’)Are you kidding me? Is anyone buying this mess? CNN:
John McCain suspends campaigning to work on economy, requests postponing Friday debate
Does McCain realize that there’s no “time out” in the White House?
Statement from Obama campaign
At 8:30 this morning, Senator Obama called Senator McCain to ask him if he would join in issuing a joint statement outlining their shared principles and conditions for the Treasury proposal and urging Congress and the White House to act in a bipartisan manner to pass such a proposal. At 2:30 this afternoon, Senator McCain returned Senator Obama’s call and agreed to join him in issuing such a statement. The two campaigns are currently working together on the details.
Here’s John McCain leaping into action during Hurricane Katrina…
But then, he wasn’t down 9 points in the fight of his political life.
So, in other words, Sen. Obama proposed some bipartisan action on this, but drama queen John McCain decided to try and take all the credit for this by “suspending” his campaign – because he’s currently trailing in the polls
That smell?
That’s desperation.
The thing is I’m pretty sure Sen. Obama can walk and chew gum at the same time.
UPDATE: Obama 45-39 over McCain in Fox News poll. Fox News.
Hmmm… consistently bad economic news for 10 days. A press revolt because you don’t let your VP candidate talk to them. News comes out that your campaign manager’s company was getting several grand a month from a company that just got taken over by the feds. And even George Will says you lack the leadership qualities to be president.
What do you do? You call a timeout.
You just wish your guy had shown this kind of leadership first. Could be a brilliant move if legislation actually gets agreed-upon by Monday, as is McCain’s goal.
Absolutely everything is leadership if my side does it, including sticking your head up your arse and running away.
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Its time for a timeout so he can rethink his campaign. This isn’t showing leadership, it’s showing an “oh shit, i might be losing” moment.
What’s the big deal? Debate’s only a couple of hours at best. What’s the problem? Is this cutting into McCain’s nap time? (his own campaign says he’s been napping.)
“You just wish your guy had shown this kind of leadership first. ”
Don’t you mean cowardice? You mean that if McCain was pulling ahead in the polls, and all the economic news was exactly the same, that McCain would likely call for a time-out like he is now?
This may be one problem Cindy can’t solve for him.
I don’t understand why there is a rush to “solve” this crisis. Regular Americans aren’t interested in paying $700 billion to bail out financial services companies bad decisions. Why it is so important to give away this money quicker than most Americans take to purchase a car is unfathomable. Of course, since McCain has 7 houses and 13 cars he can’t relate to everyday Americans feelings about this crisis.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/24/mccain-suspends-campaign-to-help-with-bailout/
Uh….hey stupid, Obama’s camp is claiming this is their idea first…
An excerpt….
Within minutes of McCain’s statement, Obama’s campaign issued its own statement suggesting that the idea to work together came from that camp.
“Within minutes of McCain’s statement, Obama’s campaign issued its own statement suggesting that the idea to work together came from that camp.”
And which part of the Obama said to postpone the debates? Cause I’m sure it’s those pesky debates that are causing all the economic turmoil.
Hey fascist racist, the Obama campaign agreed to a statement, not to rush back to Washington so that Americans can be fleeced sooner rather than later.
Respond now, fascist.
NO BAILOUT!
For anyone.
No corporation bailouts, no homeowner bailouts.
You make stupid decisions, you pay the price.
Personally, I hope they DON’T postpone the debates. McCain will destroy the teleprompter-loving sociaist bigot Obama.
Respond immediately, marxist.
“Respond immediately, marxist.”
Isn’t it about time your parents took you to the vet to get you tutored?
Seriously, you are completely useless and it would do the world a great disservice if you reproduced.
It should be a law. No-one is allowed to invoke Marx or socialism who clearly has no idea what they mean.
Isn’t it about time your parents took you to the vet to get you neutered?
Fixed.
Heh, indeed.
Enlightened Liberal-
I agree with you on not understanding the rush to complete this bailout. Its puzzling for sure. Its obvious or apparent to me, based on the people Ive spoken to about it – that taxpayers don’t want this. Why is it OUR responsiblity to bail someone else out? Like you said, it was the “financial service companies bad decisions” that got us into this in the first place. And now they want a free ticket out of Dodge?
No one has explained to me why this cannot wait for the next Congress, after the people have spoken. No one.
I have a guess. Wall Street fears systemic, structural change in Washington now and is making a goal line stand for a grab, getting their buddies at the Fed and the Treasury and the SEC to step up for the money like Mafia caporegimes. This is a well-timed “crisis” with less evidence than Powell had for WMD at his infamous sales pitch to the UN.
The mere fact that the Congress is talking about doing this should stabilize markets. They don’t need to write some enormous no-strings check. Bush needs it. His financier masters need it.
Some days, I swear, I feel like slitting throats. I am hoping I won’t wind up dropping Obama over this, though so far he seems to be avoiding the bait. Most decent people observing politics feel that way some of the time, I suppose.
Hopefully Obama will have second thoughts about ever reaching out to McCain again in bipartisanship. McCain’s losing campaign is putting its own survival above that of the country, and will pull any trick to stall for time.
Don’t assume you can work with a man who mysteriously refuses to define honor
I understood the debates this Fri. were about “foreign relations,” not the economy. Why should extra study be needed? Coupla hours’ debate, then back to doing anything you wanna do…
This weasel was urging dozens of McCain/Obama “town hall meetings,” then blamed his subsequent sleaze on Obama’s demurral. NOW he gets cold feet? Gimme a break.
“I’m John McCain, and I approve this message:
buk buk buk buk buk buk
baawk
BAAAWK”
the republicans and fox noise channels are in basic denial and look foolish. they are trying to sell sarah palin and peddled their post nixon club ideas. they are old news and fake. if mccain wants to do something then he should kill the federal reserve and indict them for treason. but he won’t because that is too real and he does not have the balls !
kill the federal reserve
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Yeesh. I knew McCain was a liar, but I didn’t realize he was a coward too.
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