McCain Denies Blaming Obama And Democrats For Bailout Collapse
Here's a fun postscript to John McCain's appearance yesterday afternoon -- the one where he appeared to blame Obama and the Dems for the bailout implosion and then call for an end to the finger-pointing in the very next sentence.
In a new interview with ABC News' Ron Claiborne, John McCain is now denying that he ever blamed them:
RC: Senator, you said that now is not the time to fix blame, but to fix the problem, but you said almost in the same breath that the democrats, including Senator Obama are responsible for the, the rescue plan falling apart.
JM: No, actually I said yesterday very clearly right before the media [that] it's time not to fix the blame, but to fix the problem. We need to sit down together republican and democrat. We don't have inflame the situation today. History will judge who was to blame, and who wasn't...
When asked whether he blamed Dems and Obama for the bailout collapse yesterday, McCain said "no."
But yesterday McCain said: "Senator Obama and his allies in Congress infused unnecessary partisanship into the process."
As for McCain's claim to ABC today that "history will judge who was to blame," the McCain campaign released an ad today that ... blamed Dems and Obama.
So yesterday McCain blames Obama and Dems while calling for no more fingerpointing. Today he denies having blamed them while releasing an ad blaming them.
The untruths are getting almost too convoluted to track at this point -- it's a bit like being trapped in a falsehood fun-house or something.
