McCain’s “week of pandering”

Robert Gibbs, the Communications Director of the Obama Campaign, held a conference call to discuss and highlight Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) supposed “week of pandering.” Gibbs said that McCain continually says one thing to one audience and a complete different thing to another audience.

Gibbs explained that when talking to fellow republicans McCain said that he would not vote for his own immigration legislation. However, when he held a secret meeting with a group of Hispanic leaders in Chicago, McCain assured them that he would push through Congress to vote for comprehensive immigration reform. Gibbs said that he cannot understand how McCain can be comfortable saying one thing to a group of conservatives and the complete opposite to a group of Latinos.

Gibbs said that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has a good strategy for reaching out to Latino communities. He said that Obama’s campaign team has a number of prominent Latino surrogates who will help fulfill Obama’s promise to run a vigorous campaign in Latino communities. Gibbs said that Obama’s strategy is far stronger than McCain’s and is positive that it will be successful.

Gibbs also explained that McCain not only changed his view on the issue of immigration, but also on off shore drilling. McCain supported the ban on off shore drilling in California time and time again, but recently, he has “flip-flopped” this view and created a new policy to support lifting the ban on off shore drilling. Gibbs said that there is a big difference in who McCain wants people to believe he is and who McCain actually is.

Obama Campaign Slams Clinton for Flip Flopping

The Obama campaign conducted a conference call with Communications Director Robert Gibbs and Obama supporter Representative George Miller to set the record straight on Hillary Clinton's NAFTA positions.

“Yesterday brought another tale of repeating her exaggerations to her opposition to NAFTA. The facts, her records, and her own schedules while she was first lady completely contradict her claim,” says Gibbs. He went on to refute Clintons statements on the amount of jobs she provided in upstate New York and continued to combat her stances, or lack there of, on NAFTA.

Gibbs, with over thirty years of experience in Congress, spoke next with a short speech on NAFTA and voiced his dismay on how NAFTA agreements were carried out. He concluded with, "following NAFTA there was an absolute failure to provide a support system for those workers and families that needed to be retrained, that needed the opportunity to go back to school to provide the income for their families as they lost their jobs - and that’s why I'm supporting Barack Obama."