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OFF TOPIC: "My Fellow Prisoners," John McCain To Americans
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
I declare John McCain needs to take this act on Def Comedy Jam, this is some funny stuff!
OFF TOPIC: Obama, "A President Is Going To Have To Deal With More Than One Thing At A Time."
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN TO CONTINUE
Barack Obama rejected the proposal -- put forward by John McCain today -- that the two presidential candidates leave the campaign trail, delay Friday's debate, and return to Washington to work on a bailout package for the economy,"Presidents are going to have to deal with more than one thing at a time," he said, "it is not necessary for us to think we can do only one thing and suspend everything else."
Expressing concern about infusing "Capitol Hill with presidential politics," Obama said it was his desire to see the debate go forward.
"With respect to the debates it is my belief that this is exactly the time when the American people need to hear from the person who in roughly 40 days will be responsible for this mess," he said. "I think it is going to be part of the president's job to deal with more than one thing at once. I don't see why we can't be constructive in helping with this problem."
Obama, who would not commit to taking advertisements off the air as McCain's campaign has, delivered his remarks hours after McCain announced the suspension of his campaign. The Arizona Republican insisted that it was time for the two candidates to return to work to help push forward a bi-partisan bailout package to deal with the financial crisis.
Earlier in the afternoon, Democrats in Congress were already calling out McCain for engaging in what was described, at various times, as a "Hail Mary pass" and a "deeply cynical" ploy.
"The debate should take place as scheduled," Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in an interview with NPR to be broadcast this afternoon. "We have to be able to do a couple of things at once. That's what leadership requires."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said in a statement that McCain's move would actually impair negotiations over the bailout by introducing politics into the equation.
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OFF TOPIC: John McCain Trying To Avoid A Shellacking In Upcoming Debate
I don't buy it, I don't buy it!!
John McCain woke up this morning and saw that he has now slipped nine points in the polls, Obama was on the phone taking the lead in unity on the principles of fixing this Wall Street mess, and he still had not done all of his economic homework. So what does he say, TIME OUT!
McCain chooses to suspend his campaign and asks that Obama do likewise so that they can return to Washington and bring compromise. PLEASE!
McCain is selling wolf tickets. There are enough people already on the Hill working on this bill. We have a president to elect, show us what you've got!
Nico Pitney at The Huffington Post writes the following:
Why does John McCain suddenly want to suspend his presidential campaign and postpone Friday's debate? His campaign surrogates are saying it's a typical "maverick" move, that McCain is simply "putting country first." Let's look at the evidence:
1) As Ben Smith notes, McCain's move "is a mark, most of all, that he doesn't like the way this campaign is going. ... The only thing that's changed in the last 48 hours is the public polling."
2) The idea of uniting the campaigns to find a bipartisan solution to the Wall Street crisis wasn't even McCain's idea. A few minutes ago, Obama spokesman Bill Burton emailed to reporters:
"At 8:30 this morning, Senator Obama called Senator McCain to ask him if he would join in issuing a joint statement outlining their shared principles and conditions for the Treasury proposal and urging Congress and the White House to act in a bipartisan manner to pass such a proposal. At 2:30 this afternoon, Senator McCain returned Senator Obama's call and agreed to join him in issuing such a statement. The two campaigns are currently working together on the details."
3) John McCain has skipped more votes during this session than any member of the Senate except for Tim Johnson, who had major brain surgery. All of a sudden, McCain demands that the presidential race shut down so he can return to Washington?
4) For all of his sudden urgency, McCain acknowledged just yesterday that he had not even read the administration's three-page bailout proposal.
5) It's not clear at all that having McCain and Obama back in DC will actually help. "What does seem apparent, though, is that putting the two candidates in the negotiating room is far more likely to distract--and derail--negotiations than having them out on the hustings," Jonathan Cohn writes at the New Republic. "Besides, it's not as if McCain has any great expertise he can bring to this subject. Or does he plan to bring Senator Phill Gramm, Mr. Deregulator himself, along?"
It's impossible to know why McCain chose this course, but it sure seems like more of a political stunt than a maverick moment.
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