McCain Takes Conciliatory Tone

McCain has been all over the place lately. Erratic to say the least. I think he and his campiagn are in panic mode.
You know the campiagn is on the wrong track when Obama takes the lead in North Carolina and Virginia. To very read state and leading in more then one poll in these states.
I believe McCain lost this election 2 week ago.

Being a bully is not working eh??? I still don’t by this-McCain is not sincere or genuine at all-It all politics

Granpa’ McShame was the one who created this failure, nobody needed him in Washington, by the minute he decided to inject politics into the negociations, the plan was dead at the arrival, he should’ve stayed at home instead of looking for photo op in washington.
Now we’re in a deeper crisis because of him, and he has the nerve to hold Obama responsible for his own gambles and poor tactics, what a poor man !
Now the solution is to let Congress work on a new solution, without any distraction from Granpa’ McCain’t, he needs to really suspend his campaign, go to his home state of Arizona and wait for the solution of this crisis before returning to the campaign trail, if he wants.
It’s almost the end of his poor, nasty and shameful campaign !

No bailout!! Not with the American people’s tax dollars! I think it stinks that Pelosi tried to stick some extra cash for her polictical allies. And once again it’s the middle guy who will suffer the consequences of the mismanagement of these companies and our goverment.

Sen. John McCain is an experienced, intellligent, rational man. Say whatever you want about him, but his entire adult life have been devoted unselfishly to public service. That is way more than anyone can say for empty suit Barack. And PLEASE give up on the “but he was a community organizer in Chicago” tired old defense. Google “ACORN” and you will soon see what Barack’s lame “community organizer” skills really involved. Barack = ACORN = Current financial crisis in America.

McCain’s obsession to become president has destroyed a good man. His word means nothing because he will change it on the drop of a hat if he thinks it will get him a vote. SAD SAD SAD

Watch Biden and Palin Prep for the debate. http://www.watchdebate.com

McCain is all over the place. And his VP candidate is a clueless …..

See the Palin impersonator Joe Biden is using to practice with http://www.theveep.com

Phillypaul. I live in Az and John McCain was handpicked to run because of his POW record, he is not particualrly intelligent, and his temper is legend. Google Kathy Dubs. This is a guy that has to be held back from jumping across a table at someone that showed that his political position just happened to net his wife several million dollars in a land deal.

Last week McCain wanted to ride into DC to the rescue. Now that flopped. So of course now he wants to stay out of the process for the good of the country?Are you kidding me? Just one more flip-flop by McCain.

PhillyPaul: “Sen. John McCain is an experienced, intellligent, rational man.”
Sorry, but I’ll believe what I’m seeing for myself over what someone on an internet message board tells me to believe.

This election is not locked in yet. Let’s all give Sen. Obama one last push by donating $5, %10,… $50 whatever you can. We must not let our nation to fall into the disastrous hands of McCain.

I’m in with you leighg1 – McCain is far too emotional and erratic (and thus risky) to be in the Oval Office.

Quick! Someone call Keebler and tell them one of their elves has been spotted in Washington speaking in a more conciliatory tone.

Yes the, seemingly, inept Congress will authorize a bail-out. And, yes, both sides of the aisle will take their shots at the other side; though, ironically, it will be both a pat on the back with one hand followed by an upper-cut with the other. Now that I have expressed the obvious, I WILL NOT BE CONFIDENT UNTIL… those that caused this… including former Presidents, Legislator’s and CEO’s, etc. are held accountable and legislation is passed that will insure the likes of such greed will never permeate our financial institutions again. I am all for smaller government, but this would be prime-time for a new office within Home Land Security, one with the responsibility to protect us from the likes of political, corporate and investor greed. One beyond the obstructionist influence of traditional lobbied politics, foreign & domestic corporate institutions, foreign governments and the three branches of our government. A supreme court, if you will, for the financial concerns of the new era.
Strange, but I recall a threat from a notorious terrorist threatening to bring down The United States through methods of financial chaos. Though, without giving any credence to those threats, isn’t it strange that, perhaps, we were willing to overlook the obvious. I hope Congress gets off it’s Ass and it’s Elephant and resolves this mess before our dreaded enemies get exactly what that have wanted, our own self destruction.

Sense – I think most voters understand the “suspension” was political posturing only. Voters don’t need the media to always connect all the dots.

Most of the commenters are Obama fans.. which leads me to believe they all sit home on the computer every day clogging the internet with their hostile chatter and remarks about McCain/Palin. If you vile, threatening people are the same ones voting for Obama, it is truly a case of the blind leading the blind.
Get a life.

I am still astonished that people on either side would be championing either of these two bozos (McCain or Obama) be the next President. Are you all just delusional?
God help us.
Wake up America!

Well, golden parachutes are alive and well. The CEO of WAMU, who started 7 weeks ago, will receive a $3+ million salary and is eligible for severance pay of up to $11 million.

I think McCain is saying something relevant here.
Anyone who has sold a house at market value in the last 8 years or so has walked away from the sub-prime crisis with an extra load of cash because of deregulation. The availability of sub-prime mortgage money increased the demand side of the supply-demand curve, and that made the price you got for that house higher.
Others who got rich off the deal included mortgage brokers and the mortgage company managers who were going around paying themselves big salaries, huge comissions, and outrageous bonuses for writing mortgages that never should have been written. The people who bought the houses also got over because they got mortgages they really didn’t merit. (Still some of those people are probably still paying those mortgages so they deserved the mortgage.) The home construction industry also made big bucks off the heightened demand.
People were acting based on their own self interests … who can blame them? When you count all the people who benefited or profited … does it total to the majority of Americans, or not? Now, we need to put some of the money back in.
It should be done fairly, though.

I can’t believe that some of the republicans actually have the gall to try and blame their votes on Pelosi’s speech. What are they 5 year olds? Bad enough that they did it but to then go on TV and tell people that they did it because they got their feelings hurt. I didn’t think my opinion of republicans could get lower, but it just did.

One criticism I have of McCain is that he seems to make quotes taking all positions. In a year he could say “a year ago I spoke out against the bailout package” and that would be true because he has spoken out against it. On the other hand, in a year he could say “…a year ago I defended and advocated for the bailout package”, and that would be true because he has defended it and advocated for it too. So that years from now, McCain will be able to pick and choose which position he took … with hindsight and depending on how things worked out.
This makes me wonder if the positions he credits himself with now are really the same thing … he took every side of issues so that later he would be able to claim to have been right based on whatever happened. I have read that he says he was in favor of increased regulation of the financial industry, especially Freddie and Fanny, but his voting record is against regulation … so if deregulation was a mistake, he has that covered … but if deregualtion had actually worked out, then he has that covered too.
I think the people who support McCain have to figure that out for themselves… does McCain try to make quotes on every side of an issue, then later try to pick and choose what quotes he will cite to prove “see, I was right all along”? It seems like McCain does that, but I don’t see Obama using that tactic. So far, Obama has clearly sided with the improved legislation. Unlike McCain who can later claim to have been for it or against it, depending on how things worked out.
It seems to me that taking both sides of an issue, and then trying to “pick and choose later to prove you were right” is not a good policy for a leader, since the people being lead won’t really know where the leader stands until after the fact.
I just hope that we vote for the best candidate on election day. I think Bush has proven to us, beyond any doubt, that we have to vote on more than the “who we would like to have a beer with” factor. A bad leader can lead you into a big mess that can hurt even America.
God bless America, the troops, the kids, and us all … Choose wisely, America!

John McCain has taken so many positions on the subject of the wall street bailout that he might be described as having a multiple personality disorder.
Why can’t he just take a measured position on this
subject and stop trying to make a short term political position that he thinks helps his campaign
on a daily basis? If he will conduct himself as President in the same manner, the next 4 years will
a living hell for Americans. Nothing will be stable.

John McCain has taken so many positions on the subject of the wall street bailout that he might be described as having a multiple personality disorder.
Why can’t he just take a measured position on this
subject and stop trying to make a short term political position that he thinks helps his campaign
on a daily basis? If he will conduct himself as President in the same manner, the next 4 years will
a living hell for Americans. Nothing will be stable.

How can Pelosi look at herself in the mirror?
Knowing that this was a fragil coalition to get this passed she threw gasoline on the fire.
This woman should shut her f***ing mouth and stop ruining everything.
BTW: why did she give a “pass” on voting yes to democrats that held “vulnerable” seats?
Why didn’t Barney Frank get all the democrats on his committee to vote yes?
Obama/Pelosi/Kerry: FULL OF …….

McCain Denies Blaming Obama And Democrats For Bailout Collapse
September 30, 2008, 6:15PM
Here’s a fun postscript to John McCain’s appearance yesterday afternoon — the one where he appeared to blame Obama and the Dems for the bailout implosion and then call for an end to the finger-pointing in the very next sentence.
In a new interview with ABC News’ Ron Claiborne, John McCain is now denying that he ever blamed them:
RC: Senator, you said that now is not the time to fix blame, but to fix the problem, but you said almost in the same breath that the democrats, including Senator Obama are responsible for the, the rescue plan falling apart.
JM: No, actually I said yesterday very clearly right before the media [that] it’s time not to fix the blame, but to fix the problem. We need to sit down together republican and democrat. We don’t have inflame the situation today. History will judge who was to blame, and who wasn’t…
When asked whether he blamed Dems and Obama for the bailout collapse yesterday, McCain said “no.”
But yesterday McCain said: “Senator Obama and his allies in Congress infused unnecessary partisanship into the process.”
As for McCain’s claim to ABC today that “history will judge who was to blame,” the McCain campaign released an ad today that … blamed Dems and Obama.
So yesterday McCain blames Obama and Dems while calling for no more fingerpointing. Today he denies having blamed them while releasing an ad blaming them.
The untruths are getting almost too convoluted to track at this point — it’s a bit like being trapped in a falsehood fun-house or something.

What’s really appalling is that Bush started warning about this crisis back in 2001 and the House Finance Committee (led by a Democrat) ignored him, even after Fannie Mae admitted major accounting errors. And guess who’s been taking handouts from Fannie Mae? In only 4 years in the Senate, Obama is number 2 on the list of Congressmen who have accepted the most money in handouts from them. Notice how quiet he is on that topic. And he has the nerve to blame Bush for this problem! Congress has gambled with our money and put us in this mess, we need to vote them all out.

If McCain really wanted to help he would suspend his campaign AND his role as Senator. Oh and by the way, the republicans put through the regs that lowered the lending standards. That, in combination with a downturn in housing values put us where we are. The answer is much simpler than propping up banks – if you live in a house with an out of whack mortgage is to have the govt take over your mortgage from the bank and then it writes it down and locks in your interest rate, if you can’t pay the govt sells the house.

does anyone else believe that Mccain and Bush have the same drama coach?

You know, John McCain was asked to return to Washington by some Republicans, because he is very good at bringing everyone to the table. He has really tried to stay behind the scenes and it is insulting to imply that he was out of line, when he is a Senator, who gets paid to do his job. At the very least, he was where he should be, and tried to move things forward. There was a concerted effort on the part of the Dems to beat him down, and make it look like he was an intruder on the process. There was no deal when McCain got to town. It was make-believe on the Dems side, to make McCain look bad. I have never seen such hateful,vicious and childish behavior in my life. Even the Brits were making fun of us on NPR today. It’s embarrassing that these people can’t put their parties aside and try to agree on something. Even more embarrassing is Barack Obama, campaigning away, and giving orders from the sidelines; “You dems and repuds get together and get this thing done”. Who the hell does he think he is? He’s still a senator for heaven’s sake. Why doesn’t he get back and get something done. Why? Because he doesn’t want to get his hands dirty. Let everyone else take the political heat/risk while he dances around the country trashing them all. A true leader will take a risk, and McCain is a leader. Whether he wins or loses in November, history will tell it like it is.
McCain/Palin 2008

Here’s part of a speech on the senate floor by John McCain in May of 2006 — two years ago!!! — as he tried to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Had we listened to McCain then, we wouldn’t be in this mess now: (Why McCain himself isn’t making more of a big deal about this is beyond me.)
“Mr. President, this week Fannie Mae’s regulator reported that the company’s quarterly reports of profit growth over the past few years were “illusions deliberately and systematically created” by the company’s senior management, which resulted in a $10.6 billion accounting scandal.
The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight’s report goes on to say that Fannie Mae employees deliberately and intentionally manipulated financial reports to hit earnings targets in order to trigger bonuses for senior executives. In the case of Franklin Raines, Fannie Mae’s former chief executive officer, OFHEO’s report shows that over half of Mr. Raines’ compensation for the 6 years through 2003 was directly tied to meeting earnings targets. The report of financial misconduct at Fannie Mae echoes the deeply troubling $5 billion profit restatement at Freddie Mac.
The OFHEO report also states that Fannie Mae used its political power to lobby Congress in an effort to interfere with the regulator’s examination of the company’s accounting problems. This report comes some weeks after Freddie Mac paid a record $3.8 million fine in a settlement with the Federal Election Commission and restated lobbying disclosure reports from 2004 to 2005. These are entities that have demonstrated over and over again that they are deeply in need of reform.
For years I have been concerned about the regulatory structure that governs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac–known as Government-sponsored entities or GSEs–and the sheer magnitude of these companies and the role they play in the housing market. OFHEO’s report this week does nothing to ease these concerns. In fact, the report does quite the contrary. OFHEO’s report solidifies my view that the GSEs need to be reformed without delay.
I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.
I urge my colleagues to support swift action on this GSE reform legislation”

Like Chris Rock was saying, ..” Vote for the candidate that owns only one house.”
McShame has 13 houses and if he loses 4 or 5 houses, he can still sleep well in his other houses.
Obama has the country’s interests first because he has two young daughters and he has strong incentive to lead the country to a better standing in the world for the sake of his children.
We know that McShame’s slogan “country first” is empty words when he picked Palin who is definitely unqualified for any national office. I do not want her anywhere near the “red button” because she might just decides to use it and say it is “God’s will”. Then the end of the world would be here. Scary.
People please for the sake of our children and grandchildren, vote
Obama/Biden

McCain personally went to Washington to help pass this bill. Barack Obama stayed on the campaign trail. Before the vote, our party criticized Sen. McCain for getting too involved (“erratic”). Now that the bill failed, it’s clear our candidate did not do enough. J Mac is for leadership. PUMA.

No bailouts and no Obama – Just look at who this racist, sexist, radical muslem lover surrounds himself with:
Here is a quick look into 3 former Fannie Mae executives who have brought down Wall Street.
Franklin Raines was a Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Fannie Mae. Raines was forced to retire from his position with Fannie Mae when auditing discovered severe irregulaties in Fannie Mae’s accounting activities. At the time of his departure The Wall Street Journal noted, ‘ Raines, who long defended the company’s accounting despite mounting evidence that it wasn’t proper, issued a statement late Tuesday conceding that ‘mistakes were made’ and saying he would assume responsibility as he had earlier promised. News reports indicate the company was under growing pressure from regulators to shake up its management in the wake of findings that the company’s books ran a foul of generally accepted accounting principles for four years.’ Fannie Mae had to reduce its surplus by $9 billion.
Raines left with a ‘golden parachute valued at $240 Million in benefits. The Government filed suit against Raines when the depth of the accounting scandal became clear. .. The Government noted, ‘The 101 charges reveal how the individuals improperly manipulated earnings to maximize their bonuses, while knowingly neglecting accounting systems and internal controls, misapplying over twenty accounting principles and misleading the regulator and the public. The Notice explains how they submitted six years of misleading and inaccurate accounting statements and inaccurate capital reports that enabled them to grow Fannie Mae in an unsafe and unsound manner.’ These charges were made in 2006. ?The Court ordered Raines to return $50 Million Dollars he received in bonuses based on the miss-stated Fannie Mae profits.
Tim Howard – Was the Chief Financial Officer of Fannie Mae. Howard ‘was a strong internal proponent of using accounting strategies that would ensure a ‘stable pattern of earnings’ at Fannie. In everyday English – he was cooking the books. The Government Investigation determined that, ‘Chief Financial Officer, Tim Howard, failed to provide adequate oversight to key control and reporting functions within Fannie Mae,’
On June 16, 2006, Rep. Richard Baker, R-La., asked the Justice Department to investigate his allegations that two former Fannie Mae executives lied to Congress in October 2004 when they denied manipulating the mortgage-finance giant’s income statement to achieve management pay bonuses. Investigations by federal regulators and the company’s board of directors since concluded that management did manipulate 1998 earnings to trigger bonuses. Raines and Howard resigned under pressure in late 2004.
Howard’s Golden Parachute was estimated at $20 Million!
Jim Johnson – A former executive at Lehman Brothers and who was later forced from his position as Fannie Mae CEO. A look at the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight’s May 2006 report on mismanagement and corruption inside Fannie Mae, and you’ll see some interesting things about Johnson. Investigators found that Fannie Mae had hidden a substantial amount of Johnson’s 1998 compensation from the public, reporting that it was between $6 million and $7 million when it fact it was $21 million.’ Johnson is currently under investigation for taking illegal loans from Countrywide while serving as CEO of Fannie Mae. ?
Johnson’s Golden Parachute was estimated at $28 Million.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
FRANKLIN RAINES? Raines works for the Obama Campaign as Chief Economic Advisor
TIM HOWARD? ? Howard is also a Chief Economic Advisor to Obama
JIM JOHNSON? Johnson hired as a Senior Obama Finance Advisor and was selected to run Obama’s Vice Pre sidential Search Committee
IF OBAMA PLANS ON CLEANING UP THE MESS – HIS ADVISORS HAVE THE EXPERTISE – THEY MADE THE MESS IN THE FIRST PLACE. Would you trust the men who tore Wall Street down to build the New Wall Street ?

Lets elect a man who was involved in the failed savings and loans back in the 80′s as president! Keating 5 go McCain!

McCain is NOT a uniter.
His lies and attack ads run constantly and that will just get even worse as his poll number sink.
McCain is erratic, mean and vindictive. Master of smoke and mirrors. Don’t buy the ‘concilatory’ nonsense.
McCain and Palin are vicious attack dogs…don’t let your guard down and watch out for the smooth talking, female guile of Palin in the debate. Do Not underestimate this woman.