“Don’t tase me Bro” it is so obvious that you are a techno-bully for McSame. The fact of the matter is that McCain can still go to congress to “come up with a solution” and still do a debate. Unless ofcourse his brain might “overfry” from all the mental activity. So call a spade a spade, he is POSTURING and running scared because he knows the debate will be on the economy and he doesn’t have a plan for that!

Both Obama and McCain went to the same meeting today. Obama brought a Senate staffer, McCain brought a campaign staffer. You tell me who is politicizing this and who is interested in governing.

Obviously, Mr. Obama needed someone who knew everyone else in the room to introduce them to the junior Senator from Illinois.

Even Bill Clinton can see Liberals foaming at the mouth about this as incorrect – he also can see where the blame of this crisis lays:

Two days later, former President Clinton agreed:

CHRIS CUOMO, ABC NEWS: A little surprising for you to hear the Democrats saying, “This came out of nowhere, this is all about the Republicans. We had nothing to do with this.” Nancy Pelosi saying it. She signed the ’99 Gramm Bill. She knew what was going on with the SEC. They’re all sophisticated people. Is that playing politics in this situation?

BILL CLINTON: Well, maybe everybody does that a little bit. I think the responsibility the Democrats have may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress or by me when I was President to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

This was not a political stunt, he was called back to Washingston by Paulson to try and get Republicans to vote for this bailout otherwise it will fail.

On the other hand, this may be politically devistating to McCain since the majority of Americans seem to be saying HELL NO to the bail out.

My personal opinion is I would rather see my President or Senators or Congressman hauling thier butts back to Washington to work on this crisis – whether needed or not (and he was called back regardless for help), I would like to see ALL of our governemnt working to get this mess straight before it gets worse than it already is.

Obama may want to do some talking and get updates by phone, I could care less about the debate at this time, I would rather see all parties involved have thier collective arses doing what they are supposed to – thier jobs.

Now, he claims “it’s a stunt”.

Of course it’s a f**king stunt. McCain is just adding a new act to his vaudeville.
“Georgie, please help your fellow Republican. The lies aren’t working. My bullshit about the town hall debates was blown out of the water. How can I weasel myself out of those real debates?
Please back my political stunt by calling a meeting of candidates.”

“Okay. I hereby pronounce a meeting of presidental candidates to get this this snivelling jerk off my belly.”

“Thanks, Georgie, thanks.”

According to the other AP, the debate is back on:

WASHINGTON – Turmoil in America’s financial system threatened Thursday to upend the presidential campaign, with Barack Obama and John McCain preparing for crisis talks at the White House while at odds on going forward with their scheduled debate. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, whose state is hosting the debate, set for Friday, said planners were moving forward with the first televised match between the two candidates.

BTW, I’d like to thank all the Republicans posing as rabid, barking moonbats for telling us how scared of the debate McCain was going to be. By lowering everyone’s expectations, you’ll make his victory look even greater! -Karl Rove, er…Proof!

McSAME – blah blah blah – same stupid crap of trying to tie in McCain and Bush.

Lets see now, Last week McCain said the economy was fundimentally sound, and now he’s saying we are in serious trouble and he needs to single handedly do something about it before everyone starts jumping out windows and slitting their wrists. WOW! Now that’s a flip-flop. You know what? McCain needs to simply, go away. Take no nothing Palin and just leave. He’s a bigger idiot than I thought and for those of you that want to get behind him, let me ask you a question. If he had said last week, Ladies and gentelemen citizens of the United States, never fear I heard that we are being attacked but let me assure you we are fundamentally sound and secure. And then the very next week he says, Ladies and gentelmen, citizens we are under attach ( I ThinK ) and you have 24 hours to prepare because we are going to be hit with a distructive forse. Now what in the hell would everyone do? Here comes Johnny come lately, waiving the white flag saying, run, run for livess, fight, fight, fight to stay alive, just as he did in he RNC speach. I couldn’t and wouldn’t put my trust in someone who’s completely out of touch like Johnny come lately McCain. No people not at all. He’s not right nor prepared to lead our country. He flip flopped. He saw an oppertunity to boost his numbers and he’s trying to capitalize on it.. nice word ah. No people he’s not ready. And besides he has no dog in the race where it comes to the bailout, he’s not even on the committee. What the hell is he talking about? Whats he going to do? After all he said it was fundamentally sound, didn’t he?

Obama’s views on national economic and finance matters are obviously uninformed, witless, and irrelevant, while his leadership in time of a national emergency in nowhere to be found.

For someone who claims the ability to multi-task, leadership in time of need doesn’t seem to be one of them!
Seems pretty lackadaisical to me!

You’re not an independent in any sense of the word. You’re a child who wants a mommy government.

Dammit Likwidshoe, warn me next time when you say something this funny, I was in the middle of drinking coffee…lol

A point of fact, McC and Barri are, in fact, Senators, and their jobs currently require them to be in the Senate. You know, doing their job. I have complained for years about Senators running for President not doing the job they are being paid to do. If they all would just skip work we would be much better off.

If Senator McCain has suspended his campaign and pulled his ads, why have I seen 5 of his adds on TV this morning during breakfast? Thursday 9/25/08- Pennsylvania

Because McCain is a lying low-life, employing conservative bullshit to try to attract votes.

Republican campaign strategy:

“Use whatever works to get ahead. Lies have always worked for our party, so use as many lies as possible. No problem. Typical rightwing voters will believe anything.”

Yes Problem. Americans are getting tired of having their intelligence insulted. That last stunt takes the cake.
It will destroy McCain in the polls.

Barri is crying because he does not know how to get to the Senate, much less his office in Hart SOB.

You go McCain! “Country First”!! McCain and Nobama should both be in WA doing their job during this crisis! Wouldn’t that be a novel concept? Doing the job you were elected to do? You’ve had a 2 year paid vacation in the Senate Nobama! It’s time 2 GET TO WORK! I am very tired of the cruddy low-life “attacks” which are disguised as campaign information.. STOP IT AND GET TO WORK!! I would say “back to work” but in Nobama’s case, he hasn’t shown up for work… yet.

Like I said, let’s see how loud the left squeals today as a barometer of the effectiveness McCain’s move. AP said:

THis article is GARBAGE!!!!!!!!

See? So far, so good.

Wow! We’ve attracted some real winners to the bloggisphere today.

McCain rushing back to DC to resolve the problems his party and the Bush Administration created is laughable. He looks like a doddering old fool. Hasn’t he heard of telephones and video conferencing?

Harv 7:35am

Uh… Harv… it’s congress. Have you ever witnessed the action on the senate floor? (Hint… there are no video/speaker phones.) Maybe you should go research how the government actually works.

What a dumb move by McCain. I’m a Ron Paul guy so you know I don’t like either of these candidates… but McCain wants to delay debates? During tough times we need to hear these guys MORE. Yeah Obama ducked events before… shame on him.

They’re both political hacks. Does anyone think that McCain will have anything to do with the bill that may or may not pass?

And why do campaigns have to be suspended? What will any of McCain’s or Obama’s campaign staff have to do with a bill that may or may not pass.

We should have 2 debates per week from now on… not this “i’m going to hide in DC” crap.

Personally, I’d rather have them not pass anything. They should be ramping up their campaigns!!

We deserve better than these to nuts.

John McCain, who graduated second to last in his Naval Academy class, is the last guy who should be sticking his nose into the current economic crisis. He didn’t even major in Business Administration or Economics, so what does he think he would contribute? The idea that the Republican presidential candidate is going to unify the Congress and help generate a spirit of bipartisan support for the bail-out plan is ludricrous. What would his argument be? Do it for the sake of country? Does he really need to be in Washington for that? Ask yourself what McCain has to gain by skipping the upcoming debate and his grandstanding falls in tatters– This delay would push the VP debate between Biden and Palin further away, giving McCain’s horrifyingly inadequate running mate more time to cram world history and take photo ops with various heads of state. There is no good reason for either candidate to skip this debate. This is a crucial election for this country and the more educated the electorate is about the candidates the better. John McCain’s decision to skip the debate is as cynically political as his choice of Palin for VP.

I definately think that Obama and McCain should go to Washington and particiapte in dealing with the problems of the bail out it is their job at this point instead of skirting their responsibility to our country to side step it for a”more talk and no do” session. You can’t get a job done by leaving the shovel on the ground and talking about it with your hands in your pockets. the country would get a better idea of what they really are by how they deal with a REAL issue.

McCain rushing back to DC to resolve the problems his party and the Bush Administration created is laughable. He looks like a doddering old fool. Hasn’t he heard of telephones and video conferencing?

Perhaps the real reason is to postpone the debate until next week and subsequently avoid Sarah debating Biden?

but Iraq is a Lie that has caused too many of our noble troops to die.

We hear you, Dick. Amen!

I understand the financial crisis needs to be dealt with but how do you suspend your presidential run. Just say, I am going to Washington to work on this matter with the president and congress and my running mate Gov. Palin will still continue to travel per my scheduled speaking engagements as I attend to duties in Washington. BUT I guess McCain doesnt trust his running mate or she was selected as a pansy to pull in the conservative vote and only that. He doesnt trust her to travel alone I see. Both of they are stuck to the hip so that he keeps her close and he likes that because she pulls in more crowds than he does. Go figure. I think with private gets nowadays, McCain can be in Washington, fly out to Mississippi and be back in Washington again late Friday or Saturday morning to discuss whatever is going on in Congress. I think this is a wag the dog type of situation. He is being beat on the economy so McCain is taking his normal maverick stance.
The debate should be on. Its too late in the game to not have the American people hear what the candidates have to say. Most states will be voting soon if this debate is postpones.

Wait, an original member of the keating (spelling, sry it’s early) 5 is worried about the American economy? Give it a rest. This is just a typical McCain trick. He’s just trying to avoid an embarrassing debate performance.

Check out the update (#2) in the article above. It seems that Obama is now saying that if McCain doesn’t show he’ll turn it into an open town hall debate – basically making it a one man political commercial.

What was that about McCain being an opportunist?

He got beat because he sux in improvised speech. There are literally dozens of examples of Uh-bama that demonstrate just that.

He also has the wrong ideas and values for this country.

I thought the fundamentals of the economy were strong? I guess the Republicans and McCain were wrong.

During time of crisis life goes on; the debate must go on.

It is time for Palin to take over the campaign if McCain is needed at home in Washington.

Even lipstick wearing hockey moms multitask shouldn’t our next President?

Why do you care?

Because I believe he is a liar. He hasn’t suspended his campaign. This grandstanding move is his campaign. He’s pretending that he is sacrificing his Presidential aspirations for the good of the country when really he is just throwing a Hail Mary and playing politics.

I commend John McCain going back to Washington to work on this financial situation. Too bad Barack Obama is more concerned with his own agenda then the American people. I hadn’t made up my mind who to vote for, but it sure appears that John McCain is more concerned with my future than Barack Obama.

Check out the update (#2) in the article above. It seems that Obama is now saying that if McCain doesn’t show he’ll turn it into an open town hall debate – basically making it a one man political commercial.
What was that about McCain being an opportunist?

That is exactly what Obama should do. The election is just over a month away, just because McCain doesn’t want to stand forth and put his positions to the American people, doesn’t mean Obama should follow his lead.

This move by McCain is obviously political. What else could he hope to achieve by calling off the debate and running back to Washington during the nations most critical economic dilemma since the great depression; when he self admittedly knows nothing about economics?

It’s just one more attempt by McCain to fool Americans that are simple enough to fall for it. America can’t sustain another president that has no reservations about deceiving his own country for personal gain.

Actually they have now made the suggestion that the Presidential debate be next week instead of the vice-presidential debate. They are trying to hide Palin for as long as possible.

Obama should show up Friday and answer the

What I don’t understand is why everyone seems to thing Obama is so brillant on the economy? Show me ONE thing he’s done that shows he has any clue on how to manage the economy? At least McCain has been in Washington long enough to have experienced what does and what doesn’t work………. gee, isn’t that the definition of experience.

mccain realizes he cannot debate against Obama so he thinks of some way to get out it.

If we could only harness a portion of all the wind energy that’s coming out of the Obama camp whistling by the graveyard, we could probably declare energy independence! Heh.

CHRIS DODD (D-CT), SENATE BANKING COMMITTEE CHMN: American taxpayers are angry and they demand to know how we arrived at this moment.

ELIZABETH DOLE (R), NORTH CAROLINA SENATOR: My constituents, and indeed taxpayers across the nation are asking how we arrived at this crisis. It is infuriating.

ANGLE: But Senator Dole and others think they know the answer, and it’s something the Senate tried to fix three years ago but was thwarted.

DOLE: To the mismanagement of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which was made possible by weak oversight and little accountability.

MEL MARTINEZ (R), FLORIDA SENATOR: A lot of what we’re dealing with today has its origins in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

ANGLE: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, backed by the federal government, buy mortgage loans from the lenders who make them. But four years ago, both were in trouble over shoddy accounting. Fannie Mae Chief Franklin Raines, President Clinton’s former budget director, was fired. To placate those in Congress who watched over them, Fannie and Freddie promised to do more to help poor people get mortgages. That led them to buy riskier and riskier home loans from private lenders creating incentives for everyone to make shakier loans.

PETER WALLISON, AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: The problem is that they encouraged very bad mortgages to be made by banks and other institutions, because Fannie and Freddie would buy them.

ANGLE: Eventually, they bought trillions of dollars worth of mortgages, a substantial portion of them based on poor credit, then resold many of them to financial institutions who thought they were safe because the federal government was behind them.

WALLISON: As a result of this appearance that they were backed by the government, people never paid very much attention to the assets they were acquiring or the risks they were taking.

ANGLE: And so shaky mortgages spread throughout the system. But in 2005, the Senate Banking Committee, then chaired by Republican Richard Shelby, tried to rein in the two organizations bypassing some strong new regulations.

WALLISON: Which would have prevented Fannie and Freddie from acquiring this bad — these bad mortgages. It actually gave a new regulator for Fannie and Freddie the kinds of powers that a bank regulator had.

ANGLE: All the Republicans voted for it. All the Democrats, including the current chairman, Senator Chris Dodd, voted against it, and that was after Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan had issued a stark warning to senators that Fannie and Freddie were playing with fire. Greenspan said without stronger regulations, “We increase the possibility of insolvency and crisis. Without restrictions on the size of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, we put at risk our ability to preserve safe and sound financial markets in the United States.”

ANGLE: Which turned out to be exactly right, but because Democrats blocked it, those new regulations never got consideration by the full Senate and died. So that’s how we got into this mess, and how we missed a chance to avoid it. Getting out of it now, of course, will be a lot more difficult.

Link (Major HAT TIP to Newsbusters for being on tops of it!) (video available here, relevant section at 2:45)

The government has never been increased in size as much as in the last 8 years.

Right, and if you stick around – you’d learn that we conservatives here at this site do not agree with growing the size of the government.

So stop trying to tell me how independant you assholes are. You need the taxpayers to bail you out.

You’re talking to a figment of your imagination here. *shrugs*

The TOTAL FARCE of McCain’s rush to save the Economy should be trounced by every member of Congress who actually worked on the bipartisan bill. Nancy Pelosi and Reid should tell ranking Republicans they get ZERO votes on the deal, if ANY Republican goes and stands with Bush and McCain at the White House Photo Op. Leave McCain standing with Bush SEPERATE from the rest of Congress and Obama.

All your rhetoric is BS, you vote for people who do

The choice this election is over a guy who will grow some areas and shrink others, and a guy who will have the biggest growth EVER. Have you missed the lackluster support of McCain? We’re not thrilled with him.

But we only have 2 real choices. And we’re choosing the lesser of two evils.

And don’t bitch about a 1 trillion defecits, when Obama is planning on spending 1 trillion every year on “global poverty” alone.

As for the idiotic talk of McCain being scared to debate Obama, nothing can be further from the truth. McCain has constantly pushed for MORE debates and Obama has balked and said no.

And dems have been smarting from it ever since. Now they have an opportunity to save a little face and no farce will prevent them. I know politicians are notorious for stretching the truth, but democrats have taken it to a level which can only be described as shameless and calculated fraud.

I think alot of our ‘new’ liberal posters need to do some reading.

First, It wasn’t the President that called him back, he was requested back for another reason.

BOB SCHIEFFER: I am told, Maggie, that the way McCain got involved in this in the first place, the Treasury Secretary was briefing Republicans in the House yesterday, the Republican conference, asked how many were ready to support the bailout plan. Only four of them held up their hands. Paulson then called, according to my sources, Senator Lindsey Graham, who is very close to John McCain, and told him: you’ve got to get the people in the McCain campaign, you’ve got to convince John McCain to give these Republicans some political cover. If you don’t do that, this whole bailout plan is going to fail. So that’s how, McCain, apparently, became involved.

Continued Schieffer . . .

SCHIEFFER: He has gotten what he wants, he’s going to have this meeting, kind of a summit today with the president and Barack Obama. I’m told that the leaders of both parties are getting close to having some kind of a bill. The question, though, is whether rank-and-file Republicans, especially, are going to vote for this.

Link

As for the idiotic talk of McCain being scared to debate Obama, nothing can be further from the truth. McCain has constantly pushed for MORE debates and Obama has balked and said no.

While McCain is getting down to business, let Obama debate Palin!

The debate is on. It sounds like McCain’s concerns about the bailout were addressed and here we go.

[laughing}

Wow keep trying to push the old man bit, it is too funny.

McCain was still out on the stump when Obama needed a vacation.

Oh, and if worried abouyt people being too old, we better retire most of the governemnt, starting with the Senators on both sides.

Has the country forgot about the telephone? Or the internet? I haven’t seen mentioned the fact that part of Obama’s response was that he’s been in daily contact with congressional leaders, discussing this problem and exerting what influence he can. Senator Dodd (who’s CHAIRING the bipartisan committee working on the resolution) said yesterday was the first time he’d even HEARD from McCain… but said he’s talked with Obama many times over the last ten days. The same was heard from other committee members and some in congress. Also, people questioned what McCain would do once he got there. ??? He isn’t on the committee, so wouldn’t be allowed in the meeting. He doesn’t really have a lot of close allies in congress (barring those who are now supporting him because he’s the presumptive GOP nominee)… so who would he lobby to pass/reject/amend this proposal? All he could really do is submit his vote on the final resolution. Does that really require suspending your campaign?!

Those working on the proposal say it’s almost done… and they’d really rather McCain NOT show up, since they didn’t want to inject any more politics into the process and there’s not much he could really do. Even more importantly, the work is almost done. It’s like having your friend show up to help you move just as you’re finishing loading the last box and getting ready to crack some beer and eat pizza….then hearing him go on about what a great help he was.

PluhEZE. Give the American people a little more credit for intelligence (although, looking at some of the comments above, maybe not everyone’s worthy of that credit).

I’m an independent voter who tries to look for common sense in the solutions I hear from the candidates. All I see from McCain is rhetoric and political gimmicks aimed at getting him elected – like suspending his campaign and “running to Washington to save the day” instead of just picking up the phone… or a 38 cent temporary gas tax break… or picking a perceived outsider with strong fringe religious tenets to bring over the Hillary-ites and motivate the Religious Right. She may help to get him elected, but what does she add to the leadership team once they’d get elected??? – not much. At least Obama was humble enough to pick someone who would balance his weaknesses and create a more robust leadership team once elected.

This news story strikes me as McCain trying to one-up Obama by acting like this was all his idea and that suspending his campaign is noble… When in truth, it was Obama that started the ball rolling and McCain just looked for ways to use it to turn around his sinking campaign. Plus, what was he going to DO there that he couldn’t do over the phone? Even if he needed to go, what’s stopping him from taking a quick plane to DC… or the debate? I guess it’s just that all those techno gizmos like email, telephone and jet air travel are just a little scary for someone who’s so disconnected from today’s technology.

Obama’s right, a president should be able to use a telephone and multitask, as HE HAS BEEN DOING… and in doing so, seeming much more presidential – calmly working through the issues, using experts to help guide his decisions… not his “gut feelings” (rational or otherwise)… and most importantly, not knee-jerking to every issue he thinks will get people to elect him. Complicated solutions require time and thought… not spazzoid reactions aimed at getting elected.

McCain’s just “lucky” Bush called for a meeting today. Otherwise, what would he have done? Gimmick, Gimmick, Gimmick. It seems completely obvious to me and every educated, rational person I know.

My two cents. Okay, more like two dollars. This whole “playing the people like a fiddle” has me pulling my hair out lately. The further behind McCain gets, the more inane his substance.

Obama is unbelievable. He is making it seem like McCain wants to cancel the debate because he is scared to debate in fear that he will get creamed over economic issues. I am pretty sure that McCain was the one who wanted to have 10 town hall meetings which Barack declined. Maybe Barack doesn’t want to have to go back to Washington and possibly have to vote on something really serious. Since the cat is out of the bag with his whole “present” voting record and from here on out he actually has to place a vote, I think he is scared he might vote in a way that might hurt his campaign. He would much rather just sit there and read one of his empty motivational speeches off of a teleprompter than actually have to go and make real decisions like he is supposed to as a senator.

coming from an independant voter…
face facts republican propagandist-
This was a sneaky, underhanded, and dirty political move akin to the great deciever Carl Rove’s tacticks, so until the republican party can be honest with the American People, I can never in good faith vote for them.

McCain rushing back to DC to resolve the problems his party and the Bush Administration created is laughable. He looks like a doddering old fool. Hasn’t he heard of telephones and video conferencing?

Perhaps the real reason is to postpone the debate until next week and subsequently avoid Sarah debating Biden?

Uh-hm, Obama is on his way to Washington too. President Bush personally asked him and McCain back, and both will be there.

You apparently didn’t no you boy is going to Washington.

I think it would be a great idea to send Palin to debate Obama. Do you think that would benefit McCain or Obama? The main stream media has such low expectations of Palin it would be hard for her to underperform. Then maybe McCain could debate Biden in October. Any thoughts?

Oh, puh-leease! Post another meaningless picture and have a cookie!

Okay.

Ultimatum: Russia says to America “If your troops are not out of Moscow in 24 hours, we will nuke the Statue of Liberty, the Empire Estate Building and the White House. What is your decision?”

President McCain: Uh…uh… scratch scratch… Is that a trick question?

If Senator McCain has suspended his campaign and pulled his ads, why have I seen 5 of his adds on TV this morning during breakfast? Thursday 9/25/08- Pennsylvania

With opinions like this it makes me wonder if you’ve been conscious for the last eight years. You can through around words like despicable and windbag all you want, but all it does is lower the discourse to a shameful level. With this much hatred spewed towards Obama he must be doing something right.

weak political stunt!
They also want to bump back the Palin/Biden debate.

The bailout plans have been ironed out, and are ready for presidential approval. Any input from McCain or Obama is superfluous politicizing. If McCain has the cojones to want credit for having come to the rescue of our country, he will indeed be putting the final nail in his coffin.

Still doesn’t know dick:

after reading the other comments you have lifted from fox news’s talking points,

Sorry, loser! I haven’t had time to read anybody’s talking points but yours! Projection on your part that because you can’t think for yourself, no one else can? Pathetic.

Actually, Oswaldo, you have the Uh-man mixed up. That would be your f’ing hero Uh-bama.

With this much hatred spewed towards Obama he must be doing something right.

Towards Obama? LOL! Then I guess with all the hatred spewed towards McCain, we should start calling him St. John the Divine ? Heh.

Don’t know dick:

I didn’t not know my comments would need such clearification (sic)

As do your thoughts and your grammar!

So here let me brake (sic) it down for you,

(yes I am applying a bit of abbusive (sic) ad hominem)

Gosh! In my day they didn’t give grade schoolers access to computers, much less let them on line!

Of coarse(sic) “Proof of ignorance” you will never realize any of this until the republican party stops paying you to blog all day and you have to get a real job.
and finaly (sic) that little blurb you have at the bottom of every statement does not matter to those of us that dare to think for ourselves,

Affganistan (sic)is a noble war

Speaking of “proof of ignorance”: every time you see the word “(sic)”, it shows a location where you misspelled or used the wrong word to convey what your tiny little mind was struggling to say! There may have been other errors, those were simply the most glaring.

No one pays me to blog! I freely disassemble your weak and pathetic arguments at no charge!
I assure you I am gainfully employed and probably supporting your lazy ass via my taxes.

The overwhelming evidence shows that Mr.McCain will take any unscrupulous action to win this election.How,in Gods name can anyone vote for him? You’d have to be delusional to the point of psychosis or brain dead…or perhaps,merely bigoted.
Well,this Independent knows what is being spoon fed to the U. S. A.by the McCain campaign and I’m not biting!For my family’s sake,my sake and our Nations sake,I’m voting for Sen.Obama.If your not brain dead you will too.

Only to a moronic liberal can “doing your job” and responding to an issue the voters want taken care of” be considered a dirty political trick.

No independant would take such a line of horseshit and describe it as objective thought. It’s not how independants think. Even if they disagree with what’s being done…it’s not how they think. You’re a leftist through and through, and you want everyone to think you’re a centrist to get less resistance. Not buying.

The government has never been increased in size as much as in the last 8 years. There are projections that we will now have annual deficits of $1 trillion due to the compassionate

Bush did it too! Bush did it too! Look over here!
Compassionate conservatism is liberalism.

Your point is utter BS btw. Both the New Deal and Great Society were bigger expansions of power.

And you wish to blame Bush without blaming all his liberal allies. Kennedy wrote NCLB, the Medicare bill was a response to liberal demands, Patriot Act was unanimous, the Iraq war was a liberal venture, etc, etc, etc.

I’m trying to move from fewer emotional decisions as a responsible American citizen.

Success has once again escaped you. Your analysis is wrought with partisan, emotional hype and a noticeable absence of logic. Chalk it up to a leftist state of mind.

Have you noticed how the resident libs parrot democrat talking points almost on cue? McCain is “pulling a stunt” or throwing a “hail mary”.

So if the old and out of touch McCain can get one over on Barry, this is absolutely pathetic.

What will be his excuse when he goes Nevil Chamberlin on Iran and the next day they launch nukes at Israel?

mccain realizes he cannot debate against Obama so he thinks of some way to get out it. mccain admitted that economy is not his strong points and said about 3 DAYS AGO that “the fundamentals of our economy are strong”, what the hell!!!

why is he going to washington, to vote? B.S.! he’s trying to get attention, say something meaningless, and his supporters will say “wow mccain’s putting counrty first”. BS again. mccain is putting politics first. mccain wants to postpone the debates, why not postpone the election!

AMERICA is tired of this BS!

the debates should go on, so the world will see how ridiculous mccain really is. by the way, is there even going to be a bailout meeting at 9pm friday? I DOUBT THAT VERY MUCH!

I am surprised at how tough the republicans make themselves out to be, especially when they’re on television and at conventions with no one to dispute their claims, and when a crisis hits they are always touting their rhetoric about “country first” and “9/11.” But they always seem to disparage the other side while trying to appear patriotic and statesman-like. What happened to honest debating during tough times? Isn’t that what we are suppose to do? I would respect Senator McCain more if he would show himself the maverick he claims to be and allow his running mate to show herself the pitbull she claims to be. So far their claims are baseless. And those trying to defend them offer nothing more than the same rhetoric. Where are the intellectual conservatives and republicans with some mental fortitude?

Oswaldo:

Yeah right. Good example. McBluff weaseled himself out of the Saddleback “cone of silence” and the debate was being moderated by a Republican pastor.

Nothing like a sore loser to make up stories how they got their ass beat.

He got beat because he sux in improvised speech. There are literally dozens of examples of Uh-bama that demonstrate just that.

leadership in time of need doesn’t seem to be one of them!

we have a leader, remember. ole mr brilliance.

McCain is suspending his national campaign. Which consists of his personal efforts to get himself elected. He is doing this to focus on the economic problems this country is facing.

The state campaigns can carry on without his guidance or input. Thus, it doesn’t matter if the state campaigns stop or not. McCain has stopped, and his following through on his project.

Not that logic is going to work with Lestat, but that’s what is going on.

maybe he’s up to something top secret! like tom fucking cruise in the room with all the lasers n shit. i bet he is. he’s just that badass. had to go to washington to kick some ass. /sarcasm