Once campaign rivals, President-elect Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain are ready to talk about how they can collaborate on issues facing the country.
A private meeting, slated for Monday at Obama’s transition office in Chicago, will be the first since Obama beat McCain, the Republican candidate, in the Nov. 4 election.
The meeting comes as Obama, who resigned his Senate seat on Sunday, has been interviewing some of his one-time political opponents to help him run the country.
Advisers to the former candidates have said they don’t expect Obama to consider McCain for an administration job.
The two will be joined by Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a McCain confidant, and Rep. Rahm Emanuel, an Illinois Democrat Obama has chosen as his White House chief of staff.
Emanuel and Graham have worked together before on issues on Capitol Hill, and Graham jumped to Emanuel’s defense when Republicans criticized his appointment as Obama’s chief of staff.
In announcing the meeting on Friday, Obama’s transition office said the president-elect and McCain “share an important belief that Americans want and deserve a more effective and efficient government, and will discuss ways to work together to make that a reality.”
Advisers to both men say they do not expect Obama to consider McCain for a position in his administration, as he is with former primary rival Hillary Rodham Clinton for secretary of state. But he’d like to have McCain as a partner in the Senate on legislation they both have advocated on the campaign trail, like climate change, earmark reform and torture.
(Source: Associated Press)
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I hope McCain does not get a job in Obama’s administration. While McCain may symbolize the values many here embrace, in practice he is not overly successful in any of his political endeavors.
There’s talk he may replace Biden with Mccain…;)
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Now it’s down to REAL business,not campaigning.
Sen. McCain apparently does not see the Obama gang as pursuing a long-range plan to bring Communism (oh yes – remember Lenin -“We will sell the rope to hang yourselves”) to this beloved country. Just read Saul Alinsky – self-described atheist and Marxist – who has been clearly identified as a philosophical mentor to both Obama and Hillary Clinton (!)
The best advice for true Conservatives is from Winston Churchill, during the Nazi (y’msh’m) assault during WW II: Never, never, never yield – unless and only if it is truly justified by moral considerations.