Stephanopoulos: On Track for Deal and Debate

McPalin is a farse

be clear
the years 2000 to 2006
were the years that destroyed our country if we fail
and now that side of the aisle is where there is no progress coming.
Mccain has to deal with the people that picked him
that is why he has to go back.
The rest of the people who have egg on there face are at least saying “we f#$%ed up…and it not time to fight…it’s time to get something done…
so now the people who lead our direction for 6 years in the congress (from 2000 to 2006) are trying to scr%w us even further.

You would have to explain to me how McCain wins this.
He is acting like a child, who refuses to play until he gets his way. He convinces is buddy Bush to call for a high(?) level meeting, and refuses to debate. He says he doesn’t want to politicize the process but says he will suspend his Campaign until the bill is passed.
From my point of view, he hasw been hiding himself and palin from the press and the American people, this is just one more attempt at controlling the weak and ineffective media. You Still haven’t a decent interview with a Republican
It seems you have swallowed this stuff “Hook ,Line, and Sinker.

Are you kidding me George? If the American people are so stupid that they would fall for this insane farce then the country deserves to go down the toilet.

how can mccain benefit from a proposal that obama presented?
obama proposed a joint statement, and mccain jumps into a news conference as if it’s all his idea?!
personally, it shows that he is an opportunist, and has given up all values… willing to lie about anything to get ahead.
just last week, he said we were all ok, tuesday, he claims he didn’t even READ the THREE PAGE PROPOSAL!! and now, he’s going to save the economy, AFTER BEING A SELF PROCLAIMED DEREGULATOR FOR YEARS??
look at the whole immigration bill a year ago… 11th hour, mccain jumps in for the announcement, and then OPPOSES it later!
COME ON, PEOPLE! SEE THIS FOR WHAT IT IS!! POLITICAL GRANDSTANDING!!

re: Democrat All My LIfe
you are a nut. that site is an absolute sham.

McChicken

OMG:McCain is on tv right now presenting what sounds like his energy policy-markt pricing for polution sounds like part of it.
He’s not stopping his campaign, he’s afraid to debate. He wants forums where people can’t question what he says.
What a chicken lying bastard.

McCain is in New York? What a chicken! Where is Palin right now?
Stopping my campaign my butt.
McCain Administration Press Release:
Excuse us Al Qaeda, please don’t the US or its allies today as President McCain is busy with important stuff.

This siste sarah interview the end is hilarious.
http://jedreport.com/2008/09/what-a-disaster.html

Paulson published the text of his plan on Sep 19th (available on line by the 20th at the latest).
On Tues Sep 23rd, in an interview with Tom Beres, McCain said of Paulson’s two and a half page plan:
“I have not had a chance to see it in writing. I have to examine it.”
Obviously, John didn’t see this as a crisis to review Paulson’s plan until he saw the polls and scandals affecting his campaign yesterday.
Now he charges to Washington to politicize a process where they have considerable agreement trying to claim he saved the day. If he’d been sincere and truly putting his country first, he would have worked the deal behind closed doors and not made the big press statement. No one had to know his campaign was suspended and the media circus that would result if his country was truly first.
McCain First. Country not first.

I’m sure Senator McCain thinks that there are a number of possible benefits
to this decision.
1. Reschedule what he thinks will be his strongest debate to a later date, where it gets more follow up attention.
2. Overshadow or possibly eliminate the Vice President debate next week. Anything to stop Ms. Palin answering questions or being shown unfavorably.
3. Hope that a regular debate would be unable to setup, with such a short timeframe, and he could then get his “town meetings” where he does better and is not so overwhelmed.

Want to place a bet on Palin debating Obama while McCain passes the bill on Friday night? Now that’s politics!

elaine, I was just thinking the same thing when I saw his eye last night.
Be careful that the bushies do not cancel the election. Since they allow me I am going to buy a gun, in case.

Send Sarah to debate Obama if he insists on talking and tv air time while Rome burns
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You Dear sir are obviously an idiot or have not done your home work.
Mc Cain is not on any of the boards that are curcial to drafting these policies. They are already at some point close to making an agreement. He’s presently with Bill Clinton on
some interview. When “rome” was actually burning. Mc Cain was at his birthday part with Bush.
Sarah is not running for the Presidency
Mc Cain is. So you’re suggesting the coward throw the uneducated, unprepared woman to do his job and cry “SEXISM” after. This is such SH*T. Have the bloody debate, it two hours. If Mc Cain cannot handle multifunction then stop his campaign and concede to the Democrates.

Come November, voters are going to kick Obama’s shiny black @ss back to his home in Kenya.

On election day, voters are going to think long and hard but the majority will arrive at the same decision: they are not going to put a muslim man in the White House.

I am still waiting for Obama to produce his birth certificate. It will probably state Kenya as place of birth.

WHy not give the bail out money to the american people for those who are affected by this wall street mess. Give the money to the Americans who have homes and are ei ther in bankrupts or close to it due to the financial crisis. Give it to the families who are making there payments and are in jeapardy because they have lost jobs due to the economy. Make the conditions that the money goes towards mortgages and bills so families could get out of financial debt. Then they can spend and help the economy.

If McCain thinks the crisis needs his attention and wants to cancel the 1st presidential debate why doesn’t he fast forward the VP debate. In other words, have Palin debate Biden on Friday night. It will give us Americans a chance to see how the VPs would do in a crisis mode when the next president may be away/ unavailable addressing more pressing issues.
That would be a bold maverick move.

Senator McCain is looking for a way to get the VP debate CANCELED!

They were close to a settlement BEFORE McPain “Putting Himself First” due to low polls. I’ve watched the Congress on CSPAN daily during this crisis and it was obvious that Congress was going to “put America first” by insisting on oversight, ownership, and aid for homeowners as well as a bail-out. Congress was close to a deal anyway. America doesn’t need McBush as a loose-cannon in the delicate works, richocheting off low polls doing one crazy stunt after another, ALWAYS PUTTING McPAIN FIRST!!!!

Can any of my RINO friends explain to me why it is a good idea for McCain to rush to Washington to preside over the surrender of the Reagan Revolution to Pelosi and Barney Frank? Where did you get your principles?

Sorry…………http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13877.html

to: jim
It’s FARCE Jim not FARSE. The McPalin is cute, rings a bit better than O’Biden but somehow I don’t see how being “filled with mingled ingredients” is a fitting insult. How about Farsi, that sounds close and might be considered insulting. Well at least you didn’t call him a Jelly Doughnut.

Obama was trivializing their need to be in Washington because he was frantically cramming for the foreign policy debate. McCain could do foreign policy in his sleep.

It’s the fault of the poor if congress has not been given those mortgage to the people who cannot pay we will not be in such mess.
Darn poor, they have more power than I thaught.
In the US there is only 3% bad loan, hear that on NPR but it’s easy to verify. So, how 3% can put us in such mess, go figure.

It IS trivial for these candidates to be in Washington unless the whole idea was to politicize the bailout – This bailout is crock of crap that is being jammed down our throats. The only people that will benefit from this bailout are the rich. W’s legacy will be how he screwed up this country so badly that he is lucky a revolution doesn’t occur. When my business was put under because of big companies squeezing me out, no one was there to help me. Is the unemployment and soup lines to good for these rich executives? How about they help their own companies like I did and but their personal assess on the line. That’s what should really happen before there is a bailout by people like me and my great grand-kids that can’t afford this.

Let me be very clear … I don’t want a man who had to borrow money from a convicted felong ANY WHERE near my money or decisions that decide the economic future of this country. If he couldn’t afford his home, how can he be trusted to read a P&L?
NO WAY, NO HOW, NEVER. NO 0BAMA.

Hey beebop – he is not on the banking committee have no fear- he is there strictly to vote – you don’t think either one of them is providing any useful input do you? I would be worried about the banking committees credentials. BTW – hope you are independently wealthy cause this is just gonna make you a little better off than us po people

Hey the guy who last week said “the economy is fundamentally sound” is now driving the ship. The Skipper with his second mate Dubbya (Gilligan).
(oh no mr bill)

Hey Chris, did you expect anything different – I hear the adds are running as though he were campaigning -

Dear Richard,
Your blog with racist comments only confirms my belief that the Republican party is filled with racists who “claim” to be Christian. I got news for you: demeaning other races and religions is NOT CHRISTIAN!
VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WITH INTELLIGENT PEOPLE-
VOTE DEMOCRATIC-OBAMA/BIDEN

There are a lot of stupid redneck idiot Men & Women out in America. I’m a redneck. But I know when someone is given me a line of BS, so far both McCain and Obama are feeded the American people a lot of BS. I have been looking forward to these “Debates” between McCain and Obama to get the straight BS. Also looking forward to the Pitbull Palin with Joey the Shark “Debate” too.

Now I know why I stopped reading these comments about a week ago…
Doesn’t anyone give a sh** that our elected officials want to actually work together?! I think McCain going back is a good thing – it’s called LEADING BY EXAMPLE!
As far as postponing the debate – as far as I understand, he proposed to postpone it rather than said flat out he wasn’t coming. Besides – it’s on foreign policy NOT domestic policy – I hardly think McCain is trying to avoid that!
On the other hand, Obama makes a good point that you have to be able to juggle more than one thing at a time.
This demonizing is truly terrible!! How can you be so angry at either one of them – they’re BOTH trying to help – they just have different points of view. Pick which one matches the most closely with yours and keep an open mind!

The 1992 Presidential Debates with Ross Perot were not dull. His warnings have now come true. Replace John McCain with Ron Paul. Add Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney. Barack Obama must earn his victory, not win by default.

If this legislation is so important, why not take more time to get it done? Why are we in such a rush to pass it as is, with no explanation of what the money will be used for? Is it that the Congress doesn’t want to extend their stay in congress even one more day than their alloted time? Come on. If the whole world economy is on the brink, take some time and make it work for everybody.

Obama puts himself first yet again. First it was his reversal of taking federal matching funds because he could politically gain by raising more money privately. Then he agreed to debate anytime with McCain and since he had a lead in the polls he refused seeing only downside risks to himself. Now he says this is the worst crisis since the great depression and he didn’t even want to take time off from the campaign trail to show his supposed leadership. Once again it’s all about Obama, I want politicians to put the country’s needs frist and not themselves.

Anyone here likes to eat Chicken McNuggets?

Democrat All My LIfe: It’s over!!! Barack was born in Hawaii and John in the Panama Canal. We’ve let that little detail slide since his father was an American serviceman and his mom an American. Now, if you really want to stir up citizenship, I’d suggest you have your facts straight and stop following the lead of a ethnocentristic narcissist who hates anyone that doesn’t looks like him. Let it goooo!

To Climber,
You are the only one here that made any sense! Thank God there is someone here that actually can write some true facts. The rest of what I read is just a bunch of crap… a bunch of whiners.
Global Warming? Read this… get another point of view first.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/global-warming020507.htm

BILL CLINTON and RICK DAVIS trade AMERICAN MORGAGES FOR
BLOOD DIAMONDS from African UN MEMBERS, give Wall Street a BOOST.
Ask Palin. She has a Monkey wrench for Americans. CNN and MSNBC
Republican and Democrates Unite and ASK BUSH and RICHARD SHELBY WHY. LEAVE NOW YOU LIERS.

I’m against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG. Instead, I’m in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a “We Deserve It Dividend”. To make the math simple, let’s assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+. Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up. So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billion that equals $425,000.00. My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a “We Deserve It Dividend”.
Of course, it would NOT be tax free. So let’s assume a tax rate of 30%. Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes.
That sends $25,500,000,000 right back to Uncle Sam. But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket. A husband and wife has $595,000.00. What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family?
Pay off your mortgage – housing crisis solved.
Repay college loans – what a great boost to new grads
Put away money for college – it’ll be there
Save in a bank – create money to loan to entrepreneurs.
Buy a new car – create jobs
Invest in the market – capital drives growth
Pay for your parent’s medical insurance – health care improves
Enable Deadbeat Dads to come clean – or else
Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+ including the folks who lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company that is cutting back. And of course, for those serving in our Armed Forces.
If we’re going to re-distribute wealth let’s really do it…instead of trickling out a puny $1000.00 ( “vote buy” ) economic incentive that is being proposed by one of our candidates for President.
If we’re going to do an $85 billion bailout, let’s bail out every adult U S Citizen 18+!
As for AIG – liquidate it. Sell off its parts. Let American General go back to being American General. Sell off the real estate. Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up. Here’s my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesn’t. Sure it’s a crazy idea that can “never work.” But can you imagine the Coast-To-Coast Block Party! How do you spell Economic Boom? I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion “We Deserve It Dividend” more than I do the geniuses at AIG or in Washington D. C.
And remember, The Birk plan only really costs $59.5 Billion because $25.5 Billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam.

no one is buying the fear.deal getting done?9 out of 10 amercians support bail out?usa today reports on sept 25th.who is making all this up?the bill will pass sunday and knowbody will be watching. nfl saves the bill.thank god for the nfl.

On today’s episode of This Week with George Stephanopolous, who was the idiot in the glasses who said “if you don’t have money, don’t purchase anything?” If I didn’t buy school supplies for my students, they wouldn’t have school supplies. I have 7 years of college education and JUST NOW make $32,000.00 per year. My husband has a college education and only makes $8.00 an hour due to AA layoffs after 9/11. There is just not enough money to go around. Who was that idiot that said “don’t buy things”?
Obviously he has never been without money. We have credit card debt, college loans, and a home loan, but we do without other things like nice clothes, nice cars, and going out to eat. We pay our bills and just plain do without things that other people have. We put off medical appointments and surgeries until we save enough for our portion of the bills. It takes a long time to save. I have waited 7 years for neck surgery and been in pain the whole time.
As to the bail-out of mortgage companies and bail-out of average people’s mortgages, why should I pay higher taxes to bail out other people’s mortgages? I do not overspend. I understand that some people have bought and bought and bought things they don’t need. Why can’t they go get another job? Why can’t they sell the clothes, cars, etc that they have purchased? This sense of entitlement is crazy. People think their kids are entitled to the $300.00 video games and expensive blue-jeans, etc. My kids did without name-brand clothes and video games. Why do people try to keep up with other people?
My family does without just so we can pay all of our bills. I am sick of paying more taxes because other people don’t want to “do without”. I am all for helping our elderly because their income is limited and inflation has not kept up. I am all for helping children, but not when their own parents won’t get up and get jobs. (plural)
I am not for bailing out executives for poor management. Why should they get any severance package at all? They knew it was getting bad, and they did nothing. They made reckless speculations. They gave home loans to people who couldn’t afford them.
As for our Congressmen/women, I could live on their salaries very well. I could live really well with their wonderful medical benefits and retirement packages. They do not understand what it is like to live with under $50,000.00 a year income for a family of three.
I wish every person with $100,000.00 in the bank could live like I do for just one year. Trickle down does not work. It never has. The men on THIS WEEK are worried about people with over $100,000.00 in the bank. What about those of us who have less than $100.00 in the bank after paying bills?
$700 billion?? I can’t even imagine what $700 thousand would do for my family. I know the economy needs a jump-start, but some people ARE still buying when they cannot afford it. Why not let everything FAIL. Then we can start over and get rid of these ridiculously high executive salaries. We can plant a garden, drive older cars that are paid for, not drive so much, etc. Good grief! Some Americans have a serious case of the “gimmies”! For those of you who are just getting buy like me and STILL manage to pay their bills….hooray for you! I used to have a middle class income…now I am considered low income with a college education. Come on, George Stephanopolis….why don’t you put one ordinary, poor American on your show to debate your guests?

Sara needs to be much more professional instead of the hockey playing, moose hunting girl. What a sad state we would be in if she isn’t coached. Just being herself isn’t cutting it.