What’s up with this video page on John McCain’s website? Several videos of the debate just show Obama talking. It’s like giving Obama air time on McCain’s website. It would be understandable if Obama were making a fool of himself. But that’s not the case with these videos. In case the campaign changes the videos on the site, here is a list of the videos that appear on John McCain’s website:
This is the first video. It was titled “Obama: Healthcare” on John McCain’s website.
Second video: this one is actually about McCain. It’s titled “Spending Freeze”
Third video on McCain’s website. Titled “Pakistan”, it’s a 2-minute air time for Obama to talk about his position.
Titled “Obama”, this is the fourth video. Again, there is no point except where Obama says once that McCain is right about what would happen if Iran would get nuclear weapons. Obama gets 2 more minutes of air time on McCain’s website.
Titled “Six Point Plan” (God knows why), this is the final video on McCain’s site for the first debate. Once again, it is Obama talking for 1 minute. This time about Russia.
This is insane. Only 1 out of 5 videos on McCain’s website actually shows McCain talking. And that is the shortest video – only 15 seconds.
Conspiracy theory: Someone within McCain’s campaign is trying to sabotage his efforts because he/she is actually an Obama supporter.
On a related note, here is another example of a gaffe by the McCain camp. From a New York Times article on the debate:
The war over shaping the post-debate narrative got off to an exceptionally early start, beginning, in fact, even before the event occurred.
Mr. McCain’s campaign had actually declared victory as early as 10 a.m. Friday, hours before the debate here and even before Mr. McCain had committed to attend. In what aides said was a mix-up, The Wall Street Journal posted an Internet advertisement twelve hours early showed Mr. McCain proudly looking into the distance the words “McCain Wins Debate!”
A reader of the Washington Post spotted it and alerted the paper’s blog, The Fix, which promptly posted it before the red-faced McCain campaign removed it.
It was an embarrassing, yet telling, false start to the most important battle to shape perceptions of the election year so far…
Obama, on his part, made some mistakes of his own. Even I felt during the debate that he said “John is right” several times. It didn’t take long for people to compile videos:
Ahh..fun times