Email I sent to friends and family - "It is sooo over."

[pinto]

Following on Colin Powell's endorsement, this is it, in my opinion. Too many insiders jumping ship for his failin campaign.

(from the AP) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/23/mcclellan-endorses-obama_n_137358.html

NEW YORK — Scott McClellan, President Bush's former press secretary, says he is backing Barack Obama for president.

McClellan made the endorsement during a taping of Comedian D.L. Hughley's new show that is premiering on CNN this weekend. The former Bush administration official said he wanted to support the candidate that has the best chance for changing the way Washington works and getting things done.

He's the second former Bush administration figure this week to publicly back Obama, following former Secretary of State Colin Powell. McClellan caused bitterness among his former co-workers with a tell-all book that criticized Bush.

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And, word is, McCain will be holding his Nov 4th post election media spot, not at the election rally, as per usual, but on the lawn outside the hotel.

Can we spell EXIT ???

(from the AP) BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/23/politics/p124147D22.DTL&type=politics

New York - McCain might skip his own election-night party

Republican John McCain is not going to make his election night remarks in the traditional style — at a podium standing in front of a sea of campaign workers jammed into a hotel ballroom. Oh, the throng of supporters will hold the usual election night party at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix on the evening of Nov. 4.

But the Republican presidential nominee plans to address another group of supporters and a small group of reporters on the hotel lawn; his remarks will be simultaneously piped electronically to the party inside and other reporters in a media filing center, aides said.
Aides said Thursday that the arrangement was the result of space limitations and that McCain might drop by the election watch party at some other point.

Only a small press "pool" — mostly those who have traveled regularly with the candidate on his campaign plane, plus a few local Arizona reporters and other guests — will be physically present when McCain speaks.




pinto

[Razoor]

1. interesting!

wonder why outside at the lawn? is he afraid of blowing a gasket in front of the nation live on tv?

[pinto]

2. Who knows. ??? I think he plans to book.

[Cronus Protagonist]

3. He's a COWARD - can't face his LOSING team

That's the kind of leadership he offers.

[pam4water]

4. I don't think the Republicans are NOT giving up without a legal challenge and

Keith Olbermann just reported the McCain campaign claim AP reported the story wrong.