McCain's Come Fly With Me

Another item I've noted is McCain yelling he gets no press Humm.
I wonder if this may play a part in this issue?


John McCain Has Pulled the First Class Curtains on the Media


Back during the Republican primary race, John McCain’s Straight Talk Express was a mobile campaign vehicle sporting a horeshoe shaped couch in the rear that let reporters hobnob with McCain in a friendly, informal environment.


Now that McCain has ditched the bus for a plane of his own, he’s subjected to silly FAA laws that prohibit that sort of seating arrangement, less the aircraft suffer turbulence and send a Washington Post reporter flying.


One might think that McCain’s camp, then, would do anything they can to make the press feel as comfortable as possible aboard Straight Talk Air. Perhaps that was the plan — there is a custom-made couch in the press section of the cabin.


But it goes unused, as does most of the flying time where reporters could be peppering the candidate with questions.



In fact, the idea that McCain is enjoying an open relationship with reporters like he once did couldn’t be further from the truth.



Vanity Fair’s Todd Purdum
Was aboard Straight Talk Air, and reports on the set up:




I’ve spent three days on the road with McCain this week, and except for a couple of public town-hall meetings, where flashes of his old wit and friskiness shone through, I’ve barely clapped eyes on him.


The forward compartments of his charter 737—his personal seating area in the front, and the “Straight Talk” suite in the middle—are blocked off from the press section in the rear by dark brown curtains. And as soon after takeoff as F.A.A. rules allow, McCain aides pull the drapes tight, so tight that his press secretary, Brooke Buchanan, spent several frustrated minutes this week fiddling in vain with one that drooped ever so slightly off its last hook, leaving a risky sliver of daylight between McCain’s compartment and the cage of the media beast he once not only fed, but tamed.


This is no way to treat his “base,” of course.To be fair, it’s not like Obama has been relaxing in pajamas when dealing with the press. But McCain’s media advantage was that reporters felt comfortable with his open access policy; they became friendly.


Now, while Obama is back on U.S. soil following his mega-covered overseas tour, McCain is once again relegated to the press’ back seat.


Shouldn’t McCain be flying the plane of the political news cycle, not figuratively sitting in coach?
Another event that tends to back up McCains causing his own effect while trying to control it is this event.



Sole Black Reporter Booted from McCain Event
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/2/141655/8118/37/561349



I don't think this was issue of color but just a case he was not part of the group of reporters that McCain felt don.t ask the wrong questions and any one standing up for him was put out to.In all this McCain's draws attention away from his dealing with the really issues.



But in all fairness the Bush is doing ok bing a celebrity this is his second book to come out over the last several months.According to Ron Suskind's new book, the White House is directly implicated in the plot to forge a document, with the intention to lie us into war with Iraq.




http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12308.html

In a new ad to come out McCain puts out Life in the spotlight must be grand, but for the rest of us, times are tough.



Is he really trying to promote he's in the same boat as the rest of the public. If so he's not looked out his income lately.



Nor has he had to pump his own gas. The closest he's come on that issue is the gas he puts out that he expects us to believe. Which you have different brands of gas depending on what group your in that he wants your vote.



Surly he does not have to make a choice between medicines seniors need to live and food that have to have or a roof over their head. Or the families of every day working people fighting to pay for the gas just to get to work to earn a living . McCains not discussing these issues .



But I guess he can't try to align with the publics view of a family man unless he could pull off asking his wife to lets say flash her wares at several of the religious conventions to win Mis. values award.


Update:

John McCain & Press AccessBy Joel Housman Article courtesy of DailyKOS. There’s just 84 days until the election, but more and more, John McCain’s campaign is doing everything they can to shield their candidate from the press. Apparently fed up with foreign policy blunder, ...