Bush Invites Obama to DC to Work on Bailout Bill; Obama Accepts

Wow.
This is one seriously interesting day. I need some popcorn.

What he needs a special invite to do his job…

As president I’m sure that either of these candidates (like presidents before them) have been called to deal with multiple conflicting crisis . . .
Therefore, it is not UNREASONABLE to expect that they can attend a meeting in Washington D.C. — take a few hours out of their day to get to a DEBATE. And if needed fly BACK to resume whatever work is needed . . . I doubt you need to fly around to do really work on the bailout crisis — we do have phones, conference calls, e-mail and other equipment (but either case) . . .
YOU CAN DO BOTH GENTLEMEN.
America want the debates. It’s your duty to us.

They’ve been away from their jobs for 18 months and now suddenly they are desperately needed in DC. Whatever.
So, now they talk about the Great Depression – well, if you don’t want one then stop panicking. This bailout has no guarantee that it would work and, if it doesn’t, could actually cause the depression they are hoping to avoid. So what about a recession, we’ve had them before (and we’re living through on in Michigan now for some time).
Let the corrupt and greedy financials fail, and then help the good ones pick up the pieces when it’s all over.

i am undecided but good for obama for accepting. he needs to be there. this needs a collective non partisan show of support with all hands on board. exactly what mccain called for,

I think they should all be meeting and getting this crisis settled. As for the debate, I don’t care if they debate Friday or next Friday. What the heck? I want this financial crisis taken care of and I want Obama and McCain to be on the record. Get real, it doesn’t matter if the debates are postponed for a few days! Look at your 401K …. it has lost lots of money this past week. Money that won’t be made up easily. God, can’t we forget politics for a minute and think of the regular citizen who works and contributes to a retirement plan???????

If Obama and the democratic congress use the economic disaster as a political tool, they will end up loosing the election!

it is somewhat shocking that the president had to INVITE obama-to prompt him to do his job. but in either case this is good they both need to be there as leaders of their party.

Why would Bush and McCain be holding a meeting on the economy? They don’t know anything about the economy.

I just heard the news. I am speechless. MCCAIN DROPS 10 points behind on tuesday and suspends his campaign over a bunch of thieves in NY and DC on Wednesday late. Get real. He never surrendered in prison camp, why fold the tent over one issue. As President he would have tons of problems to deal with. Isn’t he up to it? The congress will hammer out the bail out. We need a new president. Answer the questions of the people. Don’t hide. Next we will hear that he is recalling all the voting machines because someone figured out the codes to rig the results…oops sorry Mr. Gore.
What a lame excuse to hide and to keep Sarah out of harms way (you naughty press boys and girls).

…but Chuck Schumer just got done telling Wolf Blitzer at CNN that it was important that the crafting of the bailout not be connected to the presidential election thus having McCain stay away from Washington. So what’s this Bush invite all about then? I don’t get it, beam me up Scotty.

The numbers on John McCain
0 debates
72 age
8 homes
13 cars (including Toyota, Honda and Volkswagen)
500,000 dollars received by McCain Campaign Manager from
Freddie Mac
0 credibility and ability

“If we don’t find solutions to our economic crisis”
The economic crisis is that people are losing their homes. The Bush Bailout does not touch that crisis, it just transfers billions of dollars of taxpayer’s money to failing companies so that Bush’s CEO friends can keep their jobs.
Left alone, the firms on Wall Street will consolidate and carry on without this “bailout”.
Remember WMD? Don’t be fooled again.

If McCain doesnt show up at the Presidential Debate, it will be very bad politically for him. These debates are important for Americans to watch, If McCain skips it then Obama will look more presidential.

McCain knows that a leader leads by example,that is something you just can’t phone in.Warren Buffett discribed it as a financial Pearl Harbor, yet Obama says”I’ll leave it in Reid and Pelosi’s hands”, is that who the Obama supporters want running the country.All those people Paulson, Dodd, Schumer, Benanke and on and on ,that Obama is trusting to fix things–are the same people who are responsible for creating the crisis.It’s like putting the wolf in charge of the sheep. He reminds me of Bush when he sat in that classroom for 7 minutes not knowing what to do after the 9-11 attacks—we don’t need that type of guy again.Obama wouldn’t debate all summer even though he had said he would debate John McCain anytime, anywhere, now during this crisis–the debate is all important.Obama won’t go back to Washington because ,there the debates aren’t scripted ,and he doesn’t get 3 days to practice.He would have to use his own words, his own wit and his own wisdom–3 things he lacks

colorado – Why did it take a call from the President for Obama to go to washington? McCain called him earlier today asking him to come together and get this resolved because that is what this country needs right now…to stop the politicing and put the American people first. Obama said no thank you…. so good for Obama? He should not have had to have the “principal” call him to the office to get to work!

Jim…I think you mean that McCain is the one using the economic crisis for political reasons….maybe, he’s too old to be in two cities in one day. Send Palin…wow!! Is anyone as terrified as me at that thought?

Oh no they didn’t. Bush invites Obama Now????? Well isn’t that a coincidink? McCain, “He’s not falling for it guys”. Bush, “He said he’d come if we ask”. McCain, “OK ask him then so we can stop the debates”.

Get the facts straight, please…Mc Cain asked Obama to join with him in Washington to work on this “bailout” and he declined…Not until the President himmself called and asked him to come , did he accept the invitation. That should have been an eye-opener for many…

april – You hit the nail right on the head! What is so hard about any of that to understand for the rest of these people?

im a lifelong dem but the party has been hijacked by the radical left and will lose in november. a new democrat, this makes me sad. the old liberals are back in power ala kerry, gore, teddy kennedy, dukakis…losers all

Sure no harm in accepting Bus’ invitation but say thanks but no thanks to the bail out

This is same methohs used to get us into the war. There is no need to rush. The market will find a way to survive.
It is more important to get it right verse rushing. If it was that serious, we would have known about this sooner.
This is handicaping our children and grandchildren. The economy was headed down any way.
When you are ther person who is forclosed upon, and you also have to pay for this mess, it won’t be funny then.
The junk notes are loans on your home. remember that loan that is ready to adjest or the one that adjusted and you can’t afford.

f this bailout does not go through, I bet with you, Obama and the Dmeocrats will loose the elction in 50 states!
I want to see you all, next week when you won’t be able to get your money out from your bank, can not be able to use yiour credit card to buy a cup of coffee!
McCain is going downthere because he knows it is critical and does nit want to be blamed!
I m for Obama but I think that he is doing a stupid mistake by not joining McCain and asking fir a stupid debate!

Bush inviting Obama is another Republican trick …! The Republican candidate has 13 cars (some European, not as he said all made here in America) and has 9 houses! He is so out of touch and full of have truths!

I can’t beleive how weak Obama is- no leadership qualities whatsoever!! The economy is one hundred times more impportant than a debate. There are over 4 weeks still, plenty of time for 3 debates and even Town Hall meetings if Obama was brave enough to so attend.
McCain is the true leader- he talks the talk and walks the walk: Country First!!
Vote for the Hero, not the Zero.

and obama contribution is CALL ME!
i find it shameful that obama had to be prompted to show up and do his job by the president.

How about starting lower, lIke one,two,or five Billion and work up as needed. Handing over 700 Billion is too much. You would not put that much
money in use for sometime. To hand over
that much to anyone is just asking for
real trouble. It could just disappear and thats already happened.

Well since the president has called Obama he has to go but Obama plans to still be at the debate on Friday.
I wonder if McCain will be there.

If the economic crisis gets worse and we get in to a deep depression, I do not believe that Obama will benefit from that!
When the times get really very much risky an inexperienced candidate who wants giveaway goverment spending and tax increases won’t win anything!
Obama is good as long as the eocnomy is a problem to talk about, But when it becomes an issue in our lifes, everything will shift against him!

McCain didn’t know that Rick Davis, his campaign manager, was a paid lobbyist for Freddie Mac? How lame can McCain really be? He does not have the mental capacity to be our president. Check the facts on that, worldnutdaily.

Two Senators away from DC for a few hours won’t make a difference in the outcome of the bailout. McCain and Bush playing games in the middle of a national crisis. These Republicans are sick people, man… they really don’t care, they just want to retain the W.H, that’s all. It’s time to kick’em out and keep them out of Washington for a couple of decades.

Maybe Obama couldn’t get to Washington because Michelle had the car.

I can’t believe how weak McCain is. Can’t he work on the economy and work on debating at the same time? Pretty bad to have a president who is unable to multitask. Also, does he need to buy time that badly so that he and Palin can study for a debate? This does not look for McCain. Obama can help solve the economy crisis AND debate at the same time–and more. Is McCain that old?

Obama will go to Washington tomorrow to work on the crisis with Bush. And still show up at the debate Friday.

Absolutely NO NEED to postpone the debate on Friday. Sure, it would be uselful for both candidates to attend a meeting at the WH. However, the people who would have to hammer out the bailout plan are already in place and really do not require either candidate to be present. They can provide input through the heads of their respective committess and then do their business as usual. So for McSame to cancel all other events in order to be there is a farce! Debates should go on so that we can get a better idea of each candidate’s stance direct from their mouths.

Bruce E and the rest of you loser GOP nuts. I have one question, how stub-burn or stupid are you??? George Bush and his thugs have stolen $10 TRILLION dollars from America and now our grandchildren have no future and will have to pay it back! We are half way to hell and you just want to keep on going full speed ahead? Oh wait I think it’s time to write another $10 BILLION check to Cheney’s Halliburton for the illegal invasion (hope it doesn’t bounce).

If this bailout fails and Obama does not sghow up to work things out, I am NOT going to vote for him anymore!
He should be going to Washington and ask what he thinks need to be added to the bailout program!
I was seriously thinking about Obama but he did not show me a leadership tonight!
Perhaps I will vote for Nader!

We americans are in serious serious trouble….I knew it was a matter of time before America become the property of other nations….Damn….we are in a recession; going into a depresssion..

chattyway – No these people don’t understand that. Instead of worrying about teaching sex education in schools someone should start trying to figure out how to teach common sense in schools because these people are truly lacking.

Democratic congress uses this matter as a political tool and Obama sees it as a campaign event!
McCain/Palin victory!

McCain’s policies have shipped our jobs to China and now we’ll be shipping our tax dollars to China, as well. Thank you Senator Hothead. When your campaign implodes and you go down the toilet along with your sleazy lobbyist campaign manager we’ll all sleep a little better.

What is wrong with going to Washington and postpond the debate to Saturday night or Monday evening?

hey Tim,
You are absolutely right!
This debate should not eb on a Friday anyway! Most people are out Friday nights anyway!
What is the big deal about one day delay?

THE ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO SUSPEND NOVEMBER 4 ELECTIONS ON THE EXCUSE THAT THERE WAS NO TIME FOR DEBATES WITH THEIR INDEFINITE SUSPENSION OBAMA, NOT RELYING ON PUBLIC FINANCING, WILL RUN OUT OF FUNDS IF YOU ARE LOOKING AT A JULY ELECTION!Good reasons McCain wants to suspend campaigning: He is down in the polls; this economic mess looks like its the Republicans fault this will put him in his mind in a disadvantage if any debates were held before this bailout matter is resolve (this of course could take several months..for McCain to be able to get in a more favorable position with the situation looking less ugly; He needs time for troopergate to be resolved and swept under the carpet, with personnel board investigating and the legislature expect the personnel board Republicans are having to investigate to be dragged out and prolonged; the ultimate goal is to get Obama to suspend his campaign, loose his momentum, loose money and be flat broke not depending on public financing as McCain. This is so cute it stinks. Moreover, it is unconstitutional to delay the elections and this would be a first in history on a lame excuse. Bailout can be resolved without McCain physical presence at the Senate – we do have telecommunications, cells, videos, emails, and his representatives to convey his position on any and all issues without him being present. This is straight out of Karl Rove’s book. America should insist the elections, the debates go on as scheduled.

Bush only invited McCain to be polite. Bush knows that McCain is a dunce when it comes to the economy. Why? Because McCain already told America, for the past 26 years, that we need to Deregulate. Let the Wall Street geniuses take over our Social Security? Thank God the democrats stopped that from happening.

I think Obama should really lose out after only worrying about the debate and not the country’s welfare. Obama’s unwillingness to help or put off the debate for the country’s sake is only showing that he is a power hungry and naive and does not care for the people of this country. And he’s trying to put McCain down? HA! He is only thinking of himself, and this refusal to help with this American crisis is proof. I don’t think anyone should vote for him. When there is a crisis in this country, you are supposed to stop what you are doing and do your job, even just as a senator(which Obama is getting paid for;he is not getting paid for debating). I am shocked that he has no more caring for the welfare of this country than that!
No one should even think about a debate until this crisis is settled.

Bush and McCain and their unregulated wallstreet pirates got us into this mess. I guess they need Obama to get them out. If Mccain wants to be president he had better learn to multitask. Look at Bush…he managed to get us into two wars…one of them unjustified…and ruin our economy. Surely McChicken can vote on a bill and handle a debate.

Mr. America community organizer: ´I promise you change, but don´t ask me what does it consist of. I have to ask first my advisors Jimmy Johnson and Franklin Raines´
Mr. America community organizer´s patriotism isn´t enough to postpone the campaign a few hours and face the problems this country has.
Nobama: Me first, country last

Skip the debates? Just skip the election and hand the keys over to Obama. He’s the last man standing in this election. McCain lacks the energy and the mental clarity to get the job done. McCain, you’re 72 years old and you should be retired. Go sit on the porch and smoke your corn cob pipe. And take your Fannie Mae lobbyists with you.

Sounds more like a Presidential order to me. Good for Bush. Its about time he acts like a President. It’ll be the first time in YEARS!

We have 116 days left with this A**HOLE..

If Obama and McCain do not need to go to Washington for the hearing then I don’t think the American people need these two senators. Are they Senators or are they no body?

Julie honey, World Net Daily is a arch conservative rag that I wouldn’t use to start a camp fire. You are wasting your time linking to stories out of it. Faux News is a pathetic rag as well but I’d read them before I’d read World Net Daily.
Try again…

I wish we still lived back in the day when making fun of a president was considered treason!

Mr. America community organizer is scared to vote if he´s asked.
Don´t worry, Barry. Just vote ´present´. You´ve done it 130 times.

If McCain were an expert on the economy or at the VERY least hadn’t made countless stupid remarks about it over the last week, I would have believed that he might actually help. Since he has proven that he has NO CLUE, what can he do but get in the way? This screams political ploy to me.

As Washington lawmakers debate as massive, $700 billion, bailout for Wall Street firms that invested in mortgages, CEOs have come under new scrutiny for their multi-million-dollar salaries, even when their companies have suffered.
The bailout plan is likely to have limits on the so-called “Golden Parachutes” for executives forced to leave.
ABC News, in collaboration with James F. Reda and Associates, complied a list of some of the companies in the headlines today and looked at just how much money some of these CEOs are taking home.
CEO Cash Salary Stock, Other Pay Total Pay
Lehman Brothers
2007 Richard Fuld $5,000,000 $66,770,000 $71,770,000
2006 Richard Fuld $7,000,000 $55,323,679 $62,323,679
2005 Richard Fuld $14,500,000 $89,500,000 $104,000,000
2004 Richard Fuld $11,000,000 $24,300,000 $35,300,000
Morgan Stanley
2007 John Mack $800,000 $16,431,500 $17,231,500
2006 John Mack $800,000 $6,321,000 $7,121,000
2005 John Mack $337,534 $30,000,000 $30,337,534
Goldman Sachs
2007 Lloyd Blankfein $27,600,000 $15,500,000 $43,100,000
2006 Lloyd Blankfein $27,800,000 $15,700,000 $43,500,000
2006 Henry Paulson $129,087,000 $34,900,000 $163,987,000
2005 Henry Paulson $600,000 $3,363,422 $3,963,422
2004 Henry Paulson $600,000 $11,660,000 $12,260,000
Bear Stearns
2006 James Cayne $17,300,000 $14,800,000 $32,100,000
2005 James Cayne $12,900,000 $10,300,000 $23,200,000
2004 James Cayne $10,200,000 $9,500,000 $19,700,000
Merrill Lynch
2007 John Thain $15,800,000 $0 $15,800,000
2007 E. Stanley O’Neal $584,000 $161,000,000 $161,584,000
2006 E. Stanley O’Neal $19,200,000 $45,116,327 $64,316,327
2005 E. Stanley O’Neal $14,800,000 $3,120,000 $17,920,000
2004 E. Stanley O’Neal $700,000 $16,766,448 $17,466,448
Washington Mutual
2007 Kerry K. Killinger $1,000,000 $3,468,625 $4,468,625
2006 Kerry K. Killinger $5,100,000 $17,153,715 $22,253,715
2005 Kerry K. Killinger $4,600,000 $8,876,608 $13,476,608
2004 Kerry K. Killinger $2,900,000 $12,335,416 $15,235,416
AIG
2007 Martin J. Sullivan $10,200,000 $5,647,439 $15,847,439
2006 Martin J. Sullivan $16,900,000 $5,838,656 $22,738,656
2005 Martin J. Sullivan $7,750,000 $159,000 $7,909,000
2004 M.R. “Hank” Greenberg $1,400,000 $12,002,880 $13,402,880
Fannie Mae
2007 Daniel Mudd $3,200,000 $5,200,000 $8,400,000
2006 Daniel Mudd $4,400,000 $2,290,000 $6,690,000
Freddie Mac
2007 Richard Syron $5,590,000 $0 $5,590,000
2006 Richard Syron $5,150,000 $0 $5,150,000

Obama made a stunning gaffe in his press conference this afternoon, responding to McCain suspending his campaign and the economic crisis. Obama said, “If they [Congress] need me, call me.” Wow! There could be no further contrast in leadership between these two men. McCain rolls up his sleeves and says “let’s get something done.” And Obama says “call me if you need me.”
When given an opportunity to serve his nation in a time of severe crisis, Barrack Obama decided that his own personal gain was more important.
Stunning!

Pres Bush and the republicans have already taken many of Obama’s ideas I’m sure he’s interested in taking his ideas on how to solve this too. Now who’s ready to lead from day one?

Buried in that 8,000-word NYT magazine article about Obama’s economic plan is this bit flagged by Geraghty at Campaign Spot:
“If you talk to Warren [Buffet], he’ll tell you his preference is not to meddle in the economy at all — let the market work, however way it’s going to work, and then just TAX THE HECK OUT OF PEOPLE AT THE END AND JUST REDESTRIBUTE IT,” Obama said. “That way you’re not impeding efficiency, and you’re achieving equity on the back end.” He continued by saying that he thought there was some merit in Buffett’s argument.

Some needs to turn this mothership around and turn this around. Maybe jumping on the next mothership maybe a good idea. Lets jump on that UFO next time.

mj it said, “Oh Amanda – you probably believed Hussein had wmd’s. Some people are fooled all of the time.”
He did have WMD otherwise he could not have gassed the Kurds. Although he did not have WMD when we invaded, the leftover Kurds are alive because of us.
Signed,
A Military Officer

Mccheicken is scared of a debate with an intellect. His presence is not needed at Washington at all untill all the prework is completed by the congress executive body. This is a ploy to distract the Obama moment gain in polls.

I like how people criticize George Bush for inviting Obama to this. So you’d rather not have your hero show up?
McCain & Obama hold a ton of sway in this bill. They’re are practically the party leaders now, they can make or break this. It’s important that they show up.
I don’t know if the congressional meetings overlap with the debates. I’m fine with waiting another day or so, as long as we get the deal hammered out. You say that they can debate on friday anyway, but they really cant. It isn’t a matter of taking out a few hours. It takes a long time to set up a debate, and a long time to attend it. They would be gone for at least 4.5 hours, if they really decked it. It also takes a lot of time to finalize and unite congress to vote on anything. It isn’t a matter of multitasking, it’s a matter of time. If they could debate and make a bill at the same time, they would, but they cant.
It would be interesting if Obama showed up for the debate and McCain was in congress working on the bill. It would be an extremely risky move, but interesting.

Why isn’t this titled “Bush invites McCain and Obama to DC”?
The headline reads as if we’re very lucky to have the saviour Obama coming to save us and implies McCain wasn’t invited. Then you read the text and see he was…

Although I am not a Bush supporter, I do give him a lot of credit for CALLING Senator Obama to be present at the financial bail out meeting because IT IS THE PRESIDENT’S CALL to do, and NOT MCCAIN’s responsibility because he is NOT the president! PERIOD!
There is such a thing as protocol, and due to McCain’s undercut way of handling his approach to Sen. Obama by calling him, thus, agreeing with Sen. Obama to join together in a JOINT STATEMENT, but instead McCain is on the television set at a press conference MOMENTS from hanging up the phone from Obama only to RENEG on what they BOTH agreed upon TELLS THE WORLD that he (McCain) was using this crisis as a political ploy to make himself look good!
As far as I am concerned, McCain has proven himself to be LOW IN CHARACTER, and once again, President Bush has undermined McCain, in his own way, by covertly showing the world that it is Senator Barack Obama who has the decency, common sense, integrity, character, poise, and good judgement in every aspect to become the next President of the United States of America.
Despite what you may believe regardless of which party you like, or represent, it has been clearly shown that Senator Obama did the right thing by wanting to continue the debates on upcoming Friday, and to ACCEPT the President of the United States invitation to be present at the bail out meeting because to go out to Washington, D.C. ASSUMING that the people who are already present hashing out the details in Congress cannot do it without him is insulting to the members in Congress, and THAT is what McCain insinuated by PRETENDING that he gives a damn about this mess that he helped create in many ways along with his wealthy cronies!
It’s too bad that McCain could not wait for that same telephone call from the President of the United States of America – sticking to protocol of respect.
Now, since these men and women are to hash it out, tomorrow (Sept. 25th), in hopes of coming to a complete agreement on this bail out with concise and clear provisions, the presidential debates can go on as scheduled this Friday in Mississippi.

NO FOR BAILOUT!!! YES TO DEBATE!!! LET THE NEXT PRESIDENT HANDLE THIS MESS!!! I DO NOT TRUST BUSH/MCCAIN!!! LIARS!!!
OBAMA/BIDEN08

this is WAY TO FUNNY- at 5pm today obama said no to washington- than at 6:30 now he is going? his judgements are no good1 he should have been there with mccain- he is such a loser and not a leader!

This is a scheme by the Republicans to deflate Obama and the Democrats. Another chapter from the Karl Rove Playbook. Neither McCain nor Obama have been involved directly in these negotiations. There are plenty of well respected people sorting and working this out. They don’t need either Presidential Candidates there. Are they also going to get Palin in there too? After all, she has “executive experience” and can tell the ton of experts there how to do this. She can always point out to her bridge to nowhere and her road to nowhere. Just a little lipstick should do it. What a sham this election is looking like. Another attempt to trick America.

A plan for a bailout should have came long before now. Why do Obama and McCain need to suspend their campaign events and the first debate the nation has long awaited? They were not there from the beginning, why all of a sudden it’s imperative to be there on Friday. I believe that McCain is trying to buy time, he is not ready to face this Presidential debate, and can’t get to Obama notes to prepare for this debate. What a silly move, McCain releasing to the media that he is suspending all campaign advertisement until a bailout plan has been agreed upon. A great deal of funds has been greatly contributed into the preparation of this event and it should continue as planned…. Oomph! Perhaps McCain is trying to tell us indirectly that he has decided to withdraw from this race… It’s time for a change….
A GREAT CHANGE IS ABOUT TO COME, THE OBAMA CHANGE-2008! Everyone, please I urge you to go out and vote, your vote is extremely important and it does count. KEEP HOPE ALIVE!

Does President Bush and Senator McCain think that Senator Obama has the answer or maybe a better plan?

I can’t believe that anyone would buy the idea that McCain is putting the country first by suspending his campaign. 1. McCain knows that he is expected to do very well in this first debate, since it is about foreign policy. 2. McCain also knows that it is likely that Congress will approve some bailout plan this weekend. So, if he and Obama debate on Friday night and McCain does as well as expected, then the press will announce late Friday night that he won the debate and did a magnificent job on it. 24 hours later, the headlines will be “Congress approves a bailout plan”, and suddenly McCain’s winning debate is long forgotten, and the focus returns to the economy which is Obama’s strength. So, this had nothing to do with putting country first, it was an excuse by McCain to reschedule a debate that he will likely win to a time when it won’t be overshadowed by the economic crisis, and so he’ll be able to get the most bang for the buck on a great debate. I also found it interesting to hear Bush announce that he invited McCain and Obama to meet tomorrow afternoon with congressional leaders in DC – not in the morning but in the afternoon. Gee, could it be that he is trying to help McBush, oh I mean McCain get the debate delayed?

Bush is making an intelligent decision. Bring together the smartest people to help with this disaster. People don’t realize how bad this is. Some people are still talking silly about Obama because they are mental defects. We need the best minds, and Bush has faith in Obama’s IQ.

Feels like Bush is trying to take Obama hostage so the world wont hear Obama tell us the truth about what is going on and how culpable John Mccain is to what has happened. I’m getting the uneasy feeling that Bush is trying to hijack THIS election.

We want our senators in Washington doing what we pay them to do! We don’t need to hear any more of Senator Obama’s rhetoric and memorized debate points! Get to DC for the new 9/11 Mr. Obama just like Senator McCain will do! How dare you say “call me if you need me” Guess what, Washington doesn’t need you as senator and most definitely, the U.S. DEFINITELY DOES NOT NEED YOU as PRESIDENT.

Aw come on ABC what I posted was not spamming. If I had posted a website it would have gone through. I was posting where information on this very subject could be found. It was very relevent to the subject.

McCain/Palin heard Biden was stepping down as VP candidate so Hilliary could step in after Biden takes the heat in the debate with Sarah. McCain just isn’t playing that game. Let Hilliary debate Sarah and see how Sarah smashes Hilliary.

Why don’t we just let the talented, experienced,worldly
Sarah Palin handle the economic crisis? But rmember…
NO PRESS COVERAGE !!!

Telma????? If you are a black woman, why did you need to preface your statement with this crap. Perhaps you are a black woman in black face. You should have been paying attention to the what you should have learned as a black young woman. If you don’t have enough money coming in, you shouldn’t buy it.
Manage your ass..ets and get off of OBAMA. From one woman to another.

I’m still chuckling over the fact that John McCain cannot seem to chew gum and walk at the same time! Not much of an improvement over Bush.

The American people are entitled to timely Presidential debates so that the candidates can be properly vetted. This is part of an ELECTORAL PROCESS that John McCain, and the Republican party in general, has no respect for. And now he involves BUSH in this scheme?
The economy is not in a ‘crisis’. The economy is suffering from two decades of Wall Street’s CRIMINAL behavior, facilitated by the deregulation that the Republican sought for their cronies. McCain is a using a sham to deflect attention from a debate he will most certainly lose Friday night. The debate will happen despite the interference the Republicans are desperately trying to run.

First The Savings and Loan and Now
Wall Street !!!!!!!
From the Wikipedia. Unlike McCain’s Lies, This is The Truth. Same McCain, Different Failure. Our Country cannot afford McCain/Palin.
McCain and Keating had become personal friends following their initial contacts in 1981,[10] and McCain was the closest socially to Keating of the five senators.[21] Like DeConcini, McCain considered Keating a constituent as he lived in Arizona.[18] Between 1982 and 1987, McCain had received $112,000 in political contributions from Keating and his associates.[22] In addition, McCain’s wife Cindy McCain and her father Jim Hensley had invested $359,100 in a Keating shopping center in April 1986, a year before McCain met with the regulators. McCain, his family, and their baby-sitter had made nine trips at Keating’s expense, sometimes aboard Keating’s jet. Three of the trips were made during vacations to Keating’s opulent Bahamas retreat at Cat Cay. McCain did not pay Keating (in the amount of $13,433) for some of the trips until years after they were taken, when he learned that Keating was in trouble over Lincoln.[6][23]
Just as the Savings and Loan Failed, so now does Wall Street and the Mortgage and Banking Institutions. McCain can’t try and blame Obama for the 1989 problem. He has been responsible for so much failure in this economy. Treating Wall Street Like they did the Savings and Loan.

So, I guess that McCain coming back to Washington wasn’t good enough to fix the problem huh?
What? Did the big bad Obama call your bluff Johnny? Had to get the president to make Obama do what you wanted him to?
So I guess when things are dire in Washington…they NEED Obama there to fix things.
Try and spin this neocons…you can’t…Obama shows time and time again he is better at leading than McCain ever wanted to be.

Can you chew gum and walk at the same time? Obama is still running his campaign and making the trip to DC. If Americans vote McCain & any other repugs after Bush 2ce we deserve a 50 year depression and WWIII and to lose.
Wow, look at all those ugly Americans looking for a place to immigrate to from A-me-ri-ca.

First Laura Bush talks about how Palin is smart and tough but doesn’t yet have the foreign policy experience needed to be President then Bush makes it possible for Obama to look like a statesman arriving at the White House rather than following McCain to Washington like a puppy with his tail between his legs. Could this be payback for McCain saying lots of nasty things about Bush?

If taxpayers buy all these mortgages, which are worth zero, by what magic will they regain value for eventual sale and recovery of taxpayer monies? Once a mortgage is foreclosed on, it is worthless forever, isn’t it?

so obama is going back to washington and doing the debate then?? what excuse does johnny have now to cancel the debate??? obama is doing both =o how come johnny didnt think of that???

I, personally, don’t want Obama & McCain to go back to Washington. We have just about a month to hear what they have to offer. I want to know all I can when I go to the polls. It seems like to me that a lot of people in Washington want to suspend the campaign so that uninformed people head out to vote.

mcCane, tuck and run. You tried it in naum didn’t work there either.

Democrats are angry at McCain because he is trying to help Americans rather than subject them to a Pi$$ing contest?

This meeting of the President and leaders in congress AND both of the candidates is exactly what McCain suggested to get this thing done. He once again proves his ability to be a leader unlike Obama who had to be talked in to putting his ploitics aside for a few hours and actually do the work a Senator is supposed to do.

Obama is looking small. Very small. Even invisible in that suit. Yes, it is empty.

empty like bushes head?

McCain is not afraid of Obama. He invited him to many Town Hall Meeting which Obama refused. Please, tell me that you haven’t forgotten that Obama is the chicken of the bunch.
Posted by: Brett Evans
Sorry but those geriatric meetings are only good
when you have dialog with present day issues. McCain
keeps on reverting about times that happened
over 35 years ago.

mccain has been flip flopping as much this week as john kerry has for his tenure as a US senator when it comes to the economy. its mccain that has been looking small this week and asked obama to “suspend” his campaign becuase all of the post convention momentum has fizzled or even worse for him, extended or given obamaa a lead especially in the swing states

I’m an Obama supporter, but I have to agree with some of McCain’s posters that the headline is biased and incomplete – it should acknowledge that both candidates were invited. There’s so much baloney coming from the McCain camp about biased media that you don’t need to give them anything to hang their hat on, no matter how seemingly trivial.

Quoted from: Brett Evans
McCain is not afraid of Obama. He invited him to many Town Hall Meeting which Obama refused. Please, tell me that you haven’t forgotten that Obama is the chicken of the bunch.
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Why does Obama have to listen to everything McCain says and do them on his terms? In an interview when McCain was asked why such untruthful and harsh ads were airing, McCain said if Obama came to the town meeting then relations would be better. Stephen Colbert then said, “McCain didn’t accept my invitation to come onto my show so I’m going to spread lies about him— Breaking News: John McCain vows to run his campaign on Straight Talk”

If Obama shows up in Washington, will he bring his “wanna-be presidential seal”?
If the average worker had to be invited to do his job, he would be fired.
Impeach Obama!

make obama king and we wont have to go thru this in 4 yrs.

Much of the power of the McCain in the Bush party, starring Sarah Palin lies in the perverse truth it tells about the warped well-being it creates and look at its latest creation.
Sen. McCain the 21st century Davy Crockett. Remember the Alamo!

I am not a politically smart person but I know one thing for sure…..it is ridiculous for people that work for $7.oo per hour to be paying 4 plus dollar a gallon for gas, nearly 5 dollars for a gallon of milk, over 5 dollars for a box of cereal and then the big shots that are suppose to look out for our best intrest are worried more about helping companies that has brought this entire situation about themselves when they should have the US citizens as their priorty. I realize that this can filter down to all of us BUT if they would have been concerned about us real people who bust there butts everyday to try to be able to come somewhere close to making the payments we have committed to possible this entire mess would not have came about. People first??? It would be so nice for someone to actually say it and mean it. The people in DC have no clue what it would be like to live on a paycheck of $300 a week, or less. I do not think that they care either.If they did maybe the next president and/ or all elected officals would forfiet even half their salary. They still cost us with their expense accounts I am sure. I do not know who I will vote for this year as neither has convienced me that they are sincere and further more they neither have elaborated as to just what their “plan ” is for anything. They say I have a plan……IF they do then lets hear it…..I do not think they do they have and idea of what they may would like to do but a plan…..No and if they do let the people hear and make a decision from what they hear out of their mouths. Too bad we can not start this campaign over and see if we could better our choices……

If Obama shows up in Washington, will he bring his “wanna-be presidential seal”?
Posted by: Alice in Miami
And Sarah can bring her pom poms and
serve coffee to McCain.

Why wait until Wednesday to cancel campaigning? Oh yeah then we would not have seen all the photos of the world leaders at the UN!!!

Obama should bring Freddie Mac’s CEO Raines, his personal economic advisor. I’m sure he could shed some light on the bailout, to the tune of 90 million.
For the Obama followers, 90 million is a 90 with six zeroes.
McCain = hero
Obama = zero

All this hogwash about Obama having to be invited back to Washington to do his job!!
Look it up folks! McCain has missed 412 votes this year! Obama has missed just over 300. McCain has been off the job more than Obama! lol
C’mon repub diehards! You’re losing your touch! You’re starting to sound shrill and whiny! You’re getting desperate just like your candidate. What is going to be your next little trick to try and muddy the water and get America’s attention off the real issues of this campaign. When Bush was running, you sounded confident, self-assured. You have McCain running this time and you’re sounding panicked!
What will be McCain’s next move? Buy a pony and say he’s going to make him secretary of state if he’s elected?

How much do those 18, 19 year-old kids know about the country and politics. They vote for their candidate based on their emotional level, the excitement. Many of them have no clue what they are voting for! It’s a shame yet they always feel proud with no clue.
Posted by: tiger
the people that have less clue are the idiots that voted for dubya twice

Obama and his camp are laughable along with the MSM, Come on people McCain knew that A. Obama would resist and B. The mainstream media would brow beat him for this move, now when working people came home this evening and turned on the television all they saw was McCain saying that he is going back to washington to roll up his sleeves and work on the economic issue and Obama arguing about going to a debate of Friday, and the media bashing McCain for going back to Washington to do his job, every time the McCain camp set them up, they fall for it, with a nasty initial response and then they have to come back and tone it down, Obama and his cronies in the Media will never learn.

Something is rotten in the state of Washington.

if obama and mccain switched places regarding the debate or go back to dc issue i can pretty much guarantee you the neocons would be all over obama just like they are on him now for the exact opposite reason

I’m kind of impressed that Bush included both candidates. It also makes McCain’s “suspending” his campaign kind of pointless. This is being made into such a big deal by McCain. The crisis is a huge deal, but McCain has been away for so long ( and Obama too) that to barrel in like a super hero just isn’t realistic. He didn’t need to try and cancel the debate, he didn’t even need to suspend his campaign…unless he is running low on money. Drama, Drama, Drama. Go to Washington state your opinion be on call, vote, and then head off to Mississippi.

Look, All the people complaining about bigwigs in wallstreet trying to rip off america, are likely the same people who thought they would pull a quick one and make a quick buck by buying a 4500sq ft house, a quadrunner, a duck boat and a 2nd mortgage to start a sweet Tshirt printing business, or an multi-level internet website marketing scheme. When the government owns your mortgage after this bailout, you can bet the shaft will be placed deep and brutally. Uncle sam and Tax Man Jim will collect your flesh on your upside down mortgage; that’s something the bank can’t do right now. Think twice if you think these bad loans won’t be collected on once the Tax man gets the federal lien notices.
Posted by: EricMN
agreed part of the blame is on the people themselves for investing on things that they know they cannot afford. but why do the banks get a free pass on their money-making schemes?? it just sickens me how big corporations get free passes like that

Mccain and Bush are using the Iraqi withdrawal timetable to influence the election. What kind of ploy were they using to bait the Georgian/Russia conflict to influence the election? Why are they hiding Palin? What’s behind Mccain’s backout of the debate? What’s behind Bush’s invite to a special meeting? Mccain claims he doesn’t know anything about the economy, so what would be his input? Bush/Mccain, voters are skeptical of your underhanded tricks. We’re watching you. America and the world are watching you. And by the way, Obama’s input is his. Get your own ideas.

WOW… Finally the republicans can admit it… THEY NEED OBAMA’S ADVICE. THEY WANT OBAMA’S ADVICE… HE’S GOING TO BE RUNNING THINGS BEFORE HE EVEN GETS IN THE OVAL OFFICE. Obama is going to have Mccain voting for him like he’s already persuaded O’reilly. If people take the time to listen to what Obama has to say and stop trying to twist things around, then they would realize what a great leader Obama is and will be.

I guess I just do not have it in me to hate anyone as much at there appears to be hate with some of the comments. Can we be respectful even if we differ?

John McCain’s connections to the two mortgage companies are more numerous. His campaign manager, Rick Davis, headed the Homeownership Alliance, an advocacy group for the two lenders. His close adviser, Charlie Black, is a long-time lobbyist whose firm represented Freddie Mac.
Two of McCain’s bundlers, supporters who help raise large amounts of money for the campaign, have ties to Fannie Mae. Robert H. Holt is a lobbyist for the firm, and Wayne Berman is managing director of Ogilvy Government Relations, which also represents the company.
A third McCain bundler, Geffrey T. Boisi, is a director of Freddie Mac.
Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have spent millions on lobbying; they each number among Washington’s top 20 lobbying spenders.
Not to mention most importantly for those of you who think he puts country first…he is the most absent senator in congress. Obama and Clinton had a loooong drag out race, and Obama still showed up more than McCain. I hate to burst your bubble, but get real.

Senator McCain has skipped voting in senate 412 times last time voted on april 8 Obama voted last time in july he has skipped voting 295 times McCain has missed voting more than johnson who had a stroke and has missed voting 390 times, I dont think that Obama is winning 10 points ahead of McCain but looks like McCain thinks thats the case and became a little erratic as new investigation uncovered McCain campaign head rick davis firm was being paid till last month by freddie mac and fannie mae.

Where was McCain a week ago for leadership and non-partisanship? He hasn’t been in Washington since April and now all of a sudden he wants to cancel the debate and be in Washington!! If he had done this last week when the news broke out about a bail-out then it would have been a great thing to do. But right now I think its too little, too late. Last week the fundamentals of the economy was strong for McCain. Now I guess he seems to realize that we are in an economic crisis.

Senator McCain has skipped voting in senate 412 times last time voted on april 8 Obama voted last time in july he has skipped voting 295 times McCain has missed voting more than johnson who had a stroke and has missed voting 390 times, I dont think that Obama is winning 10 points ahead of McCain but looks like McCain thinks thats the case and became a little erratic as new investigation uncovered McCain campaign head rick davis firm was being paid till last month by freddie mac and fannie mae.

anyone who is aware of Obama’s anti-American, racist and communist connections could ever think of voting for him. The mainstream media has so far been able to cover up many of Obama’s communist and anti-American connections, but more and more are coming to light. Investors Business Daily has an excellent review of all of Obama’s communist and anti-American connections. Instead of covering Palin’s tanning beds and the number of cars McCain has, the media needs to start telling the American public the truth about Obama.

President Bush actually acted like a president. He “invited” Obama to Washington to do his job. If I was Obama, I would be embarrased to he!!, having Bush tell me to “get to work”.
How can Obama accept his paycheck, when he doesn’t perform his job?

Sara,
I understand your point, because I was a Clinton supporter, and I wondered some of these things myself. Then I also wonder why I saw no Black people at the RNC. I wonder why McCain and fellow Repubs cancelled speaking engagements with minorites. I wonder why McCain didn’t support MLK being honored with a holiday. You see…race is a difficult hurdle in politics. For whites, for blacks for everyone. If McCain is perfect then vote for him, but we all know he isn’t. In the end you have to vote for whomever reflects your policies.

Everytime Obama speaks there are six or eight American Flags behind him, even bunting trying to make him Look like a president. Don’t you think the Dems ought to add a couple more Flags ? You know to help make up for the fact that he doesn’t salute the American Flag or wear a Flag pin !!!!

I’m voting for Mickey Mouse. He’s more real than Obama and McCain. They’re just the suits walking around for their handlers. Mickey Mouse is always the same :>)

Obama is the emptiest suit on the rack. There is no there there. The perfect candidate for the mindless left. Political cotton candy.

Seriously, GOPers, after Bush’s performance for the last almost 8 years you want to defend him? I see comments here saying that Bush acted presidential? Hey… he is the President !!! And actually he has not been acting very presidential, you just don’t remember what a president should act like. During this crisis he did the same thing he did during hurricane Katrina. He was the last one to address the country. Where has President Bush been for the last few days? Bush and McCain, just more of the same.
Obama/Biden ’08

Can you name some of the questionable McCain associates…just to be fair and balanced about things?

Can anyone say McStall-tactic!
Obama/Biden 08

“You know to help make up for the fact that he doesn’t salute the American Flag or wear a Flag pin !!!!” I resrched…myself, did not take someone elses word…although I did listen to the CNN report that showed this to be untrue. I am not saying you should vote for Obama, I could care less…but we should know the truth and decide on the issues and facts not fabrictions.

My friends dont be fooled. Sen McCain just doesnt want to go down without a fight. The story of country first does not stand ground. Sen McCain owns 13 cars several of the are foreign made. That’s not country first when you undermining american workers. Sen McCain chose Gov Palin as his running mate to help him win. Todd Palin is a member of Alaska independence party. That’s not country first.
Sen McCain just does not respect Sen Obama. He thinks he’s entitle to the presidency. He negotiated change in debate format to protect Gov Palin. Now he’s trying to find an excuse not to report to the American people in the first debate even if he’s spent two months away from the media and not answering any question. What an arrogant politician. He thinks he calls the shot and therefore he cant fall behind in the poll, now he wants to postpone the whole election and when it is convenient, when he’s likely to win, he will come back. He’s running out of time. We can understand. Looking at a mirror he doesnt see with what face he can come back in 2012 to ask for votes. Too sad sen McCain, we cant work back time.
Bad highschool student looking for all kind of excuses to skip an exam: not this time, not this year. If you’re intellectually challenged, we are sorry for you Sir. That’s the nature of the game: A president should be a capable person who can handle multiple task at the same time. Sorry Sen McCain. By the way we welcome The Bush-McCain administration request for help

“This is what amuses me. When none of you have anything of relevance to say against Obama and his policies, you immediately jump into the word Muslim (typing his full name as if it will scares us)” I noticed that also. I for one will not be fooled by the dishonest attempt to distract us from the issues. I hope – really hope I am not the only one.

Jerome, every time I see comments like that it reminds me of the suitability of one George W. Bush. The resumes are about the same.
Every time I hear Rush rave about McCain I remember all the snide comments he’s made about McCain from 200-2007 and especially the temper thing. He, Rove + a lot of the other useful idiots now know they will have to swallow hard and vote for the guy with the R next to his name. In Rush’s case he can always spit it out later.

Henry, McCain has had his own minister issues. He certainly hasn’t reached out to any minorities, so he’s not in the position to talk about “racism” nor is the Republican party. As far as scandals go, how about the Keating five?

McCain was dealt with today by Obama. McCain attempted to “set the agenda” for both of them. Obama assumed leadership and said “Thanks but no thanks” which was smart as they are not needed in Washington. The dem’s were already settled.
McCain was then stuck so his pal Bush used his authority as Pres to schedule a meeting and get Obama to play along. Obama had already stated he would go to Washington if called in his speech earlier. Further, you do not tell the Pres no to a meeting as a matter of respect for the USA.
Bush/McCain are just trying to politicize this economic travesty. Just another example of McCain’s close friendship to Bush who he publicly disowns…
Survey USA shows that only 10% of the public want the debate to be rescheduled. The public does not want the candidates in Washington. Obama once again knew what the public wanted….McCain simply bailed out on us!

Bush invited both McCain and Obama – not just Obama. Why then did ABC highlighted Obama invitation alone? The fact is that McCain suggested meeting with Obama, President Bush and Congressional leaders of both parties in DC tomorrow. Obama rejected the suggestion, and also got Pelosi and Reid to ridicule McCain for making the suggestion. President Bush invited the same people McCain wanted the President to invite tomorrow. When he did, Obama accepted the invitation. It’s Obama who flipflopped and played politics here. Why is he being glorified?

The debates will go ahead as planned. McCain is not running away from this one and if he does, the whole nation will finally know the man is not even close to what a president should be. This is a stall tactic by Bush to help out McCain,nothing more. They saw the polls, Obama being 10 points ahead and they panicked. Now they are desperate and are trying everything in the book because Obama will make McCain look like chop suey in a debate.McCain has nothing to offer on this economic crisis and that will be the focus of this debate. All you republicans can start whinning and crying because this is over if John McCain fails to show his face at those debates. You can run but you can’t hide John Boy. You need to face the music both you and Palin. You cannot hide her no longer. America wants answers. America is not going to be denied from having these debates. Every politician who has ever ran for president of the United States of America have debated their views and plans to the people, and i’ve been around for over 50 years.America has just called your name out Mr McCain. Time to step up to the podium.

It’s funny that just last week McCain said the economy is fundamentally sound. Now he is suspending his campaign to fix the economy? Doesn’t add up to me.
Obama has been the only candidate that genuinely cares for Americans. His plan is comprehensive and is our only hope to save us from a near depression.
Obama/Biden 08! The sensible Choice!

Obama has no leadership skills whatsoever. In fact he should be impeached for dereliction of duty as a US Senator for failing to do his *job* as chairman of the powerful Foreign Relation Subcommitee on Europe that oversees NATO and among other his mission in Afghanistan.. He didn’t convene a single meeting.
No IDEAS, NO Initiatives, Nothing…

“Great idea. Let’s have a meeting with the candidates. And when the opposition candidate makes a suggestion, let’s steal it and make like our guy came up with it!! Why not? You know the people will believe anything that we have Bill, Sean or Rush tell them. It’s been working for months! Actually, it’s been happening for years!!”

Looks like some of you has forgotten this is not the first time Senator McCain has put our country first. Didn’t he suspend the opening night of GOP convention because we as a country or at least the gulf states were facing a Natural disaster called Hurricane Gustav. The last time I checked Sen.McCain and Sen.Obama are both still on the clock as Senators and getting paid for their service as senators not politicians. So should not they both be expected to put our country first our best interest. Or is Sen. Obama excused for this? Sen. McCain quotes “he had rather lose an election than a war”.This is what I call someone putting us Americans first than unlike the other side putting his politics first. Need I remind you there is only man that has ever fought for us and for our freedom that in this presidential race is SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN!!!!!!!! What has Sen. Obama done for our country and freedom?
McCain/Palin 2008 all the way!!

McCain should be able to handle this, what with his experience with the Keating Five.

You know ladies and gents. Here we are
talking about nonsense things while the
crooks are stealing us blind.
Please correct me, but did we bail
out a system with $billions that is a
glorified gambling machine? AIG bets
your money that you or your company
don’t get hurt. It invest (gambles) your
money which ever way it wants to make
more money for it’s investors. They
became greedy in putting too much of
your money in the housing market. When
the bubble burst, It ran to Uncle Sam and
asked for a loan. Since there was too much
at stake, Uncle Sam loaned them $85 Billion.
My question is, did we get a collateral like all
of the CEO, CFO, Treasurer, etc assets(mansions,
antique cars,royalties,severance packages,
retirement funds,vacation homes, yachts, etc…)?
Am I mean,heck no! If they went to a regular bank,
that’s exactly what they would want for collateral)

people get serious! let’s face the facts:
1. a few days ago their wasn’t even a crisis for john mccain, because – you know – the fundamentals of our economy are strong.
2. their is no need for john mccain in the congress, because he is not an economy expert. remember that he said himself that he doesn’t know as much about the economy as he should.
3. he is not even a member of the committee who works on the bailout!
4. democrats and republicans are already working bipartisan.

feliceTX:
“Didn’t he suspend the opening night of GOP convention because we as a country or at least the gulf states were facing a Natural disaster called Hurricane Gustav.”
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And that helped those people how?
yes, McCain does a lot of grandstanding. Like selecting a VP candidate for her charisma, and then treats her like a child that cannot speak for herself.

Obama had to have a “prayer” minute with Rev. Wright, before going to congress.

Oonogil, I don’t know if your a democrat or a republican but i’ll say one thing about what you said,”"”No one thing caused this mess except the root cause, greed.”"” There was a lot of greed from everywhere, but some knew about it and even to this day, deny it.But yes, you are right. Greed is the cause of this. The rich and powerful proved that old adage of Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, in 1887. “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

dgh629_breath: The president hires subject-matter-experts to do the analysis and make the recommendations on topics like this. Bush(& implicitly McOld) has the hired guns, Obama only needs to listen.

Harry,
I know…and McCain, and his economic advisor Phil Grahmm, who called the American public a nation of “whiners” is all about John Q. Public. As they sit in one of McCain’s 9 houses and discuss how great deregulation is. The same two who co-sponsored, and got passed through the biggest deregulation bill in history. That by the way, led to this mess.

Bush actually invited both of them.

It will be interesting to see if Obama has anything to contribute. Were there any other Senators besides Obama that needed a personal invitation from the President to help avert a Depression?
Posted by: dgh629
It was an obvious political ploy. Someone brought
up an interesting analogy, that bush invited Obama
to spite McCains negative behavior towards him.
interesting? maybe…

Guys, don’t get your panties in a bunch…It says clearly in the article that Bush also invited McCain. It is just more of a story that the President would invite the opposite party to participate in anything.

This $700 billion dollar bailout is ridiculous and I sincerely hope Congress votes no on this measure. We obviously have a market failure and our lack of oversight over the past decade has led us to this dire mess. However, everyone is acting out of panic and not thinking about the long term consequences. This bailout only benefits the institutions that got us here in the first place.
I suggest we let capitalism survive and play itself out. Institutions that engaged in poor or unethical business practices should be left to die. And those who continue to be strong will rise to the top even stronger.
Regardless of whatever happens every American will face a tough time. But I don’t think that printing extra money to cover this bailout, thus increasing inflation is the right idea. Plus our kids and grandchildren will be forced to pay for this. This disastrous measure will only hurt the everyday American, many of whom are just trying to go about their daily lives.
In addition this bailout sends the wrong message to those who flat out don’t deserve to be bailed out. And what is next? The airline, auto, homebuilders, hotel/travel, and restaurant industries. Each could claim they deserve the same due to the slow-down in the economy. When will this stop? This bailout only sets up a slippery-slope for disaster.
If Congress is so hell-bent on spending this amount of money, we have other major issues such as Social Security and Healthcare which would greatly benefit from $700 billion.
Let true capitalism thrive. Email or telephone every congressman you can to tell to vote No on this bill.

dear confused spacebook: you said “Were there any other Senators besides Obama that needed a personal invitation from the President to help avert a Depression?: hello member last month when bush kept saying the economy was stronger than ever and the bobble headed republicans all agreed? weell, obama just kept on building his stong platform to recverse the economy from failure to success. republicans just scoffed at the idea of an unknown candidate trying to correct the problem. obama was that one lone voice that stood up and siad “enough!” then when americans “evolved” a/k/a flip-flopped and started believeing obama, then and only then did bush and mccain stand up and take notice. soory republicans but you cant take credit for something you insisted on denying. go ahead and give obama his props!

In response to the earlier comment on taxing the rich an additional 5%, and that causing a supposed collapse of everything we hold dear.. If you’ve ever done any traveling to countries with wide differentials between the Rich and Poor with no middle class you can understand the completely missing economies those places have. As the gap widens between America’s have nots and haves, the social issues will become greater, and the country less stable. Take a look at Venezula for instance. One day capitialist, the next a state doomed for socialist failure. What should be monitored is that differential gap. When gated communities start popping up, that should be a sign that things are not going so well in America; The rich are getting richer, the poor poorer. If you’ve been to Guatemala, they guard gas stations with shotguns because if a poor person robs a register full of cash (~$1200) that’s a years wages. Meanwhile, the costs for security become so high, the economy can never recover. If you don’t think this bailout is important to the stability of our financial markets, and you can’t look at the big picture, that’s really a shame. It directly relates to the comments I just made. Once people don’t want to loan you money (Insert Middle Class and Lower Class here) because it can’t be backed, sold or insured, your kids are not going to college, and your kids will rent forever. The rich will get even richer, and the poor even poorer. Take a look at Turkey. No one in the middleclass can afford to own property; no one will give loans except to the uber rich, because they do not have a system to back the lenders. Think long and hard about quick knee jerk reactions to “those greedy bankers, etc.” and think more about the guy next door with the big wheel in the drive that got into that house on an ARM and can no longer make the payments. That’s the guy that caused this; they (the greedy bankers) only failed to stop him from getting a loan. Good luck as a senator or congress person telling the american public that they support being more strict on lending requirements for home ownership; they’ll be booted by the voters. Sometimes voting for the right person requires some thought other than, gee she’s pretty, or gee he’s black, or don’t vote for blah because of some B.S. Religious garbage. In the end your religious views mean nothing when you’re deficating in a ditch and washing your clothes on a stone in a river, hoping some day that your kids wont have to do the same.

Dan, The Democrats did not block it. Before the elections the act was proposed. After the elections Congress reconvened and the Act fell by the waste side. McCain did not push it because he wanted to run again for office. Period.

Was that Obama’s community organizing experience ? Working with ACORN? Pushing for mortages to be granted to Unqualified buyers? ACORN, that Radical group??? No wonder Obama doesn’t want to show up in DC. He’s a Big Part of This Mess !!!!!

McCain/Pailn ’08
Heres some interesting reading for you:
We have an opportunity in the next decade to increase minority homeownership and significantly reduce the minority homeownership gap…The future of the housing market rests heavily on the economic success of minorities. Homeownership is likely to grow faster among minority Americans in the next decade if all the stakeholders in the housing industry work together to make it happen. The Homeownership Alliance is working toward this goal.
Rick Davis
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also:
Subprime mortgages were initially aimed at lower-income consumers with spotty credit. But the data contradict the conventional wisdom that subprime borrowers are overwhelmingly low-income residents of inner cities. Although the concentration of high-rate loans is higher in poorer communities, the numbers show that high-rate lending also rose sharply in middle-class and wealthier communities.
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Fox News doesn’t have ALL of the answers.

EricMN, The problem with increasing the taxes of the rich is that when the rich say enough and stop paying the taxes there will be zero dollars to pay for Obama’s TRILLION dollar government giveaway programs. Than what? Tax the next lower rung and when they say enough, tax the next lower rung of the economic ladder and than when they say enough? Well I guess we will all become slaves to some elitist government bureaucrat who will be telling us how to live our lives while we stand in the bread line waiting for a hand out.

Why is the healdine “Bush invites Obama” and not “Bush invites Obama and McCain”? The headline makes it seem like Obama is on his way to save the world…

It’s interesting people are focusing on wasting time in legislating away things like $5M bonuses, when theres a $700B gorrila in the room. When you go into the doctor and he says “Oh, I see here you’ve got terminal cancer; that makes you eligible for the free manicure kit in the gift shop downstairs” Are you seriously going to remember that on your way to elevator? This talk about bankers, greed, evil CEOs and the alike is just a “Hey look at the shiney thing in my hand over here” trick to keep you from thinking about important things. Reject the manicure and keep focused. Remember, the city just got nuked; does it matter that the catbox is dirty?

anon, maybe because it’s unusual that obama would be invited? duh.

Eric, good thinking.

Monica: McCain is the most absent Senator in Congress. You wanna talk about someone doing their job? Maybe McCain should have been involved more in the Senate in the last two years rather than campaigning, because he sure hasn’t done anything for anyone in the last year. Oh yes, he has…he’s done something for himself.

eric:
“t’s interesting people are focusing on wasting time in legislating away things like $5M bonuses, when theres a $700B gorrila in the room. ”
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The point is to make accountable, perhaps with prison time as well, the people responsible for the $700B problem.
Dealing with one issue does not preclude dealing with the other one.

john mccain missed 430 votes since april that is 187 more than Obama what was he doing during that time he couldnot even vote on the veteran’s bill..said statment for a pow

Linda,
I agree people should be held accountable. Unfortunately these investigations take years to complete and are very technical in nature. We’re talking about a derailment of a train filled with toxic chemicals here. Do we want to sit and discuss the possibility of the train engineer texting, or maybe get some crews on that spill and start moving people to other hospitals. My point is, that the media and press are focused on the shiny bits, and not on the thing that matters here. How about doing a story on what a post meltdown financial system world would look like for 5 different families of different backgrounds, ABCNEWS?

Gosh! We are in a dire situation, we are losing our homes, getting bankrupt and yet we are still talking politics and fighting over McCain and Obama. What happened to us Americans? Can we not work together to get us through this crisis? We the kind of attitude we have, the Iranian President might be proven right, that America’s greatness is coming to an end. One day we might just be known as Divided States of America.

Ohplease! | Not so fast.
Ohplease! Not so fast.
1)It is on the record that Obama did nothing to introduce or support any legislation that would have regulated Fannie or Freddie in any way which is what is at issue. It is also on the record that Obama received more campaign contributions from Fannie and Freddie than any other Senator other than Dodds.
2) It is also on the record that John McCain forcefully supported regulating Fannie and FreddieL In 2006 John McCain released the following memo in support “of the bill.Sen. John McCain [R-AZ]: 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.
Quick Info
S. 190 [109th]: Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005
Last Action: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Status: Dead
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.”
3) Dodds was the ranking Democrat on the Committee that killed the bill and was the primary Senator behind blocking the bill.
Gotcha. I win.
P.S. Stop trying to divert attention from the crux of the issue. McCain was solidly behind Fannie and Freddie regulation. Obama was no where to be found except for the fact he was on the take for a lot of Fannie and Freddie money. And your behind this guy? Unbelievable.

I don’t think Obama voting “present” should count as vote…………….

pubguy , We still do not believe in slavery in this Country and people can just close down their business and move away and that is what will happen if Obama gets elected. Obama’s economic plan is based on the assumption American business will just keep humming along and turning over all their hard earned dollars to Obama and his corrupt Rezco type buddies. It is all a house of cards and once it all comes tumbling down, good by American and the once great USA, it will be all gone.

This campaign is turning into an extended episode of “The Fugitive”.

Now Obama, the one who would not tell anyone where he stood on the bailouts, since he sees where this is heading, says that Bush and the congress is “coming around” to what Obama originally said about the bailouts. Just like I predicted, he was waiting to see where it was heading, and then say “I told you so.” He is trying to take credit for being the one with the foresight on this issue, when in fact, it was McCain in 2005 who foresaw a need for the regulations. And it is downright dishonest and indicative of that typical politican, Chicago thug style of opportunism for Obama to pretend like he was perspicacious on this. Folks, Obama is a downright deceiver.
On that note, I got a flyer in the mail from the Obama campaign in my mailbox today, and it was filled with lies about how that Obama is a “Washington outsider,” how that he is free from lobbyist money, while McCain is supposedly completely beholden to oil, etc. Typical garbagge crap.

Our homeland shall fall because of greed. The problems that face our country today are rooted in the way that we think.

Senator Obama was actually the one to call Senator McCain to suggest that they work together on a bipartisan agreement to solve the economic crisis. Senator McCain called him back a few hours later, and they agreed that they would work on and announce bipartisan efforts. Minutes later, Senator McCain went on TV announcing that HE was interested in bipartisan efforts to solve the crisis, but failing to mention that Senator Obama had come to him with the idea. I know that both sides act in ways that are not so honest from time to time. They are still politicians after all, but it still shocks me when it happens. Senator McCain seems to have been on a roll with the shady moves lately…

Bush inviting Obama to help fix the financial crises is like the chickens inviting the fox over to help fix the hen house. Obama and the DEMS caused the crises!

wow, bush was too busy vacationing the last few years to see this coming, what a numb-nut. Any idiot could have seen the economy sliding down hill 2-3 years ago. Now he wants to bail out these greedy fools, or maybe its us thats the fools!

Sam, I hope you have some one in mind for President who can get it right. Cause, if you take out the names in most of these posts, I can’t tell which guy we are taking about.
The problem always comes down to this fact: Candidates are selected by people having knee jerk reactions to things that they find out about long after there were obvious issues. And these candidates morph and change to reflect the knee jerk reactions of the people.All the while, trying to hide their miserable failings from the past.
If you want change? You should get a lot more involved,long before some one comes along and doops you.

Scotti,
I completely agree with you. However, if I get relieved of my wallet, I know I can just work another day to re-fill it. What’s on the horizon isn’t my wallet getting stolen, but my eyes gouged out, and my hands cut off. It’s unsavory thought to fork over $700 to save my limbs, but the alternative is pretty darned grim. You can bet that eventually people will get their just rewards for skirting the rules that caused all this; it’ll just take time… There was an interesting suggestion in the F.Times today from a guy in singapore. He suggested the government just use the normal markets to buy up shares in these iffy companies and that would screw all the people who shorted the stock in the process.
Along with the buyout should be legislation allowing the government to charge at least the interbank rate on those home loans, and force people to pay for their mortgages. Home owners get rate they can afford, government puts most of the cost of bailout on the people who caused it. Once people stop getting forclosed on they’ll spend more money at Walmart and make China Happy… After all, they’re saving to send a man to the moon…. Pony up for another chinese plastic laundry basket or two!
Problem solved.

Why Obama keeps insisting on holding the Presidential debate on Friday? Is getting the debate going more important than the bailout plan? Afterall, postponing it several days till next week won’t change the election result.
Is he one of the politicians McCain referring to earlier? “Me first (Obama), country second”.

I think President Bush may have been trying to help defuse the little tiff over Friday’s debates and get all of Congress together to solve this crisis. If that’s the case, it was a gracious move.

Awe geez, it took President Bush to encourage Obama to stop his campaign to go and do his first public duties of this nation and for ILL. Obama is forgetting that he is senator first and still owes the public in upholding those duties like it or not. Your right Obama a president has to deal with many things handed to him, just like the Democrats turning their heads on these Hedge Funds giants and now crying see I told you so? Action Speaks louder than words, there were no intervention of any kind by either party. Mr. Citizen of Main Street People, there are many and all people being affected by these raw greedy Wall Street Money junkies. This a time when one party can’t point the finger at the other when the Democrats had their change in government in 2006!
Go McCain/Palin

McCain stepped up to the plate, Obama has a love affair with his tele-prompter!

President Bush had to “invite” Obama to do his job. This is like dad saying to the child; time to do your work, then playtime.
Obama: unfit to lead, Biden was right about Obama.

That’s what happens when the dems get control of congress. The dems screw up the banking system and then refuse to go to work. Obama and the democrats must hate to eat crow. Obama and Dodd, true friends of Fannie and Freddie.
This situation proves McCain is a true leader!

The buyout assets still exist; it’s just that people kicked to the office curb when their investment company went belly up have no interest in researching what the properties are actually worth. The paper still exists, the loans are still due. Look down the block…… That house that’s in pre-forclosure will still be there, but just on a government lien. It’s not $700B tossed in the dumpster, it’s more like $90B. Would you rather have a japanese market speculator profit on a slice of your neighbors house? If those securities stay on the market at such a low price for so long, eventually people will snap them up, but they may not be americans; they don’t care how many sit empty and in ruins. They’ll doze them over and sit on the land that they bought for cents on the dollar. I don’t know about you, but a neighborhood full of empty plots while people are forced to rent because they can’t get home loans isn’t very appealing.. You do remember 80s and 13% loans, right?

If the democrars would have listened to Senator McCain when he tried to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, our country wouldn’t be in this mess. I am losing faith in the DNC, first they treat Hillary like dirt and now with Obama ignoring his job in congress.

The banks qualified the home owners then stuck them with the ARM; just as they stick everyone with high interest rates on credit cards! Thank God for online banking – they can’t say you are late anymore and jack the interest! You can’t go in a store without being offered a credit card and 10% off! The CEO’s make millions and I’ll be damned if they need to look to the taxpayers to keep their jobs. If they would DO their jobs this crap wouldn’t happen. I think there are laws againt fraud and they should all be investigated for openers. Then we should remember the BUSH saving’s and loan bailout in the 80′s – it was called a “scandal” but clearly fraud! My 401K really took a bath on Oct/1987 when the market fell 22% – how in the heck are we supposed to get ahead or retire when Wall Street keeps screwing us out of our 401K’s? Your money makes no interest at the bank and because of inflation you have to buy now or pay more later – note, our salary is the same. This is always “wired” for the middle class to pay everything!!!
Taxes, inflation, bailouts, fraud, wars, you name it – we get the bill!
This “trickle down ecomomics” is BS! Is it too damn much to ask that people do thier jobs with some sense of decency and morality. I hope they all go to jail, they can learn to take it up the backside too!

What caused people to not have money in the first place, the high cost of oil and the high cost of food. The high cost of food because the govt. is pushing ethanol and the high cost of oil because the govt. is preventing the US oil market from expanding.

did anyone say the road to no where , why jhonny boy still dont want the media to interview are interact with sarah , sarah a message from a first time voter why are hiding do you realy think people going to vote for you because you have five kids and you pretty ” AFTER IM NOT STUPID DO YOU THINK PRETTY LOOKS CAN RUN COUNTRY I WANT TO KNOW WHAT SUBSTANCE SARAH HAS . THESE POLITICIAN THINK PEOPLE ARE FOOL JOHN MCCAIN AS A FIRST TIME VOTER I THINK YOU ARE DESPERATE I WATCH YOU AND I THINK YOU WANT THIS ELECTION SO BAD YOU WOULD DO ANYTHING , OBAMA I THINK I START TO SWING TO YOUR SIDE NOW IM KINDA IMPRESS WITH YOUR MOVES LATELY FIRST TIME VOTER JUST REGISTER ON 09/22/08

What caused this problem was greed; and not greed by the rich man, greed by the commoner. There aren’t enough super-rich people in the world to cause 700B worth of damage, with a net trickledown effect of over $2T. It’s each of us, your neighbor, your sister, your uncle, someone you know. Everyone wants more. A nicer car, a faster boat, a larger house, central air. If your housing expenses exceed 30% of your intake, you’re wrong and living a lie…. Period.
I can guarantee that a CEO taking in $20M a year is not spending anything close to 30% a year on his house… Why do you think they get richer? You guessed it. They’re not serving DEBT. Guess what? If this bailout doesn’t happen, guess who’s going to form private banks and offer you a loan at 13% interest? The same guy who lives within his means and has excess capital to allow them to take financial risks…. See where this is going?

This whole debacle just proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that socialism is a failure. Wash. should have never been in the housing business period. If you think Wash. is the answer to your health care and your retirement then you haven’t been paying attention for the last 70 years.

Obama’s tele-prompter arrived this evening in the halls of congress. Obama will arrive shortly. All Hail the Great Obama is coming. This will be a true Kodak monent, Obama actually on the job in congress!!!

Its amazing that some of you folks think that this was anything but a distraction from McCain’s bad week. I mean, McCain hasnt been involved at all with this bailout plan and then he feels the need to rush back to “help?” how is throwing presidential politics into this going to help? Obama did the right thing, he said, “if you need me i will be on a plane but, until then, I will keep my distractions away from this.” Bush said “i need you” and now he’s going. Just like he said he would.

Will Obama and Dodd pay back the money they received from Freddie and Fannie? Didn’t Obama have this same problem with Resko, the convicted felon, to the tune of $250K? Is this Obama’s “change”.

We have no choice but to infuse money to keep the economy going—-but we taxpayers are going to get screwed….Banks like Citi are already lined up with loans to the “poor” bad debt to sell to Freddie/Fannie as soon as they get the cash. The banks get rid of the people that don’t pay, and we get stuck with Freddie and Fannie owning the worse credit risks in America. Tell Washington NO, on allowing them use the bail out money to buy more “poor” loans which is code for people who don’t pay back their mortgages……………….so tax payers will never see their cash. Tell Washington NO NO NO NO on buying mortgages of people who should have never been given mortgages because of their bad credit scores and history of not paying back. Dont fall for the Poor nonsense…….

Some of the fanatics who oppose Obama are scary. My rigianl birth certificate is not avaliable because I had a change of the spelling of my name and my fathers name was changed. You are some weirdo, jjones. Barack is AMERICAN so what difference does that make. And his college records???? Baptismal record? That’s only for CATHOLICS. Barack is Protestant. His college grades? He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law! Duhhh! What are you so frightend of???? A man who has dark skin. Some of you disgust me! You have not asked for the same for McCain! And he is not even close to being as brilliant as Obama. Barack Obama is a freaking genius with a kind heart for the people! That’s what we need now – enough of the low intelligence leaders like Bush Jr. and Sarah Palin!

AND THE IDIOTS WHO SAY OBAMA DOESN’T SHOW HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE ARE JUST STUPID, DO YOU THINK THE MCCAIN AND DIDN’T VET AND CHECK IT THEMSELF.HOW CAN SOMEONE THEY THEY WERE BORN IN THE U.S WHEN THEY DIDN’T..HAVE YOU SEEN BEFORE

An invite by Bush to Obama is ….bad, a benefit to …McCain??? I think it was wise that both attend the meeting, one of them will be President and I would think both need to be there for a first hand look at what exactly is going on.
You really have to “stretch” to see this as a benefit for anyone.

“Let me see if I understand this. Mr. Bush is offering advice on the economy to Mr. Obama. Need I even comment?”
Uh, no. Bush wisely stepped up and saw the potential for the candidates to get bogged down in their own one upmanship that nothing would have been accomplished, so invited them to test their ability to work across party lines and get a feel for what decisions one of them will have to make in the future. I see it as a way of passing the torch. Good idea, President Bush.

McCain has a campaign plane too. Can’t he show up for the debate and then he and Obama can fly to DC, no?
Why did his aides suggest they move the debate to the day of the VP debate? Seems fishy.
If he had said it a week earlier when the stocks began diving, saying that he may consider postponing the debate to concentrate on Wall Street, then that’s one thing. But he suddenly comes and say this the day before the debate- it comes across as a political stunt, nothing more. Plus, they’ve already hammered out the basics of the bail-out plan, there’s nothing much he can contribute here.
And let’s remember, sure, Bush left the kindergarten school immediately when he heard about 9/11, but he was the PRESIDENT then, and thus fulfilling his obligations as POTUS. Now, McCain is a candidate. What are his obligations? People want to see what he has to say. As said, the debate will only take a few hours.
He has a plane, go figure.

marylou,
Obama didn’t want to inject presidential politics in it and end up stalling the bail-out plan, as Chris Dodd said McCain’s presence could.
Now, if McCain was so concerned about the economy, why is it the committee says has not heard from him at all, but has heard from Obama?

BKMC wrote:
“We all know that McCain was born in the Panama Canal, please read his birth certificate if he has one at all. This is the time to send him back to Panama where he came from many years ago.”
How dare you question the citizenship of someone born in a military base to a active military outside United States. The fact that you and the media ever brought it up, it was a shame shame shame, to you the ignorant and conceited.
My children were born in the military base in Asia, do you think they have no birth certificates?

KROFT: Why you? I mean, why do you think you would be a good president?
OBAMA: Well, I was going to get to that.
KROFT: Go ahead.
OBAMA: You know, I’m a, I’m a practical person. One of the things I’m good at is getting people in a room with a bunch of different ideas who sometimes violently disagree with each other and finding common ground and a sense of common direction. And that’s the kind of approach that I think prevents you from making some of the enormous mistakes that we’ve seen over the last eight years.
Isn’t this exactly what John McCain is doing ?
So it now takes an invitation from the President to get Obama to join in the discussions .. LOL

“Bush should do the decent thing and resign. McCain should suspend his campaign and let Obama take charge. That is the best way to get this mess cleaned up. Bush/McCain can do a lot of damage in the next four months.”
Wow, ignorance is bliss… Considering it wasn’t Bush/McCain who got us into this mess and it was them who actually tried to get us out of it on 2003 and 2005 with regulatory acts. What a ignorant comment to make.

What evidence do you have that this is Bush’s “Mess”, When Clinton came out this morning and admitted that his loosening restrictions on loans in 1999 probably was a cause.

Granted, without the war our nation would be better prepared to dealing with this mess, however its not the war that caused the slumping housing market, bank failures, and market instability. That was caused by greed, corruption, deregulation, by all parties involved, CEO’s, Republicans, Democrats, Mortgage companies, and banks. Don’t turn this into an anti-war discussion.

The republican mantra of ”All is well” blew up in McCain’s face recently. You would think that everybody would call him on that, there isn’t really much left there to pretend that his policies will be anything than a continuance of Bush’s, and Sarah Palin (who is quite likely to become president if McCain wins) seems to be the stuff nightmares or bad jokes are made of. But I guess that some people are just too blindsided by the Bush era, or maybe God or whatever irrelevant BS that keeps their minds blank and shiny, while they are being screwed from all directions by those in power. “I guess it’s hard for people that have taken authority as truth, rather than truth as authority.”

War is peace – America (and other countries) must go to war to protect the peace
Freedom is slavery – “Freedom” is enjoyed within the system by those who obey it. Otherwise get out of the system and live in the Third World or war zones
Ignorance is strength – The people must be lied to, information must be kept secret and critics quite, in order to protect and strengthen the war effort
Not exactly the Orwellian interpretation but close enough.

John McCain and Barak Obama have their own strengths and weaknesses.
Some of you are acting like Obama and McCain have to be superhumans…they are just like us.
Their both only human, accept the fact they even have weaknesses, we do and you dont see us publicizing them and ridiculing each other for them.
You can have fun playing your blaming game, I will be too busy enjoying my life, like most Americans should be doing.

McCain ducking the debates? HELLLLOOO…he’s been asking Obama to do them for the past several weeks – now all of a sudden it is SO important that we have this one on foreign policy in the midst of an economic CRISIS. Grow up Obama – stop playin your politics – you’re playin with the BIG boys now.