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.