Stephanopoulos: Debate or Obama Town Hall Meeting?

This is an absolute circus.
I don’t understand much of the complexities…but one thing has me scratching my head…
If it was so important/perilous a situation that McCain “suspended” his campaign (which he didn’t but that’s another story)…why are House Republicans thinking disaster isn’t looming and want to take more time with a brand new proposal?

Obama go to Washington DC, work with your leaders and Mccain pass the bill.
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yeah…because yesterday’s meeting was so helpful. :/

Obama only cares about himself, his image and a vote.
Kudo’s to John McCain for Holding his job serious, and willing to do it.
If Obama can’t reschedule the debate it shows just how shallow and self absorbed he is.
It will Also proves the Democrats are behind the problems of the present economy and are happy about the state of the Economy. That they have used the people and created a way and means to get votes.
No Obama Ever…………….

If neither McCain nor Obama had gone to Washington at Bush’s request, a bipartisan plan would have been agreed upon by now. By all accounts, McCain was responsible for ruining the bipartisan deal–perhaps so that he’d have reason to hang around D.C. and avoid debating Obama.
The Republicans have certainly made a fiasco out of the campaign, which is looking even worse than the past 8 years.

seah wrote, “Kudo’s to John McCain for Holding his job serious, and willing to do it.”
I know you can’t be that dumb. How long has John McCain been out of Washington? I am not faulting him for that as I understand running for president requires some time to campaign. But for you to think this ploy was anything but that is mind boggling. Obviously he has his audience.

McSame is not trying to solve a crisis because he does not understand economy rather he has politicized the financial crisis we are facing because his poll numbers were falling as a rock. Now that he cannot solve the problem because Washington has never solved a problem in the past 8 years, he has to go back where he is needed most: the presidential debate. He is not a president, he has to leave his mentor WBush solve problems they have created togather as champions of deregulation of the financial market. God save America from McSame.God bless America and God bless Obama. OBAMA/BIDEN08.

Send Sarah, if Obama insists on talking while Rome burns.

You Obama voters just keep drinking the kool-aid. Of course Obama wants to have the debate or a town hall meeting or anything to just hear himself talk. That’s all he does is talk, but with no substance. You Obama voters want to elect the classic high school debate wimp to be president of our country! Just keep drinking the kool-aid.

rafraf…it is McCain playing political games. Until yesterday, quiet bipartisan negotiations were being done. McCain flies in and negotiations have turned into a circus.

“if Obama insists on talking while Rome burns.”
Please tell me exactly what it is that Obama and McCain should be doing to help solve this problem at 9pm on a Friday.
Be specific.

McCain is watching out for taxpayer dollars. We cannot afford to give Wall Street $700 billion. Maybe a lower amount to prop up the economy–how about $50 billion–and a bunch of jail time.
Obama doesn’t seem to know what to do, which is scarry.

How can McCaine put a financial bill together when he can’t even see he costs the people of Mississippi 7 million dollars? What a joke.

the best thing both obama and mccain could do is stay away from washington—and let the congress deal with this problem—mccain is just grandstanding—he is the deregulation guy that caused this problem—his 20 20 hindsight is outstanding—–palin is a good example of his judgement.

LOOK AT THIS PRE-FABRICATED MCCAIN PROPAGANDA, WHICH IS ALWAYS ON TOP OF THE LIST:
“Obama be a doer, not a talker” (adam) – “Obama only cares about himself” (seah) – “Obama is making this look like …” (rafraf) etc. etc. etc. -
These comments are recycled Republican TALKING POINTS about a far more intelligent and – yes – experienced candidate. They are as idiotic and senile as Mr. McCain himself.

Wonder if Obama got debate questions early to practice with all week since it is well known he debates poorly without a teleprompter?
Debate Prep: Obama Working Out, McCain Taking Naps
Sep 22, 2008 … McCain will spar this week in mock debates with Michael Steele. … Obama will practice with Greg Craig, a Washington lawyer and former …
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/22/debate-prep-obama-working_n_128329.html – 132k – Cached – Similar pages – Note this

I would love if someone could tell how to ask a question to Mr Obama. I am very interested on how he stands on the very small business person. What incentives our there to help us stay alive.We are taxed like crazy,we pay pay 100% medical for our employees. I very much feel like we get lost in the economy’s shuffle of life. Thank you,NANCYOCONNOR@FUSE.NET

A bill would have been passed today if McCain hadn’t pulled another one of his stupid stunts. Let the debate go on.

nancy
just remember who got us in this 8 year mess—–the main cause is deregulation mccain.there is no oversight.

looks like Obama is trying to distract the public from his possible already cheating with having gotten the debate questions early by suddenly trying to change debate format to town hall meeting tonight…
hey does that mean the moderator has orchestrated questions and answers for him since it is well known the reason why he vehemently has dodged McCain’s open invitation of 10 town hall style debates this summer is, he can’t debate well without teleprompters!!

The bottom line is that if McCain DOESN’T show up……..his campaign is OVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
People WANT this debate.

faeaerg, who gave him the questions in advance?
btw, Obama said he would be willing to talk economics on Friday at the debates…

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.

maybe mccain fears we will start calling him NERO—SINCE HE HAS HAD A GOOD PANT IN THE CREATION OF THIS PROBLEM—–THE DEREGULATION GUY

What people perceive to be an advantage to Obama in these recent days of economic turmoil is really that he’s unequivocally shown better ability to understand, judge, and manage the situation better than John McCain. First McCain says that “the fundamentals of our economy are strong” on a day where the world is shown that is anything but the truth. After acknowledging later that the economy is “at great risk,” he then declares that no financial institution should be rescue from turmoil no way, now how, well maybe…ok, sure. He says the problem is greed but, “I’m a fundamental deregulator.” With so many convolutions in between half-cocked calls for the firing of the FEC (Federal Election Committee=not involved) and the SEC, the American people don’t know if John McCain is talking about football or the economy. I don’t think McCain knows either.
At the same time Barak Obama , who has supported efficient regulation and enforcing the laws we have already, exercised good judgment in waiting until all the facts were out instead of jumping to hasty conclusions and declaring rash courses of actions. He remained straightforward about the dangers in the economy, staying cool and optimistic, and receptive to ideas. When Paulson came out with his $700B no-accountability demand, Obama rebuffed it and set the framework of principles for Paulson to work within. Obama understands that as distasteful as this rescue is to everyone, except Wall Street, it is likely necessary to prevent the greatest economic depression the U.S. has ever been through. To be fair, McCain’s and Obama’s framework principles are very similar, though McCain’s are slightly more populist and irrational given the circumstances. Both candidates, both parties realize when a crisis is so significant, that they need to sit down at the roundtable to do work for the American people. It’s too bad John McCain is the last one home.

Tim: You said what I said. Obama had three days of training for this debate and he may lose all he learned. I don’t understand why he had to be trained. For a Harvard graduate I assumed he would be smarter than what he is. Of course, all his speeches are copied from MLK or RFK and a few added words of his own. No candidate ever had to do that. Also, I don’t think Bill Clinton is going to vote for Obama. He likes McCain better. He may campaign a little for him because Hillary may want to keep her senate seat and needs the votes.

he didnt suspend his campaign, he and palin both were on with curic. he hadnt even read the draft of the bailout. his presence was not needed
although as one of the keating 5 he has had past expierence with bank scandals.
he is a fraud.

McCain is about showboating and his Republican party will help him do so!
McCain is an old man trying for that last hoorah! Please don’t try for it on our backs!
Obama is nobody’s puppet. If McCain won’t debate, then Obama can do whatever he needs to do.
McCain go sit in a rocking chair, Palin go back to Alaska and look at Russia!

ME: You must be smoking Obama’s pot. What seven million dollars. It don’t take seven million dollars to set up a stage or have the Governor be there. The governor travels anyway. And there should not be any debates. Whatever they have to say they already did that in their campaigns. Obama never won a debate yet, failed in the forum interview and would fail again. Its a waste of time. I can see the VP debate because they never had a debate but McCain and Obama have had debates before maybe not together but who cares.

reddog0216, Carter and Clinton would be 12 years total while Reagan and G.H.W. Bush and G.W. Bush would be 20 years.
Next, using 1977 as starting point, U.S. House was under Democrats control for 18 (till 94) and almost 2 (07-) and under Republican control for 12 (95-07) years.
U.S. Senate, meanwhile had been under Democratic control for 4 (77-81) and 8 (87-95) and almost 2 (07-) and under Republicans for 6 (81-87) and 12 (95-07) years.
All told:
Democrats: 12 (pres) + <20 (house) + <14 (sen)
Republicans: 20 (pres) + 12 (house) + 18 (sen)
You do the math.

I am sick of this presidential campaign.
Let’s vote and get it over with!!!!!!!!

Senator Obama recently commented that America wants to hear the candidates speak. I, for one, have heard this young man speak way too many times already. I’m much more interested in salvaging my retirement savings, and heating my home this winter. Country before campaign!

get on with the debates—and mccain stop hiding—a—-d—student could in no way understand wall street.stop the grandstanding—

Really? They would have passed the bill if MCCain hadn’t stepped in and INTERRUPTED. As stated in all of the news articales and quotes from Congress, his speech was meaningless and caused more confusion. He is just upset he is down so far in polls. LET THE DEBATE GO ON!!!!!

remember randy duke cunningham who was convicted of taking bribes, he too said he was a war here.

“When he suspended his campaign”. McCain never suspended his campaign. He continued to run ads, his surrogates were all over TV and and he used every available opportunity to be partisan.

Obama has been calm, collected, and thoughtful throughout this financial crisis. He’s been the grown-up in this while mess. Let’s vote for the grown-up in November!

“Economics is something that I’ve never really understood as well as I should. I’ve never been involved in the financial stuff, the financial workings of the country.” -John McCain
“Now, I am not an expert on Wall Street. I am not an expert on some of this stuff.” -John McCain
“I’m a guy who always, always favors deregulation.” -John McCain
“I didn’t pay nearly the attention to [economic] issues in the past. I was probably a supply-sider based on the fact that I didn’t really jump into the issue.” -John McCain
“I don’t have that kind of [economic] expertise.” -John McCain
“I wish interest rates were zero!” -John McCain
“I don’t think that, frankly, that someone who wants to increase the burden of government regulation has any real understanding of economics.” -John McCain
“I know a lot less about economics than I do about military or foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.” -John McCain
“The fundamentals of our economy are strong.” -John McCain

I’m a registered Independent who is greatly anticipating tonight’s debate. We are a mere 39 days from the election and absolutely must hear from these candidates. I’m a bit worried about a potential president who doesn’t have the ability to multi-task. And what makes the matter even worse is that his presence in Washington right now is unnecessary – he’s not making any positive contributions to the ‘bailout’ negotiations. If John McCain is NOT playing politics, what exactly is he doing?

Washington Mutual had to be brought out by JP Morgan Chase today.
Earlier this year, I heard someone say that we can expect at least 150 banks to fail this year. Now it is being reported that some credit markets have been frozen and some businesses are unable to make their payroll because of it.
It has been a rough year for a lot of American citizens and looks like it is going to get worse. The largest Chrysler dealership is shutting down due to the high cost of gas and being unable to sell those ever so popular pickup trucks…
Obama, the great economist, needs to hie his butt to Washington, DC and at least act like he is interested in those bailout talks that are going on today because really, it is not about a freaking “debate” – talking about what you MIGHT do – it’s about the economy, stupid!
PUMA!

From:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/mccain-and-bushs-kabuki-theatre-mccain.html
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Credit Where Credit Isn’t Due: McCain and Bush’s Kabuki Theatre
Now we know why McCain hired the Bush contingent.
It emerged in the White House briefing today that McCain called Bush and asked him to initiate a meeting today at 4 pm at the White House, putatively for him to “deal with” the crisis.
That is, McCain asked Bush to help him create an trifecta: To try to lend some credence to McCain’s desperate assertion that a suspension of his campaign is necessary, in effect either avoiding a debate in which he would face critical questions about his stance on the economy or marching in claiming “victory”; attempting to co opt the financial crisis thereby trying to put an end to his plummeting in the polls created by his flailing positions on the economy–perhaps best reflected by his statement days ago that the “fundamentals of the economy are strong”; and perhaps buying more time for Sarah Palin after her embarrassing photo op at the UN yesterday, by moving her debate forward as well.
Here’s how it happened, according to Q and A at the WHB:
McCain emailed Bush asking for the 4 P.M. meeting. Now, one reasonably might ask, why is today such a necessity for McCain, if his interest is solely the national good?
Because it is before the debate. McCain hopes to stage a meeting at the White House, thereby, with Bush’s cooperation, lending plausibility to his claim to need to suspend his campaign. Then, if Republicans, in their own electoral interest, can be persuaded to come to agreement, before the debate, he would claim–in an act of utter stage management–to have “resolved” the crisis. Thereby hoping to take the heat off on his past careening stances and sliding polls and staunch the bleeding on the polls–before the debate.
This is Kabuki Theatre masquerading as substance–no different than what we saw at the U.N. yesterday.
It is utterly stage managed, utterly cynical, and utterly unrelated to the substantive deliberation necessary to actually resolve these matters on the merits and for our nation’s future, rather than for short-term and desperate political advantage.
These occurrences are equally important for what they indicate about McCain’s governing style as they are for their impact upon democratic process: impulsive acts that rely on drama and theatrical posture rather than substantive reasoning and long-term deliberation; a strong willingness to sacrifice substantive reasoning, deliberative process, and even prior structures and agreements to immediate political need; an attempt to reach outcomes through last minute stage management rather than substantive argument.
These should create deep concern for anyone who wishes for a change in governmental process from the past eight years.
We have an economy, rather than a campaign, to rescue. Putting nation before politics means putting all attempts to resolve it before political attempts to co opt it–and to move towards one’s commitments, rather than towards a more immediate and short-term salvation.
Cite:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/mccain-and-bushs-kabuki-theatre-mccain.html

faeaerg:
Stop being STUPID!

If the debate goes into town hall style debate tonight, does that mean the moderator has rehearsed questions and answers with Obama too since it is well known he debates poorly without teleprompters?
Why the sudden shift?
To specifically distract from Obama’s blatant lack of knowledge and experience for the job of president?
After all, remember how Obama vehemently dodged McCain’s open invitation of 10 town hall style debates this summer? And only traveled to Iraq for the first time this summer since 2004 as senator and to which he also refused to visit with the troops?

lee lee
hello

i think this debate issue also goes to freedom of the press somewhat. but i’ve heard more than one constitutional issue twisted around this campaign season. Freedom of the press means the press can print what they want without fear of gov’t retribution. It does not mean someone has to debate when they want them to or that Sarah Palin (or anyone else) has to grant an interview whenever the press wants. It’s like no religious test for office. That means a person can compete or run for office regardless of religion. It does not mean the voter cannot take it (or anything else) into account when he/she votes. a voter can decide for whatever personal reasons they want.

rodney – Hey Buddy!

McCain seems to think he’s fooling those of intelligence in this country since he whole “Clownerick” gamble was to bet on the stupidity of the American public. NOT SO FAST MCCHICKEN!!
Everyone knows that you HAVE to attend this debate. The rednecks in MS have publicly stated that if you don’t show, “Yer gonner lose their vote fer shur”! No worries on McCain’s end, right? How bad can it be? How worse can it get?
After all, right now he’s looking at being BLOWN AT in the GE.
Get ready for a landslide.
POTUS OBAMA – ITS A LOCK

I am not sure about many of you, but I certainly don’t want a president in office who can not focus on a number of complex issues at one time. I agree that this bail out package is a big deal. However, let’s not forget that we are in the middle of two wars, a financial crisis, and a whole host of other major issues. If McCain can not find a way to give attention to the bailout and manage a political campaign at the same time, how in the heck can we expect him to manage more than one major issue at a time when he is the president. I applaud Obama for his ability to multi-task during this difficult time. What a great sign of his leadership ability!

Maybe McBush could pull a Superman
and fly around and around the world faster than light and turn back time .. to before Merrill Lynch sold out…
that would give him time to Debate…
The Fact is whatever they pass stands
a good chance on not working …
and may have to be refined in a few months
by then Bush will be gone.. and one
of the 2 contenders will be President
SO ON WITH THE DEBATE…..
USE A REMOTE LIVE FEED FROM DC. AND LET
MCBUSH DO A TELECONFERENCE DEBATE.
Or is he to tied up and chicken for that?

McCain is showing us leadership, Obama is showing us business as usual. And I just saw why the bailout bill stalled, Schumer and Dodd both have personally invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in companies that now need to be bailed out. Those Obama surrogates do not deserve to be rescued, they are part of the problem, and these are Obama surrogates.
If Obama continues to a one-man debate it will be Obama talking to Obama telling people that it’s Obama’s turn to get paid (and his surrogates too).

“Kudo’s to John McCain for Holding his job serious, and willing to do it.”
Don’t kid yourself. What McCain is doing is not his job.
He’s a senator, as is Obama, neither of whom would ordinarily be involved in these negotiations. They don’t sit on the relevant committees. It’s not their job to make these negotiations part of their presidential campaign – but that’s exactly what McCain has done.
According to his own statement, McCain “did not attack any proposal or endorse any plan.” All he did was urge that “all sides would have to cooperate and build a bipartisan consensus for a solution that protects taxpayers.”
So in other words, he said “we need a solution” and did nothing to help realize that solution. He did nothing.
Do you really think he needed to dash off to Washington to do that, dragging all the politics of a Presidential campaign with him? Seriously?
It’s a disaster. Maybe it would be just as bad if McCain hadn’t done what he did, but there’s no way he’s helped.

have to go
but if anyone cannot see what the last8 years have brought us you deserve to loose all you have–and another republican will bring more of the big business ripoffs—-remember that the democratic party has traditionaly been the working mans party—-SHOW THEM THE POWER WE HAVE–WE THE WORKING STIFFS..GOODBYE

McCain campaign officials tell ABC News that they have made no decisions yet on whether the Republican presidential candidate will be there.
Why hasn’t McCAIN decided to go? Stay by your phone and wait for a polster asking if he should go or not. Based on the majority McCAIN will make up his mind. Shamefull tactic.

The Republicans are so proud of the Health Care Savings Account gimmick that they passed, I’d like one of the debate questions ask to John McCain to be “Have you or any other Republican in Congress given up their tax payer paid for health care plan for them and their family and started the Health Care Savings Account to cover all of their medical bills”?

I cannot believe the Republicans having problems getting this deal done. Is McCain creating problems with his party. I expected the Democrats to go against the deal, however, I hope they come to some sort of agreement soon. Regarding the debate McCain trying to reschedule for Oct 2 the date Palin/Biden supposed to debate, why? Something is going on behind, maybe Palin should just drop off the race. McCain is not happy with his choice, take a close look since he choose her for Veep, she is a liability not an asset to him. THE DEBATE MUST GO ON TONIGHT I EXPECT OUR PRESIDENT TO MULTI TASK. COME ON MCCAIN YOU CAN DO IT. DON’T BE AFRAID TO DEBATE OBAMA.

HEY MARK!
THE KOOLAID IS GOOD!
WANT A SIP?!
OBAMA/BIDEN 08

http://www.votenader.org/debates/

he is trying to gain glory from an economic mess which he and his friends such as phil graham created. he himself said he didnt understand economic issues and from his statement of 10 days ago, the economy is basically sound, proves he doesnt. he also showed a lack of good judgment being part of the keating 5.
remember the saving and loan mess and keep mcpain away.

They will never let Palin debate with Biden, it’s just a ploy to for them to skip vice president debate.
Posted by: chris | Sep 26, 2008 9:23:48 AM
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This is a very cleaver political ploy. Many won’t see through the smoke-n-mirrors, but the bottom line is to get Ms. PALIN more time.

Abraham Lincoln debated Douglas during the Civil War. Maybe McSame is too old to chew gum and walk at the same time. What’s the rush McSame? Arent the fundamentals strong? Now it is a dire crisis? What a joke. McSame and Obama are frustrated because they have minimal influence over this and it shows how much power the President will have. Every single thing that McCain (and Obama)is doing is about politics. If you are surprised that there is politics in WAShington, then you are surprised that there is gambling in teh casino.

Posted by: Rem | Sep 26, 2008 9:02:11 AM Instead of doing math I prfer reading things like The CRA that democrats inacted to lower standards to get mortgages for people that should not of been allowed that caused this mess .Look it up and read about it then get back to me!!!

Did everyone see Moose Barbie speaking during her interview with Couric?
NOTE TO BRAIN: Block channel that she’s on for sake of kids. English language usage is HORRIFIC!
Haa Haa! Poor McCain…..Caught with his DEPENDS down and dirty AGAIN!!!.
Man, this is going to be a LANDSLIDE!
POTUS OBAMA – ITS INEVITABLE

Politics before Country, it’s the Republican way!
McInsane in the membrane has just lost himself the election.

The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), enacted by Congress in 1977 (12 U.S.C. 2901) and implemented by Regulations 12 CFR parts 25, 228, 345, and 563e, is intended to encourage depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they operate. In this section of the web site, you can find out more about the regulation and its interpretation and information on CRA examinations.

Got hold of the questions? All of the questions have been asked over and over and McCain and Obama have already don this trick before. McSame is all about politics and his choice of Palin is no different. Did you see Ms Mooseburger with Couric? Pretty scary stuff. And I am not talking about the witchcraft spells

This bizarre and knee-jerk decision by McCain to derail a 200-year-old process is completely beyond me. That this man had some sort of romantic notion that he would swoop in and save the country is just further proof that he is the same sort of gut-reactionary we’ve been saddled with for the last eight years. Where is deliberate, thoughtful common sense in the McCain camp? Where is the realization of the signals they send to the public when they do odd things like this? He’s not a maverick, he’s not a leader, he’s just a delusional old man living out his savior complex.

putting big oil and defense contractors before the american people is the republican way
remember randy duke cunningham
and mccain as one of the keating
5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Reinvestment_Act HERE SOMETHING TO READ YOU OBAMA LOVERS WHA THE LIBERALS CAUSED

Did everyone see Moose Barbie speaking during her interview with Couric?
NOTE TO BRAIN: Block channel that she’s on for sake of kids. English language usage is HORRIFIC! Rambling, mumbling, etc. I saw her mouth moving, but couldn’t understand a single thing she said. One thing’s for sure; She doesn’t know what the hell she’s talking about!
Haa Haa! Poor McCain…..Caught with his DEPENDS down and dirty AGAIN!!!.
Man, this is going to be a LANDSLIDE!
POTUS OBAMA – ITS INEVITABLE

I don’t really care about McCain’s motivation; I just want this problem solved. Since one of these men will be in charge of this mess it just makes sense that they are involved in the solution. Why wouldn’t they want to be involved is the real question?

No Jim.
Obama is a multi-tasker. McCain can’t chew bubblegum and raise his right arm at the same time.
Accept reality. McCain doesn’t have a porkchop’s chance in a piranha tank of even coming close to being Pres. The truth of the matter is that after the BLOWOUT he’s going to get, he’ll be the laughing stock of American political history. (Right along with Bush)
POTUS OBAMA – IT’S A LOCK

If your house was on fire, would you want the firefighters going to the press and debating on how they would put the fire out, or would you actually want them at your house putting the fire out. This is about doing what they have been elected to do.

People who honestly believe that McCain is going to save this country need to have their heads examined.
Remember in 2004 when you same imbeciles were chanting “four more years!”……well, by God, you’re not getting four years of your bulls**t this time!
Just… just stop.
You’re embarassing yourselves and I’m embarassed for you.
Obama, ’08

To everyone who said that Obama has the answers to the questions really meant to say that Palin has the answers to the questions since we all know Biden will have her in tears. Old McCain need to show up and get his behind left in smoke by Obama. Its not like he can’t fly in for the debate thne go back to Washington and do nothing. He claimed he pulled his ads off tv so please tell me why are they still playing his ads. McCain must really think that the public is oh so stupid! He knows he’s going to show up tonight cause if he don’t he’s done! He’s such a waste. America do you really want this man as a leader? You better wake up and smell more than the coffee!
OBAMA/BIDEN08
ITS TIME TO MAKE A CHANGE THEY ARE THE PEOPLE WHO CAN DO IT!

Mr. Magoo went to Washington only to screw up the deal that had already been reached between members of his own party and Democrats. If this is the kind of leadership we can expect from Mr. Magoo, heaven help us. Obama/Biden More Than Ever!!!

“People are losing their homes and savings and some people are worried about a debate…” Well based on that logic, why not cancel everything: work; close retail stores, gas stations…hell, cancel the presidency itself, until we’ve solved this “mess.”

McCain wants to come to the debate as the hero who just saved the town, but it is all politics. There is actually politics in Washington and anybody who thinks otherwise is a fool. Obama does it too. But, MCain is making a big mistake with this and it should be obvious to the avergae voter. And his choice of Palin was totally political too

The non-partisan Commission on Presidential Debates contacted both parties.
They set the date, the time, the place, the moderator.
John McCain agreed to the terms and said he’d be there.
Barack Obama agreed to the terms and said he’d be there.
The stage is set for tonight, 90 minutes, there are no prior obligations.
Don’t make excuses, don’t try to put some kind spin on it, if you say you’ll be there, BE THERE. End of point.

I’m so tired of the McCain supporters and the paid trolls trying to tell us that Obama is all talk and no substance. McCain screwed up the talks by showing up in DC. Listen to what even Republicans are saying about his “savior of the day” scam. Where is his substance, what has he accomplished in the 8 hours he spent in Washington. Enough already. Obama predicted in his response to McCain’s cancellation of the debate that their participation in the ongoing talks would inject partisan politics and thus harm the negotiations. That’s exactly what happened. McCain is the one w/o substance, but a whole lot of irrationality.

Can anyone be stupid enough to believe that McSame is doing this Washington thing for love of country, rather than politics. The old phart hasn’t voted on anything in Washington since April 2008. Now, he rushes of the Washington in an effort to look Presidential and promptly screws everything up. People, wake up. McSame has sold his soul to the devil. Obama/Biden 2008 More Than Ever!!!

Senator McCain has pulled this kind of political stunt before – at another time when he was behind in the polls:
McCain Backs Out of Debate In California
Bush campaign claims senator is abandoning state
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McCain campaign officials tried desperately yesterday to put the best face on their withdrawal, even as a new Field Poll showed Bush far ahead among likely Republican voters in the winner-take-all race for the state’s 162 GOP delegates.
Top campaign officials attributed McCain’s decision to Bush’s earlier reluctance to appear at the debate.
“We had agreed to do this debate a long time ago, and Gov. Bush said he wasn’t going to do it,” McCain spokesman Howard Opinsky said yesterday. “We aren’t going to hold our schedule together forever.”
But Opinsky said McCain will debate Bush on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday, a national TV show that will reach millions of Americans.
Still, just last week, the McCain campaign was openly derisive of Bush’s reluctance to commit to a California debate — and promised its own candidate would be there.
“John McCain believes it’s important for the people of California to see and hear the candidates talk about the issues,” McCain communications director Dan Schnur told The Chronicle last week. “Thirty- three million Californians are worth that attention . . . and we’ll be there, either way.”
As recently as Thursday, when he was in California, McCain was talking about his plans to debate Bush; even last night, McCain’s own Web site listed his California debate- watching parties. The CNN-Los Angeles Times debate was the only scheduled head-to-head meeting of the two candidates in California before the primary, a week from tomorrow.
McCain’s campaign said the candidate confirmed to CNN on Thursday that he would not appear. But until yesterday afternoon, when rumors swirled about the pullout, McCain — who has touted his “straight talk” politics — gave no public indication that he intended to duck the nationally televised showdown.
The bait and switch on the debate left the Arizona senator — whose favorite campaign line is “I’ll always tell you the truth” — wide open to blistering criticism from his rivals.
“Clearly, this is more double-talk from the McCain campaign,” said Alixe Mattingly, a spokeswoman for Bush. “Pulling out of this debate at the last minute is an indication that they’re pulling out of California, where McCain’s antagonistic message clearly isn’t working.”
The decision to avoid debating Bush clearly upset some of McCain’s top advisers.
“It’s definitely a mistake, but hopefully, the people of California feel strongly enough about the McCain reform agenda . . . to overlook a staff error and come out and vote for John McCain,” said Schnur, a longtime California political operative. “John McCain is completely committed to California; unfortunately, our staff’s position on this debate sends just the opposite message.”
California Republicans have been worried all along that the two leading GOP candidates are not giving the nation’s most populous state the respect it deserves. Bush’s campaign stop in Los Angeles last week, for example, was his first visit to the state since November.
Bush supporters quietly reveled in McCain’s surprise announcement.
“From a distance, it seems like the `Straight Talk Express’ is careening off the exit ramp in California,” said Leslie Goodman, a Republican communications consultant and Bush backer, in a reference to McCain’s campaign bus. “They claimed they’d make California a priority because it was win or die, and now they don’t care enough to debate.”
Although McCain’s backers insisted that a devastating series of polls had no effect on the decision, the senator’s chances of winning a Republicans-only primary in California have grown increasingly dim in recent days.
A Field Poll released today shows the state’s Republicans backing Bush over McCain in the March 7 primary by a 48 percent to 28 percent margin in the contest for California’s 162 convention delegates, a gap virtually unchanged from a Field Poll earlier this month. Other polls released over the weekend by the San Francisco Examiner and Time/CNN showed similar results.

Neither Obama not McSame have alot of influence in this current crisis. And neither does Bush and it showsd the limits of one man in government. This is something we should realize when we consider how the system works: you have to work with other people. This is a big problem for McCain. And I am not talking about the lie to Letterman either. Palin McSame will go down as a big joke and then Ms Mooseburger will go back to Alasksa to face her investigation. One of hte biggest drops in American history is happening. Apparently, the witch spells are working on her.

OBAMANATION=Closed minded people where is the koo-aid he says it is good for us we must find the kool-aid

We are watching a historic meltdown of the McCain campaign, one that will be talked about in the history books for a long time.
Did anyone here see the CBS Palin/Couric interview? It was almost embaressing to watch, though it looked a bit like a SNL skit, with Palin coming off as a comedic mixture of Valley Girl/Church Lady. Couric is much more qualified for VP than the bimbo she was interviewing.

America Wake UP Please! This is a scam – McCain and Group do not want Palin to Debate. This is true reason for the delay. This Barracuda Woman is making the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA look like some silly fools. She lacks intellectual ability on all levels. She can’t coherently answer questions without sounding like an idiotic buffoon. The McCain camp has tried to let her interview and take Q&A, but her lack of intelligence shows that they can’t allow her to be heard. Their desperate attempt to put a new face on the market has failed tremendously. This is extremely demeaning to all intelligent woman and at most of all America. Her husband has to be cc’d: on all emails and is privy to sit in on all meetings that are confidential – he is running the governor’s office and does not hold an elected office. How in the World did she get elected as Governor without them even sitting down conversing with her. As soon as she opens her month it is blatantly obvious that she not a critical thinker and she gives very vague and child like responses. Come ON! This is the United States of America… This is not happening I know – I’m in a dream. Wake up! This is a ploy to get this incompetent woman from debating. Well at least she was good for Japan…. Her popular designer imported frame has sold out and is on backorder in the US. What an insult this has become to America in general. McCain has surrendered ALL integrity for this election. We are laughing stocks…. I’m fed up with this Clown show!Question: Does a premature baby not weigh less if premature? Palin respond to that one…. Did you transport yourself and baby to a neo-natal unit because he was premature? No because you were back to work 3 days after giving birth. THAT’S ODD – You are the Grandmother that’s why! The McCain camp wants us to continue down this road of lie, after lie, distortion after distortion. I use to respect McCain but self before county. Yeah Right…… Palin is a distraction….

For those of you that are still driving blind and can’t see the forest for the trees, McCain did NOTHING yesterday but muck things up worse. He made no effort to offer up ideas, plans or suggestions at the WH meeting. The only one who did that was Obama. McLame simply deferred to John Boehner – the “embalmed look” senator who everyone must admit is a freak. I personally hope McLame does show up to make a fool of himself – he is the one that said he doesn’t know much about the economy or economics. He doesn’t need to appear in his pea-brain mind – he has enough money, cars, houses, etc., to live without any worries! However, if he doesn’t show up that is a plus as well – Obama can conduct a one-man town hall and really make an example of the old white-haired, swollen face freak who is so out of touch with the common man and woman that he should retire today and crawl back under the rock he came from and send his lame-### running mate back to the frozen tundra where hopefully a grizzly will find her.

MichaelH; I saw the interview: Ed ROllins, the head of Huckabee’s campaign said it all when he said that she shouldnt be doing these typoes of interviews and that she should have been slow rolled out as you have to get used to interviews. Ms Mooseburger, as they said, has lost alot of confidence with herself ans she is trying to duck the debates. McSame’s choice was purely political and it shows as there were better people to choose. And his whole thing about the debates the the bail out are alro very obvious too.

And in this bill, is a request from Joe Biden for $51 billion dollars for ear marks for Delaware….along with a lot of other ear marks…this is not supposed to be about EARMARKS..it is about the finanacial crisis facing the taxpayer and NOW the Dems are adding PORK!! This is just one reason why this bill should not be passed as it stands! Pay attention America, see who is asking for earmarks on YOUR DOLLAR during this crisis!!!

Fran, If Obama is smart, then he doenst have to criticize Bush or McSame beacuse they are hanging themselves. No more rope is neceesary. He needs to use the time to promote his ideas and to not tear down his opponents. They are already dying in their own political miscaluclations. This is a Shakespearean tragedy.

To reddog and mfmros:
Yes, we have been paid back all of our kids’ and grandkids’ and their children’s money that Republicans had us spend on the Iraq war. Ha ha ha. Don’t be a tool
Im sorry I beleive that more than the republicas agreed on this war The only reason Obama voted against it is because he is a PU$$Y and belives in no war Hey I dont know about you but I have not heard of one attack on american soil Bring the fight to them

Biden as well as Obama AND Palin and McSAme have all asked for EARMARKS. Even McCain has asked for them over time. So they are all scumbags for this. Nobody is more high and might on the earmark issue. But they account for 1% of the budget. How much does wasteful military expenditures account for? GET SOME PERSEPCTIVE. Earmarks for your home state promote incumbency and that is why they all do it and all let each other do it. GET SOME INSIGHT INTO HOW POLITICS WORKS.

McCain has cold feet that is fine. He and Palin can sit by the fire in a remote corner of Alaska and watch the Vodka sipping Russians of that region and plot. Obama is a good sport and has shown he can multi task and not put all his eggs in saving the unscrupulous and greedy CEOs of wall street, while keeping an eye on the foreign policy and Pakistan’s misadventures and more things. McCain seems like a spoiler who wants to take credit for the hard work of his congressional colleagues. Maybe the debate was passed McCain’s bed time. McCain has shown poor judgment by failing to prioritize th events he has to to go to. It is shameful that he things it is ethical to make appointments and then cancel them under false pretex to appear like he was doing the right thing. Either that or he is desperate to get attention anyway possible, including selecting a VP who is unprepared and unqualified to be the President

RedDog. you dont need to attack America to undermine it or to bring it down. The new wars will be waged economically. Listen to Bin Laden and others and what they say about their goals. It is like reading Mein Kemf.

House Republicans refused to support the Henry Paulson/Chris Dodd compromise bailout plan yesterday afternoon, even after the New York Times reported that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson got down on one knee to beg Nancy Pelosi to compromise. One of the sticking points, as Senator Lindsey Graham explained later, wasn’t a lack of begging but a poison pill that would push 20% of all profits from the bailout into the Housing Trust Fund — a boondoggle that Democrats in Congress has used to fund political-action groups like ACORN and the National Council of La Raza:
Please read:
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/26/the-democratic-acorn-bailout/

Aside from the obvious political posturing, it seems to me that the other reason McCain wants to delay this debate until October 2nd (the day for the scheduled VP debate) is to make sure Palin doesn’t get that opportunity to once again humiliate herself and the GOP by opening her mouth. I don’t blame him, frankly. Too bad for him that he didn’t pick a running mate he could rely on.

People… stop being sheep you don’t have to follow. Send a message that the current status quo will not be tolerated. Vote for someone other than a Democrat or Republican… Time for the American people to take back this country. This the peoples country not the corporations!! Not the lobbyist!!!

You can read all you want in to the polls and electoral map…these polls have been back and forth for months now! The only thing that will count is the count on election day and I think you Obama supporters will be drinking more Kool-Aid than usual! So read the polls and the maps and console yourselves now, oh, the agony of defeat!!

RedDog. you dont need to attack America to undermine it or to bring it down. The new wars will be waged economically. Listen to Bin Laden and others and what they say about their goals. It is like reading Mein Kemf.
Posted by: geniusjoe46 | Sep 26, 2008 9:57:34 AM
Please Bin Laden is living day to day on the run from cave to cave cant sleep in the same spot 2 nights in a row!!!
We should of done more when the uss cole got bombed but no mr clinton instaed sent missles into a empty camp

reddog,
We have brought the fight to our allies Spain, France, Finland….
If these terrorists were truly gunning for the US only, due to anger with our lifestyles and planet-debasing habits, why did they start a holy war with Denmark, when one of its cartoonists dared to use, in one cartoon panel, the likeness of Mohammed? Al Q has attacked Denmark both on its own soil, adn sell s its embassy in Pakistan. The US is not singled out, this is not an against-America-only cultural war. These guys are against anything newer than, say, 1,300 CE.
We are on the wrong track and taking the wrong tact, and have spent the US into a death spiral (TSA, Homeland Defense “color code,” etc.).
Get a grip

If they Ever want to carve Bush’s
Likeness into a Mountain
it should have been Mount Krakatoa LOL….
That place ran of time too…

mfmros,
I’ll remind you that you said that if the bailout doesn’t go through and you’re standing on a bread line in the next few years. Yeah, of course the bailout sucks…no one’s saying it doesn’t….but it’s either that or the financial structure of this country seriously and literallly gets so f**ked up that nothing can be done to fix it. The reason your idiot house republicans can’t agree on that, as well as the majority of Americans I’m sorry to say, is because their little pea-sized minds don’t understand it.
I’ll take a Haravard grad over the third-to-last in his class at the Naval Academy any day.
People who say they want “someone like them” running for president mean exactly that — someone who’s dumb as a fu**ing rock. I guess McMoron’s their man.
Get real, sir.

THIS IS WHAT I HAVE TO SAY
DON’T TELL ME HE SAID SHE SAID
GET IN FROUNT OF ME AND TALK TO ME MAKE UP MY OWN MIND

House Republicans refused to support the Henry Paulson/Chris Dodd compromise bailout plan yesterday afternoon, even after the New York Times reported that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson got down on one knee to beg Nancy Pelosi to compromise. One of the sticking points, as Senator Lindsey Graham explained later, wasn’t a lack of begging but a poison pill that would push 20% of all profits from the bailout into the Housing Trust Fund — a boondoggle that Democrats in Congress has used to fund political-action groups like ACORN and the National Council of La Raza:
Please read:
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/26/the-democratic-acorn-bailout/

This debate is a mere 90 minutes long. Both men have planes that can take them to and from the debates and Washington. Both men have constant access to information relevant to the bailout deal. Both men do NOT have to be physically present to vote on the deal. Now, all of you who are using this terrifying financial crisis to attack Obama and paint McCain as some maverick on a white horse, recheck your facts and try to develop a real argument.

Palin needs to go away she is ridiculous. One would question? Did the Alaska media and/or government ever communicate with her during the time she was running about issues and policy of Alaska? We now know – the McCain camp certainly didn’t vet her!
Excellent Question..
Looks like McCain camp will get away with this foolish poly/game! America will be fooled by our most basic instincts: ‘Beauty” they will l get in and OMG – we all will be looking for paper boxes for living arrangements.
LoL: Remedy63: Love the comment about the “backorder” frames! Where is the made in America Product? Sarah is scary.

I’m surprised to find Republican posters on here defending McCain/Palin. I guess they haven’t seen their choice for VP in the interview yet:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/25/eveningnews/main4479062.shtml
If you still vote Republican after watching that interview, you are simpler minded than your VP choice.

McCain has done this before, back in 2000 while running against Bush. He was upset that Bush canceled or was reluctant to attend a debate/town hall meeting with him. Well, Bush won, and McCain is still trying the same tactic? Some people will call him a Maverick because he’s putting the people first and cares less about winning, by postponing the debate. Yeah Right? It’s a political ploy, a hoodwinker, and a bamboozler. He nor Obama are on the Banking Committee and as you can see nothing got done on 9/25/06. McCain attempted to state his agenda last night, with his Charlie Brown yellow background, that He proposed 10 townhall meetings with Obama. Those of us who are watching closely know that Bush use the “staged townhall meetings” tactic, where only Republicans who were in support of him were invited. So we remember and so does Obama. McCain, quit wasting our time and end your campaign today! Retirement is an order!

House Republicans refused to support the Henry Paulson/Chris Dodd compromise bailout plan yesterday afternoon, even after the New York Times reported that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson got down on one knee to beg Nancy Pelosi to compromise. One of the sticking points, as Senator Lindsey Graham explained later, wasn’t a lack of begging but a poison pill that would push 20% of all profits from the bailout into the Housing Trust Fund — a boondoggle that Democrats in Congress has used to fund political-action groups like ACORN and the National Council of La Raza:
Please read:
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/26/the-democratic-acorn-bailout/

Lets do the debate, McCain has been part of Bush’s team for 8 years, the mess started a long time ago and all of sudden McCain goes to Washington at the last meeting past 12 Oclock dooms day, to pretend he is God!!! the savier! you wasted 2 days in not preparing your debate answers! be a man face the Nation, coward!!!

Genius…you are not!! I am referring to THIS ECONOMIC RESCUE PACKAGE THAT HAS THE EARMARKS IN IT…AND FOR YOUR INFORMATION, THERE ARE NO EARMARKS FOR MCCAIN OR PALIN IN THIS PACKAGE..YOU SHOULD PAY MORE ATTENTION TO WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING INSTEAD OF ONLY READING HALF OF THE MESSAGE..APPARENTLY IF YOU LISTENED TO ALL OF WHAT OBAMA SAYS YOU WOULD NOT BE VOTING FOR HIM EITHER! I DO NOT WANT MY TAX DOLLARS GOING FOR BIDENS BULLSH!T IN DELAWARE IN THIS PACKAGE…SOME OF YOU ARE TOTAL IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!!!11

Okay, seriously folks. This is stupid. If McCain can’t do both, he has no business asking us to vote him into the White House. I need my leader to be a much more effective multi-tasker than that. If he really believes in “country first”, he’ll be in Mississippi tonight to answer questions and speak to the millions of people he’s asking to vote for him.

Besides, don’t packages like these come out of the House of Representatives. All the Senate has to do is provide input, welcome or unwelcome, then vote on it.

Funny how Senator Harry Reid was begging McCain to help turn his Republican Rep’s to accept the plan on Tuesday. “We need John McCain to help push this bill thru.” Then when McCain said he was coming back to Washington to do his actual job of being of Senator first before applying for the POTUS, that same Senator Reid was like we dont need your help here, just make your Rep’s cronies change their votes. Now the Annointed One (Obama for those unaware) has to be about himself again!!! Country First or Obama First. John McCain stands for the United States of America first and foremost while Barack Obama stands for the New World Order following Obama.

Obama said no to one debate a week, he didn’t want more debates than necessary and accepting only the three that was almost compulsory to have.
Now the country is in crisis and McCain is quite right to show that if you miss the boat, as Obama does constantly – you cannot lead.
Presidential Debates, invasion in Georgia, what’s next?

The democrats are so vile and out of control they want to use this crisis to attach a bunch of spending bills to the bailout. The pull this tactic of announcing an agreement is reached trying to force their agenda. Plus they want the government to basicall become the largest financial institution. SOCIALISM! Then they amazingly have the gall to try to blame McCain for breaking their little pork barrel party up! Obama, who dodged McCain all summer per invitations to debate, now all the sudden thinks a debate outwieghs solving what he himself called the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Nice! Thanks for the non leadership politics as usual Obama, you who supposedly campaigns on “change”!! The reason is obvious, and that is Obama is so green he doesn’t have a clue about how to solve a problem like this! McCain’s gonna kill that Democrate pork barrell BS and get a streamlined crisis saver in place that makes sense. That’s the leadership we need!!
By the way did you all see Palin’s interview with Couric. Gotta admit, Palin did absolutely great going into that den of leftist vipers called CBS. Yep, even through the obvious Couric leftist “gotcha” hateraid questions that have no point except to try to re-inact Jeoprady’s “politics for $800″ well, Palin’s answers were real good, particularly on Afganistan and Iraq and Iran per foreign policy! Meanwhile Obama’s VP choice Biden is out off the reservation delivering absurd factual incorrectos after absurd factual incorrectos, many on his supposed expertise of foreign policy. And gee which oddly enough the press ignores totally! That lady in Scranton who told the leftist press “Shame on you! Shame on all you ya’s!” had it dean nuts right! Face it, Biden doesn’t even want to be there, he’s ridiculously addled upstairs, and thinks he’s on some personal autobiographical book tour where he can chat with his fans. There hasn’t been a knucklehead altzheimer’s VP like this since Perot’s nursing home choice in the early 90′s! By the way, noticed Palin also really impress the world leaders at the U. N. including Karzai and such!! OUTSTANDING!! She’s a fine example of what every American woman can accomplish.

People wake up!! McCain didnt even talk during the negotitations yesterday, HE HAD NO IDEAS!! So if your retiremen is gone, sorry, but Cindy and John aren’t going to help you a DAMN bit…this is political showboating pure and simple. And also…as for McCain looking down at a potential town hall meeting tonight…..just because Obama wasn’t going to engage in his farse/pre scripted townhall meetings AND is going to show up tonight (based on SET DATES that BOTH candidates had agreed to a long time ago AND something that has ALWAYS been part of the presidential process) doesnt make him selfish, it makes HIM A LEADER. McCain is the biggest loser, lier, and farse I’ve ever see (well….its a close tie with that idiot Palin who couldnt even answer one single question about McMaverick’s foreign policy experience!!).

Let’s move the VP debate to tonight. Oh yeah, I forgot, palin isn’t ready to debate since she can’t even give an interview to someone other than Faux News. Obama/Biden 2008!!!

What good would it do to delay the debate? McCain can’t do anything TONIGHT even if he is in DC. Why not go to the debate then fly back to DC tomorrow? A good president should be able to multi-task. Remember when Bush stayed to read a book to children while 9-11 was going down? Seems like the Repubs really can’t do more than 1 thing at a time. Get a clue people: McCain & Palin are scared to debate because their foolishness will be exposed!

Meanwhile, Stephanopoulos is giving McCain his show on Sunday to hold a town hall. Stephanopoulos is willing to circumvent the debates himself.

I am so sorry for our stupity in this country.We are so dumb and so backward thinking.Why are we so uncivilised.The country is on a downward spiral as a result of the mess of the last 8years and we are still talking favourably about the REPUBS.So funny

Of course there should be a debate – or at least turned into a forum where both can speak about the crisis we are in and the difficult times that are ahead of us during their adminstrations if elected. We need to see how both candidate view the economy. McCain’s more to “suspend” his campaign was moronic. That is not doable 40 days before an election. He just polarized the situation and since he is not economist he brought nothing to the table except to aggrevate and frustrate and slow down the discussions.

Ha! McCain’s stupid stunt just backfired. He just gave Obama a town hall all to himself. Too funny! McCain needs to stop pulling stunts and start getting serious. It’s not like he has any real impact on what’s happening in DC right now anyway. What a fool.

Stehanopoulos is absolutely right to offer the forum to Obama. If McCain doesn’t show up, he forfeits the airtime. After all, ABC already sold ads against this event, so why should they be forced to eat them because McCain wants to pull a silly stunt? If McCain can’t handle the multitasking that comes with the Presidency, then he doesn’t deserve the office anyway.

There should be no debate tonight unless there is a deal done today. Obama has been dodging McCain all summer long on debates and now that he’s practiced with his “advisors” for several days, he is hell bent on having the debate. He didn’t want to go to Washington to help with the crisis…how can we expect him to lead the country? NOBAMA!!!!!

I would like to say, Obama stop being a crybaby and stay in Washington until the problem is solved and cast your vote. It seems like he is more interested in politics and getting into the White House rather than helping to solve the financial crisis in our country. Man up.

Harry Reid should take a vow of silence! First he says Mcain should come to Washington, that he is the key to ending the crisis, now he says McCain should go to Miss. Reid is acting in a nakedly partisan manner in the middle of this crisis! We learned yesterday that Obama has little influence over House REpublicans, and neither does the President. McACain is the only man who can rally the House Republicans to a version of the bailout!
So let McCAin do what is best for the the country in this hour, this is part of our finding out what sort of man he is!

Maybe Obama can debate Biden. They seem to differ on many issues!

How stupid does McSame think we are, anyway? He hasn’t been to work since April and he’s not on any of the relevant banking committees anyway. What a DlCK!

mfmros
The question is not whether or not your tax dollars will be used. The question is HOW they will be used.
Will they be used to pay for the accounts of all the people whose banks will fail, and just go therefore to make a bad situation worse, or will they go to try to prevent this from getting any worse.
The Republicans apparently feel that the money is better spent giving rich people even bigger tax breaks and bailing out account holders once all the banks fail.
Then they can use the money to pay unemployment for all the people out of work (for a while anyway).
I think some people on this board will sing a different tune here if this isn’t resolved quickly.
When your retirement savings are wiped out, your house value is cut in half, and you lose your job, you won’t think it was such a good idea for the House Republicans and McCain to play political chicken with this.

To “Adam”…Cry me a river! You lost 15% of your retirement? Boo hoo! Wanna know why? Not becasue of ANYTHING Obama did or didn’t do – it’s because your Republican fat cat maverick McCain sided with the most corrupt and inept administration this country has ever known and did nothing while the financial house of cards they created burned to the ground. With full bi-partisan co-operation – without McCain sticking his un-needed nose into the bail out negotiations – it looked as if Washington had at least an inkling of the financial disaster its Republican’s spend-and-spend and financial market deregulation policies have created. McCain inserted himself to make sure his millions and his wife’s enormous fortunes are taken care of. And to think he derailed the compromise along with his fellow Conservative Republican crybabies to look like a leader! This crisis has been long in the making! Where was McCain and his “country first” crap when people were being tossed out of their homes by reckless motgage firms?? NOWHERE! But now he inserts himself chest deep in his own muck to save Wall Street and his pig-greedy financial slime balls. Don’t blame Obama for “doing nothing”! It’s not Obama’s position to insert himself when there was a bi-partisan agreement at hand! McCain did it for purely political reasons. “Country First” my a$$.

To “Adam”…Cry me a river! You lost 15% of your retirement? Boo hoo! Wanna know why? Not becasue of ANYTHING Obama did or didn’t do – it’s because your Republican fat cat maverick McCain sided with the most corrupt and inept administration this country has ever known and did nothing while the financial house of cards they created burned to the ground. With full bi-partisan co-operation – without McCain sticking his un-needed nose into the bail out negotiations – it looked as if Washington had at least an inkling of the financial disaster its Republican’s spend-and-spend and financial market deregulation policies have created. McCain inserted himself to make sure his millions and his wife’s enormous fortunes are taken care of. And to think he derailed the compromise along with his fellow Conservative Republican crybabies to look like a leader! This crisis has been long in the making! Where was McCain and his “country first” crap when people were being tossed out of their homes by reckless motgage firms?? NOWHERE! But now he inserts himself chest deep in his own muck to save Wall Street and his pig-greedy financial slime balls. Don’t blame Obama for “doing nothing”! It’s not Obama’s position to insert himself when there was a bi-partisan agreement at hand! McCain did it for purely political reasons. “Country First” my a$$.

Did anyone find those weapons of mass destruction yet? While we’re at it, let’s call back some of those people who left this administration for an update.

I thought the democrats had majories in both houses of congress. Why do they need anybody to pass a bill they like?

Sheila,
You are right!If I were the Republicans I would NOT give the money and let them go to hell!
Obama will win anyways so let him deal with worst economic downturn in americasn history!
No free ticket!Working Americans will bulid up again anyways!
http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0908/Dodd_bill_much_more_aggressive_than_Treasury_plan.html

Can any of you delusional McCain partisans tell me what you think McCain is actually going to DO to solve this crisis? He’s not on a single banking or regulatory committee. Maybe he can talk about being a POW while other Senators do the work. LOL

McCain can pay all the people he wants to post on these boards, the Republicans are on the wrong end of this one. I know they are trying to figure out a way not to get voted out of office on this mess, but there just isn’t one. Only die-hard conservatives are with them, and that less than 30% of the voting public. The polls are running 80 to 20 against this stunt. They are committing political suicide. I really don’t mind that, I just wish the economy wasn’t being held in their suicide pact.

There were no stunts pulled by McCain. Harry Reid earlier this week begged McCain to come to Washington and work with the Republicans in both the House and Senate to try and get the deal done. The House Republicans were never on board with the plan because there is no oversight authority in the proposal that will protect the American people. The Democrats thought that they would push the proposal through. The Democrats are not looking out for the best interests of the American people on this proposal. John McCain has listened to the House Republicans and their concerns and is working to try to come up with a compromise. Now Harry Reid indicates John McCain is causing problems. Which one is it Harry? To the average American citizen….this is nothing more than you are trying to bail out your candidate for his lack of courage to go to Washington and participate in getting something passed. Barack Obama did not want to go to Washington because he’s never voted for anything….the only thing he’s done is vote “PRESENT”. SCARY and it’s not even Halloween yet.

REPUBLICANS SHOULD NOT PASS THE BAILOUT!
This way even if the Democrats win, tthey will be facing te worst ever economic disaster in American history!
Even if we pass the deal it will help Obama anyway, so DO NOT PASS THE DEAL, DDEMS WILL CHICKEN OUT TO RUN THE COUNTRY IF WE DO NOT PASS THIS BILL AND WRITE OFF THIS ELECTION!
Mark my words!
Do not bail out!I am willing to loose and build up again!
Let the buttom fail out first!
DON”T GLUE IT!

I say let Biden and Palin take on this debate this evening. It would appear both are available and then have McCain and Obama debate next Thursday. Pretty simple to me. But of course the plan by the McCain campaign is about moving Sara out of the debate cycle all together. This is what all of this is about.

pjr – we watching the same Couric interview? That was a joke! She did not expand on any her responses. You are kidding..did you watch the interview?
That’s ok! The game playing will back fire….she makes she makes Dan Q. look better every day she speaks. Just a plain moron. Sarah Palin go back we don’t want you… she’s gorgeous and I love to fly vs. drive.. does this give me “Pilot” experience since I’m in Proximity of Pilot’s when I’m entering and existing the plane?
Come On! This is a game to keep her from being made of fool up next week in St. louis….Biden is going to have her from Breakfast, Lunch and dinner. Guess they will try to come up with something to script the debate question and answer session. Hush! they are reading better not give them any additional distortions and lies to come up with.

Ummm. As I look at my calendar, I count a few more than 39 days until January 20, 2009. And speaking of “Ummm,” can someone PLEASE get Barrack to stop saying “UH…” as every other word. Please?

Give me a break!!! McCain and Obama can still debate and head back to Washington. It is clear that nothing is going to happen today or in the few hours that they will debate. The Republicans will come up with any excuse. Millions of dollars where spent setting up this debate. McCain hasn’t suspended his campaign and if you really believe this then turn on the TV idiots.

More than ever the people need to hear the debates. In 39 days the people have to make a choice about who is going to lead the country for four years. Obama is right in that McCain should be able to multitask. He should be able to monitor the situation with the negotiations, fly down for the debate (which is supposed to last about 90 minutes) then fly back to DC. If he can’t handle doing more than one thing at a time then he really doesn’t have what it takes to be president.
Trying to reschedule the debate to the date of the VP debate rings of trying to “shelter” Palin. Though after watching her interview with Katie Couric I can see why the McCain campaign wants to keep her sheltered.
The debates should go on as scheduled.
The saying “If you can’t take the heat…..” seems to come to mind.
Obama/Biden08

NO DEBATE
NO BAIL OT
LET OBAMA BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF COLLAPSED AMERICA

REPUBLICANS WILL NOT SIGN THE BAIL OUT PACKAGE!
MARK MY POST!
WE ARE DETERMOINED TO FORCE THE DEMS TO WRITE OFF THE ELCTION, OR NO BAIL OUT FOR FANNIE MAE!

Why are the liberal democrats not asking more questions about Obama close and cozy relationsip with radical, Bill Ayers, and Jim Johnson (former CEO of Fannie Mae) who ran Fannie Mae into the ground and walked away with 90 million dollars? Are these the folks that will be part of Barack’s Administration? God help us all if that’s the case! The democrats don’t want to talk about this…they want to talk about McCain and how he is supposedly aligned with Bush. Guess what….Bill Clinton believes John McCain is an admirable man and a recent poll indicated 89% of the survey respondents think Clinton will vote for McCain in the presidental election. HMMMMMM? I see this election changing…another former Clinton supporter defected to the McCain camp yesterday because he does not believe Barack Obama has the skills necessary to lead this country. More and more Americans are starting to see how ill prepared Barack Obama is and we can’t have someone like that be our president. He doesn’t want to come to Washington unless we need him…how about it’s your job – you’re a sitting US senator. You are being paid to do your job.

House Republicans are protecting American Taxpayers interest. They oppose the earmark to ACORN which will give them 20% of the profits which should go only to Taxpayers. Read the bill yourself. ACORN is where Obama worked as Community Organizer. ACORN is the organization which has been implicated in voter fraud in Michigan, Ohio, Florida and other places. ACORN is related to subprime mess which granted mortgages to illegal aliens. Their motto was “no immigration papers needed”. Yes folks, the Dems and your President want you to bail out loans made to illegal aliens. This is an appalling fiasco. Garnish the wages of the executives who profited from this mess instead.

GOP – you are a traitor like your whole party. You care more about power than you care about doing what’s right. What happened to “country first”? You make me sick.

It simply amazes me that people are on here still bashing Obama and supporting McInsane. The McInsane campaign over the pass couple of months have been running the worst campaign in US history. For those of you that have been saying Obama talks to much, I say to you that the Straight Talk Express is the No Talk Express and when Palin opens her mouth it becomes Brainless Express. Obama/Biden are the best candidates and if you feel that McCain/Palin will change the direction of this country I will have to say to you your choice of not voting for Obama/Biden is clouded by your bigotry and racism.

I CAN’T BELIEVE THE POLITICAL B.S. GAMES THAT THESE PEOPLE ON CAPITOL HILL ARE PLAYING!!! THIS IS ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS!!! DON’T THESE NUMB-SKULLS REALIZE THAT THIS COUNTRY IS IN FINANCIAL TURMOIL AND THAT AMERICA IS NOW THE LAUGHING STOCK OF THE WHOLE WORLD??? GOOD GRIEF!!! PLAYING “POLITICS” AT A TIME LIKE THIS…. MCCAIN NEEDS HIS HEAD EXAMINED!!! HE WAS ONLY INTERESTED IN “SUSPENDING” HIS CAMPAIGN WHEN HE FELL BEHIND IN THE POLLS…. THIS IS TYPICAL POLITICAL GARBAGE AT ITS BEST, AND THERE ARE ACTUALLY PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO BELIEVE HIS LINE OF CRAP!! YOU ALL HAVE MY SYMPATHIES BECAUSE IT’S OBVIOUS THAT YOU HAVE NOT BEEN PAYING ATTENTION THESE PAST 8 YEARS. IT WAS BUSH, MCCAIN, AND THEIR RREPUBLICAN “CRONIES” WHO STARTED THIS MESS— BY DEREGULATING WALL STREET ALL IN THE NAME OF A “FREE MARKET SYSTEM.” IN THE MEAN TIME, A PROVERBIAL BLANK CHECK WAS GIVEN TO THE GREEDY B——- ON WALL STREET AND THE HARD-WORKING AMERICAN TAXPAYERS ARE THE ONES ON THE HOOK! WHAT A COUNTRY!!!! HOW MANY CEO’S ARE SITTING BACK COUNTING THEIR BONUSES AND STOCK OPTIONS WHILE YOU’VE GOT MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO CAN’T PAY THEIR BILLS, CAN’T BUY GAS, CAN’T EVEN EAT??? AND NOW, IF THAT’S NOT BAD ENOUGH, YOU’VE GOT THIS OLD MAN– WHO COULD VERY WELL BE THE NEXT LEADER OF THE “FREE” WORLD– THROWING A TANTRUM BECAUSE HE DOESN’T WANT TO OWN UP TO QUESTIONS ABOUT A MESS HE HELPED CREATE!! GIVE ME A FREAKIN’ BREAK!!! HE’S SUPPOSED TO BE SO TOUGH… HE SUPPOSED TO BE THE “MAVERICK”… GROW SOME BALLS JOHN!!! GET YOUR BUTT DOWN TO THAT DEBATE AND EXPLAIN WHY YOU HELPED TO DEREGULATE WALL STREET!!! SHOULDN’T THE NEXT PRESIDENT BE ABLE TO JUGGLE MORE THAN ONE CRISIS AT A TIME? REGULAR, AVERAGE CITIZENS DO IT EVERY SINGLE DAY… JUST ASK ANYONE WITH CHILDREN HOW MANY “CRISES” THEY HAVE TO SOLVE DURING AN AVERAGE DAY….. NO, I SAY IF MCCAIN AND PALIN ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SO TOUGH, THEN THEY SHOULDN’T BE AFRAID OF DEBATING THE DEMOCRATS, OR TALKING TO THE PRESS…. SOME “MAVERICK”…. IF HE’S RUNNING FROM A DEBATE, WHAT THE HECK IS HE GOING TO DO WHEN THE PHONE AT THE WHITE HOUSE RINGS AT 3AM? JUST FOOD FOR THOUGHT….. WAKE UP, PEOPLE!

MCCAIN IS PLAYING POLITICS. IT IS OBVIOUS. ONE THING IS CERTAIN: THE VP DEBATE IS SCHEDULED FOR OCT 2. THE MCCAIN CAMP WANTS TO AVOID IT. AMERICANS ARE NOT STUPID. LET’S CONTINUE WITH THE SCHEDULED DEBATES FOR PRESIDENT AND VP. MCCAIN GO BACK TO ARIZONA. YOU AND PALIN ARE NOT PREPARED TO MANAGE THE USA. 8 YEARS WITH GW BUSH IS ENOUGH. AND YOU WANT 4 MORE YEARS? NO WAY, NO HOW, NO MCCAIN/PALIN.

It is precisely because of the economic turmoil that the debate is so important and urgent. We the citizens need to make an educated choice about the future direction of this country. If anything, the debate is even more important now.

curiousindeep – the problem with that is that McCain isn’t really solving any problems. He’s not on any of the relevant banking or regulatory commitees who are responsible for drafting this bill, and according to fellow Republican lawmakers who sat in on yesterday’s closed-door meetings, McCain didn’t say or contribute much that was useful. Seriously, what do you think McCain is actually going to DO? Duh.

McCain is a Big Lier!!

You guys, who are harping on the townhall meeting thingy, have got to be kidding me. What idiot doesn’t know that the townhall meetings are staged with “Republican Supporters Only”? This was the same setup Bush used during the 2004 reelection campaign. You people are kinda weird. The 3 debates are required. The proposed 10 townhalls are political ploys. Geez. Boy oh Boy do I have a some land in Florida for you. And, its not a sewage drainage. Oh no sirree!!! It’s genuine swamp land. Care to buy???

mccain and palin are all over tv talking with curic. what a fraud
he didnt suspend his campaign.
randy duke cunningham and mccain birds of a feather.

The Debate should not wait! McCain is just stalling bc he doesnt want to debate Obama bc he will lose. Republicans are following for this nonsense. McCain is a Coward!

The bottom line is that the financial crisis MUST BE ADDRESSED and the Republicans should NOT let the Democrats=Senate Banking Committee Chairman Dodd=put American taxpayers in the hole for billions of dollars just to bail out crooked corrupt financial companies.
Obama’s big mouth can go to Mississippi and run off—he’s useless in Washington even though his job is to be there as a Senator.

I can’t believe people are falling for this stunt by McCain. Fine if you are Republican and want to vote for him for whatever reason but HE HAS NOT suspended his campaign one bit. Ads are still running, campaign advisors are still on news networks and they are still accepting campaing donations. He has lied once again and the hypocrisy of this is so evident….instead you are all fallling for such a blatant lie…

Hey McCain dummies – what do you expect McCain to actually DO in Washington besides grandstand? He isn’t on any of the relevant banking or regulatory committees drafting this legislation. Please tell me what you think the great hero is doing? LOL

in the meeting yesterday he deferred to someone else! wow what a contribution.
he and his pal phil graham caused this mess.

B.O.’s usual b.s. tv ads were still on yesterday — guess he doesn’t think the current crisis is important enough to take the voters’ minds off his simpleton face.

Hey Republicans, would you describe this as more of Reagans’ ‘trickle down’?
Don’t tax corporations, let the big banks get robbed by less regulation…
Then trickle the bill down to the people!

How long has McCain been a senator? He had years to PREVENT this and he didn’t. His 2 cents isn’t going to matter now. If the McCain campaign attempts to push back the VP debates that will be a travesty. The fact that they are playing games, and pretending to suspend the campaign to “deal” with this crisis is a joke. And to those of you who think that McCain and Obama can do anything in committee other than muddy the waters and slow the process, you’re fooling yourselves. The money you’ve lost was lost on the GOP watch. This crisis did not begin over night and keeping Palin from the prying eyes of the voters is not a solution.

Someone of you are confused. Obama is the one that is claiming he can save the world, not McCain. McCain never said he was going to Washington to save the world from the economic crisis. He is there to be involved. Obama is waiting in Mississippi for a debate.

bush, rove, keating, cunningham, delay and mccain the rogue’s gallery of liars and cheaters.
more of the same with mccain
more of the pain with mccain

Didn’t president Bush ask congress to send trrops to Iraq?
If Bush wants this package to pass, I SAY NO!
DO NOT BAIL OUT AND LET IT COLLAPSE, WE CAN RE BUILD!

McCain should attend the debate. Isn’t foreign policy and national security his favor subject? Can’t he do multitasking like everyone of us does? If he is no show tonight, we are convienced he is from the old school and really out-of-touch. Maverick does not mean a non-team player.

Free to Speak, Too bad you aren’t free to think. It’s morons like you who voted in this corrupt administration. Really. Stop watching Fox News and try to get a grip on reality. We know you were the dumb guys in school, but please try to pull your head out of your a$$ this time.

all of the candidates practice for the debates. who would be so crazy as to not at least have a plan or practice in some way. some people are such idiots.

GOP says: “DEMOCRATS , Chris Dodd and the black congressional caucus planned this and gave Fannie Mae to lend morgages to minorities!”
hey GOP, thats right, the Blacks took the money!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
i was waiting for that one!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Since when does McClown know anything about the economy anyway? Who does he think he’s kidding?

I heard from a very good source that Mccain and the GOP decided to write off this election for Obama!
The reason is they do not want to [pass the bail out! It is a bad deal and will suck tax payers money!
McCain will not show up to the debate!
Obama probably will be the president but will get stick with the worst economy since deep depression!
Obama will be the one to blame soon!
Republicans will win in 2012!
NO BAIL OUT , IT WILL NOT PASS!

McCain is right to run away from the debate. He does not want to be lectured in public about how to recognize that the fundamentals of the economy are …weak.

McCain wants everything to stop because we have a financial crisis. Come on! How is he going to manage the country? Even former Arkansas Gov. said that McCain made big a mistake in saying that the debate should be cancel. The people need to hear from both candidates.
I saw this on Yahoo News.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080926/ap_on_el_pr/candidates_debate
“You can’t just say, ‘World, stop for a moment. I’m going to cancel everything,’” Huckabee told reporters Thursday night in Alabama before attending a benefit for the University of Mobile. He said it’s more important for voters to hear from the presidential candidates than for them to huddle with fellow senators in Washington.

mfmros | Sep 26, 2008 10:15:17 AM
yeah, i’m sure Biden added earmarks to this bill while he is out on the campaign trail.
quit your pathetic lying, no one who is educated on this topic will believe you.
McCain made a bad situation worse, but all the people who aren’t voting for a black man but don’t have the guts to say that their vote is racially motivated really need to keep their mouth shut and pray that the grassroots Obama movement doesn’t come through on election day.
that is your only hope for a McCain win on Nov 4th. this guy has become a joke, but i’m not laughing.

WINSTON,
JUST GOOGLE IT YOU SHALL SEE THAT BLACKS ARE THIEVES AND FANNIE MAE GAVE THOSE THIEVES MORGAGES TO BUY VOTES FOR OBAMA!

Well, if it’s a solo event, then I guess we can see who is the only one who can multitask and has the stamina to be president. JFK stayed up three days straight during the cuban missle crises. McCain obvioulsy cannot handle what is going on. WE cannot have a president who hides on us when we are in a crises. Where is Palin? WHy isn’t she stepping in? How are wesupposed to think these two are up for hte job? they’re too busy to speak to hte people for an hour??? YOu think PUtin and AQ are going to stick to a 9 to 5 schedule??? Dear lord. why did you people pick a 73 year old man?

You, Sir, are no professor, professorj. Haven’t you figured out that McCain is an idiot yet? Sheesh, THINK, will you?

Winston!
NO bail out
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
We The Republicans have the money, we work we pay for it!
We will not pass the bill as is!
Black annimals will not get tax payers money!
ANIMAL BLACKS ANIMALS BLACKS

wow. GOP> you are quite a racist. So all the problems in the world are caused by blacks huh??? gee, is hitler your hero? You know it’s a very immature thing to think there are boogey men out there who are responsible for all the evils of the world. More likely it’s something as simple as just being wrong in your theories and greed. banks are responsible for qualifying lenders and while it may be discriminate to not give a loan to a QUALIFIED black person, it SHOULD be illegal to give ANYONE a loan who is not quaiflied, however REPUBLICANS rolled back regulations in 2003.fact. This crises is a product of Republican deregulation. Suck it up.

I agree with those who say McCain made a bad situation worse. In addition I think the debate would acutally be a positive thing for the country in feeling hopeful for the future. McCain doesn’t get it, he is not in tune with the common American. Well, I see it has been true all along, Bush and his followers do believe in welfare…for their friends.

reddog said:
“No actually it was jimmy carter and bill clinton who put us on this path to mortgage disaster that caused banks to take on bad loans”
yeah right, it was Jimmy Carter’s fault
No…actually I think it was Ford, Nixon and Eisenhower…or maybe Hoover and Lincoln…or how about those Ulysses S. Grant policies?

Lets all be very clear. When Bush requested McCain and Obama’s presence, they both showed up and provided their input. If they are needed again, they will both make themselves available. There is NO reason they can’t be gone for about 4 hours on a Friday night to allow the American people to hear their positions and help them decide who to elect to take the reins in January.

so funny…even though no deal reached, McCain is now attending the debate! WHAT HYPOCRISY! you should all be proud of the great work he did in Washington and how he stuck to his guns and said he wouldnt debate until a deal was reached or close to being reached!

Yes, Aaron – McCain is a Maverick huh….does a Maverick say that he will stay in DC until a deal is close and then all of a sudden, change his mind? Doesnt sound like a dissenter to me or any sane person. The deal is far from being even close at this point….

TZARALAN…WATCH THE NEWS, IDIOT …IT IS ALL OVER THE NEWS SINCE EARLY THIS AM..YOU ARE THE IDIOT!

Angel The GOP is right. All this mess is the fault of the poor. This is the most incredible hold-up in history. All Capone must be laughing so much.

Sarah Palin is shooting at their elephant- now John McCain is running around throwing Hail Marys on his way down, saying bringing her onboard was a big mistake. No wonder they won’t let her speak to the media- ” Putin is flying around over Alaska.” I don’t look to see much of Sarah Palin unscripted ever again. Yes, somewhere in Alaska there’s a village missing an idiot.

common sense..why rally the republicans together of course..mccain is known as a mediator within both dems and repubs…beats ignoring the problem as obama appears to be doing….duh!!!

American should watch out what this people are trying to do, this is what we called tricks in polities, McCain should come out and tell America what he have in mind to to to this country

MAXY51. There is nothing more comforting than to listen to a Senior speak the truth, displaying unquestionable integrity and wisdom.
Here!, Here! Maxy51.
Finally a post from someone who is not a racist, or fanatic.

Obama – born in Kenya, raised in Hawaii, privileged Harvard graduate, Community Organizer in Chicago under the wing of the Chicago Daly family (Daley, who has begun polling for a possible 2010 gubernatorial run, Huffington Post), PUT in the Senate just to run for President (by Democratic admission, planned for SEVEN years). Obama is a Professional Political Spinner – fear not, he won’t be running anything if elected; those who put him there will. If you look close, you can even see the strings. That’s why we don’t hear about his background like we’ve heard about McCain’s. I’ve been a Democrat most of my life – but I’d rather be called a Republican than be one of the new generation of Democrats being led around by a ring in my nose.

I cant wait., I think Obama will win the debate tonight. this will be a great debate. Both candidates are not that great at debating So it will be at least interesting. http://www.watchdebate.com has McCain and Obama’s worst debate moments.

leftist, Messiah followers, MoveOn orgies, Huffington and puffington types.
Are awefully boring and lack any Humor.
I am sure Sarah meant in Humor “Hey Look, Russia is just next doors”
when Charlie berated her about lack of of Foreign experience.
But now since she has deal with humorless, dimwitted crowd, She has to defend herself.
McCain/Palin 08
Posted by: vic | Sep 26, 2008 1:20:29 PM
~~~~~~~~~~~~
VIC
you are running out of lame excuses already.
NO SHE DID NOT.
she once again kept her stance with Couric.
YES YOU ARE RIGHT in what you are thinking “she must be kiddin”
but she was NOT.

Will George ask McCain about his and his wife’s roles in the Keating Five scandal? Palin did well at the Republican National Convention and showed confidence only because she was READING the speech that was prepared for her and she had rehearsed it . She falls apart during interviews because she obviously doesn’t know the subject well enough to discuss it with any clarity. Period. She is unprepared to debate or give interviews and totally unprepared to be Vice President of the United States and even Governor of Alaska. They should impeach her. Why isn’t the press still investigating and reporting Sara and Tod’s affilaition with the Alaska Independence Party. And, what kind of example is Tod Palin and the rest of Palin’s staff setting for not only Alaskans but all Americans by their ignoring their subpoenas. Are they above the law because of their affiliatin with McCain? What happens to average Americans who ignore subpeonas? And, why isn’t the time line with Sara’s water breaking and her 10 – 12 hour air travel after that being criticized by everyone especially the right to lifers and child endangerment authorities?

I SENT THIS LETTER TO MY REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS:
We demand that Congress stops adding earmarks and pork within the contents of the “Bail Out Bill”. In addition we do not want a payout to ACORN — or any organization like ACORN.
We feel this is an egregious abuse of House and the Senate positions in Congress. Enough is enough.
We will no longer continue to vote or support any Representative or Senator who votes for bills with earmarks and pork or allots money to ACORN.
I BELIEVE THE PEOPLE WHO WALKED AWAY WITH TONS OF MONEY SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BAIL OUT.
If the government agrees to pay off mortgages for people who bought homes they could not afford — then the government needs to pay off ALL mortgages for ALL legal American citizens.
I don’t want my tax payments used to pay off somebody else’s home!
I PERSONALLY AM AGAINST A WALL STREET BAILOUT BUT AT LEAST FORKING OVER A THIRD OF THE MONEY — WITH THE REST CONTINGENT ON EFFECTIVENESS — MAKES SENSE.
I AM TOTALLY AGAINST GIVING 10% TO ORGANIZATIONS LIKE “ACORN”. PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BUY HOMES THEY CAN’T AFFORD. DO NOT BAIL THEM OUT.
NORTH CAROLINA TAXPAYER
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Barack Hussein Obama is campaigning tomorrow — promoting “himself”.
Why isn’t Obama going back to DC to work on our country’s crisis? If he can’t do his senate job — he surely can’t run this country! — OR maybe that’s above his pay grade!
Country First in 2008.

Obama definitely won tonight’s debate. He answered all questions with outstanding clarity and detail. He showed his usual realism and idealism. He was respectful and powerful. He won on all points. McCain’s tired repetition that he is the only one who understands foreign affairs has been totally exposed as utter nonsense.
Obama is a great statesman. If any leader can bring us out of this crisis and back to our former status, he is the one to do it.
I will be thrilled to have Obama as president.