"I will run an honorable campaign"

[dennilfloss]

I'm trying to find tangible evidence (a transcript, for example) to see if McCain really said that and, something quite rare as far as I am concerned, my Googlefu comes up with no direct quote, just hear-say. I must admit I only searched for a few minutes though.

So, is there video/audio recording online of McCain actually saying those very words?

 

[nageov3t]

I think it's inside Al Gore's lockbox along with Obama's pledge to take public financing.

 

[StageLeft]

I get nothing from the source, either.

 

[Specop 007]

Honor? Politics??

 

[dennilfloss]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I get nothing from the source, either.

Closest I got so far are his comments in that video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbcuqfaroe4

 

[Fern]

"I will run an honorable campaign"

He's said it. I'm sure I've seen him doing so on TV, but I think it was in those *town hall* meetings during the primary (before his "official" nomination). I don't know if anybody bothers to make transcripts of those.

Fern

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: dennilfloss

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I get nothing from the source, either.

Closest I got so far are his comments in that video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbcuqfaroe4

"None of the negative stuff, you won't see it come out of our side, at all."

"At all?"

"My husband is absolutly opposed to any negative campaigning at all. I can speak for my husband on this. We'd rather not win than have to do that. That's not worth winning." -Cindy McCain

Holy fucking hypocriteshit.

That video is as damning as it gets, and that was way before the lipstick fiasco, the kindergarten sex claim, etc.

McCain will spin those ads as not negative, but simply "highlighting differences in their campaigns and their promises to America." Which begs the question...what the fuck is a negative campaign ad?

 

[Slick5150]

McCain Calls New Advisers ?Good People?
By THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 ? Senator John McCain said Sunday that several aides brought on to his presidential campaign were ?good people,? despite his own past criticisms of their work for others in the past.

Appearing on ?This Week? on ABC, Mr. McCain was asked about a front-page article in The New York Times on Sunday noting that Mr. McCain?s political team includes advisers who tried to skewer him in the 2000 primary against George W. Bush. And Mr. McCain has brought on members of the team that produced the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth advertisement in 2004 questioning the Vietnam War service record of Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, which Mr. McCain had criticized.

?These are good people who were doing as they were instructed,? Mr. McCain said Sunday. ?They are people who shape the message, don?t dictate it.?

Asked whether, as The Times reported, the hirings suggested that Mr. McCain would be ?running a different kind of campaign this time around,? he said: ?Am I going to respond to a negative attack if there is one? Obviously, I would do so, but I hope we would do so in an honorable fashion. We will run an honorable campaign.?

 

[Harvey]

ASCII and ye shall RECEIVII. NPR - Morning Edition, October 1, 2008

STEVE INSKEEP: Senator, one other thing I want to ask about. You wrote a few years ago an acclaimed memoir called Worth the Fighting For. And among other things, you talked about the 2000 presidential campaign, where it got really brutal, and how you had to struggle to do the work of politics and still keep your personal honor. And you said that you sometimes didn't meet your own high standards. You were very candid. Now that you're in the middle of this brutal general election campaign, with negative ads going back and forth, how do you balance honor and winning?

JOHN MCCAIN: By running an honorable campaign.

 

[dennilfloss]

Awwrightee!:thumbsup:

 

[First]

Since claiming he wouldn't vote for his own illegal immigration bill from two summers ago, and the nonsense about teaching sex to kindergartners, his promise hasn't been fulfilled. To be fair though, Obama isn't running a "clean" campaign either (the Spanish commercial about Rush Limbaugh and McCain is nowhere near "clean"). But Obama will be a better POTUS, and that's what really matters.

 

[StageLeft]

Haha, owned. Respectful to loosing his pitbull with lipstick calling Obama a terrorist buddy. Classact.

 

[fskimospy]

Ouch, that video is horrible. I would say Obama should make it into an ad, but I guess running a negative ad featuring your opponent talking about how bad negative ads are wouldn't really work.