Obama camp: McCain exploited crisis

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from Politico: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13987.html


9/26/08 3:07 PM EDT

Barack Obama’s chief strategist David Axelrod accused John McCain of using the financial crisis to “advance his campaign.”

“The fact of the matter is, Sen. McCain didn't suspend his campaign,” Axelrod said in an interview on MSNBC. “He simply used the crisis to advance his campaign.”

“He was in New York on Wednesday afternoon. He said: ‘I'm suspending my campaign and flying to Washington.’ Then he did a series of interviews, stuck around to make a political speech in the morning, and finally showed up in Washington at noon at a time when there appeared to be a deal at hand,” Axelrod said.

“And all that happened was the waters got roiled and we had some political theater. That's not what we need right now.”

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2. Anybody who knows anything about how the Hill works..

knows that actual members of the House and Senate are not the ones hammering out these deals, it's their staffers. I guess he's banking on the fact that most people don't know how it works. What a farce.