John McCain and Hillary Clinton are up early to say good morning
Get ready, cause if you're watching television this morning, it's gonna be hard to avoid politics.
Seven Tuesdays fro
m today, Nov. 4, you know what that means: Denver and Cleveland will be practicing for their big Thursday night game on the NFL Network.
Also, there's a national election scheduled. So this morning we've got Sen. Hillary Clinton on ABC "Good Morning America" not talking about not being the Democrats' VP candidate and her good friend but current political opponent, Sen. John McCain, over on ESPN "Sports Center" talking boxing and doping.
It will come as a mighty shock to loyal Ticket readers that Clinton -- exclusively on ABC -- expresses great excitement to be campaigning for the Obama-Biden ticket. She calls Biden "a great Democratic vice presidential candidate" and also "a strong leader" who has a lot of good experience.
You'll want to TiVo every moment of that chat.
Clinton also admits she'll be "out campaigning as hard as I can for Barack and Joe." Broadcast at 7 a.m., that may well be the very first time she has said that today.
Over on ESPN, McCain, a former collegiate boxer, talks to Bob Ley at 9 a.m.
They discuss boxing (McCain thinks they need a union), McCain's deceased effort to ban wagering on college sports ("Frankly, that legislation isn't going to pass, so let's do everything we can to make sure these young athletes are aware of the temptations that are out there") and drug testing and baseball (we've got some "meaningful reform" but "you know and everybody watching knows as well as I do, there's somebdy in a lab right now that's trying to be one step ahead").
Oh, one other thing. ABC does ask Clinton about Gov. Sarah Palin's stated belief that Obama now wishes he'd picked Clinton instead of Biden as his VP running mate. SPOILER ALERT: Clinton declines to answer.
And that's exclusive too.
--Andrew Malcolm
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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If McCain can so easily and readily lie to you without blinking, how can you believe him when he tells you ANYTHING! You can't. A man's word is his bond. You just can't trust McCain to be honest, nor his running mate Sarah Palin; they lie about their lying!
John McCain -- "he walked the anti-regulatory party line, with only occasional exceptions...and tried to lay down a smokescreen of righteousness by campaigning against small potato[e!]s like legislative earmarks--money to study the mating habits of, uh, crabs, in, uh, Alaska (proposed by Governor Honorable)." Joe Klein
Posted by: bacaangel | September 16, 2008 at 04:56 AM
I feel Obama should have chosen Clinton but I feel even
stronger that Hillary should have won. She had the most experience, but because the American people judged her husband, which a good christian does not judge, she lost. When are the American people going to elect a person based on their ability. Look what happened eight
years ago because someone ran on reborn Christian.
Please!!!! Clinton balanced the budget, why can't people admit he did a good job. Our government needs to work together for the good of the American people. We need to be one party. How are the canidates going to balance the budget? How are we going to get companies to come to the U.S. and rebuild our economy? We have so many people who have nothing and the government want to give social security to people who have not put any money into the program. WHY????? When is the government going to work for the people instead of themselves. China is working for their country! DA
Posted by: Becka | September 16, 2008 at 11:23 AM
I am thoroughly embarrasssed by the Democratic party's inability to mount a sustained attack on McCain/Palin.
Sarah Palin would have been diffused from the get-go, if Hillary and other prominent Democratic women had immediately responded to Palin after the smears she delivered at the RNC.
On what planet does the Democratic party just sit back, play defense, and allow this totlaly incompetent GOP ticket rule the debate and set the agenda?
If Hillary has done anything of substance to nullify the Palin effect, I must have missed it.
How telling that the one moment where both Clinton and Palin seem to be at least somewhat engaged with each other turns out to be a parody on Saturday NIght Live. Outsaide of that, has anybody seen Clinton say anything newsworthy about Palin?
I am hoping that this is not intentional behavior on Senator Clinton's part. An Obama loss, partially because she chose to be a quiet campaigner, would not inspire me to support her in 2012. If she demonstrates that she didn't care enough to go 110% for the party in 2008, why should I believe she would be a fighter, if it were Clinton herself that were to gain, in a subsequent election.
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Posted by: scootmandubious | September 16, 2008 at 03:31 PM
It is short sighted to criticize Hillary for not attacking Palin. The democrats should be focused on contrasting McCain with Obama. The more dems try to focus on Palin, the more they are shooting themselves in the foot since most of what they say comes off wrong.
Posted by: Jenna | September 16, 2008 at 06:54 PM