McCain defends Obama from critics....... WHAT??????

[nmbluesky]

GOP Rep. Paul Ryan, who proposed the Republican budget plan and sat in the audience as President Obama attacked it, was quick to criticize the tone of the president’s speech Wednesday, calling him a “campaigner-in-chief.”

Saying the “excessively partisan” speech seemed to “pour on the campaign rhetoric,” the Wisconsin Republican criticized Obama for failing to show leadership.

"We’re looking for bipartisan solutions, not partisan rhetoric," Ryan said. "Exploiting people’s emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it’s not change -- it’s partisanship. We don’t need partisanship."

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell expressed similar disappointment, accusing Obama of playing the blame game. “The President dedicated a significant portion of his speech today looking elsewhere for a culprit,” McConnell said.

But it was Obama’s 2008 presidential rival, Sen. John McCain, who came to his former foe’s defense for clearly having reelection on his mind.

“The president has announced he’s running for reelection. Certainly there were elements of the campaign in , but I can’t be critical of him,” he said. “For every president that is up for reelection, politics do play a role in the things they tell the American people. It is what it is.”
http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0411/thanks_for_nothing_98207a39-2f9f-4b55-a91d-7b6c019690ef.html

[still_one]

1. WTF is ryan's problem for calling his budget plan for what it is, a burden on those who can least

afford it

[nmbluesky]

2. Party of No, teabaggers, and old grumpy people never even get it...

[damonm]

3. It's called "butthurt"

- 'cuz he got SPANKED.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. Seeing this childhood poto of Ryan I can understand why he has issues:

[karynnj]

4. look more closely at the "defense" - it is typical McCain, from his smarter "maverick years"

Note that what he does is claim the calm statesman role for himself, calling out the others, while putting out as ASSUMED COMMON WISDOM exactly the attack that the others are making - that the Obama plan is political.

Ryan added that "it was partisan". Tell me exactly how the EXTREMELY ideological Ryan plan is not partisan? (Especially when many of his numbers don't make sense - such as the unemployment level assumed in the future. Not to mention, it assumes savings by replacing Medicare - with a less efficent plan)