McCAIN: Uh, no. No, it was never offered./per Fox Interview...

[bluedog]

SNOW: Well, you’re absolutely right though, it’s going to be fun to see. Now John Kerry, is it true that John Kerry asked you to be his vice president?

McCAIN: Uh, no. No, it was never offered.

SNOW: It was never offered. So, it may have been discussed elliptically, but never flat out request.


SNOW: When you had conversations, did you think it was a little weird that he’d be calling you, even in general terms about this sort of thing?

McCAIN: Well, he and I have been friends for a number of years because of our efforts on POWs and MIAs which was a very hot issue back in the early 90’s, a lot of people have forgotten about it, but it was a- and we worked together to try to resolve that issue and I appreciate the work that he did on it. And, so it’s not unusual for us to have conversations.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,124970,00.html

[Bunny]

1. BUNNYJ: Uh, Tony, is it true that you're a douchebag?

SNOW: Well, I've been associated with douchebags going back to the early 90's, you know, so it's not unusual for me to be called a douchebag. No, no it's not.

[Cat Atomic]

2. I must be missing something.

Right wingers are trying to suggest that McCain was Kerry's first VP choice. How is that supposed to hurt Kerry, when their audience is mostly composed of Republicans?

Lots of Republicans despise Bush, and don't want to vote for him. I'd think this suggestion would only make them more willing to vote for Kerry. It's like saying he's 'sort of a Republican'.

It doesn't work well with their other mantra, either. You know; "he's left of Kennedy". This angle suggests he's a moderate.

I don't understand these guys.

[stellanoir]

4. this untruth has been driving me bananas for days. . .

wondering why McCain just didn't stand up and rectify it, I was relieved to hear him deny it this morning on ABC radio. Did it get any coverage whatsoever. . .NO. The media pundits kept pushing the myth and airing the stupid "First Choice" ad for free and ad nauseum.

Ughhhhhh

Glad to see he discounted it again though.

[Jade Fox]

6. I think it was an effort to make Kerry look desperate and wierd...

Hi Karl, you pathetic Cheney. :hi:

[bluedog]

3. I think the point

of this.is for McCain to come clean on the Kerry issue.and still say hes supporting bush and in the rest of the interview he squarely defends him........remember McCain is also coming up for re-election.....and what just happened between this crazy ad with bush saying he was 1st choice and then Kerry countering with his anti bush stance.......shows McCain as a "I'll swing what ever way the wind is blowing Candidate"............hes lost all credibility

[liveoaktx]

5. I find this hugely amusing that McCain ALSO qualifies the *moral clarity*

part of that commercial by saying that his comments regarding Bush only apply because Kerry and Edwards didn't have the OPPORTUNITY to act in that situation.

<snip>
SNOW: I have a feeling those will get aired out by the Bush campaign Let me ask you a more serious question. You have talked about the President’s moral clarity since Sept. 11, 2001. Do you think you perceive equivalent moral clarity on the part of John Edwards and John Kerry?

McCAIN: No, because they haven’t been in the position to excersize it. I’m not saying they wouldn’t. I’m saying the President of the United States did. Only he President of the United States is in a position in a time of national crisis, which Sept. 11th was and is to this day, and the President of the United States rallied the American people in a very, very traumatic time, and I would argue in some ways more traumatic than December 7th, although in other ways, not so. But certainly one of the crucial times in American history.