So Much for Suspending the Campaign to Work on the Financial Crisis

We’re in this mess because the democrats made it all too easy for people who could not afford certain loans to get them, and even made it possible for down payments to be borrowed as well… all based on the presumption that home prices would just continue to rise forever and ever at a rate of between 10 to 15 % per year. Anyone who bought something that they couldn’t afford based on the belief they could simply borrow against it’s future increased value deserves all the trouble they’re in. All these loans are now just meaningless paper and it’s the malignant sense of entitlement that drives the democrat party that is the principal cause of our problem.

Ugh. This whole meeting was just a transparent ploy, using the White House as a campaign prop.

Just hours after Sen. John McCain made a surprise announcement Wednesday that he was temporarily suspending his presidential campaign to help work out a bipartisan deal in Congress on the financial crisis, his campaign manager Rick Davis dined with about a dozen top New York-based fundraisers at the chic 21 Club in Manhattan.
The dinner meeting, according to an attendee, included an update on McCain’s decision to return to Washington today, criticism of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr. for failing to act more decisively earlier, and calls for more fundraising for the party by leading New York money harvesters.
The event was hosted by one of the GOP’s top fundraisers Woody Johnson IV, who heads the Johnson Cos. and has raised more than $500,000 for the McCain campaign.
The dinner also drew Lewis Eisenberg, the finance chairman of the Republican National Committee who leads McCain-Palin Victory 2008, a joint fundraising effort by the RNC and a legal account of the McCain campaign; Donald Marron, the chairman and chief executive of Lightyear Capital, a private equity fund; and Patrick Durkin, a managing director of J. Fitzgibbons, a private equity firm.
Even though campaign officials were temporarily told to suspend their fundraising and other activities per McCain’s instructions, Johnson told the assembled guests that they “ought to redouble their efforts” to make sure that an upcoming fundraiser in New York on Oct 14 is a success, according to the attendee.
(The funds that will be raised in New York, like other events post GOP convention when McCain opted to take $84 million in public funding for the general election, go largely to the RNC, but a campaign run legal and accounting fund is still allowed to accept some monies.)
Davis and Durkin, a long time GOP fundraiser who has recently also been advising the campaign on economic issues, took the lead in the dinner discussions, focusing on the reasoning behind McCain’s decision to return to Washington, according to NJ’s source. Several of the fundraisers had also attended an earlier economic briefing, which the campaign arranged to provide McCain input and advice on the Wall Street financial crisis.
Paulson’s management of the crisis drew “a lot criticism” from the guests, according to the attendee. “There was a feeling that he (Paulson) didn’t do a very good job,” said the attendee. Until Paulson announced his $700 billion bailout plan just days ago, he “didn’t have a long term strategy.”

NO McCain bailout. McCain can take two hours out of his schedule to talk to the American people. We have a right to know what the next President will do.

McCain shows up for one meeting, says little and becomes the center of attention. Not bad for a senior citizen with a short temper. You gotta love this guy.

@Thank God for Karma
“We’re in this mess because the democrats made it all too easy for people who could not afford certain loans to get them, and even made it possible for down payments to be borrowed as well…”
You really overestimate the power of the democrats. It was WallStreet coming with the most craziest idea of making mony by the deregulation.
Go look for the documentary “Super Rich The Greed Game” on video.google.com

John McCain has taken 84 million dollars from we taxpayers to run his campaign. The American people are expecting to see the two Presidential candidates side by side debating on Friday night.
I think John McCain should think twice before taking our money to campaign and then tell us he might be too busy to debate.

If McCain said its true. It must be true.
Breaking…Washington Mutual bank failed and was just seized by the Feds.
Now what John? Time to bring in a real executive like Sarah Palin.

well all i will say is hang the flag upside down.
and do what mel gibson said in the movie We were soldiers-when he was commanding the seventh cal.
“BROKEN ARROW”

Sarah Palin said she could see Wall Street on her visit to New York City. Now she believes she is an expert on American finance and wants to bring her Kenyan preacher with her to exorcise the witches out of Wall Street.

McCain: The Most Reprehensible of the Keating Five
The story of “the Keating Five” has become a scandal rivaling Teapot Dome and Watergate
By Tom Fitzpatrick
Published on November 29, 1989
You’re John McCain, a fallen hero who wanted to become president so desperately that you sold yourself to Charlie Keating, the wealthy con man who bears such an incredible resemblance to The Joker. Obviously, Keating thought you could make it to the White House, too.
He poured $112,000 into your political campaigns. He became your friend. He threw fund raisers in your honor. He even made a sweet shopping-center investment deal for your wife, Cindy. Your father-in-law, Jim Hensley, was cut in on the deal, too.
Nothing was too good for you. Why not? Keating saw you as a prime investment that would pay off in the future.
So he flew you and your family around the country in his private jets. Time after time, he put you up for serene, private vacations at his vast, palatial spa in the Bahamas. All of this was so grand. You were protected from what Thomas Hardy refers to as “the madding crowd.” It was almost as though you were already staying at a presidential retreat.
Like the old song, that now seems “Long ago and far away.”
Since Keating’s collapse, you find yourself doing obscene things to save yourself from the Senate Ethics Committee’s investigation. As a matter of course, you engage in backbiting behavior that will turn you into an outcast in the Senate if you do survive.
They say that if you put five lobsters into a pot and give them a chance to escape, none will be able to do so before you light the fire. Each time a lobster tries to climb over the top, his fellow lobsters will pull him back down. It is the way of lobsters and threatened United States senators.
And, of course, that’s the way it is with the Keating Five. You are all battling to save your own hides. So you, McCain, leak to reporters about who did Keating’s bidding in pressuring federal regulators to change the rules for Lincoln Savings and Loan.
When the reporters fail to print your tips quickly enough–as in the case of your tip on Michigan Senator Donald Riegle–you call them back and remind them how important it is to get that information in the newspapers.
The story of “the Keating Five” has become a scandal rivaling Teapot Dome and Watergate. The outcome will be decided, not in a courtroom, but probably on national television.
Those who survive will be the sociopaths who can tell a lie with the most sincere, straight face. You are especially adept at this.
Last Friday night, on The John McLaughlin Show, which features well-known Washington journalists, the subject of the Keating Five was discussed. Panelist Jack Germond suggested that three of the Keating Five were probably already through in politics.
So you spend your days desperately trying to make sure you will be one of the survivors. You keep volunteering to go on radio and television stations to protest your innocence. Last week you made ABC’s Nightline.
Not long before that you somehow managed to get James Kilpatrick, the national columnist, to write a favorable paragraph about you. Last Sunday morning, you made it to national television again; this time on ABC’s This Week With David Brinkley. You smiled at the panel with your usual studied insouciance. Sitting next to you was Senator John Glenn of Ohio.
Brinkley, Sam Donaldson, and George Will were the interrogators.
It was a sobering scene. There you sat with Glenn, both sweating before the cameras, waiting to answer questions: two badly tarnished American icons.
No one forgets that Glenn was the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth. You won’t let anyone forget that you were a prisoner of war. But you have played that tune too long. By now your constant reminders about your war record make you seem like a modern version of Arthur Miller’s tragic failure Willy Loman.
Clearly, both you and Glenn sold your fame for Charles Keating’s money.
It was a Faustian bargain. It was also a bad joke on the rest of us and a disaster for many old people who lost their life’s savings to Keating.
The money was never really Keating’s to give. But he never would have got his hands on it if you and the rest of the Keating Five didn’t halt the government takeover for two long years while Keating’s people continued their looting.
And now, the tab for the Savings and Loan heist must be paid from taxpayer pockets.
On Sunday, Senators Dennis DeConcini, Alan Cranston, and Riegle refused offers to appear on the Brinkley show. What must we make of that?
You, the closest of them to Keating and the deepest in his debt, have chosen the path of the hard sell. You may even make it out of the pot, but to many, your protestations of innocence taste like gall.
You are determined to bluff your way. You will stick to your story that you were acting to help a constituent and intended to do nothing improper. The very fact you attended the meeting makes you guilty, just as every man who entered the Brinks vault went to prison.

All you cheering McCain supporters, you really amaze me.
In case you don’t get it, let me explain it, if no agreement is being made the blame will be on McCain.
The democrats, Bush and Paulson agrees for most part. It’s McCain and some republicans that don’t understand the danger we are in.
Japan had a major recession because of the banking problems in the 90′s (bad loans to corporations), it’s economy came to a standstill for almost a decade. If this blows up, the country will be in a big recession.

The should kick anyone out of the meeting who just sits there and yells. Good bye Barney Flaming Frank.

What’s really scary are the reports about what McCain actually did during the meeting: NOTHING. He made a couple of comments that were almost unintelligible and offered no other comments. Witnesses said he seemed not to understand what was going on. IS MCCAIN ALL THERE? Is there something wrong with him? Is that why he is avoiding the debate? I repeat: is McCain all there?

Ive never seen such pure horse hockey being pushed by a candidate. Does anyone even know what McCain believes? He’s changing his opinion every 5 minutes. I can’t even keep track of his positions.

When should I stop paying for my mortgage? Will the bailout plan have something in it for me?
C’mon Obama – I live on main street. Bail me out. Just tell me when.

McCain went to Washington to stall all negotiation just to avoid the debate on Friday. Mississippi spent about $5m to prepare for the debate and the tax payers have given his campaign about $86m to run for the White House and appear at all the debates. It’s time for the No Speak Campaign to give up, they have no clue or they can save American jobs by passing the bill, by answering questions from the press and by appearing at all the debates. Enough is enough.

And the color filter?

The next thing you’ll hear is Sarah Palin cannot debate Joe Biden because her daughter is having a baby. Two clowns that want to rule America.

McCain is in shock, he doesn’t want to debate. He knows it was himself and Phil Gram that deregulated the bank’s and spectulators on Wall Street in 1999 that caused this down fall. And he knows it has caught up with him. He has no defense and will get nailed with it in the debates. He also knows that this is one last scam and rip off before Bush hits the door. He knows that there is 3 trillion dollars in bad paper on Wall Street.
Ex Republican

Oh Gosh, you mean McCain is lying again, after all the lies from his ads and speeches the last few months, why oh why would ANYONE think the POS is lying again. McCain a man of “cough” “cough” principle, as if.

And the McGill group? 3 Pheinox? Silver Shield, or something else?

To illustrate the chaos and panic in the McCain campaign:
Shortly before 2pm ET, McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said on MSNBC that his boss deserves credit for the bipartisan bailout deal.
Bounds then apparently went way off message, indicating that McCain would attend tomorrow’s debate. “We’re going into a debate,” Bounds said, adding “I think we’re going there strong.”
And where are we know? Which deal? What credit did McCain deserve?
The whole campaign lost its bearings.
Theirs is no candidate to deal with a crisis.
His followers are clearly panicking as well, based on what I read here.

Whatever!!!

As Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of America, where do they go? It’s Alaska…
(If I can see the moon out of my window, does that make me an astronaut?)

Do you know how I know History?

Maybe Palin should get Pastor Muthee to pray all the witches out of Wall Street.
Move over Rev. Wright. You are about to get upstaged.
hilarious.

Livvy, it pains me that I must agree with you.
I hoped McCain’s candidacy would provide an opportunity for the more moderate elements of the Republican Party to regain control from the religious right. I didn’t agree with McCain on everything, but I thought him an honorable man who, if he were president, would be a great improvement on George Bush. I have never been so disappointed in a candidate in my 30+ years of voting.
I can accept that a candidate must change on some points to gain the support of powerful groups within his party. But I cannot accept McCain’s sleazy, lie-filled campaign and utter lack of judgment.
I am beyond appalled at McCain’s latest stunt — “suspending” a campaign while continuing to campaign, demanding a postponement of a debate he’s not prepared for, and trying to pass himself off as the savior of the economy.
I am an independent and was seriously considering support McCain. I don’t care much for Obama, but today I decided to vote him because we can’t afford to elect McCain and Palin.

Kate
I commend you in the decision you have made.

McCain suggest having the debate on the day Joe & Sarah are meant to debate, smell a rat. Bring Sarah Palin out, she can’t answer questions and can’t debate. She’s useless.

So, Obama’s change magic did not worked.

McCain is more powerful than I thought. According to one post here he deregulated the banks by himself. This would make him more powerful than superman or even the president. Get a grip a whole lot of people in Congress and Clinton’s administration were also involved.

McCain has been asking for a chance to debate Obama, the chance comes & he goes to Washington to hide. Hero my @ss.

Reading between the lines of the McCain statement… John McCain used the GOP House members as a cat’s paw to disrupt the negotiations. Tomorrow in an amazing feat of leadership, John McCain will convince GOP house members to agree to a deal! It’s magic.
McCain says he did not support or attack any proposal. However, he was man enough to take a cheap shot at Obama out of one side of his mouth while calling for bipartisanship out of the other. Real classy.
The Republicans aren’t serious about passing bailout legislation…only in scoring political points.

Debra said,
geevill….if Gov. Palin made only one of the two dozen gaffes that Biden made she’d be history….she’s self made, she’s qualified, and better than Dan Quale. SHE WILL MAKE A GREAT VP.
Yes, I agree with you she is a self made moron. She’s only qualified to VP because she can see Russia from her house, give me a break will ya. If I own a computer does that make me Bill Gates?

Something doesn’t smell right. I will make my pronouncement here that this has been planned by the Republicans all along. They look bi-partisan then at the last minute a new plan is introduced. Now Democrats have to follow it or be labeled the problem. McCain backs the new plan and Republicans get to take all the credit. So instead of working in a bipartisan way they craft this behind the scenes. Country first my butt!

Breaking news, McCain is hiding behind Sarah Palin’s skirt. As at Tuesday he hadn’t read the proposals on the bill (he was clueless)& he goes to Washington today and blows any agreement reach before he came. Shame on him. McCain = No speak express = party first.

this seems counter to every other report i have heard coming from those meetings
republican and democrat
it sounds like mccain came there thinking he could rally the house republicans and they scoffed at him, and now hes stuck between a rock and a hard place
try to convince them to fix something and get on board, or let the economy tank and take responsibility

Debra, if McCain is a leader, then he’s not a very good one. His choosing Palin was a direct affront to the people of this country and if somehow he’s elected he has single handedly put this country in grave danger. Palin may be alot of things, some of them even, maybe, good, but vice-presidential/presidential material she’s not. She’s in over her head. McCain did not do this country any favors, only his political aspirations. If this country doesn’t get smart, and soon, we will be making a terrible mistake that we may not recover from. Palin is not the only one not fit for the office she’s running for. McCain has become a loose cannon. I see real trouble ahead with this man who said it himself – he rules with his gut, not his head.

McCain has become shameless and pathetic. I’m voting for my first democrat.

Debra: “McCain BEGGED for 10 debates with Bozo for three months….check, Bozo runs scared…ask Hillary…..check.”
It is a matter of record that Obama counteroffered an additional debate – McCain said “No – my exact plan and format or nothing.” It’s a matter of record that McCain has NO place in crafting this compromise and (unless he was lying) had not even read the plan as of Tuesday (well into the time the relevant committees were re-working the bill on the hill). And now it is a matter of record that the day McCain shows up on the hill all the promising comments made from both sides (check the news site archives from Tues – until McCain decided to make this about HIS political campaign, things were moving well according to both sides) are now in tatters.
McCain chose to politicize this – he didn’t suspend his campaign, he decided to force what WAS an important, bipartisan effort to BE his campaign.

Get over the partisan bull and work out a plan. We don’t need a democrat side and a republican side. We need an American plan. That is what I see McCain doing. Obama is still putting on his Democrat hat and not bothering with trying to put a bipartisan agreement together. That is not showing leadership.
McCain isn’t trying to get out of the debate, he said postpone to next week, that is not cancelling it. Our economic stability is much more important at this time.

“.. after all it’s only $700-billion!!!”

Concerned American: “Get over the partisan bull and work out a plan. We don’t need a democrat side and a republican side. We need an American plan. That is what I see McCain doing.”
Nice job turning an important legislative process into McCain’s personal campaign. What EXACTLY is McCain doing? He holds no position in the relevant committees. He is woeful ignorant on economics (self-admitted and widely agreed). His appearance has turned the delicate negotiations that were progressing well on Tuesday into a disaster. WHAT IS HE DOING TO HELP? We have seen, crystal clear, how he has destroyed the progress that had been made up to his bulling in where he has no role to play or value to offer.

Thank God for Karma…
The Republicans had from 2001 to 2006 to fix it whatever you feel the Democrats did wrong during the Clinton years. You had control of Congress, the Senate and the White House for six full years!
During this time Republicans abused this power.
When Congress and the Senate went Democrat because the American people realized what a bozo Bush was, with his “Weapons of Mass Distraction”. This change was not enough to override the President’s veto power. Knowing this, Bush abused his veto power and made Congress look like fools verses work on solving anything for our country for the past two years.
You’re totally clueless on how our government works.

young_voter: “It states “However, the Democrats allowed Sen. Obama to run their side of the meeting.”
NO. It states JOHN MCCAINS CAMPAIGN said the above (how bipartisan of him). No one else, not even President Bush, has characterized the meeting in that way and McCain’s campaign has a solidly documented record of flat out lying to an unprecedented degree.

“Sarah Palin is an empty vessel.”

The deal was cut. And then, Bush calls for a presidential politics photo-op at the White House and all hell breaks loose. This guy has the midas touch doesn’t he?

Tim: “We expect the honest answers and transparency and some one who can translate everything in the language an average Joe like me can understand”
This is the fundamental problem: The “average Joe” wants our government dumbed down to the point that he can understand it in 30 minutes a night. Do you demand Intel teach you how they make a chip in terms the average Joe can understand before you’ll use it? Are you so ignorant of economic systems, evolved over the last 800 years or so to be the basis of the modern explosion in prosperity, that you think they’re simple.
Sad.

“Do you have any comment vaguely related to what I said?”

M. Simon: ”
The Democrats control Congress.
All they need to do is to agree among themselves.”
This is a flat out lie, or shows a less than sixth grade understanding of how Congress works. The Republicans can stop any bill in the Senate with a filibuster, something they have done a record number of times in the last 2 years to protect George Bush’s policies. In addition, the Democrat’s “control” rests on Joe Lieberman (who is campaigning FOR McCain) and another independent. There is NO WAY they can pass anything without significant Republican support. THIS IS EASILY VERIFIED REALITY.

Apparently the Democrats have more faith in Senator Obama, than the Republicans have in Senator McCain.

jasoninpa10: “His own party doesn’t even rally around him for the solutions to this financial mess”
He’s an expert in constitutional law, not economics. As a good executive, he was letting the appropriate experts deal with it. It is a matter of record that his stated position ‘principals’ are exactly the key elements his entire party is unified around. And Congress making good headway, according to D and R comments, in incorporating these principles in a concrete bipartisan bill (look at statements issued by both sides before McCain’s stunt) until McCain destroyed the process by making it his proxy campaign.

Of course the Republicans can filibuster.
All the Democrats have to do to make the Republicans look bad is agree on a bill among themselves.
Obama can do it. Let the Great Negotiator go to work.

so the premise of this story is that obama “the spokesperson for his party’ is not even able to bring his own party to agree with him on the terms of the bill? so much for a uniter. hmmm!

I really feel Obama is just too fake, especially in times of crisis. He’s fooling so many for their monetary and cult-like admiration that “they are the ones they have been waiting for”. Obama said that “we need a sense of urgency”, but he has always been inactive or at best, reactive to things.

Watch Larry King. McCain messed up big time.

Lee: “The heck with committees…
When it comes to 700 billion of taxpayer dollars, it is each legislator’s responsibility to take part in such negotiations and figure out what exactly is going on for the sake of the people back home that they represent.”
Again, nice hollow talking point. HOW WOULD YOU HAVE 100 PEOPLE WORK SIMULTANEOUSLY ON CRAFTING A SINGLE COMPLEX DOCUMENT? Committees aren’t just a punchline in Dilbert cartoons, they’re how the Senate has worked for centuries. I’m eager to hear your description of a better way. Actually, I’m heading off to bed – have fun spouting your meaningless talking points. Don’t let reality in the way, I’m sure it would be best to get 100 partisan Senators all huddled around a computer with a 42″ screen to “work it out.” Yeah, that is reality in McCain world.

Who beleives (dumb citizen/smart citizen)?
–that a mess made by DEREGULATION can be fixed by a self-described DEREGULATOR
–that being able to see a foreign country from where you live makes you foreign policy expert. By that standard people living near the border of Mexico are foreign policy expert.
–that a vp candidate with a D in ECONOMICS, while switching 8 colleges to squeeze out a college degree is a good fit for our country
–that a prez candiadat who ranked 894th out of 899th in college is a good fit for a smart nation.
THE ANSWER is obvious: a dumb citizen. Well we Americans will prove how dumb/smart we are in the next election. We were dumb enough to have been fooled in 2004. We have another chance to prove wheather we are getting dumber/smarter in Nov4.
So vote like an idiot/smart citizen….vote like a dumb to make america loose and vore like a smart one to make american live on.

jasoninPA10: “My Point: Just because the SC rules one way, doesn’t mean that it is what the Constitution really meant or not. Supreme Courts rule according to their own political persuasion, and everyone knows that.”
The constitution itself EXPLICITLY gives sole authority for deciding “what it meant” to the Supreme Court alone. The Founding Fathers forsaw people trying to twist it’s words to support their personal opinion and nipped it in the bud by setting in stone who has the final say on interpretation – there is no vagueness here. Constitutionally, the Supreme’s interpretation is correct. This doesn’t take an expert on constitutional law, a Jr. week long module should have covered it.

Republicans are the idiots that got us into this mess and Republicans will be the same idiots to mire the U.S. even deeper into the quagmire. Remember John McCain’s (the George Bush clone, oh I’m sorry republicans don’t like to talk about cloning or anything else of a scientific nature!)…the economy is “fundamentally sound”.

Bush wants Obama to be part of the
Bailout so if it goes wrong as in
Hyper Inflation …. Well Its .Obama’s
fault he knew it was a stupid Idea
and McBush knows little about the Ecomony
Yep Id stay away from that quicksand..

Is anyone else extremely worried, that the people who share alot of blame getting us here, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd (even Bill Clinton has admitted this) are the ones running the show? How much money have they gotten from the involved parties?

what is SHOCKING is that obama had to be summoned and prompted by the president to return to washinghton to do his job. he is a senator he had a job to do.
he looked like a naughty little boy.
oh yeah CALL ME! what leadership.

McBush Likes to fire, suspend,
Why does he not just Quit as in drop out

Obama HID from 10 debates — 10 town halls Mccain requested.
What is Obama afraid of???

Two brilliant moves by McCain:
1) picking Palin
2) suspending campaign and working in DC
Whoooo hoooo! Obama looks like a LOSER.

Soooo, let’s get this straight: McCain forced himself into the meetings but then didn’t say anything. The Republicans are mad because Obama actually tried to negotiate something. And, if it’s true he asked Paulson what he thought of the Republican “alternative” plan, it sounds like Obama was also trying to do something in a bipartisan fashion. Looking at the facts of what happened, it’s pretty obvious all McCain wanted was a photo op.

Libs complain this is a “stunt”…
Let’s educate liberals on “stunts”
Speaking in Berlin is a “stunt”
Going back to DC to do your job is a “responsibility”
Try to get that straight.

And deciding to NOT visit our wounded soldiers in Iraq once he learned CAMERAS were not allowed in SHOWS
who is in this for publicity.
There is nothing whatsoever sincere about Obama’s concern for America or it’s people. He cares about himself only.

Obama’s #1 claim is that he can get both sides in a room & get consensus. OK-let’s see it.

From Reuters:
Senior Democrats said they came away from the afternoon White House session with the impression that McCain was backing an entirely new Wall Street rescue plan, one differing markedly from a Bush administration proposal under discussion for days.
“House Republicans, in some kind of arrangement with McCain, went off to wherever. I don’t know whether they’re ready to negotiate this. Their thing was some totally different mortgage insurance plan … that would clearly delay this for a week or more,” Frank told reporters.
PLAYING RUSSIAN ROULETTE WITH THE U.S. ECONOMY TO HIDE FROM A DEBATE IS TREASONOUS.

We’re here because of deregulation. A Republican principle that McCain has supported. I’m not sure what this man is trying to do these days?

Realist
thats not true and you know it… Obama doesnt respect people anyone that puts themselves above everyone is a messianic psychopath !

Yeah, McCain doesn’t respect women,
not like Clinton did for sure.
He really was a hit with women.
Loved them all.
Obama loves women so much he wouldn’t want his daughters to have to be “punished” by having a baby.
Since when is motherhood a punishment?
Give me a break.

sonshine
yea at this point I will go with the far less bizarre campaign and candidate which is mccain

staniam….his voting record speaks for itself.

liberati
yea tonight on Larry King some Obama supporters were pushed on Obamas ties to Fanny/Freddy and they failed to see the mccains campaign manager they are in as deep as he is

Obama is the first and only person who goes to town hall meetings with his fans and has to use multiple teleprompters.
Any idea how they are used?
Does he pick people where he already knows what questions they will ask or
is someone typing like mad telling Obama what to say?
Just curious.

A few reports stated a good percentage of the money from this bailout was to go to ACORN.
If true, do you Dems think it’s a good idea to give billions, if not hundreds of billions to Acorn?

Dave
ah ACORN the oganization that was set up to disguise Obama lobbyists how fitting!

sonshine
yea I wont go as far as to call Obama a muslim but its sortof curious!

herta
what do you care if Mccain wentto washington today to”turn over a few tables” Obama probably couldnt lift them or look silly if he did!

and a pleasant good night to all…..

House republicans should not support this bill and ask for more oversight they have done a commendable job representing the aspirations of majority of americans who are just amazed the way a republican administration is socializing junk of wall street. McCain has jumped on every issue he represented once what next hillarycare, anyhow house republicans have earned my vote mccain can go to hillary supporters or hell.

PP
yep… thats Obamas job but yet hes whining about having to use his “big plane with his name on it” to leave FL and fly back to washington and maybe not get another debate practise in!

pp:
give it up…
FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document lacks a raised seal or a signature are false. We have posted high-resolution photographs of the document as “supporting documents” to this article. Our conclusion: Obama was born in the U.S.A. just as he has always said

That’s what you call transparency in government.

Iam so fed up with Mc
Cain & his insufferable need for drama. It really doesn’t make him appear “Presidental”. Just another self-centered,egotistical Politition staging a showdown for no other reason than his need to be the center of attention.
I was looking forward to the Friday debates, to be able to evaluate the canidates side by side. I hope that Obama goes ahead without him & treats us to a 90 minute Town Hall meeting. Maybe they will open up the meeting to phone in questions.

Bryan T
It is still not certain that Obama will win the election maybe hes the one that is scared to debate!

Just a few comments:
Supposedly, foreign policy is McCain’s strongest suit. So why postpone the debate that could conceivably gain him some points? The only thing I can think of is that McCain isn’t as sure of his foreign policy ground as he’d like us to think. Given that he spent the summer bashing Obama rather than talking about policy, it wouldn’t surprise me.
I refuse to believe the statement from McCain’s campaign for several reasons:
1. I’ve never heard Obama lose his cool, so I find the idea that his conduct led to a shouting match to be unbelievable.
2. The Senators and Congressmen interviewed by the press-even the Republicans-never said ONE WORD about this. Don’t you think Sen. Shelby, the ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, would have immediately lambasted Obama to the press if Obama had done what the McCain camp said he did? The consensus on both sides is that they almost had the deal done, then McCain butted in and ruined everything.
3. I’ve seen at least one comment that says Obama was weak when he told Congress to call him if he was needed. As several others here have said, neither he nor McCain are on the relevant committees (Commerce has to do with trade, not banking), so their presence would not have accomplished anything. Obama was right when he said inserting election politics into delicate negotiations is counter-productive. McCain has proven him right.

Just noticed Jack’s “meow” at the end. I like that:
McCain – Palin ’08 “Meow”

I think the R’s have convinced themselves that the D’s always blink. Given the mood of the country and the radioactive nature of the bailout they better realize it’s like expecting the D’s to cut social security – it ain’t gonna happen.
When the R’s walk, the timer on the nuke begins its countdown. At some unknowable moment we pass the point of no return and America will become an economic wasteland with McCain as its founding father.
Well done Republicans.

The events of the last two days can only be considered as posturing.
Let both lay out their proposals uninterrupted to the public during the debate; only then will Americans get a true idea of who has the better plan for solving this crisis.

I’ve yet to see Obama lose his cool, unlike McCain’s explosions which have been recorded and documented several times before. This is a statement from the McCain campaign and I haven’t heard anything like that anywhere else.
If you’re doing something to help, you don’t have to make a big show of how you’re coming in to save the day- your actions will speak for you. McCain doesn’t even have to be there all the while-there’s no reason why he can’t show up for the debate, and he’s likely only complicated things, and now the bail out is falling apart.

The Debate
Sen. McCain let’s talk about the war on Iraq .Thousands of brave Americans dead and injured. Let’s talk about the deregulation of the market and for consequence the collapsed economy. Lets talk of the billions dollars gifted to the oil companies resulting on today price of petrol. * My friends that was Obama fault*.
Senator McCain you are missing the point .What makes a President is the right Judgment. Be cool like cucumber in time of crisis. Not have 7 houses 13 cars or family business hundred million dollars worth. Do not have the temper to pick a fight but the temper to fight every day make the life of the community around you better.* My friends that was Obana job.*.
Sen. you said the fundamentals of the economy are strong. What do you talking about? About the Cindy McCain business? Or about the Wall Street mess?
I don’t know that’s Obama fault to! John McCain is desperate to be President his campaign the most sleazy and shamefully ever!

How shocked am I to find more McCain bashing from Jake Tapper! Funny how these bashings are considered newsworthy!

Where was Obama’s plan. All I have heard are Obama’s talking points. John McCain submitted a plan, Obama submitted talking points. Where is his plan? All I can find is that he plans on others doing the work and he can take credit if it works and if it falls short he can say it wasn’t his plan.

Hey know who can’t block a vote on the bailout plan? House republicans! Thats right, if pelosi delivers her entire caucus House republicans can’t do a thing to stop it. So if the agreement is so universal why doesn’t she just do her job and call a vote? Oh wait, because then democrats would be responsible if the plan didn’t work. Always politics with the democrats.

I know there are economists, some of whom I respect, that think this financial crisis will blow over, that it’s a crisis in the financial superstructure that won’t ultimately affect the country’s industrial base. I have never understood the post-1980 stock market very well, but I know something about economic history, and I know that at a certain point, a financial crisis can get out of hand and lead to a credit crunch that will depress the industrial base and set off a vicious cycle of unemployment. I also know a little bit about international economic history–enough at least to appreciate what would happen if nations began to abandon the dollar the way they abandoned the British pound eighty years ago.
That’s a long way of saying that it is simply unpatriotic–it’s an insult to flag, country, and all the things that McCain claims to hold dear–for McCain to hold this financial crisis hostage to his political ambitions. McCain doesn’t know a thing about finance and is no position to help work out an agreement. If we do suffer a serious bank run, or a run on the dollar, it can be laid directly at his feet.
As I said to friends last night, if McCain had been president at this point, I would have wanted to impeach him.

John Nail:
I don’t know which comment of mine your referencing…..I made no comment on teleprompters or planted questions…