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McCain: “Often my haste is a mistake"
A quotation from McCain's 2002 book, quoted in today's New York Times in the Michael Cooper article on the hastiness and impulsiveness of McCain's selection of Palin: “Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint.” . Rest of the Obama campaign ad should read: "Now John McCain wants us to live with his hasty mistakes, but the consequences are too serious."
Two other things from the same article: while the press was still dutifully reciting the "inexperience" and "celebrity" memes, the McCain campaign was (or now says it was) worried about their effectiveness and staying power. In other words, MSM sticks with the memo its been given, until new marching instructions are issued. See below.
"Last Sunday, 24 hours after Mr. Obama announced his running mate, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, Mr. McCain met with his senior campaign team at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Phoenix. By then, campaign advisers said, the group had long decided that Mr. McCain’s 'experience versus change' argument against Mr. Obama had run its course, to the extent that it had worked at all."
A"t the same time, Mr. Obama’s coming acceptance speech before a stadium of about 80,000 people (and what turned out to be a television audience of nearly 40 million) loomed large. As much as the campaign was publicly dismissing Mr. Obama as a celebrity in a rock-star setting, the concern was that his command of such a large crowd on the last night of the Democratic convention would give him the aura of a president."
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