"Bush is no diplomat, but he's Cardinal freaking Richelieu compared to McCain."

[Richardo]

Quote of the day :rofl:

Excellent article on HuffPost re: McCain's mucking up the bailout bill:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/25/mccain-makes-it-worse-as_n_129475.html

Interestingly, the McCain campaign tries to get him off the hook for torpedoing the proceedings by agreeing that he's taking no leadership position:

Later, the campaign sought to fight back against a developing narrative that McCain had hurt negotiations by speaking positively about an alternative bailout proposal, one put forth by a "working group" of conservative House Republicans.

In a damage control effort, McCain aides sent reporters a link to an article written by the Atlantic's Marc Ambinder, which reported that the Senator had taken no leadership position whatsoever. :wtf:

...and the money quote:

"Bush is no diplomat," said a Democratic staffer, "but he's Cardinal freaking Richelieu compared to McCain. McCain couldn't negotiate an agreement on dinner among a family of four without making a big drama with himself at the heroic center of it. And then they'd all just leave to make themselves a sandwich."

[dkf]

1. Ooh..."big drama" is making its way into the McCain narrative.

[Richardo]

4. Maybe he's signaling that Giuliani in drag will replace Palin soon

:shrug:

[terrya]

2. Great quote! The Democrats always have the best lines.

Except, when morons like Sarah Palin end up saying something hilariously idiotic. :-)

[Richardo]

3. I did like Barney Frank's from the other day

'the history of Marys' :D

[RichGirl]

5. This whole thing was a set up and we are falling for it!

They knew that there was no chance they could win this time around so they found the two most inane candidates, McCain/Palin, in order to get us to appreciate Bush and therefore letting him end his term with a shred of dignity!!!

[PBS Poll-435]

6. ROFL

McCain suspends dinner amid breakdown in appetizer negotiations.