McCain, Obama Camps Embarrassed, Scrambling

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Both organizations are racing to make new vice-presidential picks
after it was discovered late last night that they were both about to
name the same running mate. "This is worse than when Laura Bush and
three other ladies wore the same Oscar de La Renta gown to a White
House function" said an anonymous inside source, "The public generally
expects the presidential candidates to have different running mates."

The individual at the center of the controversy won’t now be named,
and both campaigns are trying to move quickly past the faux pas, while
taking measures to make sure it doesn’t happen again. "We really need
more communication on that level" said a campaign staffer, "though the
individual should have said something to alert us weeks ago. They
thought it was pretty funny, but the joke was almost on the American
people.".

"We’ve been working hard to show the public all the important
differences between our candidate and his opponent, and this kind of
thing doesn’t make it any easier.".

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Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

21 thoughts on “McCain, Obama Camps Embarrassed, Scrambling”

  2. I wonder if this is enough to show that both political parties are really the same…
    “elect me!! I want power” is all they stand for.

  5. The more we joke that McCain and Obama are the same, the more we’re hurting ourselves.
    If you can’t see the difference between McCain’s abortion voting record and Obama’s, you’re blind.

  6. If they both choose a pro-abort running mate, then the story is correct — they’d both be running with the Devil.

  7. AP News Jan 25 2009 “Vice Pres. Jimmy Akin spoke today at a Press conference. 75% of the questions were on why Sola Scriptura does not work..and thus is not in the National Interest.”

  12. Yes, the two parties’ candidates do look close together on the issues when the third party candidate is a racist segregationist like George Wallace.
    Nader used a similar line to help define the fringe Left.
    We are actually lucky that both our dominate parties reflect large portions of Americans’ values. Though, one could argue that the fringe parties help better define the differences between the dominate parties because the major party candidates have to speak to the fringe candidates views and how they individually react creates clear differences between the two.

  13. tnourse: That was my first thought too!
    After frantically googling “obama mccain same running mate” I realized it was a joke. But in all seriousness, neither McCain nor Obama are getting my vote, regardless of their choices in running mates. Keyes in ’08!

  15. The reason that they can’t say who they chose is because they chose each other. 😀

  17. LOL! Obama looks like Brain from Pinky and the Brain.

    “What are we going to do tonight, Brain?”
    “The same thing we do every night, Pinky.”
    “Aw right, Brain. But where are we going to get a pair of leiderhosen and a vat of sour cream at this time of night?”

  18. Wow, comments have trickled to a stand-still (almost twenty-four hours since the last post). Is this P. Z. Myers fatigue?
    The Chicken

  19. Personally, I will be voting for John McCain because he is a war hero. He played an instrumental role in the American revolutionary war as a soldier, a general in the the civil war, and a fighter pilot in the Vietnam war. And let’s not forget that he knew Noah and supported his ark project. Now, McCain has proven to be very durable; for instance, he and the cockroaches survived the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs!

  20. Eric, Are you somehow suggesting that McCain’s age is a problem? Let me ask you something. Do you expect to grow more stupid and less wise, year by year as you live? Or do you expect to learn from your life, experinces, and studies?
    Susan Peterson

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