34 Days Out: "A new standard for transparency and accountability"? - HuffPo

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Jesse Lee is the Online Rapid Response Manager for the DNC, this is a daily update on the day's messaging.

This morning John McCain spoke at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, saying, "My administration will set a new standard for transparency and accountability."

Barack Obama, in turn, spoke in La Crosse, Wisconsin, saying "Make no mistake, we need to end an era in Washington where accountability's been absent, oversight has been overlooked, your tax dollars have been turned over to wealthy CEOs in well-connected corporations. You need leadership you can trust to work for you. Not for the special interests who have had their thumb on the scales. And together we will tell Washington and their lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda are over. They have not funded my campaign. You have. They will not run my White House. You'll help me run my white house. They will not drown out the voices of the American people when I'm president."

Ironically, McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds and the McCain campaign found accountability where there wasn't any today, releasing a typical screed in response to Obama's speech claiming that "As Americans teeter on the edge of economic crisis, Barack Obama continued attacking John McCain today." But as the Boston Globe noted, Obama didn't mention McCain even once.

Obama-Biden spokesman Bill Burton responded:

"Given the fact that Barack Obama did not attack John McCain today, it is a telling admission that the McCain campaign saw Barack Obama's attack on eight years of greed and irresponsibility in Washington as a personal attack on John McCain. We'll leave it up to the McCain campaign to explain why they get so offended and defensive when George Bush's record is attacked."

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