McCain Camp: Let’s Push Back Biden-Palin Match-Up, Too

THROW IN THE TOWEL, JOHN.

Either it’s April Fools Day or McCain needs to can the boneheaded advisor who either proposed all of this in the first place or who didn’t talk him out of the idea if it was his own.

McCAIN/PALIN:
NOT READY.

What a chickens!!! They are totally lost. They can’t face the American people without talking/offering solutions for our biggest problem, THE ECONOMY STUPID!!!! Are these the same people who are “applying” for the highest office in the land? What a joke :-)

for the first time this dem is embarrassed of being a dem, and for the first time am so polarized that i have started to distrust and dislike all blacks

Let’s just change the election day, too. And how about Christmas? Wouldn’t it be nicer in January when we have the after Christmas sales?
keep trying McCain…Palin’s gonna have to face Biden someday, and you’re gonna have to face Barack.
Coward McCain and flailing Palin: a match made in a Disney movie.

ron, somehow I doubt that you’re either a democrat in the first place or ever trusted blacks in the second.

I hope that Senator Obama goes to MS as planned and has a great nationally televised interview with Jim Lehrer- on the economy, and shows the country who has the guts to speak and act like a leader rather than a wimp like McCain. Onwards and forwards, leave ole ‘say some crazy crap every day’ McCain behind. McCain is unstable, and everyone knows it.

Can Ed McMahon be contracted to go to Oxford and yell “Where’s Johnny” if McCain doesn’t show. They are trying to give Palin more time now too. Maybe she can go back and speak to the investigators in Alaska.

hey ron,
You’re no democrat, you’re a racist – why don’t you f_u_c_k off back to whatever red rock you crawled out from, and take your yellow candidates with you.

this forum will not allow free speech. anything uttered critical but honest against obama is rejected. middle america is tired of that crap

Mccain is known for his ability to forge bi-partisan work. Honestly, if the bail-out bill is not passed by the Senate, it could be a 1000 point drop in DOW on Monday. Only McCain can help the dems and repubs work together. It would be impossible for him to be immersed in the deliberation on senate floor and then debate Obama at the same time in Mississippi. Mccain is the real leader we need.

McCain UNSTABLE
Palin UNABLE
What a dynamic Duo.

jazk. ur an intolerant radical. this country will reject you and your racist friends –

What the crap does that mean, Ron?

Just like an old Ford Maverick McCain has burst into flames after being struck from behind by the Straight Talk Express as it speed away from his new vehicle the Snow Job Express.

What is McCain using for brains?
McCain aspires to be the leader of our nation. I think one qualification for the job is to be able to respond quickly, when decisions need to be made and the American people need to be informed. A lot of voters haven’t made up their minds, and Friday night is a good time for the candidates to make their positions clear.
By seeking to delay the debate, McCain is once again raising questions in the minds of many voters that he is not prepared to debate Obama and that he simply doesn’t have the smarts and the character to do the job.

Ron…..
The KKK meeting is beginning without you

i would vote for colin powell even though he is a republican and im a dem. i will not vote for someone who is supported only because of his race. that is racism and you, sir, are a racist.

Who has put country first?
Obama called McCain this morning to invite him to issue a joint statement meant to put pressure on the government to come up with a better bailout plan for the country. Politically, this would be a stupid move for Obama — he is now ahead in the polls and in public perceptions of economic leadership so he really didn’t need to cast McCain as his equal on economic issues. But he put country first and give McCain a call. He waited hours before McCain got back and indicated his agreement. During the several hours he was waiting for McCain’s response, he didn’t go public with his joint statement suggestion. He was obviously sincere about putting politics aside and solving the grave financial crisis.
What did McCain do? He got extended a “country first” branch and, instead of taking it to show unity, sincerity and seriousness, he went public with an announcement unilaterally suspending his campaign and pushing for postponement of the debate, all in the name of national interests. With this gimmick, he showed once again all he cares about is political gains.
Shame on you, John McCain!

McCain as a maverick means he lacks the brand of being a leader and arguably the brains to be one too. This stunt will not fool the American people.

If McCain can’t debate this Friday, why doesn’t Palin stand in for him?
Let’s do the Vice Presidential debate this Friday. After all, a VP should be ready, at a moment’s notice, to assume the responsibilities of the Prez.

John McCain is dropping in the polls like the tickers on Wall Street. If McShame truely had felt this way he would have requested everything stop on Monday – not three days later. But guess what John, you can’t ask the workd to stop so you can get your bearings! His wealthy buddies are panicking and his solution is to go the Washington so he can escape the debate and campaigning since he and Palin are sinking like stones. However let me be clear that world leaders find Palin beautiful (without much substance) but because of that and her two days of meeting them that she has foreign experience now.
Bono canceled because the GOP let camera’s into the meeting (for 29 seconds) and he would not be able to express his true views about her and this stunt.
Now is the TIME for the debate -especially since it will show the people of America exactly how the POTUS would be handling this crisis. If McShame won’t come then he is not worthy of leading this country because the real issues won’t happen in line in a one,two,three fashion. Country fiorst – bull$h!t. He has only one thing first and that is he thinks he deserves to the POTUS – and in his mind he can justify his lies!
Washington does not need McShame and Obama there to get in the way and make this issue a Photo Op – like Obama said he can do this work form anywhere.

From “I don’t know as much about the economy as I should,” to “They need me. I’m the savior. Just don’t have time to debate.”
Please. There’s either a tactical reason for doing this, or they know they’re going to get their asses kicked and need extra time to cram. Palin won’t even be exchanging much with Biden with the ‘new’ format designed to give them less time to answer a question (she can’t really speak to an issue for more than 90 seconds straight). Why does she need more time – she should have plenty of time to memorize a bunch of 90 second responses to questions they expect will be asked.
My jaw will forever be on the floor if this election is even close.

ron ron ron
if you dislike all blacks then how you going to live in the world. shame shame shame shame on you to say such a thing. i am sad there is a person like you living on this earch.

Meet the IDIOTS!
McCain/Palin

The guy that just last week said that the fundamentals of the economy are strong is now the only person who can save us from economic disaster? Please. The fact is that 98% of the negotiation is already done between Republicans and Democrats on the bill, and has no need for McCain to swoop in and do anything. Especially when he, by his own admission, doesn’t have any personal expertise on the economy in the first place. Its hamfisted grandstanding.

Ron. . . Obama’s arrogance didn’t turn you ‘into’ a Black hater. . .you are one already !!! He’s just bringing out what you are. . . don’t blame others for your own hatred. . . . and I suppose you’re a Christian too.

from south louisiana, i am liberal, french and catholic. the kkk hates jews, blacks and catholics…i have never seen a klansman and in this area they were never welcomed. we fought racism at every turn in this unique area of the south–to oppose obama does not make one a racist; to vote for him simply cause he is black does not make one enlightened…

first they won’t let her take questions from ANYONE, now they don’t want her to debate on the day scheducled. McCain if you want to move the debate why not do it on the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th why pick a day that the VP are plaing on debating.

Shouldnt a president be able to multi-task? Handle more than one crisis at a time? This is a political stunt by a man desperate because his poll numbers are slipping. Again McCain is not “Country First” its “McCain First”. Sarah “quick study” Palin isnt learning fast enough, got to postpone the debates. The republican party thinks Americans are stupid. How insulting

Chattyway: you’re a paid McCain blogger. I thought he was suspending his campaign.
What are doing here?
McCAIN IS A COWARD.
JUST THROW IN THE TOWEL, JOHN.
HAVE SOME DIGNITY!

Biden Dropping Out? Rumor Thrives on Internet
by Judson Berger
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
It’s almost certainly just a case of the telephone game gone high-tech, but there’s an Internet rumor surging through inboxes and discussion boards that Joe Biden will drop out as Barack Obama’s running mate after his Oct. 2 debate with Sarah Palin — and that he’ll be replaced by Hillary Clinton on the Democratic presidential ticket.
The story line goes as follows: John McCain’s selection of Palin has generated so much interest in the Republican ticket that Obama needs to make a radical move to regain momentum. So in the days after the vice presidential candidates debate in Missouri, Biden will bow out, citing “health problems” (Biden underwent surgery in 1988 to repair two brain aneurysms). Enter Clinton.
Furthermore, the story goes, any damage the gaffe-prone Biden does during the debate will be erased by his abrupt exit.
It sounds like a job for Fight the Smears, the Web site the Obama campaign set up to quash damaging Internet rumors. But Fight the Smears hasn’t touched this one, perhaps out of fear that it would only further a wild rumor. The Obama campaign has not commented on it, other than to say that Biden’s medical records will be released soon.
Snopes.com, a site devoted to picking apart online rumors and urban legends, has labeled the status of the claim “undetermined.” Several online discussion boards have been loaded up with denials.
Biden has caused a few hiccups for the Obama campaign. On Monday, he had to issue a clarification after he called one of his own campaign ads “terrible” in an interview with CBS News. He also faced a rebuke from Obama after he spoke out against the government bailout of American International Group last week before Obama was ready to take a position.
On Tuesday, he said that President Franklin Roosevelt had gone on television in 1929 to discuss the Wall Street crash (Herbert Hoover was president in 1929 and the TV hadn’t been invented yet).
At one point, he even said Hillary Clinton might have been a better pick for Obama’s No. 2.
The Republican National Committee has gleefully set up a Biden “gaffe clock” to monitor his rhetorical flubs on the campaign trail.
Nonetheless, Democratic supporters dismiss outright any speculation that he might be dropped from the ticket.
“It’s crazy. … It’s just not gonna happen,” Democratic strategist Bob Beckel said.
Dropping Biden from the ticket would be a throwback to George McGovern’s shocker in 1972, when he replaced running mate Thomas Eagleton after it was learned that Eagleton had undergone electro-shock therapy for depression.
McGovern lost to President Nixon in a landslide, suggesting that seventh-inning lineup changes are not the best strategy for presidential candidates who want to shake things up.
Speaking hypothetically, Beckel said that, if it were to happen, the Democratic National Committee could feasibly call a mini-convention of sorts to confirm a new running mate. He also said “it would be so disruptive” that it would make no sense for Obama to pursue such a change.
Deadlines have passed in some states to send absentee ballots to military personnel and civilian voters overseas — meaning they would have received a ballot already with Biden (and Palin) on their parties’ tickets.
“I doubt it,” said Christopher Hull, presidential scholar and adjunct government professor at Georgetown University, when told of the Biden rumor. “Joe Biden is not that big a liability. Joe Biden was arguably the most experienced candidate in the [Democratic primary] race.”
“Joe Biden, of course, has shot off his mouth and gotten himself in trouble,” he added. “It’s Joe Biden we’re talking about.”
Though Obama lost ground in the polls after McCain tapped Palin to be his running mate, he has recently regained some of that footing. The FOX News Opinion Dynamics Poll on Wednesday gave Obama a 6-point lead, and a Washington Post-ABC News poll put his lead at 9 points. The Gallup daily tracking poll gave the Democrat a 3-point lead.
Hull said he would understand the desire to put Clinton on the ticket if Obama were persistently trailing in the polls.
A recent Associated Press-Yahoo News poll showed former Clinton backers are still reluctant to support Obama. The survey showed just 58 percent of them back him – unchanged since a similar poll in June.
But Hull said he doesn’t sense panic in the Obama ranks.
“I don’t think the Obama campaign was panicking even when the rest of the Democrats were panicking,” he said.
Obama, meanwhile, is standing by his man.
“Joe Biden is also an outstanding public servant and I am very proud of the choice that I made,” he told NBC’s “Today Show” in an interview that aired Tuesday. He said he’s a “great admirer of Senator Clinton’s” and he hopes she remains a “close adviser.”
And Biden is dutifully living up to his role as attack dog.
“Time and again, on the most critical national security issues of our time, John McCain’s judgment has simply been wrong,” the Delaware senator said Wednesday in Cincinnati.
BIden has campaigned all over the country for Obama, hitting long-shot states like Montana as well as key battlegrounds like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida and Michigan. He’s largely hitting working-class towns, especially in the Midwest.
Though Snopes.com ruled the validity of the dropout rumor was “undetermined,” the write-up did cast serious doubt on the idea that Obama would dump the Senate veteran who seemed to fill in Obama’s perceived foreign policy gap.
“It’s difficult to definitely prove a negative, but rumors of Biden’s replacement as a VP candidate seem to be nothing more than e-mail chatter at this point,” the site said. “Whatever boost Barack Obama’s campaign might conceivably gain by swapping Joe Biden for Hillary Clinton just a month before the general election might also be more than offset by criticism that such a last-minute switch demonstrated poor decision-making ability and was indicative of a weak and vacillating presidential candidate.”

you yankees are nuts. you dont understand the silent majority who elected nixon, reagan, etc…and you never will. we fight in the military; we are patriotic; and we dont like those who would lord over us. my family has been here since the 1600s. and there are many like me. if obama is not ahead by 7-8 points before the election, he will lose because of people like me. take that to the bank.

RON: You wrote that Obama has created anger in the white community. How has he done this?

obama’s arrogance has turned me into a black hater
Posted by: ron | Sep 24, 2008 7:22:21 PM
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Yeah right, Ron. Good for you. If this is what made you hate blacks, you were an invitation looking for a place to happen. Go vote for McCain. We don’t need you to win, and we certainly don’t want you. See ya…wouldn’t wanna be ya….

McCain announced he wants to postpone the election until he can get an accurate count of all his houses and cars

i am honest about my feelings. most keep quiet but vote white when it comes down to it and you know it. you just cant face facts…

LOL. From all dates they chose the same date of the VP debate, so the VP debate can be rescheduled to an ‘unspecified date’. This is the smoking gun that proves this postponement is a trick to delay both presidential and VP debates because McCain and Palin are not ready! WAKE UP AMERICA!

The fundamentals of the economy are strong. The fundamentals of the economy are strong. The fundamentals of the economy are strong. The fundamentals of the economy are strong. The fundamentals of the economy are strong. The fundamentals of the economy are strong. Pssss McCain ahhh its actually not!!! go ahead and debate because the fundamentals of the economy are strong. LOL!!! He’s is clueless.

ron, I’ll pray for you.

Ronny Boy
you kidding me? are you frigging kidding me?
which bank would i take it to when McPalin’s de-regulators have already destryed.
oh! that monthly credit line for your farms and small-town shops wont be readily available from now.
why you ask? coz of the McPalin deregulators who have finally succeeded in creating this financial asset bubble.
dont worry, you got things to cling to. dont you?

Just ditch the first debate but don’t let lipstick lady off the hook. She needs to debate as planned.
Better yet, let her and Biden go first!!!
And the the “first time black haters”… people are not as stupid as you think. We all know you’ve worn sheets over your heads for your “community meetings” before!

I think this was the plan all along… they’re scared to death to put Palin out there. Think about it, they have circumvented every chance she’s had to be questioned on anything.
After watching her on the CBS interview tonight, I can see why. She puts up a good front, but you can tell she’s scared and honestly, not very knowledgeable.

because she is not qualified and they know it.
sad that so many people can be fooled just like they were with the past 8 years of cover ups as we were sliding into sh!t.
the buck stops not with Bush or McCain
the buck stops with the people who voted for them.
is there anyway we can make this bailout be contingent on if you voted for Bush? and if you are arguing for McCain and the same team?

thank goodness after 26 years in washington McCain is rushing back for the next 2 days to save the world. from ‘I dont know much about the economy’ to ‘they need me in washington’ gee thats a hero!

OH MY GOD!!!! Now I know this was a real stunt. The McCain campaign wants
to replace the VP debate on 2 Oct with the one for Friday and maybe
possibly reschedule the VP debate for a later date (after Palin had more
time to study). Sen. McCain really should suspend his campaign —- to go
look for his honor and integrity.
To be sneaky and take to the stage while your oponent is awaiting your
answer to releasing a bi-partisan statement from the two of you regarding
this crisis and to go even a step further; and say let’s put off the debate
and then state that YOUUUU initiated this idea is lower the a snake. Can
you say “pond scum”? Country First? LIAR. Try I’ll do anything I can to
win.”
I want my next President to be able to stand and chew at the same time. I
thought a President Obama would say I can’t work on the economic issue
because I am working on the Iraq war today. A president should be able to
multi-task. I know that Sen. McCain doesn’t know what the Internet is but
multi-tasking should be familiar to him. The debates start at 8pm plenty
of time to get to the location and debate for 90 minutes on an issue that
Sen. McCain claims to have the upper hand on.
I used to believe that Senator John McCain was an honorable and heroic
individual now I see him for what he has become – a man without scrupples
and without honor. So sad how low one would go to win a seat in the White
House.
As my great-grandmother use to say when I did something she believed was
beneath me —- SHAME ON YOU SENATOR MCCAIN – go sit in a corner.
What? Palin hasn’t learned all your talking points or hasn’t the Bush gang
surrounding her taught her all they believe she needs to know? We aren’t
falling for the “rope a dope” this time s0 that your rope home because
there aren’t any dope around!!!

this is pathetic…what does Sarah Palin have to do with the bailout? She’s not in Congress.
WHAT A POLITICAL GIMMICK!!!!!!

Hi, I am a republican and I dont need to hear Palin’s view on anything nor do I need to hear her debate. Laura Bush said she is ‘exciting’ and thats enough for me. Leave McCain out of this, he is single handedly saving his Walstreet CEO buddies bank accounts, he doesnt have time for a silly debate.

Obama described their conversation as follows: “I proposed putting out the joint statement. He concurred with that. he then also said, ‘I would like us to look at suspending the campaign and pushing the debates off.’ I said, ‘let’s put out the joint statement first, and then get our campaigns to discuss this.’”
Obama said he later saw McCain announcing his plans on television.

Arrogant?????? I dont think so John McCain is a hot head and just jumps and talks without thinking. The fundamentals of the economy is strong last week. This week he has his superman out fit on because he is the only one to save the economy. Give me a breake. I am switching my vote to Obama. At least he seems sure footed. It that comes off as Arrogant, I will take it. At least he seems to know where he stands and what he is going to do.

Talk about not being able to handle a crisis. This is melt-down, pure and simple. Anyone who seriously considered voting for McCain needs to ask themselves some serious questions. Erratic, impulsive, desperate, panic..not what I want in the Whit House.

Alex Marin-
your account is bs! He’s not putting country first…once again, he’s putting his political career first!
You’re an idiot if you actually believe that someone who had a direct hand at causing this mess and claimed himself he doesn’t know much about the economy is now going to save the day.
This is pathetic and you are A BIG A– IDIOT for falling for it.

Can’t Obama count ? It is not 40 days until the President-Elect has to start dealing with this issue…..it is 117 days until Inauguration Day.
Further, it is responsibility of Senators to deal with this issue NOW, not 40 days from NOW, not 117 days from NOW.

every single republican I know is coming to me on their knees with their hands clasped together and tears streaming down thier faces begging for my forgiveness that they voted McBush in for the last 8 years and begging me to forgive them that they even considered McCain. Like a true Democrat, I forgave them.
latest polls:
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Obama 90%, McCain 3%, Stewie from the FamilyGuy – 7%

I’m practically speechless.
Honestly, if the DOW drops on Monday, it will come back in time. That is NO reason for Congress to quickly pass something that hasn’t been thought through. Yes, we need to act PROMPTLY, but knee jerk suggestions like McCain’s are just insane. If a decent bailout package passes by Wed. or even Friday next week, we won’t fall off a cliff.
To act this dramatically is not at all in anyone’s best interests – McCain is just pulling off a hotshot pilot stunt and risking all of our futures with him.
Let the debates proceed on schedule!

Chicken sht and puss-e

RON: Is that your answer to the question, “How did Obama create anger in the white community?” His arrogance? Please. You should hear YOURSELF.
I’m in the white community and understand that some of you have a difficult time dealing with the intellect of Obama, but jeez…would you actually rather have your next door neighbor in the White House?
I thought you actually had something of SUBSTANCE that he might have done to turn your friends against him.
Not surprising, though.

John McCain felt bad for Obama having to cram for this debate so he figured he would do a little work while Obama studies
a little longer. who wins we the American people because Obama is not ready to lead and this is proof John McCain reached out and asked Obama to go to Washington and work this problem out but Obama said he will just wait for a call I guess like he waited for the call on Freddie and Fannie but still collected their cash.
This is not a stunt but another sacrafice by John McCain he would rather lose this election than to do anything to hurt the Country He Loves.

This is a contrived crisis; the October surprise.

“This is not a stunt but another sacrafice by John McCain he would rather lose this election than to do anything to hurt the Country He Loves.”
______________________________________
I wish I had a trombone to salute your comment.

my my, when Palin can’t even handle an interview from Katie Couric, what would she do as veep? Watch her make a bumbling idiot out of herself AGAIN!
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Palin_and_Couric.html

What a joke. McCain is a coward. He can’t defend his nearly three decades of deregulation so he doesn’t want to answer any questions. Palin is doing the same thing. And to think these fools think we’re stupid enough to believe them. We need the debate to see what policies are going to be implemented once they are elected. No more hiding, we want the answers out in the open!

fellow democrats, the hand wringing can stop. have a glass of wine and sit back watch the GOP tower crumble. we have a lot of work in front of us, but for now: enjoy this moment. :)

McCain is crashing and burning like the Hindenberg. It is a most satisfying sight

let’s watch the real debate on c-span when the senate determines our future. mccain’s got every right to be concerned with OUR $700 billion. if it’s his vote the senate needs, he darn well better be focused on making sure they get it right! and by the way, if they’re not ready friday, nothing’s going to change over the weekend. the debate’s not a test – it’s an expression of opinion and policy…

In an effort to change the game once again, McCain has announced that Bristol Palin will be his new financial advisor on the $700billion bailout. Watch all the Republicans jump and cheer! (idiots)

This is just insane, he thinks he can control everything, I’m just sick and tired of his political stunts!

Well at least it’s still early enough for Americans to see the true state of affairs behind the McCain/Palin ticket and not after November 4th! Without a dought those two should not be in the White House.
…oh and just ignore “ron”, he appears lonely, insecure and in need of attention from complete strangers. Yikes and I’m falling for it too! sigh…

ABA: There are these things called ‘airplanes.’ He can fly in to do the debate and head back that evening if he wanted to. He shouldn’t need more rehearsal time for this debate. You either know what you believe or you don’t. It’s a no-brainer.
AND – GET THIS – just heard on Olbermann that McCain lied to David Letterman when he called him to cancel his appearance. While Letterman was taping, McCain was in another studio taping an interview with Katie Couric. Letterman was furious, apparently. McCain was not ‘getting back to Washington.’ In fact, he doesn’t leave for Washington until morning.
He can’t even stop lying on simple things. Just call Letterman and tell him you’re canceling because you have a politically more important interview to do before you bail on the debate and hid in Washington where they don’t really need you.
Yikes!

They have proved that Palin isn’t ready for the press, McCain wants to delay the debate. Im sorry but they accuse Obama of not being ready? Yeah Right. They say Obama will increase spending, as if the conservatives have been doing that recently. Now, they are going to be using our money to bail out the companies and the people who have yet to pay off their morgage now have to worry about high taxes too?! Bail out the people who were screwed by those adjustable rate mortgages. Not the companies and certainly not those CEOs. Fortunately, the CEO at AIG has actually refused his golden parachute. Im glad there is one honorable CEO that goes down with his ship. I think Congress is making the right decision in debating this and imposing restrictions instead of handing over another blank check from our money. The Bush administration wants a blank check so now they are harassing congress. What a bunch of a$$#0!e$.

Yea, “Bill in Virginia.” I was trying to come up with what it smelled like. You hit the nail on the head. Unfortunately, now I can’t get the smell of mackerel out of my mind.

“Can you say “pond scum?”
Please, my frog pond is insulted!

As far as multitasking…I have to admit, no one can simultaneously deal with a economic crisis and fund raising like Obama.
I guess no one has noticed Obama’s response to this financial meltdown is to call McCain up and propose a joint statement of “words”.
When McCain responds with a proposal of bipartisan action…Obama balks and says Americans would be better served by more “words”, at the debate.
But alas the first debate is on foreign policy, so Obama, Reid and many of his supporters are spewing ignorant partisan diatribe claiming McCain is ducking a debate on the economy.
Then again…maybe Obama is looking to circumvent the foreign policy debate and make it about the economy in an attempt to cover up his lack of foreign policy experience.
After all, what else can you do when all you deal in is “words”.

Have the VP debate this Friday instead.
It cuts into Sarah’s study time, but heck, we need Obama & McCain to do what the other 98 senators are not capable of doing on their own (and watch the whole idea be instantly dropped…)

McCain the Monotasker? Not exactly the kind of guy I want on point in a crisis.

Obama and the losercrats wouldn’t listen to McCain in 2005, now the government will cough up 700 billion. For the Obama followers, that’s a 700 with nine zeros.
McCain the true leader !

“this forum will not allow free speech. anything uttered critical but honest against obama is rejected. middle america is tired of that crap”……..Honest you’re not, racist you are. Obama isn’t the problem here, McCain is actually going bizarre and even conservatives are bailing on him. At some point one has to consider that he isn’t the candidate the Republicans should have nominated. He’s hurting his own party.

What is Obama afraid of?Apparently Obama doesn’t want to forget all the coaching points that he learned this week since a teleprompter won’t be available to him during the debates. If you recall from the Dem Primaries, Obama didn’t do so well and fumbled his answers. McCain has been asking Obama to attend Town Hall meetings since June and Obama refuses. What is Obama so afraid of? McCain is correct to first do the job that he is paid to do – be a Senator. Obama will just wait until the call – don’t think he’ll get the call, he has no credibility to reach across the aisle – McCain has reached across the aisle for years and brokered agreements.

News Alert !!
November elections have been canceled.
Obama will move into the White House on his own.

Ron Mccain is not concerned about you. He doesn’t go to the trailpark.

The right wing Fascists are truly reeling form McCain’s stupidity. The debate is supposed to be about foreign policy and McCain is running from it as fast as he can. He knows that as soon as the American public is able to compare him side by side to Obama his campaign will be over.

my friends just a point….
it is the gop house members that are balking on the bailout and demanding that mccain get his ass to dc. no doubt his refusal to answer yes or no yesterday on whether he would vote for the bailout really, really pissed off the gop reps.

McCain turns from McClown to McChicken.
Go and Retire and leave the clean up to the pros.
The 8 Bush years cost each American about $7,000 new debt. Based on the 2 Tax reduction checks for $400 per American this is an aweful return.

I hate to tell you guys this but I know of at least 6 black people who have told me that they nothing about politics or do not keep up with it but are voting for Obama because he is black. That is pure racsim.Do you pity and hate them as much as you do this guy that calls himself Ron?

Obama is not AFRAID of a townhall meeting. He simply wasn’t interested in following McCain’s lead and working off McCain’s schedule.
And if McCain is so anxious to be heard, why hasn’t he taken more than three questions from reporters in a month?
You see…just because someone requests town hall meetings the day after your nomination doesn’t mean you have to accept.
I think, in hindsight, McCain is thankful Obama didn’t accept. It was another impulsive move on McCain’s part and he’s lucky it didn’t bite him in the arse.

Here’s a good one for ya”
Chris Rock (another black) once said the following. paraphrased – You know that black people won’t ever wealthy , they might be rich, but not wealthy. Let me give you an example – Shaq is rich, the white man that signs his paycheck is wealthy!
John is going to Washington to see if he can help his wealthy friends out – you know the ones on WALL STREET!

…waiting for Biden to again tell me how, when the 1929 Depression hit, everybody gathered around their TV to watch President Roosevelt…or how Obama is going to float sanctions against Russia through the Security Council….Yeah, they are ready alright.

Hmmm… it doesn’t convey a lot of confidence when you can’t show up for a debate but can show up to talk to Katie Couric. Is this how he’ll run things as President? Timeout guys, no fair, play by my rules…
I’ve said it before, the GOP has nominated a fricken Democrat as its candidate…

My friends, pay no attention to that man behind the curtain (G.W. Bush). With the help of my lovely assistant Sarah, I will underwhelm you with more mediocre illusions and slights of hand than the distracted mind can ever imagine! For I am the magical, mystifying…..McSamo!!!!!! (scattered applause)
P.S. Ron, how did you ever learn to walk upright, let alone use a computer???

Um…MCCAIN ’08. You see, this just shows your ignorance. The difference between them and RON is that he says he’s a “black hater.” Those voting for Obama aren’t necessarily racist. They just believe in him, as do I (a white guy). And, frankly, I think it’s a great moment in our history – now, if it was a different black man running and he did not inspire me, I wouldn’t vote for him.
I think there are some white people, like RON, who just aren’t seeing clearly and believe that somehow people of color are going to take over the country and make all stupid white guys slaves.
He probably is one who also believes that Bush was chosen by God to invade Iraq.

martha, you’re deluded. for the sake of your family, get back on your medicinal regimen.

Holy Cow! I am really blown away by this, having HAD a lot of respect and admiration for Senator McCain, I am dumbfounded at how stupid this stunt really is. Do they really think that people will say..”oh wow, McCain really DOES care about the economy, look at Obama! He’s doesn’t even give a rats ass about the economic crisis!” NO! NOW is the time I want to hear both candidates talk about this crisis. I was trying to be open to both candidates, but this has really sealed the deal for me…SHEEEEESHHH!
I’ll be voting for Obama come November.

steve….These women are my wifes clients in a salon.They said, 3 of them in front of me, that they are voting for the black man because they are due…..

RACHEL: McCain doesn’t use a watch – too much technology for him to deal with. He has his wife tell him the time.

Man, Dems are in full squealing panic mode. The point of suspending the campaign is to temporarily stop the ridiculous and face reality for a fews days. What are you afraid of Dems, yo-yo polls. Senators need to be senators and do the job their paid for at least to get us past the brink. The frothing is very telling.

Wow, I just got it. McCain’s plan is to get Palin out of the debates no matter what. So he’ll bump her, then figure out another excuse down the road so that she never has to speak in a debate situation. Unbelievable.

what I hear here, and from our candidates, press, white house, and experts: BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. I am afraid our foolishness is now coming to bite our hiney….oh, but, please: keep talking…keep talking…

McCain reminds me of the guy that puts a dollar in the blind’s man cup, then pull 2 dollars out. He has to be the laughing stock of politics everywhere. I mean, come on, what do you have next up your sleeve, can’t debate, have a sore throat, my dog ate my clothes, a distant family relative died (someone he’s never met), there’s an emergency in my house, my toilet is clogged, Cindy lost an earring, have to inspect the road to nowhere. This dynamic duo should be in show business or working a con game on a street corner, or in a circus. They only represent lies, fabrication, and fairy tales. Pathetic.

This is a typical political ploy. If they hold up the plan, then call for Mccain to come to Washington and “save the day” by “persuading” them to go along, they make him look like a hero.” Image before substance ” as always. The problem is that stalling progress on this issue could effect millions of people (not just Americans) and result in an economic meltdown. Mccain is gambling with millions of lives for political points. He’s already shown us he’s willing to gamble our security by picking Palin for his running mate. I’m beginning to think this man cares about nothing but being POTUS no matter what the cost to us. The Dems are not going to pass anything if Mccain projects himself into it to look like a hero. The same thing with the Repubs. They’re not going to pass anything that makes it look like Barack is a hero. That’s why it is so important for BOTH Mccain and Barack steer clear of getting personally involved in Washington at this moment.

Ron,
I didn’t know they let people in psych wards have access to the internet. You should go back to your room now. Bye bye

steve, the point I am trying to make is that there are nutjobs like Ron on both sides of the fence. Ignorance and racism are not just limited to one political party

WESTON: Think about what you’re saying. Dems are in panic mode? Watch the real difference between the candidates. McCain projects a great sense of PANIC. He’s so damn impulsive, last week you had no idea what he was going to come up with next, drop later, shift on, etc.
If what we’ve seen from McCain over the past week is ‘presidential,’ then I guess I don’t want a president.
And don’t forget, there are airplanes. Seriously, McCain can take a few hours out of his job as ‘savior of the financial crisis’ to fly to the debate. It should take very little preparation because he’s such a ‘straight talker’ he can simply speak the truth, say what he believes, and then go back to DC.
God. He’s not postponing the debate because we’re FIGHTING A WAR – and frankly, they don’t need HIM to put together a plan. He doesn’t know the economy. They simply will need to explain the plan to him and he can be there to vote for it. Simple.

Biden’s son is a lobyist for MBNA bank. Biden received almost a million dollars from MBNA bank. Obama received $126,000 from Fannie and Freddie, this is not the $5 and $10 from the working class voters. Obama received about a half million from Resko, the convicted muslim criminal. Once the truth came out about Obama and his dirty connections to Resko, the story was dropped by the Obama slanted media!
NObama: don’t like him, don’t trust him!

for the first time this dem is embarrassed of being a dem, and for the first time am so polarized that i have started to distrust and dislike all blacks
Posted by: ron | Sep 24, 2008 7:20:16 PM
Ron, if you aren’t a GOP blog-plant, I don’t know who is…nice try….don’t let the door hit you on the way out, and do say hi to Joe Lieberman.

pathetic badgers – so predictable…

I have been a life long Democrat, but I can’t vote for Obama who has proved nothing other than being able to run his mouth. I will never go back to the hateful party. At least McCain knows how to work. Maybe Obama will vote present..I doubt it. He talks a lot but has no action.

Obama stated: “Call me if you need me”. No thnaks, we have Senator McCain in Washington to solve this situation.
Gov. Palin sounded more presidential than “no show” Obama. She was great on the evening news!

this of course is the ultimate goal, cancel the vp debates all together
so disgusting
hey alice john mccains been attacking obama for a none existant tie between fannie and freddie too bad mccains campaign manager rick davis was collecting money from them last month
oh, and bidens son…. not a lobbyist as it turns out
by the way how can mccain say economy strong 9 days ago and today suddenly before the debates as his campaign seizures through the week and his inability to lead calmly and collectively fails he says this is a great crisis
SOOOO BIG in fact that when obama suggested a joint statement and i agreed to it after i calle dhim back i tried this crazy political maneuver in hopes that i can cancel my debate, but reschedule it over hte vp debates so my terrible vp pick doesnt get owned in a debate
just pathetic
mccain
campaign first

SJi – so just because something was scheduled, it HAS to go on regardless of whatever national crisis is in the offing? As far as not talking to the media lately – in case you folks haven’t noticed, it’s a little biased. Why would any candidate in their right mind want to talk to them?

DRAGONFLY777: This is fact – McCain has voted on nothing this year.
And, I wish people would stop with the “voting present” thing. The fact is that it was common practice to do so on issues one party or the other wanted to block. He was usually working in concert with members of his party who had made a group decision to stop legislation they didn’t like. And, aside from that, during that time there were over 4,000 votes. When you look at that percentage, you understand that it kicks the crap out of McCain’s voting record this year. And, consider this. Obama had to actually BE THERE to vote present. There are congress people who can’t recall the last time they saw McCain. Now all of a sudden they NEED him? Please.
PALIN has been the same way. She was present less than half the time – to the point where someone in their legislature made buttons that read, “Where’s Palin?”
Get real.

“steve…The “Dems” have done everything they can do to leave race out of this thing”.Just 5….one is to many. Do a search for “obama racism speech” see how many hits you get.

Posted by: SJi ..question…Obama would have to die before you would not vote for him in Nov…so, why are you liberals pushing for debates and interviews?…you are not going to change your mind..you don’t give a C R A P what Palin has to say…you sold not vote for her if she were the last woman alive…you liberals make me laugh

badger: The GOP is still using the sexism card protecting precious Sarah. All of this talk of race and sex is a bunch of crap. Our country is falling fast, black, white or purple I want someone to fix this mess.
Or are you so brainwashed that you’ll put your party before the health of the nation? THIS ISN’T FOOTBALL. We will ALL LOSE if we let these gimmicks blur reality.

Kudos to “ron” who has an innate ability to keep us entertained with his idiotic comments.
As for McCain and Palin – can you say W-A-S-H-E-D U-P?

poor sarah she clueless…thats like having joe torre coach the knicks…rep wake up and smell the milk!

You McCain/Palin apologists are pathetic, honestly. You would call the sky green if it suited you. McCain can’t handle a two hour DEBATE on a FRIDAY NIGHT?! What, the rest of the Congress will be lost without him? It’s cowardly and at the very least WEAK and un-Presidential. THE MAN ADMITTED HE KNOWS LITTLE ABOUT THE ECONOMY!!! What is he, a past proponent of de-regulation, going to do in three days? Pathetic, and you GOP blowhards should be embarrassed, but you’re mostly too ignorant to be.

It seems every time I made a statement in support of Obama that made sense, some GOP here have accused me of being HIRED by the Obama Campaign. So, I wonder, was Ron sent in as a paid person by the McCain Campaign? In either case, Ron, your making threats and any minute your going to get a hard knock on the door.

When Palin wins the VP job, the press can start demanding that she answer all of their stupid questions..until then, she has the right to remain silent.

The real crisis is Obama being paid to give speeches and NOT showing up in congress to do his job? Obama should be impeached, he accepted a paycheck for 3 years and has a 93.7% absentee rate, the worst in congress!!! And he wants to be president – ha!

Ron, if you ever wonder why you are so lonely and have no friends…..this is why.

shawn, they’re not blind, they’re just willfullly ignorant, and would support McCain and Palin if they both went absolutely 100% insane.

other sarah…conspiracies don’t have hundreds of articles and videos where the people i suggest are opposed to the bailout step up the mike and say they are opposed to the bailout…google ‘gop house members bailout’ and see the facts

Quote by McBush Supporter–”Because as we all know, Gov. Palin is playing a vital and instrumental role in solving this dire financial crisis and doesn’t have three hours to spare sharing her positions with the voters of America… “….but she has time for a photo opportunity with the world leaders?

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.

is it true polls indicate 93% of blacks support obama?
is it true that in the newsweek article michelles job at harvard was to recruit only blacks to replace qualified applicants as she did?
at one time eeo appeared to be a good idea to help othere
when we were deciding what we were going to be as children my friend planned on being a doctor. his applications with grades over the requirement, straight a, and higher than needed test scores were rejected because the quotas needed to be filled
forty years ago there was a conservative non black
representative from a los angles black constituency who did as his backers required
obama is white, half black and associates i know who own businesses, employ others are shocked at how he ruthlessly manipulates the non reader cell and uses his half race for his own private funded race race to fame and glory seeming intent on taking america on the rowanda change path.
senators are supposed to be first working for their constituents in an emergency, not criticizing those who take their responsibilities seriously.
women should understand the ramifications of their influence. hillary should have run independant for president, following efforts like lieberman and the nyc mayor. if she does not recognize that it will be easier to move into the white house if there is already a female elected as vice president, she does not understand opening doors and working together.
a total disregard for veterans injuries showed by obama laughing and criticizing mccain whose war injuries from broken limbs make it painful at best to operate a keyboard indicates that he will disarm the usa just as bill clinton did, inviting another attack as bill did…read history… then he will further disarm and change the time tested financial sector as bill did setting up further financial fall. read investors daily and study the history.
the secret weapon mccain and paulin will disclose soon is the modelling of the ethics reform, budget balancing, and tax cuts patterned after bobby jindal governor of louisiana… following real world results that are now working so there is no grand rhetorical experiment from a push the yellow “present” button senator.
although multiple tax cute within six months were given to constituents, and the same removal of small business gross receipts taxes were removed that palin did work, the reality is that with 93% of blacks and the young and foolish cell block, and the single parented half of the population will produce an obama landslide as predicted by the clintons.
if women, small business owners, employers, working self taught, common sense citizens spend hours reading the truth in the press or internet reputable factual research…not blog make believe… they will elect a president who is not from yale, columbia, oxford, harvard, etc., or other samo samo elitist haven. neither mccain or palin are from these follow the world order places so they must lose. even if the elction is close the numbers will be fixed for an obama win.
if women realize that they need to balance the election, if blacks wake up to the backlash they are creating that is setting the progress made by dr king, ray charles, ali and others who focused on a work ethic instead of a quota system, and if cell quick fix folks realize that the huge majority of the usa cash flow is from small businesses and simply follow their lead because they close if taxed as obama dictates in his grandiose plans… notice he has not even run a lemonade stand profitably… neither did bill and both leave financial disasters after they are through.
put america back on the gold standard. bill was wrong to take us off. pay soldiers and respect their injuries and disabilities which limit their use of computers, limbs, voice, while we enjoy the freedom we do. elect a governor who makes sure her constituents receive $1200 royalty checks from oil… now the drilling ban is lifted, why do not we all get those checks? she has been there done it…
mentioning issuse does not mean there is a plan that has worked and is working and that will put money in our pockets as citizens…
when politicians use us for donations, free support and do not work to put more money in our pocket because they are respectfully our employees, then they need to be replaced or work in real jobs till they understand america is owned by the citizens, not them.
i cannot wait for palin to downsize congress, put some of the jets on ebay like she did in alaska, and help congress draft and enact direct income payments to citizens from foreign importers of oil, auto, goods and services.
the spirit of division does not help us personally. lets work together with two people who are not from the establishment or owned by private contributors to their election bid… frankly i love it when the underdog wins and the cinderella man and woman running for president win against the better funded, better schooled, more popular and pretty opposition.
i love impossible odds.
mccain and palin are trustable, firm track record, hugs underdogs… just like we amercans were in ww 2, the revolutionary war with england, and when each of us or our families left our previous places and situations to unite as americans… not blacks, whites, greens, parties, but americans
god bless… or whatever your beliefs dictate
respect others beliefs and handicaps

Oh My God, this is all about Sara Palin not being prepared. What a smoke screen and in the name of taking care of the concerns of the citizens of our Great Nation. This is unreal.

shawn and rich – sorry, wrong on both counts. We at least have the intelligence to see that Obama’s plans for this country’s future will take her down a road that we don’t want to go – extreme taxes (and yes I’m middle class, definitely not rich). AFter this is all over, we’ll all see the results. Obama – socialism and empty wallets, long healthcare lines, overrun with illegal immigrants (just can’t say no to those that broke our laws for entry).

why do you liberals think we REPS are deaf, dumb and blind?..we see it, we are not stupid…geez, it’s just a question of picking the lessor of two evils..has been that way for 200 years..geez, don’t think for a minute we don
‘t get it. here’s one for you..Bush lied about WMD…geez, i get it!!!

Quote from Quietone–”you are the idiot..we see his(McCain’s) BS..that’s just it..why do you think we don’t..heck, my 5 year old sees it……I hope McCain debates as good as this guy, you see his BS and still support him 100%? I rest my case.

Dear GOP
YOUR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE APPEARS TO BE COMMITTING SLOW SUICIDE.

Quote—”why do you liberals think we REPS are deaf, dumb and blind?”….hmmm, I wonder…

uh, LFForMcCain, part of this process, called THE CAMPAIGN, is to suss out who would be a good leader, and it has ALWAYS BEEN the process that senators and governors WORK ON THAT while still in office. This is NOT NEW. I mean, do you not even understand that? At all? Please tell me what McCain will actually DO on Friday evening that is SO essential that he can’t show the American people he is ready to LEAD? He is PATHETIC. Period. Heck, *I* can multitask better! Between him and Palin you would think you get to just call TIME OUT on the real world! He won’t debate, and she won’t talk to the press. Idiots.

wanttheelectionover — Do you understand what is going on with the economy right now, are you watching Bush?? This the most extreme socialist move the country has probably ever made. I more afraid that under McCain we will be have 1 nationalized financial institution. If you’re like most of the middle class you’re probably feeling the squeeze right now but let’s give $700 million to the rich folks. ASTOUNDING.

WHAT HAPPENED BARACK? I THOUGHT THE SKY WAS FALLING?
Hey Barack,,Just a few days ago you (politicized) the economy was actually in a recession, and on the verge of the next great depression. Strong words there Barack, so, If you’re so concerned about this epic disaster in the making, why are you shunning your responsibilty to contribute in a bi-partisan effort to formulate a remedy?
John McCain is doing the right thing. Shoudnt the debate be secondary at this time, and put off for a few days?
Barack Obama has been putting off debating McCain since late June. Obama was challenged 10 times, but refused each one after BOASTING he would debate MCcain anyplace anytime. Now all of a sudden he has to debate this Friday? Bad move Barack, very bad move.

Give it up Juan…

Posted by: shawn …i saw Johnson’s BS…Nixon’s…Fords, Carters, Reagans, Bush’s, Clintons, Bush’s…McCain , Obama and every other politician ..Geez, you are an idiot..BS is the way of live for politicians..did you just get up from a long coma?

Oh yeah? Well what about that time Biden plagiarized that speech or Rezko or Aires. It’s all Bill Clinton’s fault.
Thank you, that was my master impersonation of a die-hard Repub

BADGER: Don’t you think, though, that much work can be done by both of them and still do the debate? I know this is a crisis, but so is Iraq. All they have to do is fly to Mississippi on Friday, do 90 minutes (or whatever it is), speak about what they believe (which should take no rehearsal), and then get back to work.

Obama and the dems created this finacial mess in the banking and mortgage industry. Now, Obama wants to tax more and spend more.
Obama should stay away from congress, as they correct this situation.
Senator mcCain was right, SEC chairman should be removed, the SEC was asleep-at-the-switch”.
Obama has lost my trust, as he was in the hip pocket of Fannie and Freddie, by taking large sums of their money. Obama has earned the title of “empty suit”.
vote: NObama, anybody, but Obama !!!

othersarah – well, not really feeling a squeeze because I own a home that I could afford and don’t carry credit card debt. I haven’t been robbing Peter to pay Paul. I didn’t push the budget so tight that the slightest bump would cause hardship – it’s called planning.

shawn i disagree on point 4. mccain is avoiding old people because they are precisely aware that he is too far gone to start a presidency. just look at anyone on the way in and on the way out and how the job ages you. that’s why gov palin, not mccain, was at the viallages earlier this week. the poor old coots are torn between their ongoing generational greed & love for their gran kids, the fact they know mccain is too old and theior distrust of black folk. and they know palin is an idot but she’s kinda cute with michigan accent.
that is why torpeding the the debate was so important as based upon this week’s performance it is clear obama is considerably more presidential then fire the sec head mccain’

wanttheelectionover- well good for you! wish your party was doing as well or I wouldn’t be so swayed to vote for Obama!

I have to admire Senator McCain, he stated the solution would have to help the people in foreclosure. Obama will give another tele-prompter speech.
McCain – action
Obama – talk

McCain should resign from this campaign and at least reserve the one last tatter that’s left of his “honor”.
Apparently he can’t get beyond the idea he needs to be earning his way to becoming a president–it’s not a special prize that he deserves to play around with like he has with so much else. He continues to hold the American public in such contempt that he feels, and acts on those feelings, that he doesn’t need to explain himself or his qualifications in order to be POTUS.
And as far as him being ‘needed’ in DC?
Please, he’s not on the economic board, nor would I particularly think that his input would be useful since a week ago, his mantra was “our sound economy”.
His combined arrogance, appalling cowardice and lack of sound principles is frightening enough in a presidential candidate. And as much as I NEVER thought this was possible, we actually could have a president worse than GWBush.
Please, Senator McCain, put your farce out of it’s misery–and ours.
Yours truly,
An Independent Voter

Posted by: rich ..whart’s your point?

You can tell which people only watch FOXNEWS. They claim to have never heard Obama say anything.

rich….I am so tired of typing lists for you guys for why you couldnt pay me to vote for Obama. I have my own ideas for what I think is important in being a president.I am not a card carrying republican I have voted for democrats in the past.There are issues on both sides that I do not agree with but the lessor of two evils is McCain.Some of you just act plain stupid when someone tells you they are voting McCain.I see people telling others they must be a racist because they are not voting for Obama. Thats just wrong.I was on the fence for awhile but the more I watch and listen to Obama and his followers the more he turns me off.

This nation was a mess long before the dems got to congress, and even when they did, Bush Vetoed nearly every bill they sent to him.

This is all a ploy to get John McCain out of debating and to keep Sarah Palin from further embarassing herself. Early voting is already under way in a lot of states, and we, the American people, have a right to know what Ms. Palin thinks about issues and whether or not she can speak without a script, when it is likely that she might become President should the Republican ticket win the White House. It would also be nice if the press was actually investigating her pastors and her record in Alaska, instead of talking about what she’s wearing.
And be aware that while the bailout is important, and may be necessary to prevent a crisis, it need not be so large, nor so fast: “It’s not based on any particular data point,” a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. “We just wanted to choose a really large number.” In other words, we just wanted to milk the taxpayers for all they’re worth and enrich ourselves and our wealthy cronies before our political appointments end. Oh, yeah, it will really stink for the next president, too.

McCain08 – What attributes do you think are important for being president that McCain has shown during this campaign? I’m curious because based on the Palin pick alone, I have serious questions about his judgement.

hey Shawn..say something you think is intellegent for my 5 year old so that i can send him to bed laughing.

for the first time this dem is embarrassed of being a dem, and for the first time am so polarized that i have started to distrust and dislike all blacks
Posted by: ron | Sep 24, 2008 7:20:16 PM
Republican Troll posing as a dem.

Hello, everyone. John McCain here. I figured I’d take a break from watching Prez. Bush on TV in my hotel room. I’m heading to Washington in the morning. Don’t judge me too harshly for not flying to Washington TODAY, and for missing the last three hearings on the bailout even though this CRISIS needs me to be the savior. I had to pull a quick one on Letterman so I could do – I mean – interview with Katie Couric. She’s cuter, and as you all know, I like to surround myself with ‘cuties.’ To be fair to myself, I also am working on figuring out how to block an investigation in Alaska, pay Hannity under the table, cover the history of my campaign manager’s involvement in Freddie Mac, finding a new way to use my POW status to benefit my campaign, keep Palin hidden away because women just can’t answer questions from the press – I know I’ve only answered three questions from the press in the last month but that’s beside the point. I also had to figure out how to not respond right away to Obama’s request to send a joint letter to the people while again stealing his thunder on manning up and working together on something. It was cool, actually, because while he was waiting for me to respond, he gave me the idea! Confuse and distract, muddy the waters by pretending to be important to our solving the economic crisis I helped to create, and maybe my ratings will go back up.
Anyway…that Rachel Maddow is on, so I’d better get going. She’s a cutie, too, even though I don’t believe she should wear her hair so short.

The Titanic Express is sinking fast.
Man the life boats, she’s going down!

SoWhat – You hit the nail on the head. Delaying the Veep debate has absolutely zero to do with her need to help with the bailout crisis. It has everything to do with the public starting to finally wake up to the fact that little Ms. Palin ain’t qualified to do anything! McCain’s campaign is in full panic mode and rightfully so. The more I see of McCain’s knee-jerk reactions to complex, important issues, the more this man scares the daylights out of me. He has previously admitted he knows very little about the economy and now we are to believe his presence is needed in DC to help solve the crisis? And his other major bone-headed, knee-jerk move was to pick the most unqualified candidate ever to run for Veep!! No way do I trust this man’s judgement. He is a maverick, all right, in the very worst sense of the word.

Ron,
I too would be turned off if I thought that the only reason most people would vote for Obama is that he is black. But that is not the case at all. What concerns me is that possibly anyone would not look at the issues and plans a candidate has for America, and NOT vote for them BECAUSE he is black.

can you imagine being in the White house tomorrow with Bush ,McCain and Obama…Obama may self combust!!!

teresa and other dems – did you ever stop to think that he asked for the VP debate to be delayed so Sen. Biden could attend to the job that he is currently being paid to do and then still have time to prepare? Hmmm?

Ron…
Sep 24, 2008 7:28:01 PM you posted “you yankees laugh at smalltown people and southerners but you will lose this election and this lifelong democrat and liberal has seen the ugly side of intolerant obamites.”
and
Sep 24, 2008 7:42:40 PM you posted “you yankees are nuts. you dont understand the silent majority who elected nixon, reagan, etc…and you never will. we fight in the military; we are patriotic; and we dont like those who would lord over us. my family has been here since the 1600s. and there are many like me. if obama is not ahead by 7-8 points before the election, he will lose because of people like me. take that to the bank.”
Well, I am proud to be a southerner who also happens to live in a small town. Actually I live outside a small town, in a rural part of our county. I’m located in the mountains of western North Carolina and live about 15 miles from the Tennessee border. Yep, fairly “redneck” part of the country, and we even talk with a distinct hillbilly accent here in this area.
Now I told you all of that so I could also tell you this. Your opinions are not representative of the small town southerners I know, and having been born and raised here, I know plenty. Sure, there is the occasional idiot who spouts off about their bigotry, but they are typically just drunk or not real bright. The vast majority of southerners are just ordinary people, both Democrat and Republican, who consider themselves up-to-date and aware of all issues facing our country today. Even though you try to mistakenly lump yourself in with them, thankfully you are the in minority and do not express the true values of southerners. Instead most southerners would be ashamed of you and your remarks, and angered because of the years it has taken southerners to try and overcome the stigma attached to us because of people just like you.
As far as the “silent majority” you speak of, and how the “Yankees” don’t understand. YOU obviously don’t understand because the silent majority is made up of people all over the country, including the north, and they believe in values, ethics and morals. That doesn’t describe you at all since you have none of those traits. Guess that makes you a MINORITY, huh? But you can still be silent if you want to. I’m pretty confident that’s what everyone else wants.
PS I’m not sure if you should be bragging about electing Nixon. He wasn’t one of our more illustrious presidents. And even though I didn’t see you post anything about electing Bush, my gut tells me you did. Guess you’re partly to blame for the major mess this country has gotten into over the last 8 years, and now on the brink of financial disaster.

wanttheelectionover: Um…the thing is that Biden doesn’t need to prepare for the debate.
I hope you were joking. McSame even thinking about how to benefit an opponent? Seriously. Have you seen the slew of LIES in his advertising. And, suddenly, you think he cares about giving someone else time to prepare?

wanttheelectionover… so now McCain is responsible for overseeing Biden’s schedule? He sure didn’t say that at his press conference. I’m putting you in TIMEOUT.

I still don’t understand the reasoning the administration is giving for the need to rush this legislation. We are not talking about a simple thing here, 700 billion is the cost of 2 Iraq wars, so there will probably need to get lots of specifics in place when the legislation is passed, unless we are meant to believe that Paulson will start just buying up mortgage backed securities the day after he gets approval. So, if it’s going to take several weeks to get started then can’t Congress have a week or two to really debate and study this issue, why is the White House rushing us? Secondly, does McCain think he can go and fix the problem in a single day? If he can really accomplish that then he should still be able to debate Friday night.

Gov. Palin ha real experience with government finacial matters. She would be the best bet to fix the democrats mess. Gov. Palin was a mayor for 8 years and managed a budget. She is a governor and managed a 11 billion dollar budget. If the democrats were smart (joke), they would beg for her insight. She is a true executive manager with great proven results.
Obama, keep up with your speeches and stay out of Washington, this way you can help.

CHECK THIS OUT.
Think about how the McCain campaign is drudging up old and mostly false dirt on Obama right now. It’s all stuff that was brought out long ago.
How nice it is to be a Dem. We don’t have to go that far back in history. McSame/Palin give us new stuff every day!!!

SoWhat and teresa – golly, gee, so just because there could be another option, a person is ignorant? or are you just too sour and bitter to understand that politics for once needs to be put aside to get this nation back on track? grow up! This is why this nation is in such a mess.

steve – lol, lol, lol!!!!!! again. Way too funny.

The economy is so strong that McCain “suspends” his campaign to go back to Washington and save it.
Makes perfect sense….

Not a single post (the few that are there) that support McCain’s position on the debates has ANY bearing on why the VP debate would ALSO need to be postponed! Even the idea that McCain is the only miracle worker that can bring the parties together to find a solution in Washington doesn’t mean the VP debate has to be postponed. Because there is NO EXCUSE. No reason for her not to answer press questions, either. And have you noticed how tired McCain looks? He needed a real partner in this election – not someone he had to protect and coddle and not let out on their own EVER to deal with the public and the press.

wanttheelectionover – So do you honestly believe McCain’s actions today were from a desire to help his country? Oh my God, how naieve can you be? It was pure political gimmickry – a last ditch effort to throw a curve ball in a vain attempt to save a losing campaign. Take a look at the CNN daily poll – the public ain’t buying it, my friend. McCain, the self-admitted ignoramus when it comes to the economy -now we must believe his presence in DC is essential to solving the mess that we’re in? If you truly believe McCain’s spiel, then I’ve got a bridge I’d like you to build to nowhere in Alaska.

SHAWN: I thought he was in first place, but may be wrong.

teresa – is that the same bridge that Obama and Biden voted for when it was put forth to divert the funds for Katrina?

wanttheelectionover – I noticed you evaded responding to the points I was making. Please tell me how McCain, who recently admitted he knew little about the economy, is now so desperately needed in DC to solve this mess? You didn’t respond to that point because there is no response that makes sense. And why delay the Veep debate, as McCain is now proposing? What in God’s name does that have to do with the bailout crisis? Is Caribou Barbie’s presence also needed in DC to help resolve the impasse? Give it up my man, your candidate is imploding before your very eyes.

MCCAIN ’08. You are right in one respect. On the job training is not a good thing. Palin would need the most. BUT…consider this. Can we train into McCain the temperament needed to do the job? Can we train into him a way to stop telling complete lies? Can we train into him the experience of working day in and day out with poor people? Can we train his impulsiveness out of him?
Just think about last week. He just didn’t behave in a presidential way. This part of it is important. This person needs to be an ambassador. This person needs to calm the country. CALM the country. This person needs to know the difference between Shia and Sunni.
Anyway…I just wish he’d stop checking out Palin’s backside while the cameras are on.

How about swapping the debates? Let the VP’s debate this Friday and the other two next week. Problem solved.

teresa – it’s bc you’re talking about the issues. His/Her head will explode at such complexity. Talk about lipsticks and pigs!

joan, PA (9:46:40 PM) and Kate Mom of Twins (9:46:20 PM)
Both of your posts make so much sense to me and I respect (and agree) with your points of view!

EMBRACE THE PAIN – VOTE MCCAIN!

othersarah – You mean the same issues that Caribou Barbie so studiously avoids at all costs?
What’s really frightening in all of this is the knee-jerk reactions that we’re seeing from the supposedly “experienced” McCain. Is this how he would react as President? His penchant for off-the-cuff remarks, “fly by the seat of his pants decision-making without careful analysis of complex issues, and (worst of all) his choice of a running mate who is so obviously unqualified for national office that is it truly frightening.

IF the man can’t prepare for a debate and handle the crisis at the same time, how is he suppose to be president?
There are no time outs in this game. Do your job and multitask, or go home.

LR: I had a thought the other day. Tell me what you think. Here we’ve got this candidate with an amazing background. The unusual vision to see the world from the perspective of many, many people. Mom white. Dad black. Now we find out he’s related to Brad Pitt and has a relative in Canada who has Asian DNA. BUT…we have all these racists who just won’t vote for him…because he’s ‘black.’ Are they forgetting that his mother was white? Don’t they get that, in reality, he’s a part of their race, too?

I read every response post here. Two things about this story ring true.
1. Where are the “candidates” duties first? To the senate where they currently serve the American people, or to some future presidency that may not happen.
2. The current crisis had its original trappings in the Clinton presidential era when the big push for “affordable housing” forced banks to make loans available to people that could not fiscally handle them responsibly. Hence the foreclosure crisis, hence the problem we face.
I think that requesting to postpone a debate (or suspending a campaign) in order to take an active role in your current position (as Senator) shows true leadership.
This has nothing to do with buying time, but has everthing to do with getting America’s financial future back on track.
P.S. It seems from what I could see that the longer this crisis exists, the more an advantage the Democratic party thinks it acquires. Note point 1.

I have a question for you.. Earlier today Obama said he still wants to debate friday but if Washington calls him back he would return.Just a few minutes ago President Bush,yes I know but he is still the president and commander in chief, invited Obama back to Washington to help with the legislation that is needed at this time.Now does he go back as requested or thumb his nose at Bush?

The McCain Bailout Plan
Bailout on debates, and stop (kind of) campaigning.

Thanks Small Town Southern Lady. The feeling is mutual. I’m also from a small town – this one out west. Maybe Palin was the first small town gal he met and thought all of us were that dumb! I am always happy when there is real discussion and not just name calling. I sometimes feel like people just want their “side” to win, instead of looking at the real issues and what would be best for our country and our families. I’m just a working mom – I put myself through grad school and I’m struggling to keep my family out of a financial crisis of our own. Clearly we need someone who has the vision, the energy, the strength and the wisdom to bring us through perilous times. I think the country is starting to see just how important the job of President is – it’s not just a playground game.

McCain08 (9:46:20 PM)
C’mon. You sound like an intelligent person who keeps up with and is knowledgable about politics. I’m sure you understand and realize ANY president doesn’t lead this country alone. There never has been, nore ever will be a president who is all-knowing about everything. A president has vast groups of experts and strategists at their disposal and are advised in any and all matters that come up. Then the president takes those opinions, advice and guidance to make a decision. Therefore don’t you think a president who is able to stay calm and rational, especially under pressure, before making choices that affect everyone in this country, would be the best choice? That doesn’t necessarily mean it would be someone that is older and had more “life experiences.” In this case, it’s my personal opinion Obama has better fortitude and wisdom than McCain, no matter what the age or time in Washington. It’s pretty obvious that being in Washington longer hasn’t always provided us with the better presidents or politicians. Do you agree?

John – what does that have to do with the VP debate? It’s next WEEK & Palin is not a senator. Come on you republican right wingers – can’t you come up with SOME excuse why she has to be gone next week? Anything? At all?

Kate Mom of Twins – but Biden, as a Senator, needs to be in Washington.

A Small Town Southern Lady.You can apply that same line of thought with McCain. You have got to admit it they are both going to have advisors..blah blah..etc..one is a lawyer the other is a career military man…

Okay – so Senator Biden is the miracle worker that can bring this crisis to an end? Great! So it’s a good thing he’s on the Obama ticket. If Biden doesn’t think the crisis will impact his debate prep time, then why postpone the VP debate NOW? Why do it NOW when we don’t even know whether this will be an issue next week? Come on – that was pretty lame, wanttheelectionover, but maybe someone can come up with something a LITTLE better.

Why don’t Biden & Palin debate this Friday!! Then McCain & Obama can debate on Oct 2nd!!
Come on Palin needs until 2020 to get caught up!!

There should be NO delay on the presidential debate! This is a good time for both candidates to reveal to the their country men, their idea and solution on the financial crisis created by the incumbent administration. McCain tries to duck the debate because he was not prepare to deal with this unforeseen (by him) crisis (He used to said the American economy is fundamentally sound) LOL. Maybe he is waiting Obama to go to Washington and get a feel on what is in Obama’s head when Obama reveal his plan & stand to Bush & Co.??

I have a lot to say, but I will say it in a quick shot. Mc Cain should be referred to as Mc Don. As in a gangster. Usually gangsters are willing to do whatever is necessary to benefit their bottom line. We already have the God Father in office and now you want MC Don. When will my fellow Americans learn. The Republican exudes the gangster mentality that is portrayed in the God Father. Wake Up

An extra week isn’t gonna turn Palin into a foreign policy whiz…suck it up Palin and deal with it, like the rest of the world. There’s no avoiding it – YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO THINK FOR YOURSELF AT LEAST ONCE BEFORE THE ELECTIONS.

All you racist Bush/McCain supporters should join the KKK or the Nazi party. That’s where lowlives like you belong. Leave my country racist scum!

AJ – this issue has already been completely vetted – since you only want to stir up hatred, maybe you should go somewhere else and spew your hatred. Let’s see, posters, I think there were several of us supporters that would love to have Powell over either McCain or Obama.

Tigger…Obama is going back to Washington, but still plans on going, at this point in time, to MS for the debate on Friday. He say’s a President needs to be able to “multi task”. He is correct on that one! Of course, that doesn’t mean McCain won’t have Bush talk him into postponing the debate.

Maybe Obama should go to Washington and attempt to act like a senator! He could actually call his “change”, doing his job. In congress, when Obama shows up, it’s call an “Obama sighting”.

Ron,
It seems you are the only one on this board having any fun…
Every one else, freedom of speech aside, you are fueling his fun…
Keep it up Ron, we are the party that will actually protect your right to free speech…

imo – ah, now that the public has spoken and Obama has consulted with his advisors, he now determines that the wise move, after Bush invited him, was to go back to Washington. How typical – waits until he hears what is being said for or against him rather acting on principle? And how will that play out with Iran, N Korea, Russia? Some bad things can happen before he decides.

OOps, I forget, “The One” can be in two places at once. That must his idea of multi-tasking.
I feel safe when Obama is not in Washington.

chattyway,
There have not been any presidential debates. Earth to chattyway, the first presidential debate is scheduled for Friday, September 26.
McBoo$hit had all of the questions at Saddleback. He won’t have them on Friday!!!

dee – regarding your response to John. Actually, the big housing push did start during Clinton’s admin – you need to read your history. The rules for Freddie and Fannie were also changed at this time. Sure, Repub Congress, but the Dem president wanted it to happen, so guess what, we started down the road.

Actually I think this is all just a gimmick to get his campaign manager, Rick Davis, off the front pages for his ongoing connections to Freddie Mac. Lets distract the voters from the fact that McCain’s top guy was paid for access to McCain. What scuzz balls they are.

Since neither McCain nor Obama sit on the relevant committee, this is clearly a stunt. Both candidates have actually offered similar requirements for a final bill, and really all they will do in DC is slow things down. McCain will come off looking really bad if he cancels.
http://palincounter.blogspot.com/

Angelique – a joint statement? How does that really help anything. More words and no action from Obama. McCain understands his role as a US Senator and heads to Washington to do the work he is being paid to do. Obama wants to stay hunkered with his advisers (which he has been with all week, since he can’t debate – Hillary proved that). Only after he is publically embarrassed and the President personally invites him does he decide to go to DC. Does he realize that the position he is aspiring to is a 24/7 job?

OK, I admit it. My faith in the American voter was shaken for a few days. I thought voters might be duped into extending the misery of the past eight years by electing McCain/Palin—who might actually be a choice worse than Bush/Cheney. But, thank heaven, it looks like the anything-but-straight-talking septuagenarian will soon retire to Arizona (or one of his seven homes) and Alaska’s most popular pistol-packing mama will soon be back where she belongs: on her $26 million road to nowhere.
I’m an independent who can hardly wait to vote for Obama/Biden.

“Now that we are on the verge of making a deal, John McCain airdrops himself in to help us make a deal,” said Representative Barney Frank, of Massachusetts and chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. “Frankly, we are going to have to interrupt a negotiating session tomorrow between Democrats and Republicans on a bill where I think we are getting pretty close to troop down to the White House for a photo op.”
McCaine will delay the deal, Pathetic.

One day, my fellow Americans, this election will be over and we are going to have to deal with some VERY crucial decisions, made in part by one of these people, many of you seem to disdain. What then?

Actually I think this is all just a gimmick to get his campaign manager, Rick Davis, off the front pages for his ongoing connections to Freddie Mac. Lets distract the voters from the fact that McCain’s top guy was paid for access to McCain. What scuzz balls they are.

McCain and Palin are both adulturers. Why are the Republicans so proud of them? I mean, people burn in hell for that kind of stuff, right? McCain is ripe for eternal damnation, but conservatives want him to be President anyway? Say what? Don’t they realize God is watching? Have they forgotten that God knows what is in a man’s heart? I hope John McCain loves his country more than he loved his first wife. He abandoned her for a younger, richer woman. There are lots of men in this country who are not so weak.

Dear Republicans, we do feel your pain. It isn’t fair when things go so wrong and you have no control over it. However, if you can go into the sunshine, scream about your hatred for all things liberal, then let that go, and come and work with us to try to put our country together again, we welcome you.
There is so much to do. So much has been wrecked from the inside out at our federal agencies – not to mention the economy, jobs, health care, etc.
This campaigning isn’t good for McCain’s health, either. Even the craziest Democrat isn’t enjoying watching this.
By the way, I’ve been listening to what hate radio has had to say and they are going to do better when they actually have to carry out a conversation.
God bless us all.
Good night and love, Mom

what’s next up their sleeve? Betting the airlines are on red alert sometime in late October to make John the warrior look important. I put nothing – nothing past them. But, oops, we’ve run out of money for another war.

is this a surprise? palin will not debate if mccain has his way.

I’m really dissapointed in McCain. First Palin, now this. What campaign stunt is next; want to reschedule the elections and switch VP’s? C’mon John. I wanted to vote for you, now I know I won’t.

PALIN COURIC INTERVIEW: Sarah Palin may be a nice person, although I wouldn’t bet on it. But given her performance in the three interviews she has done, including Couric’s today, it has become painfully, painfully, painfully obvious that she may not be able to sustain 90 seconds on a topic in the debate. Unless she can memorize 30-40 90 second talking points about questions they expect, Biden will wipe the floor with her. I just hope that he doesn’t feel guilty and take it too easy. This is too important to play softy.

Country first, I think not. This just shows the VP candidate is not ready for the big stage yet.

OK, can we just have the election right now? No more McCain-Palin melodrama? Just going back to regular daytime soap operas? Please?

It also shows that the Prez. candidate is not ready for the big stage. He’s just not ready for a debate on the economy, or much for that matter. In so many areas, he’s lacking when you really look at it.
And let’s not forget a very, very important area as it relates to our long-term futures. Education. The NEA supports Obama. I’m a teacher and most teachers I know are for Obama. Think of the next generation. Our system is failing many of our children, particularly in under-served areas. Sometimes it feels like the shrinking of the American brain. I don’t recall the world ranking as it relates to the quality of education, but we rank significantly lower than we used to. At this rate we will soon be a follower on the world stage. We already are in many areas, such as engineering, energy, economics, advances in alternative forms of transportation, etc.
If for no other reason, I want Obama in there because I have a 10-year old boy who deserves a future and I don’t believe McCain/Palin really care all that much about it.

I think Sarah handled herself well with Couric, Katie was all out to get her, like a old hag. Couric ratings are plummetting anyway maybe she needed Palin to shore up her ratings.
McCain/Palin 08

steve – as a teacher, you would be well aware that the federal government has for years issued unfunded and underfunded mandates that cost our states and local school districts real money for educating. Example – special education. The Govt stated in its mandate that it would fund it at 27%. Reality is more like 17%. With the high cost of special ed, think how much money would be available for all our students if these mandates were taken care of as promised rather than adding more Govt into the picture.

oh please!!! suspend the debate? why not just say that you aren’t ready? i think people will accept that more. this whole “country first” mumbo jumbo of Mccain-palin is just a cheap strategy so that they will not look stupid in the debate…

WANTTHEELECTIONOVER: How right you are. Sometimes solutions are right in front of us.

Obama is as dumb as a box of rocks so it’s going to be funny watching him stumble around the debate without his trusty teleprompter.

I don’t really mind the regulations involved in NCLB, but for many of us it feels like being asked to run a marathon and given a tattered pair of boots to do it.
I think the oversight is a good thing, however. It has motivated many educators to do better work, even though they don’t necessarily like teaching to a test. This has to be done in some way to avoid financial penalties, receiving the “failing” label, etc.

Last week: The economy is sound! This week: I can’t debate, I have to save the economy. Take your Seroquel McCain!

This is ridiculous. He is holding us hostage, and it can only mean he knows he won’t do well. Why are we putting up with this? He shouldn’t be able to dictate this. We should all make him get in the game or get out!!

I wasn’t aware that they had. How so?

The FBI is investigating this mess. So I expect to to see Dodd, Franks, and their crony accomplaces in Freddy and Fanny get frog marched to jail in bright orange jump suites.

Postpone Palin debating Biden until when? AFTER the election? McCain saw her awkward interview with Katie Couric today and the campaign knows Palin is not ready (and never will be ready) to debate Biden. This is getting more pathetic by the day. With McCain’s poll numbers dipping down every day, he’s trying to prevent a catastrophe to his campaign. And one disaster waiting to happen is Palin’s debate with Biden.

This should tell you how well these two will run the government, they do not even realize they are hiding her out in public.
When will Palin release her tax returns as a tax payer , I would like to see who I am hiring.

Oh, Michelle, Michelle. McCain doesn’t need to be there either. In fact, he’s not there right now. He’s flying there tomorrow morning. McCain isn’t even on the committee. There’s a freshman senator, who IS on the committee, has more power in this regard than McCain does. He already missed three hearings on it, and he is in no way knowledgable enough to really make a difference. Someone can just explain it to him when it’s done and he can vote for or against it. That’s really all he needs to do. He is not the savior of the economic crisis. Many colleagues of his have already stated how odd it was that he comes swooshing in for a photo op, which will actually waste more time than it will save. I think we all need to face it that he either needs a break or is trying to push off the debate for another week. Whatever the reason, it doesn’t look good for McCain. I guess some folks might think of his latest impulsive move as ‘presidential,’ but my guess is that they watch only FOX News. No offense, anyone. Truly, though, you have to be in denial if you believe McCain and Palin are our answer. It’s becoming embarrassing now.

steve – every presidential election and congressional election, as least here in Minnesota, we keep hearing about all the promises to fix everything – if it’s broken, let’s throw more money at it rather than looking at part of the root and determine if there is mold or rot first. Unfortunately, there just isn’t enough to cover everything that really should be done to benefit the citizens. I am a firm believer in accountability, whether personal or professional, and there is an extreme lack today in this nation. We need to make some very hard choices in the upcoming years, and I am looking for someone who I feel can prompt that change without throwing out more money that citizens can hardly afford right now.

FOR ANYY ONE WHO WISHES HARM TO THE OBAMA’S AND THE BIDENS’ , WELL , MY GOD SAYS IN HIS WORD ( AND HE IS A MAN THAT SHALL NOT LIE) ” NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST YOU ( THE OBAMA’S AND THE BIUDEN’S ) SHALL PROSPER. ” I WILL MAKE ALL YOUR ENEMINES YOUR FOOT STOOL.
AND ANOTHER THING….. WATCH WHAT COMES OUT OF YOUR MOUTH AGAINST THESE GOD FEARING FOLKS; ( THE OBAMA’S AND THE BIDEN’S)GOD IS WATCHING AND HEARING YOU AND MOST OF ALL HE SEES YOUR HEART , SO DON’T BE SURPRISE ABOUT WHAT YOU ASK GOD FOR IN THE FUTURE AND THEN YOUR ANSWER IS NOT WHAT YOU EXPECTED OF HIM . REMEMBER GOD SEES YOUR HEART , WHILE AT THE SAME TIME YOU MAY THINK YOU ARE FOOLING MAN WITH YOUR COWARDLY AND EVIL WAYS…….

Mccain knows he is not yet prepared enough for the debate, he is NOT PREPARED TO LEAD, He makes wrong choices, he can not set up a good team, like selection of Gov Palin as his running

WANTTHEELECTIONOVER: You’re right. It should have been phased in, and fully funded from the start. Here’s an example of what some teacher see in that regard.
A class of 35 students in a room without A/C that day. 10 of them are special education students with differing required instructional modifications. 90% of them are on free lunch. 6 of them are ELL (English Language Learners) and need special instruction because they don’t speak the language we’re required to use in the classroom. 2 of the ELL students are not proficient in their native language. 2 of them are on probation. 3 are senior football players who are there to get a “C” to maintain their eligibility to play. 1 never sleeps because she’s doing the family laundry or working until 2 in the morning to help pay rent. The list goes on. It’s difficult. But would be less difficult with the funding these kids deserve. If there’s anyone who needs to see that they are as important as the kids at the ‘rich’ school, it’s them.

WANTTHEELECTIONOVER:
I agree. The problem I have is that I just have a hard time believing that a Republican administration will continue to operate with allegiances to those who don’t really need the extra help. Look at the waste, for God’s sake. Thousands of weapons, vehicles lost in Iraq. Millions and millions of dollars unaccounted for. Overpaying contractors like Halliburton (I don’t recall the number, but it’s staggering). I just don’t know that I buy that they’re behaving like true conservatives. And I don’t believe McCane/Palin are the ones to actually shake things up. I believe in Obama’s judgment more than I do McCain’s. And, honestly, I just can’t imagine Sarah Palin sitting in that chair should something happen to John. I don’t want the US to be the laughing stock anymore.

steve – best wishes in your travels with your students. Although we may not necessarily agree on the ‘WHO’, we do agree on what is needed for an end result, in principle. I have seen my fair share of the type of students that you discuss just be being an involved parent and leading community organizations – it really is difficult to see that our youngest citizens are not receiving what they need. Even when we had levies voted down in our district, I always knew my kids would be ok because we would not let them fail – it was the kids on the edge that I worried about and did what I could. Ah – I guess the left side of me is showing. NP though, we are multifaceted people. Regardless of how Nov 4th turns out, let’s all hope for the best – we all need it. Have a good night!

WANTTHEELECTIONOVER:
Good talking to ya. Sleep well ‘lefty.’ hahahaha

What’s the best McCain or Palin joke you’ve heard?

wanttheelectionover: the point is that Biden will be just fine missing his prep time to help on the financial crisis. It is the McCain campaign wanting to postpone the VP debate NOT Biden. Where is there ANY other excuse on these posts – ANY ANY?? NO, not one. There is none.

vic… nice try. your fox scare tactics don’t work on people who don’t buy into neo-con fear based thinking. McCain isn’t prepared, he’s down in the polls (a LOT!), and he picked an inexperienced vp.
Besides, I heard he doesn’t want to debate because “Murder She Wrote” airs on Friday nights. That McCain doesn’t want to miss his programs.
This stunt was a bad, bad move for him. Deal with it.
Suppose all this action has got Limbaugh reaching for his pills again (oxycontin, wasn’t it?)? I’m thinking yes.

Mclame is a joke!! he pulls this pollitical stunt with his country first crap!!! where was the country when he picked palin as his V.P????? it is obvious this man will say and do anything to get elected…..even if he has to bring down america with him!!! repubs really believe the rest of america is a stupid as their redneck party. be real america this man will not help you!!!!!!!!

McCain has managed to both under react and overreact to the same crisis.
This is the type of leadership you see on the TV show “The Office.”

John McCain is officially toast. Today his campaign jumped the shark. The only question now is does he lose 52-48 or 60-40? He is DONE DONE DONE!

McCain is quakin’ in his jockeys!

shut up Ron. You are a republican thug. What has arrogance to do with the color of someones skin? You never saw a arrogant white guy before? Look at McCain, who thinks people are stupid to fall for his BS

I can’t really believe what I’m seeing. McCain’s campaign is completely imploding. Palin must be unbelievably unprepared. Her interview with Couric was painful. This is a cruel joke on the American people.

You guys at ABC really need to clean up these boards. There is no discussion and there is no logic. All they do is hurl insults at each other and make up lies and half truths .

INFOSEEKING:
Other than hurling an insult at the ABC webmaster, do you have a point?

vic… nice try. your fox scare tactics don’t work on people who don’t buy into neo-con fear based thinking.
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So wise guy, Lehman going under was Fox scare tactics. There was run on coporate bonds and now if the COrporations have to pay up even the principals overnight How are they going to run their daily operations??
there was book i read: About this volatile electronic age we are living in. Do you know trillions can be moved from place to place in seconds. What’s MONEY nowadays mere electronic 0 and 1 or bits and bytes.Its very volatile.Just a thought.

I’m still in shock over how terrible the Palin/Couric interview was. “Train wreck” is being charitable – it was more like a train derailing on a bridge, tumbling a thousand feet into a canyon and landing on a pile of old dynamite and gas drums. And then a jumbo jet crashed into the flaming wreckage. Followed by an earthquake that caused the whole mess to slide off a cliff into the sea, where the few miraculous survivors were eaten by sharks.

McCain sound like some really bad bosses I have had in the past. They don’t have a clue as to what is really going on in the company, but then they try to step in at the last moment and act like they are in charge.
At best he would be considered a micro-manager that has no hope of doing more than one thing at a time with the whole country waiting on him to solve one problem before we can move on to the next. At worst, he is a micro-manager who knows nothing about what he is managing and his decisions are always knee-jerk reactions.
Think about the worst bosses you have ever had. You think to yourself, “Why does this man have this job? Who put him here? Who really thinks he is doing this company any good.” Then imagine that really bad boss running the country. This is John McCain.

Check this video of Palin interview. This is from today:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/24/palin-on-mccains-history_n_129078.html

As a fellow southerner and Yellow Dog Texas Democrat. This guy Ron (see posts above) sounds like an ass. If you don’t like minorities move to Alaska, Diddy said they don’t have black people there. ;)
THE REPUBLICANS HAVE WRECKED THIS COUNTRY FOR THE LAST EIGHT YEARS.
VOTE THE REPUBLICANS OUT OF WASHINGTON.
VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN 08.

McCain/Palin
Not ready to lead, not ready to debate.

“for the first time this dem is embarrassed of being a dem, and for the first time am so polarized that i have started to distrust and dislike all blacks”
Posted by: ron | Sep 24, 2008 7:20:16 PM
That is why you are racist Ron.
THE REPUBLICANS HAVE WRECKED THIS COUNTRY FOR THE LAST EIGHT YEARS.
VOTE THE REPUBLICANS OUT OF WASHINGTON.
VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN 08.

Ron, I’m a reformed redneck in Florida. I went to a self help program (school and college). Did I just hear you say that Louisiana was never a racist state? Ex-Squeeze me? Listen, you piece of Cajun cancer, you’re an embarrassment to Catholicism (my Church) and the to human race. However, I DO wish you’d keep posting because ignorance is like a serpent; if you know where it is, it can’t bite you.

Ron, Obama is ALREADY ahead in the polls by 9 points! That was just reported yesterday. Now with this crazy attempt by McCain to postpone not only the presidential debate, but also the vice presidential one so that he and Sarah Palin have more time to prepare only shows how UNQULIFIED THEY ARE TO LEAD! I perdict that my election day Obama’s lead in the polls with be 20 points ahead of Mccain—and YOU can take that to the bank!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have read all the post on this subject and I am convinced that all of Obama’s supporters are high school dropouts. John McCain was asked by both Democrats and Republican representatives in Washington, D.C. to lend a hand in finding a solution to the President Clinton financial crisis (Read Investors Business Daily). John McCain is to meet with the US representatives. You can not meet with the US representatives by telephone or the internet. You can not meet with the US representatives if you are in Mississippi. You must be in Washington, D.C. in person. Get it! You must meet with people in person.
Obama is defending what he wants in his personal life and is not a true representative for the people in this great land of the United States of America. When John McCain requested (Not Demand) Obama to have many town hall meetings, Obama refused. Obama is arrogantly demanding John McCain to have a debate NOW.
Obama is a self serving person and he thinks only of his opportunity to be president. No Thanks Obama. I’ll take McCain/Palin any day before the arrogance of Obama.

McCain instincts are those of a fighter pilot. He knows he’s in trouble so his gut tells him to grab the stick and pull. It may have kept him alive in ‘Nam but it is not a thoughtful process and it has yielded some pretty poor decisions.

I am an Obama supporter and I have 21 patents in computer science. Investor’s daily? I wonder what part they played in this disaster?

It’s obvious that McCain doesn’t know he’s up against chess players, and these blunders are not going to be taken lightly.

Neither is he. Seriously. The guy has gone whacko. He’s all over the place and she’s absolutely nowhere.

What are Polls? Polls are misaligned twisted statistical bits of information. Why do I say misaligned twisted statistical bits of information? It is proven that people could say one thing and mean something totally different. There is no way to know with certainty that the person being polled is even telling the pollster the truth.
Moreover, the poll could be a concentration of a group of people and not a true sampling of the people. People may say they are Republican and some may say they are Democrat but the pollster does not know with certainty if the people are Republican, Democrat, Socialist, Communists or Martians.
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics” – Benjamin Disraeli. Satan delights equally in statistic and in quoting scripture – HG Wells
“Statistics can be completely misleading. If you take five six foot 10 inch foot giants and five four foot 10 inch dwarves, then the average height is five foot 10.” Completely meaningless. As Irish humorist Des McHale once said, the average human has one breast and one testicle.
Statistics are worshipped and abused, whether it’s in sport, business or economics.
Which is what interested me in this piece out of Wharton, The Use – and Misuse – of Statistics: How and Why Numbers Are So Easily Manipulated

The Palin has hit the fan.

JUDGE: So true. We just really never know. Even exit polls are dead wrong. And even if they were close most of the time, they still aren’t really taking into account the newly registered voters and many who are about to register. I think the margin of error should +-100%. Well, okay, maybe something like +-40%.

Give me a break, I’m beaten in all fronts. I need a bailout too.
-John McCain
No need of VP debates, the public will know more the depth charge of Sarah Palin, it could explode again on McCain’s, give Sarah a break, she needs bailout too.

Obama and the dems created this finacial mess in the banking and mortgage industry. Now, Obama wants to tax more and spend more.
Obama should stay away from congress, as they correct this situation.
Senator mcCain was right, SEC chairman should be removed, the SEC was asleep-at-the-switch”.
Obama has lost my trust, as he was in the hip pocket of Fannie and Freddie, by taking large sums of their money. Obama has earned the title of “empty suit”.
vote: NObama, anybody, but Obama !!!
Posted by: Art in Dayton
Okay, Art. Please, please, please do some of your own research instead of just taking what the repubs say at face value.
1) Blaming Obama and the dems for the financial mess is just wrong. The dems certainly had a role in it, but the deregulation efforts (spearheaded by John McCain, no less) was the cause.
2) Saying Obama plans to tax and spend is wrong too. Most people will see tax cuts. Also, McCain’s plan will force dramatic cuts to spending, including his own admission the other day of cutting defense spending dramatically.
3)The SEC and other agencies were undoubtedly asleep at the switch, but the reason WHY is because of the gross deregulation under republican rule and fully championed by McCain.
4)Obama indeed had more political contributions from the employees of those two companies. However, McCain had much more in contributions from the CEO’s and executives of those companies, which really are the corrupt ones who cause the problems. Also, McCain’s campaign manager owns a company that was paid a monthly fee up until last month from the companies in question.
Please do some research before you present an argument. All of these facts have been verified by non-partisan sources. Look them up.

In times of crisis leaders lead by example. While Obama is content with providing soundbites as solutions to the grave financial crisis facing the nation, its McCain who is taking the initiative to make efforts to bring all sides together and forge a deal so the finance bill can be passed before time runs out. This same Obama who is harping on debating and doing nothing other than talking about the nation’s crisis, was putting his tails down when Hillary wanted to debate him in the Democratic race. This same Obama was running scared when McCain invited him for town hall debates months ago and plain refused them. Now he wants the debate so bad, he has no solutions to offer in terms of actually doing something for the nation in crisis. Ya, i remember he already did his service as “community organizer”, the country can go to hell- for all he cares. He just wants to debate…..On what…How to be an elitist, arrogant, egotistic, rockstar senator and deliver teleprompter-made speeches? Nobama is so pathetic.

If John McCain thinks he is needed in Washington, then he should put on his white hat and charge to the rescue. The man has already proven that when he gets an idea, he goes for it. I say let him go. Of course, he is not on his way, yet. He’s taking a nap, which may be the real reason behind this stunt.
But let’s be kind and say McCain truly is needed in DC. Why does he need to shut down his campaign? He has a VP candidate who is ready — or so he says. Why doesn’t McCain let Palin keep on campaigning? Is she going to Washington to help with the negotiations, too?
And let’s also be kind and say McCain isn’t scared of facing Obama on Friday. Okay. Let’s swap debates. Put Biden-Palin on this Friday and give American voters a real treat.
Times are tough. I can use a good laugh. Come on, Governor Palin, don’t blink.

Don’t kid yourself. And don’t be fooled. Palin WILL be ready for the debate. This is a Rovie Stunt to generate low expectation.
We saw the same thing at the RNC and it worked! They just want it to happen close enough to the election to work again.

John McCain is right. Fire Chairman Cox, head of the SEC.
I have bought and sold stocks since 1965. I shorted stocks from time to time, covered the stock and never were there any concerns with the market. Then, naked shorts and hedge funds came along and the market was for the big boys. The naked short selling destroyed some companies by driving the stock to essentially no value. A stock needs investors that trust the company and its stock. No one can trust a company when the stock drops and finally sells for 10 cent in the pink sheets.
There are companies that went bust and the naked shorts never did cover the stock. The hedge funds walked away with profits. Ex-hedge fund manager Jim Cramer of thestreet.com told the story of hedge funds. He never admitted to doing any wrong, but as he said, a hedge fund manger could drive a stock to nothing.
Chairman Cox knew of the naked shorts, but did not give much concern to the practice of selling a stock you did not own and did not cover. The big boys ignore the three-day rule. Chairmen Cox is a do nothing chairman that only has concerns for the hedge funds and the money he can earn.
Now, the hedge funds managers are crying fowl. How can we make money by trying to predict the market? Well, that is how it is ever since the beginning of Wall Street under a Buttonwood Tree.
John McCain had nothing to do with this financial crisis. Look to Chairman Cox, hedge fund managers and President Clinton‘s regulation for lenders. That is where you will find the root of the problem of today’s financial crisis.

John McCain is the most absent senator. He hasn’t visited the senate to vote in over 5 months. This is about Palin and his campaign manager with all the questions they have to answer.

Wow, the whole issue about getting back to Washington because our Nation is in crisis is a bunch of Junk. We wants to move the debates for Sara Palin. This has everything to do that the campaign doesn’t want her answering questions on her own yet. The closer they keep the days counting down to the election without letting Sara answer questions on her own, the better the campaign is. Unreal all of the smoke and mirrors going on in the McCain campaign.

ron…..you’re an idiot!

This is just More of the Rudy Guiliani school of Democracy. “We need to postpone the elections and make Rudy permanent mayor to solve the city’s problems in the wake of 9/11″
What a bunch of pathetic tyrants.

Oh…this is a surprise.

From:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/what-suspending-my-campaign-actually.html
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
What “Suspending My Campaign” Actually Means
From the Chicago Tribune:

“John McCain’s sudden “suspension” of his campaign and his call for a postponement of the premier campaign debate Friday night has sparked a round of criticism from people asking why the presidential candidate cannot manage a financial crisis and a debate at the same time.
Among them: “Late Night’s” David Letterman, who told his own audience in taping at CBS today that he was hoping to see the Republican nominee for president but McCain called him to say that he had to rush back to Washington to deal with the nation’s financial crisis. Then, as Letterman told it, he got word that in fact McCain was down the hall sitting for an interview with his colleague at CBS, Evening News anchor Katie Couric, which aired this evening.”

And the Top 10 most cynical methods for avoiding a drop in the polls tonight are…
Cite:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/what-suspending-my-campaign-actually.html

What if Kennedy had taken a vacation in MA during the missile crisis? Hindsight is always 20/20, it’s comforting to see that McCain\Palin understand that this extremely complex crisis is a direct national security threat which will have long standing implications to our country – and to the rest of the world. Both candidates need to spend as much time and brain power on this issue as possible because – let’s face it – one of them will be inheriting it in about 50 days.

“BrdieR”, get your facts straight before you shoot off your mouth. BOTH parties are responsible for this mess. I know that you wouldn’t dare read anything anything unless it came straight from liberal propaganda – so here you go -
The New York Times reported this five years ago:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E3D6123BF932A2575AC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print
“The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago. Under the plan, disclosed at a Congressional hearing today, a new agency would be created within the Treasury Department to assume supervision of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored companies that are the two largest players in the mortgage lending industry.
The new agency would have the authority, which now rests with Congress, to set one of the two capital-reserve requirements for the companies. It would exercise authority over any new lines of business. And it would determine whether the two are adequately managing the risks of their ballooning portfolios.
The plan is an acknowledgment by the administration that oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — which together have issued more than $1.5 trillion in outstanding debt — is broken. A report by outside investigators in July concluded that Freddie Mac manipulated its accounting to mislead investors, and critics have said Fannie Mae does not adequately hedge against rising interest rates.”
This should have been a no-brainer, right? With hindsight, we can see that the Bush administration had accurately diagnosed the problem in the lending market and had a plan to address it. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reluctantly supported the plan. However, Democrats objected (emphases mine):
“Among the groups denouncing the proposal today were the National Association of Home Builders and Congressional Democrats who fear that tighter regulation of the companies could sharply reduce their commitment to financing low-income and affordable housing. ”These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis,” said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ”The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.” Representative Melvin L. Watt, Democrat of North Carolina, agreed. ”I don’t see much other than a shell game going on here, moving something from one agency to another and in the process weakening the bargaining power of poorer families and their ability to get affordable housing,” Mr. Watt said.”
Sounds a little like the Democratic denial of problems in Social Security, doesn’t it? Nothing to see here, no crisis on the horizon. Everybody just move along, now. The Democrats had forced lenders to assume more risk at lower interest rates in the 1990s, as IBD points out today, and they didn’t want to countenance an end to their populist policies:
“But it was the Clinton administration, obsessed with multiculturalism, that dictated where mortgage lenders could lend, and originally helped create the market for the high-risk subprime loans now infecting like a retrovirus the balance sheets of many of Wall Street’s most revered institutions. Tough new regulations forced lenders into high-risk areas where they had no choice but to lower lending standards to make the loans that sound business practices had previously guarded against making. It was either that or face stiff government penalties.
The untold story in this whole national crisis is that President Clinton put on steroids the Community Redevelopment Act, a well-intended Carter-era law designed to encourage minority homeownership. And in so doing, he helped create the market for the risky subprime loans that he and Democrats now decry as not only greedy but “predatory.”
Yes, the market was fueled by greed and overleveraging in the secondary market for subprimes, vis-a-vis mortgaged-backed securities traded on Wall Street. But the seed was planted in the ’90s by Clinton and his social engineers and was allowed to continue over the objections of the Bush Administration. The democrats were the political catalyst behind this slow-motion financial train wreck.
And it was the Clinton administration and its holdovers put in management positions in Freddie and Fannie (and some of whom are now Obamanation’s advisors, Johnson, Raines, Gorelick) who mismanaged the quasi-governmental agencies that over the decades have come to mismanage the real estate market in America.
It was the Bush administration that wanted to rein in the madness in the credit markets, and the Democrats who wanted to extend the Clinton policies that created the crisis we have now. After the fit hit the shan, as Michelle (M) said, these same Democrats now want to shift blame back to the administration that wanted to increase oversight and curtail risk in lending practices while reducing patronage at the giant GSEs but which these same dems torpedoed.

In 2005, McCain was a sponsor of Legislation that would have provided more oversight for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Obama/Biden and the rest of the “out of control, free spending Dems” voted against this Legislation and the Bill was defeated.
If that Legislation had passed in 2005 chances are we would NOT be in this mess or at least the economic crises would not be as bad!!!
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were protected by the Dems when it was clear that there were serious problems in 2005.
Now we NEED REAL Leadership to keep our Country from falling into a SERIOUS DEPRESSION. I WANT MY LEADERS IN WASHINGTON!!! TODAY!!! I also want them to stay there and prioritized and FOCUS on a SOLUTION UNTIL this CRISES is resolved!!
Debates can be rescheduled; FOCUS ON THE ECONOMY NOW!!!
McCain/Palin08
FOR THE REAL LEADERSHIP
THAT WE NEED IN WASHINGTON!!!

Carly Real Leadership? Please define that for me and a resident of DC, we have all the “leaders” here, but NO LEADERSHIP – how is that possible -

A “President” should be able to handle more than one crisis at a time, but right now McCain has his hands full. He’s got an economic advisor being questioned for payments by Freddie Mac, he’s got poll numbers to deal with, he’s got the most idiotic VP, on record, to hide from the press, he’s got to debate Obama friday night, and he’s got to “save” Americans from this economic debacle! What a guy! He deserves our vote. (Our vote for Obama)

Let’s see,,, if I was a foreign government or a terrorist group watching this moron, I would pray that he would be elected–if, as a president, he can only do one thing at a time, continue to keep his vp pick only as a lapdog photo op, AND change his mind every other day, week, month, year, AND LIE with virtually every statement he makes, AND have to be coached on who is invading where, AND run around like a chicken with his head cut off, making rash demands until he sees polling numbers and then stumbles through sentences that a sixth-grader would flunk,
OH YEAH, THIS COWARDLY IDIOT IS EXACTLY WHO I’D WANT.
btw….NICE TOUCH TRYING TO ELIMINATE THE PALIN-BIDEN FUTURE FIASCO–I MEAN, DEBATE.
McCain needs to leave politics. NOW

We’re starting a pool on whether the McCain camp will be able to keep Palin from answering any questions till Nov 4. There are two reasons for this lastest McCain ploy: hoping to look “leaderly” and stop his declining poll numbers and to find some way to keep Palin out of the debate.
Obama-Biden ’08

Is the vote happening on Friday night? That is the only reason I can fathom that McCain needs to be physically in DC. Ever heard of video conferencing, phone conferencing, email, IM?
This debate very important and I can’t think of a better time than now for it. Seeing how the candidates handle themselves in a crisis is something many of us will never see again in an election. This debate is what, 2-3 hours? You can’t tell me that this is the only window Wall Street has for salvation.
I have been looking forward to hearing them both for some time and will be very dissappointed in McCain if he’s a no show.

McCain is campaigning right, running on Obamas Platform. He lied to America again?
Now no matter who you vote for, you are voting Obama. So now Obama wins.
Do we now change his name to McBama?

Makes you wonder how Washington D.C. has gotten by without McCain for the past 18 months. The Senate is waiting with baited breath for John “Mavrick” McCain to come through the doorsd, bearing the torch of wisdom. “John, thank God you’re here. Whatever shall we do?”
Say whatever you want about Obama’s arrogance, but here is a glaring example of hubris, unmitgated egotism, and a disconnect from reality. McCain is the nations savior…in John McCain’s mind.
Yet, he ducks and weaves, flips and flops, and lies badly and concocts lame reasons for not being prepared.Some people are old in years, rich in wisdom and others are bumbling old fools.

McCain you P U S S Y ! ! ! !

McCain / Palin – 4 more years to NO WHERE

McCain wants to go to Washington, then take the only date of the VP debate? Sure, go ahead – we’ll allow you to SWAP your date with the VP debate. There’s no reason GOVERNOR Palin needs to be at the Senate.
I’m an independent, and I find this move disgusting. If he wants to postpone it, fine. If he wants to use his postponement as an excuse to remove the VP debate altogether, that’s not ok. Neither McCain nor Obama nor Biden need to be at the Senate for this issue, as they should have plenty of allies that can get the job done.
The debates are one of the first Presidential duties a candidate has to the American people. You don’t campaign to be the President, then dump the duties of a President to take care of your duties as a Senator.
If his presence is absolutely required in order to get something done, then perhaps he can help the country the most by staying there. What happens when he leaves? Will anything get done after he is not allowed to participate in Senate sessions?
Face the debate, John – I know YOU are up to the task. But don’t play the American people like this in order to protect your running mate. VP debate results don’t matter, anyway if the Presidential candidate is strong. Anyone remember Dan Quayle? How about “You’re no Jack Kennedy”? Bush Sr. still won, despite Quayle getting his can handed to him in the debate. Palin is probably not a match for Biden in debate, and protecting her is going to be seen as weakness. How are you going to hold your maverick image when you keep pushing Palin’s training wheeled bicycle?
Show your strength this week and go to the debate. Show the people that you have faith in the government’s ability to work this out.

N7r3pyd, I completely agree.

Sen. Obama would be pushing back too if it helped his self-serving, elitist, get-elected-at-any-cost, ego. This crisis could potentially fully implode to epic proportions that make the great depression look like a vacation. Yet again, Sen. McCain is showing real leadership through selfless service to his country.

Hey, I have an idea: why don’t we let John McCain and Barack Obama work on the bailout mess in Washington and have Joe Biden and Sarah Palin handle Friday’s debate about foreign policy? Surely the presidential candidates are confident in their running mate’s ability to stand in for them and espouse their party’s platform.

“Latisha Malone” “..deep rooted racism, and plane stupidity.” ??? (BTW, that’s plain not “plane” ). Can you quantify any one of your remarks? In 50 days the next President is going to inherit this mess. Why don’t you go back to listening to “Air America” and leave the discussions to the folks who can at least provide some intelligible facts and insight instead of hate.

“LaLaHall” – that’s actually not a bad idea – kudos.

Loves this country, if you “loved” this country you’d know that another republican in the white house is not what’s best for it.

Ok, politics aside. What the HELL is going on? There is no way this should be happening now after they settled on a date. Have the debates as they were planned and let’s get on with this freak show.

Loves my country, ONE mispelled word. How about you’re party, who STILL can not pronounce the word, NUCLEAR. Non of them can say it, Bush, McCain, Palin, none of them. IDIOTS.

Let’s also point out what an upstanding family man McCain is. Left his first wife crippled while he screwed around with Cindy, the woman he has openly called a C U N T He is a classy guy. Stand-up husband.

Neither McCain nor Obama need to be in Washington. If a vote in the Senate is called for on this bailout, it can bdone in real time via video-conferencing. Neither one is a member of the Senate Banking Committee.
Even tho the debate format is supposed to be Foreign Policy, it will more likely than not veer into a debate on the dire state of the economy because that is now the priority for every American. McCain has publicly admitted
he doesn’t know much about the economy, aand, considering some of the public flubs he’s made about internationl borders and foreign leaders, I doubt he kknows as much as he claims about foreign policy.
As for the Biden – Palin debate, of course McCain would like to postpone it — probably after Nov. 4th, because, even though Biden is no great shakes as a public speaker, his body of knowledge regarding foreign policy and the economy is the size of a mountain compared to the pea-sized body of knowledge Palin can lay claim to on either subject. After all, she can “see Russia from her house!”
As for the poster known as Ron, you’re spiteful, ignorant, racist and very likely an active member of either/and the KKK or the Aryan Brotherhood. If you call yourself and American, you’re a disgrace to the rest of us.

@ Val
I fully agree, McCain is not justified, by this uncalled for crap that he keeps doin, I mean every time this man opens his mouth, he shows me just how detached from reality he is. Now I can’t see him any other way but hot-headed, irrational, and unprepared for this job.

I get it – no media access, no debates. McCain/Palin want to use a crisis (created by the failure to regulate of Bush Admin.) to avoid public scrutiny. Who wants to bet he takes credit for running back to Washington to fix this problem – and then wont take press questions?

I think McCain has turned his campaign into a farce.

has anyone heard of the video where Palin is being prayed for by some guy to protect her from witchcraft?

Reading these comments makes me wonder if there shouldn’t be a test to vote.
What does McCain ducking the debates have to do with you disliking all blacks? You have to have more morals than that.
If someone thinks that they ‘distrust all blacks now due to one person, they aren’t a democrat, they are a bigot. One person doens’t change an entire race for someone.
So another person thinks that they have no clue as to who you are voting for and you base your choice soley on the debates. Well, you haven’t been doing your homework or paying attention either. Watch TV, BBC… watch a few clips that tell the true story.
Do you buy a car that way too? One drive and you are buying? Do you look up consumer reports, ask friends, compare models??
This is the election year when you vote with your head – The issues are what you vote on (economy,taxes,war,supreme court nominees)… not who makes you feel comfortable for 10 seconds because they shoot a gun at moose. These arent’ electing friends.
Who would you hire to run your house or business?
McCain has lied on so many things, and Palin is already up to her neck in legal subponeas… they arent’ in the White House yet…
Good Grief, Get a clue.
*Palin: No abortion even in case of rape!
she can’t preach family values to America when hers is in ruins… pregnant at 17. whoopie…thats a value.

McCain will not be able to work with dems any more. Please keep this in mind, it is clear he is done as a bi-partisan. With crap like this why work with him?
Why would Sarah Palin have to delay her debate? Does she have to open up McCain’s remarks to the senate? She has no role in the bailout, she has no excuse not to debate. What a joke.

Ron: I think you should be very careful its really sounds as if you are threatening Mr. Obama’s life.
Now on to the debate at hand……..
If this was all important and wanting to do the right thing why did McCain not speak with Obama privately before going on the air? This was just a political stunt. He acts like a little kid…grow up McCain or are you in your 2nd childhood?
Why not swap the presidential debate for the Vice President debate? Palin and Biden go this Friday and McCain and Obama on the 2nd? Oh, Palin still has to have her finances in by the 3rd as agreed.
At this point it does not matter who is President as they will have to work with this mess and will be unpopular even though they did not get us here…oh, that’s right McCain did have a hand in this mess.

McCain was for the debates before he was against them.

What a bunch of idiots in here, all y’all care about is bashing John McCain! Haterz, thats what you all are! There are more important things than politics in this country. John McCain has been trying to get Obama to debate the whole entire time but Obama refused! Why? Bcuz he’s gotta “practice” first. He’s lost without a teleprompter. You guys just need to shut your pieholes and let them take care of the country first.

Ron, thank you!
Your horrible ignorant words just made my decision as an Independent!
I’m for Obama all the way now!
Thanks Again!

McCain is running scared.
It’s so obvious that he pulled this political stunt just at the time when he’s sinking in the polls.
McCain = COUNTRY CLUB FIRST
Palin = UNPREPARED

Diane,
I’m with you?
Ron, please try and make sense…

McCain does realize that if he becomes President he will actually have to manage more than one thing at a time? I guess he is not a multi-tasker!

Wow, I’ve never seen the republicans this scared and confused. Palin not looking like such a good choice no huh?? Imagine that! Who would of thought that the “PTA” mom cant take over the spotlight for 2 days. McCain/Palin??? Really???

Albensmom, That might be the most ignorant prediction I’ve ever heard.

I have an idea, lets just not debate at all, or let palin talk to anyone outside of the campaign. I ALMOST feel bad for her, she knows that she is the last person that should be in the position she is in, and that she was only picked because she is a woman. Period. Face it people, She’s there to keep quite and smile.

I dont give a f*** how ignorant YOU think it is! For me, and alot of other peeps, its crystal clear. But for you and people like you, your hatred for republicans is soooo great, you will vote for OJ Simpson if he were your candidate!!! Your pathetic. Though I wouldn’t have voted for Hillary Clinton, I do happen to like her. I can agree to disagree without bad mouthing anyone. Barack Obama is an arrogant, smooth talkin, lying muslim.

We have 38 more days til the election. We deserve time to mull over what the parties have to say. Obama is ready. Biden is ready. If McCain and Palin aren’t — that’s too bad. Also, they haven’t exactly offered to reimburse the organizers the thousands of dollars expended to prepare for the debates, although they are canceling. Go figure!!!

Dear McCain 08,
I also hear that there are well over 6, 7 or 8 white folks who will be voting for McCain because he is white…so there! So, shut up already!

Birth Certificate Image
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn227/Polarik/BO_Birth_Certificate.jpg
Snopes debunking of place of birth
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/citizen.asp
As for Ron – You are a racist jackass but I’m glad you’re spending your time here rather than spreading your vile around to people who might believe you.
I live in NC and Obama is now LEADING McCain by 2 points. I know it’s just a snapshot but as a WHITE, COLLEGE EDUCATED woman it’s nice to see people coming together.

Posted by: albensmom | Sep 25, 2008 12:36:39 PM
Albensmom
don’t you think that if the president is busy with something, teh vice president should take care of it?
DO you think Sarah shold do the Debate for McCain?
or she scared of a black man as much as you are?

Puh-leeeeez Albensmon!
You must have a serious reading problem! I have family whom are Republican and voting for McCain- they don’t go around disparaging black folk and holding a whole group of people responsible out of ignorance. Learn how to read and get back to me…
McCain is a flip flopper who can’t get it straight! That’s why I’m voting for Obama! He will bring us out of this economic mess!

Ron, I hope somebody plugs you right between the eyes and makes space for another Dem. You white piece of trash hillrat. (Bet you’re not even working at a real job. . . )

PALIN IS A RIGHTWING WACKO WHO BELIEVES THAT HUMANS PUT SADDLES ON THE DINOSAURS AND RODE THEM! SHE IS JOHN “HIDE THE ****” ASSCRACK IN DRAG.
NO HOW
NO WAY
NO MCSAME
NO PALIN THE POSER

Obama refused 10 additional debates with McCain during the campaign.
10!
McCain is not afraid. McCain is serving his country – something Obama does not have much experience with.

Posted by: ron | Sep 24, 2008 7:20:16 PM
Your post is a farse. There is nothing in this article to invoke your comment.
As for McCain, this entire “cover” of suspending his campaign and running back to Washington was a strategy to get the Vice Presidential debate delayed or to the point it would never happen. If McCain wanted to reschedule his debate, why take the October 2 date? Are the debate committees pandering to McCain / Palin now too?
Such a political scam artist.

if any of you people actually knew anything about the economy and not just the projectile vomit spewing out of obama’s mouth then you would know that if this bill isnt passed…the economy is going to be close to the time of the great depression…maybe obama should be a little more concerned about that instead of a debate which compared to the state of the economy seems a bit unsignificant in the long run.

Ron you are an imposter, your ugly rants are on this page so stop making up lies to pacify yourself. You are a Racist, and have been. Oh crap I forgot you are a Republican and you took it straight out of the play book of lies McPalin has been using

McCain 08, Your buddy has said on TV he knows nothing about the economy, but he will learn. This is nothing but a stunt to stop the VP debates. Everyone that is not a sheep can see this.

How can Palin allow her party to keep her from speaking…pitbull??? She is clueless and a pathetic joke…McCain, hang it up.

Garbosmed, Ole Miss didn’t spend thousands on tomorrow’s debate, they spent MILLIONS…. 5 million to be exact. And I think it’s extremely callous and insensitive that McCain would let them foot that bill considering what he’s going to try and “save” in Washington (sigh)
And esizee, for starters, he DOESN’T have to be there until they vote, this is just another example of how he helped create this downfall we’re in and now he wants to hang out there until it’s settled so he can proclaim himself the proverbial savior and uniter of parties, while accusing Obama of putting himself first and not the country, yadda yadda.
Secondly, even if he WERE sincere, that’s cool. Why can’t it be like OBAMA suggested and do BOTH?! Do not tell me that the President won’t have 50 things going on any given day and actually has to MULTI-task! OR at least don’t let Ole Miss get screwed with a 5 million dollar bill and send Palin and Biden to debate…. he won’t do that because it’s all a ploy to hide Sarah away again.
Wake up esizee, the economy was jacked long before yesterday, partly because of your buddy McCain and his deregulation campaign for 20+ years. He didn’t care about it last week when things really hit the fan… and ok, let them cancel the debate. But don’t you dare shift the VP debate, let little Sarah fend for herself against meanie old Joe.
Oh and HT, you are a friggin puppet of the GOP machine. McCain is serving his country?? I hope you’re still saying that when HIS policies and beliefs got us into the mess that will have you losing your job, home, etc while he and his corporate cronies are vacationing in Cabo off the sweat of our backs. Unless YOU were lucky enough to land a beer heiress too, then you’ll be just fine.

Why would McCain and Palin need to debate when they’re just going to steal the election again? It’s time to start using bullets instead of ballots.

Hey, speaking of what667′s post, has anyone heard of this new story that the Repubs are sending “Do Not Forward” envelopes to registered Dems in an effort to challenge their votes? Voter caging, I know that the Pubs have a history of doing it, and it’s been confirmed that they HAVE been sending them out in key states like Ohio and FL (ahem), but so far the accusation that they’re engaging in voter caging hasn’t been substantiated, so nobody take that as fact…. yet.

I have a solution. Let’s swap the President and VP debates. Obviously, Biden and Palin are available tomorrow, as they are not in any bailout discussion. Let’s just get the VP debate done tomorrow.

BE ADVISED…***** THE REPITLES DID THIS FOR THE PAST 8 YRS. NOW IT’S TIME TO START PAYING AND PAYING, AND ,PAYING AND ,PAYING AND ,PAYING AND ,PAYING AND ,PAYING AND ,PAYING AND ,PAYING AND THEN U DIE. THANKS CHIMP BASTARD.

This is unbelievable! McCain and Palin know they will lose the debates so they are trying to bail out. Shameful behaviour.

I can never understand why Americans elected a trouble making man like George Bush onthe first place. A liar, a warmonger, a failure and a disgrace. Nothing good has come out of this president but destruction.

Going ahead with the debate shoudl be no BIG deal for Obama since he has not sat in his senate seat in Washington for more than a year! Let’s go ahead and elect this “no show” senator; he is a da*& good campaigner… and that makes for a good president!

1. John McCain delays the debate.
REASON: “help ‘fix’ the economic crisis”
(Notes: McCain said, “The issue of economics is something that I’ve really never understood as well as I should.” (Boston Globe, 12/18/07) — McCain said last week, “The FUNDAMENTALS of our Economy are STRONG!”)
2. McCain campaign wants to delay the Vice-presidential debate.
POSSIBLE REASON: “Palin wants to help with foreign affairs and ‘solve’ the ‘URGENT’ Russian-Georgian crisis”?
(Notes: Sarah Palin said that she has experience in foreign affairs due to her being able to “see Russia from her home in Alaska”.)
This election is becoming a 3-ring circus! Hahaha!

Ron, I wouldn’t want anyone to start distrusting white people because of you.
Palin is not ready for primetime!

PalinMcCain have nowhere to go now but down. They can run away from President Bush, but he can’t run away from the Republican Party. The Republicans will be regarded from now on as “the party that wrecked America.” Over the weeks ahead, as carnage in the economy and the financial markets ramps up, it will become increasingly clear. It is important that this meme be spread through the internet. I urge all commentators to adopt and spread the idea that the Republicans are “the party that wrecked America.” It will work because it is the truth. Use it freely. Just spread the word.

Hey Ron,
You’re not too bright if you think Obama is somehow representative of all black folks. Are you and John Edwards pretty much the same guy? How about you and Vladimir Putin? Are John Edwards and Vladimir Putin the same guy? Use you brain.

McCain wanted to postpone the debate NOT because he is afraid::::PLEASE you wish you had the guts McCain has had. He is a real PATRIOT not the NOBAMA guy.
First of all, he wanted to go and do his job as a Senator, something Obama seems he is not anymore. Please, people, inform yourselves before you vote. Obama promises a lot that he wont be able to do. Raising taxes for Companies that make more than 200K a year? My cafeteria in the corner makes more than that and it has only 2 employees. That is not raising taxes to big Corporations, please, talk about cos. that make millions of dollars not 200K. We will all suffer if Obama wins.
Also, please remember HE IS NOT BLACK, and he says it. He is like Michael Jackson, neither black or white.

I am confused with the fact that Sarah Palin in her famous and disastrous katie interview had little knowledge of current affairs but yesterday suddenly she is talking something which makes
some sense. Is it that she has suddenly being injected with the interest
to know about current affairs or she has just memorised few lines to fulfill the requirements for her ticket. I think putting lipstick doesn’t make much change. This is not what we want to see.
We are interested in the the character and outlook of the candidate towards the issues.
Today somebody might have helped her in prep for the issues but what about tomorrow. Anybody can manuplate this person who doesnot understand the crux of the issue. Also from yesterday’s debate it seems like if any issue came outside the Energy Sector she might
not even take it :).