{"id":1903,"date":"2008-09-25T00:44:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T00:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-09-25T00:48:41","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T00:48:41","slug":"sorry_this_was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1903","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, This Was Just Dumb"},"content":{"rendered":"

McCain’s ” target=”browser”>public suggestion that the campaigns ‘stand down’ and work on the economy<\/a> was politically dumb and also practically dumb.<\/p>\n

Politically, if he’d been serious, as opposed to grandstanding, he’d have worked out the details privately with the Obama campaign, and they would have announced it jointly. I’m guessing they would have turned him down; the tide is running Obama’s way (in no small part because the media is deeply, passionately, embarrassingly in the tank for him – see Jeff G’s great post on this at Protein Wisdom<\/a> – and I need to do a post on the likely [bad] consequences of this) and he should press on and try and make McCain’s campaign crumble right now.That’s more likely because of the logical perception that McCain’s offer was a ‘stunt’.<\/p>\n

Practically, it was dumb because the place to work on the economy for both Obama and McCain is in the public eye, as a part of the campaign, not in the halls of the Senate where everything they do will inevitably be colored by association with their campaign.<\/p>\n

It’s been a bad week for McCain and Palin (to top it off, the Enquirer is doubling down<\/a> on their charges of an affair), but it’s not the final week and they can still get their feet under them. A strong performance at the debates – focusing closely on the economy – is a necessary first step. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The place for McCain and Obama to deal with economy is in the debates Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}