The Huffington Post starts off with this fun recap of last week’s campaigning for John McCain:
Last week was probably the worst week of the campaign for John McCain, and this week seems to be starting off equally rocky. In recent days, McCain has stated that the fundamentals of the economy are strong while the stock market was crashing. He “suspended” his campaign and canceled his debate appearance while purchasing web ads saying he “won” the debate before he announced that he would participate in the debate after all. He canceled an appearance on Letterman, stating he was “on his way to the airport” to race back to DC to help avert economic catastrophe, while he actually went to another nearby CBS building to be interviewed by Katie Couric (he actually did not leave NYC until the following day after giving a morning talk).
[From Dawn Teo: McCain: Palin’s Conversations Not Indicative Of Her Positions]
and ends with a humdinger:
In all due respect, people going around and with sticking a microphone while conversations are being held, and then all of a sudden that’s a person’s position. It’s a free country, but I don’t think most people think that’s a definitive policy statement by Governor Palin, and I would hope you wouldn’t either.
While it’s certainly not a definitive policy statement, you wouldn’t expect someone to say something that’s completely contrary to what they believe.