During the primaries I saw Feingold speak and he said that McCain was a good man

[Connonym]

He was saying that either Clinton or Obama would be a fine president and that McCain would too but with the major difference being we wouldn't see better healthcare with McCain. I wonder if he still feels that way about McCain. I know they worked closely together in the past. I'd really love to hear if his opinion of McCain has changed.

[PeaceNikki]

1. He has a listening session in Dane County tomorrow, ask him

:)

Crap, website is down, but details are here:
http://feingold.senate.gov/listening/index.html

[Connonym]

2. Hmmm, I was thinking about heading to the farmers market in Madison tomorrow anyway

I'm having trouble loading that page but if the timing works out (DD is going to the homecoming dance tomorrow and I'm in charge of hair and makeup,mwahahaha)I think I will go!

[PeaceNikki]

3. Here you go

http://wi-deaf.org/wadnetpost/?m=20081009

His Dane County listening session will be held at 9:00 a.m. at the Perry Town Hall, 10084 County Highway A, Town of Perry.

[mojowork_n]

4. I have NO respect for McGrumpy, anymore.

After the selection of Palin

http://www.alternet.org/election08/100551/mad_dog_palin_/?page=entire

you have to look at his political roots:

http://www.democrats.com/john-mccain-married-to-the-mob

What a bag of puke, posing as "Country First."

Have a good one, Connonym. Keep on asking questions.

[undeterred]

5. I think the only way I can interpret that is to believe that

Feingold is very easy to work with, despite the fact that his ideas are much farther to left on most things than everyone elses. He is extremely respectful of other people and doesn't personalize things at all. He is fierce about defending what's right but he isn't egotistical or fierce about being right for its own sake.

McCain talks about Feingold as an example of how good he is at reaching across the aisle and working on ethics reform. (It makes me cringe to hear him say Feingold's name.) I have no doubt that both the ethics and the ability to work well with the other side are at least 90% due to Feingold.

It does seem to me that McCain has really come apart during this campaign, but I'd be surprised to hear Feingold say anything negative about him. I despise the things that McCain has said about women and it grates on me to hear Feingold praise him, but its hard to fault him for being too gracious. I know Feingold would never say things like that about women. I know that in the end his respect for others just makes him a more effective politician.

And he's much more of a "maverick" than McCain will ever be.

[midnight]

6. Joe Biden thinks very highly of McCain too.

"Biden has called McCain a personal hero and proclaimed that he would run on a McCain ticket. Perhaps more substantively, Biden has praised McCain’s stances on climate change and troop levels in Iraq and has acknowledged that McCain’s approach to foreign policy differs from President Bush’s — all assertions that fly in the face of lines of attack that Obama has been pursuing against McCain."
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12781.html

I think, the change we want is relative to the fact that the change this country needs would not be best served by McCain's direction, regardless of the praise he has acquired from Dems.

[ginnyinWI]

7. I think both Biden and Feingold know two different McCains.

The one in the Senate more moderate and the one on the stump more extreme. Mind you, he's still a true conservative, Maverick hype notwithstanding. When Biden was interviewed this week, they were talking about how McCain corrected the people who were talking about Obama being scary and an Arab and he corrected them. Biden said, "that's the real John McCain there."

[midnight]

9. No matter what the two different Democratic Senators see in

McCain they probably are asking where in the world has the "real" John McCain gone?

[keroro gunsou]

8. there is a difference

between the man and the politics.

i respected senator mccain for his years of service in government and his military carreer... however, that's where it stops. he lost my respect in a big way when he did a complete 180 on his stand about the religious right and his choice of sarah palin. i can only conclude that all he cares about is winning. and that's not the point... well it's the ultimate goal, but the point is to present yourself as the best person for the job... and you can't really do that by selling out on your basic principles... which i believe he had at one point.

vote for him no. sit and watch a football game, sure, why not.

[undeterred]

10. Feingold chastizes McCain campaign

By Craig Gilbert
Monday, Oct 13 2008, 07:47 PM
Washington -- In a brief statement released Monday evening by his political committee, Senate Democrat Russ Feingold took his longtime friend and colleague John McCain to task for the "tactics and rhetoric" of his recent campaign, an apparent reference to ads and statements from the McCain camp aimed at Obama's character and personal associations.

Feingold is an Obama supporter, but unlike many Democrats, he has by and large avoided taking shots at McCain during the campaign. In fact, he took flak from liberal activists and bloggers after he praised McCain's independence from President Bush and the GOP in an early August interview with the Journal Sentinel. The two worked closely for years on a major bipartisan overhaul of the campaign finance laws.

Here is the Feingold statement in its entirety. An aide said it was issued after Feingold received requests from reporters to comment on the tenor of the campaign in recent days:

"In a closely fought campaign like the Presidential race, elements of either side can get caught up in the emotions of the contest. This is especially true during stressful economic times. I heard Senator McCain help tamp down the rhetoric at a recent town hall meeting.

"Regrettably, he needs to do more of that. An energetically waged campaign can all too easily slip over into something hateful and dangerous, and everyone from the candidate on down needs to do whatever it takes to stop that. It won't seem credible for the John McCain I know to say his campaign should be respectful, while seeming to look the other way as his campaign employs certain tactics and rhetoric which apparently are intended to appeal to the fears of some Americans."

http://blogs.jsonline.com/allpoliticswatch/archive/2008/10/13/feingold-chastizes-mccain-campaign.aspx