Mccain Campaign Advisers Holds a News Teleconference On Sen. Obama's Health Care Plan

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Mccain Campaign Advisers Holds a News Teleconference On Sen. Obama's Health Care Plan

MCCAIN CAMPAIGN ADVISERS HOLD A NEWS TELECONFERENCE ON SEN. OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE PLAN

OCTOBER 17, 2008

SPEAKERS: DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN, MCCAIN CAMPAIGN SENIOR DOMESTIC POLICY ADVISER

BRIAN ROGERS, MCCAIN CAMPAIGN SPOKESMAN

[*] ROGERS: Hey, everybody. Thanks for joining us for this conference call today to discuss the -- the incredible distortions and lies that Barack Obama leveled today about John McCain and the Medicare program. With us, we have Doug Holtz-Eakin, senior policy adviser to the campaign. He'll make some comments outlining -- outlining these issues, and then we'll take some questions.

With that, I'll turn it over to Doug.

HOLTZ-EAKIN: Thank you, Brian.

Thank you, everyone, for taking the time to join the call.

I'm sorry to have to join with you in such terrible circumstances, but what we've seen on the issue of health care reform is the basic Obama strategy, which is attack John McCain and don't answer questions about your own plan. And the result has been the worst and most sustained distortion of policy in this entire campaign; a dubious honor that no one will be able to exceed.

Let me just go through the atta...

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