Politico: McCain's camp suffers from a paper gap

[Tulane Skins Fan]

Seems one candidate is short on detail, but high on rhetoric, but it may surprise which one that is.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/12215.html

While campaigns typically snow reporters with white papers and policy minutiae, many of the domestic policy plans of John McCain have been notably short on details.

Analysts caution that both McCain and Barack Obama have produced policy pronouncements that are just as much election documents as workable proposals; after all, that is what presidential candidates do. But when it comes to the metric of paper produced, McCain trails Obama in spelling out the nitty-gritty.

"The Obama people are much more detailed," said Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, a bipartisan advocacy group dedicated to balancing the budget.

[Destino]

The only reason this would surprise anyone is if they actually bought into the republican spin machine. Just because Hannity says it everyday doesn't make it true.

But hey... Obama is like Paris Hilton or something. lol

[Predicto]

Hey, c'mon the argument that Obama doens't have any concrete proposals is so mid-June.

It's August now. We've moved on: Obama is causing high gasoline prices now.


Get with the program.

[Larry]

Hey, c'mon the argument that Obama doens't have any concrete proposals is so mid-June.

It's August now. We've moved on: Obama is causing high gasoline prices now.


Get with the program.

And he's never actually proven that he isn't blond.

[Burgold]

Yup, McCain has been spouting off plenty ideas, but nothing on implementation or how to pay for it. Worse, now he's finished talking about what he will do and spends his time whining that people like Obama more than him.

You know, if Obama gets a commercial with Paris and Brittany, shouldn't McCain get an add with Phyllis Diller and Joan Rivers?

[jpyaks3]

But Obama's the empy suit even the liberal media says so.

The media has such a double standard Obama's campaign would have been sunk about a dozen times over if he had done half the things McCain did. This election is a vote of confidence on Obama. McCain is just there as the alternative, and he paints himself as this, thats why he doesnt get media coverage, thats also why the press doesnt report on his numerous flip flops and gaffes. Its just the way it is.

We know more about Obama's platforms and policies then we have knew about Bush in 2000 or Clinton in 1992, its just that the empty suit thing and the lack of substance thing is something that the media can run with.

[Thiebear]

Wouldnt the NEW guy have to spell it out more.
We KNOW what McCain is going to do, he's been doing it for 20 years.

[PeterMP]

This is the result of two things:

1. The longer primary actually caused Obama to flesh things out more. In debates, you have to have some details or the opponent is going to define your proposal for you, and you lose the debate.

2. Obama is actually going to try and change more things (the nature of being conservative is believing that drastic changes shouldn't happen at least quickly). More changes mean more plans to try and detail.