey, he wanted to do this and now he's weaseling out." Win/win.