Comments on: Joint Statement of Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain http://donklephant.com/2008/09/24/joint-statement-of-senator-barack-obama-and-senator-john-mccain/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:03:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mike http://donklephant.com/2008/09/24/joint-statement-of-senator-barack-obama-and-senator-john-mccain/comment-page-1/#comment-417197 Mike Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:47:50 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=8287#comment-417197 To be clear, on Obama's website, it does not say McCain specifically rejected these points. It says "Speaking for himself, Senator Obama outlined the following principles that he calls on Senator McCain to support". There's a difference. McCain has said he would favor a plan to limit CEO salaries for companies that take the bailout, which is similar to Obama's third point. Obama, evidently, considered what was included in the joint statement to be important enough to be said jointly, that he was willing to forgo the more the partisan points. Good for him. To be clear, on Obama’s website, it does not say McCain specifically rejected these points. It says “Speaking for himself, Senator Obama outlined the following principles that he calls on Senator McCain to support”. There’s a difference. McCain has said he would favor a plan to limit CEO salaries for companies that take the bailout, which is similar to Obama’s third point.

Obama, evidently, considered what was included in the joint statement to be important enough to be said jointly, that he was willing to forgo the more the partisan points. Good for him.

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