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Posted 24 September 2008 - 10:24 PM
Posted 24 September 2008 - 10:57 PM
updated 37 minutes ago
[ McCain suspends campaign
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain announced Wednesday that he is suspending his campaign to return to
Washington and focus on the "historic" crisis facing the U.S. economy.
McCain said it was time for both parties to come together to solve economic crisis.
Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama said at a news conference later Wednesday that he and McCain had spoken by phone
and had agreed to issue a joint statement about shared principles in the approach to resolving the economic crisis. But he disagreed with
McCain's call for postponing Friday's first presidential debate in Oxford, Mississippi. "It's my belief that this is exactly the time
when the American people need to hear from the person will be the next president," Obama said. "It is going to be part of the president's job
to deal with more than one thing at once. It's more important than ever to present ourselves to the American people." Regarding McCain's
call to join him in Washington to help participate in the debate over the economic recovery plan, Obama said, "If I can be helpful then I'm
prepared to be anywhere, any time ... [I] don't want to infuse Capitol Hill with presidential politics."]
Some people are saying he chickened out. McCain was away from Washington for the week when this crisis was being discussed. Now that
they have to go for the debate, he chickened out. I don't believe it.
He's dropping in the polls and he's afraid he'll drop more after the debate. That's why he chickened out. I don't believe it.
They say he's afraid he'll be asked about his and his friends hands in creating this mess. That's why he chickened out. I don't believe it.
Others say he asked that Sarah Palin be next to him during the debate. When he was refused he chickened out. I don't believe it.
Posted 24 September 2008 - 11:46 PM
Posted 24 September 2008 - 11:50 PM
Posted 25 September 2008 - 12:20 AM
Posted 25 September 2008 - 12:42 AM
Posted 25 September 2008 - 12:54 AM
Yes, because he is being mature and thinking "country first" rather than Obama being immature and thinking "obama first". The debates can be rescheduled. People don't really have a grasp of just how bad our economy is right at this very moment. There are priorities, and it seems McCain knows them.
Posted 25 September 2008 - 02:03 AM
Posted 25 September 2008 - 02:22 AM
Posted 25 September 2008 - 02:32 AM
Buck up, righties. You had eight entire years to drag this country down, and you did a damn good job of it.
Bwahahaahaha!
lame ass
doddering fool your crime syndicate of a "political party"
absurd empty-headed fool
Fucking criminal gang of traitors.
weren't effing cowards like McCain and Palin.
Edited by luv2increase, 25 September 2008 - 02:34 AM.
Posted 25 September 2008 - 02:35 AM
I find it hard to give your view the slightest ounce of credit when you talk like this. What are we, teenage gangsters here? Speak with some dignity why don't you.
----- Focusing on the severely messed up economy -> something that can't wait (could make our even to become in an even more detrimental state)
Posted 25 September 2008 - 02:57 AM
I find it hard to give your view the slightest ounce of credit when you talk like this. What are we, teenage gangsters here? Speak with some dignity why don't you.
----- Focusing on the severely messed up economy -> something that can't wait (could make our even to become in an even more detrimental state)
I never take a right winger seriously and I'll use whatever fucking language I want to describe your nauseating beliefs. Your political philosophy and political party are bankrupt and criminal, respectively.
After these eight years, if you had a shred of human dignity, you'd shut your fucking mouth and never speak again.
Your side is despicable in every conceivable way.
Edited by luv2increase, 25 September 2008 - 02:59 AM.
Posted 25 September 2008 - 03:16 AM
Posted 25 September 2008 - 03:18 AM
chickened out? It appears that McCain has his priorities straight while Obama sadly does not. Obama cares more about a debate (which can be rescheduled I might add) than the economic crisis which needs immediate attention.
This is a sign of maturity from McCain and immaturity from Obama.
Nuff said.
Edited by Iam Empathy, 25 September 2008 - 03:26 AM.
Posted 25 September 2008 - 03:20 AM
Posted 25 September 2008 - 03:30 AM
Edited by Live Forever, 25 September 2008 - 03:32 AM.
Posted 25 September 2008 - 03:30 AM
I never take a right winger seriously and I'll use whatever fucking language I want to describe your nauseating beliefs. Your political philosophy and political party are bankrupt and criminal, respectively.
After these eight years, if you had a shred of human dignity, you'd shut your fucking mouth and never speak again.
Your side is despicable in every conceivable way.
Posted 25 September 2008 - 02:35 PM
Posted 25 September 2008 - 02:36 PM
Says Cartman:Do you really consider approximately 50% of U.S. citizens to be despicable in every conceivable way? Do you think that is a healthy or helpful point of view?
Edited by Savage, 25 September 2008 - 02:37 PM.
Posted 25 September 2008 - 02:38 PM
Obama, who has spent the vast majority of his career as a US Senator running for President...McCain, absent in the Senate since April, missed 109 of the last 110 votes, and 412 out of 643 this term
Posted 25 September 2008 - 02:40 PM
"We are all communists now" - applies to Republicans these days, too.I never take a right winger seriously and I'll use whatever fucking language I want to describe your nauseating beliefs. Your political philosophy and political party are bankrupt and criminal, respectively.
Edited by Savage, 25 September 2008 - 02:41 PM.
Posted 25 September 2008 - 02:44 PM
I find it hard to give your view the slightest ounce of credit when you talk like this. What are we, teenage gangsters here? Speak with some dignity why don't you.
----- Focusing on the severely messed up economy -> something that can't wait (could make our even to become in an even more detrimental state)
I never take a right winger seriously and I'll use whatever fucking language I want to describe your nauseating beliefs. Your political philosophy and political party are bankrupt and criminal, respectively.
After these eight years, if you had a shred of human dignity, you'd shut your fucking mouth and never speak again.
Your side is despicable in every conceivable way.
Posted 25 September 2008 - 02:46 PM
Posted 25 September 2008 - 07:25 PM
Honestly I don't mind the language.
If you aren't pissed off, you are insane.
Posted 25 September 2008 - 08:31 PM
Posted 25 September 2008 - 08:47 PM
Palin can't speak without a script.
Posted 25 September 2008 - 09:03 PM
Posted 25 September 2008 - 09:05 PM
Palin can't speak without a script.
On the other hand, when Obama is not in front of a teleprompter, he cannot speak 4 words consecutively without putting his head down and saying "a" "a" "a" in-between his words and sentences.
Edited by Iam Empathy, 25 September 2008 - 09:06 PM.
Posted 25 September 2008 - 09:36 PM
Republican presidential nominee John McCain has not introduced any banking or housing bills in the 110th Congress, while Democratic rival Barack Obama has proposed five.
Both candidates are traveling to Washington on Thursday to meet with President Bush and congressional leaders to build support for a massive rescue plan for the nation's ailing economy.
Neither Sen. McCain (Ariz.) nor Sen. Obama (Ill.) sits on the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, which is taking the lead in the upper chamber of molding the bailout plan.
McCain is the lead sponsor of 38 pieces of legislation during the 110th Congress, none of which have been referred to the Banking panel, according to a review of Thomas, a congressional website.
Obama has introduced 130 measures during this Congress. Five of Obama's standalone bills fall within the Banking Committee's jurisdiction.
Obama's legislation calls for bolstering housing assistance for veterans, amending the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 to provide shareholders with an advisory vote on executive compensation, halting mortgage transactions that promote fraud, authorizing local and state governments to crack down on companies that invest in Iran's energy sector and authorizing a pilot program to prevent at-risk veterans from becoming homeless.
Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), Obama's running mate, has not introduced a standalone bill that has been referred to the Banking Committee.
Obama this summer attracted criticism when he called the Senate Banking Committee "my committee."
The McCain and Obama campaigns did not immediately comment for this article.
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said that "nobody mentioned McCain" during the several-hour-long meeting on the $700 billion market rescue plan, other than Frank and that his Republican colleagues "winced" when he did.
"He's been irrelevant to the process. He remains to be," said Frank. "I was afraid that his dropping in here, like Andy Kaufman's Mighty Mouse—'here I am to save the day'—I thought that would slow things down. I didn't see any sign of our Republican colleagues paying any attention to him whatsoever."
Franks went on. "Nobody mentioned him. The man's irrelevant to the whole process. No Republican mentioned his name. I'm the only one who raised his name. They winced when I did," he said.
"I don't think anyone takes that seriously," said Frank of McCain's suggestion that Friday's debate be delayed. "Sen. McCain trying to use the necessity for his presence to reach a deal that we've already reached as a reason to duck the debate is unworthy of him. There is absolutely no reason not to go to the debate."
Frank was equally cool about today's meeting with the White House. "The White House isn't show and tell. We're going to the White House because the president asked us to go. Nobody thinks at this point that anything useful's going to happen. But we now have to get things drafted and worked on. The White House meeting is just an interruption in our schedule," he said.
Though he said McCain's presence would be unhelpful, he did say, getting a dig in at McCain's running mate, that there "were times when I was ready to suggest that, when we got to some of the more complicated issues about how do you price these sophisticated instruments, that we ask him to make Sarah Palin available to give us her expertise."
Yesterday, Sen. John McCain announced he would be suspending his campaign after speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative in order to return to Washington for negotiations on the bailout:
Tomorrow morning, I will suspend my campaign and return to Washington after speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative. … All we must do to achieve this is temporarily set politics aside, and I am committed to doing so.
The McCain campaign, however, has not "temporarily set politics aside." In the five hours after McCain's speech, aides Nancy Pfotenhauer, Tucker Bounds, and Mike Duhaime appeared on Fox News and MSNBC five times, frequently criticizing Obama and Democrats:
– PFOTENHAUER: Well they could always have Joe Biden and if it's on foreign policy, Obama and Biden can debate each other! Hahaha! (MSNBC)
– BOUNDS: Democrats were trying to pivot and push this issue into John McCain's lap. (Fox News)
– BOUNDS: Barack Obama is trying to play politics, I think, in many regards on a lot of these issues. (MSNBC)
– BOUNDS: And here we are. I think we're in a very different situation because of the leadership of John McCain. (MSNBC)
On Fox News, McCain political director Mike Duhaime said McCain "decided to put campaigning and politics aside." Watch a compilation:
In none of the five appearances, however, did any media anchor ask the aides about the double standard.
Pfotenhauer also was scheduled for a live chat at the Washington Times at 11 a.m., well after McCain's CGI speech. Greg Sargent writes, "McCain's suspension of his campaign apparently doesn't apply to his own advisers."
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