He's suspending his campaign and going back to Washington to supposedly do something about the financial crisis.
I'm in complete agreement with Eli Sanders on what Obama should do:
Hard to know how this will play, but Obama has an opportunity here to say something like: “No way. If you want to be Commander in Chief, you need to be able to juggle foreign policy and economic policy at the same time. I’m ready to juggle both, and I’m ready to debate on Friday evening. I won’t take my eye off the economic crisis, and I’ll do everything I can to move the appropriate bills forward. But the American people deserve a debate on all of the issues affecting them, and they’ve been looking forward this debate. I have been too. This election is too important to postpone a discussion of the issues, and I hope John McCain changes his mind.”
And regarding what McCain is trying to pull:
It’s easy to see what McCain is trying to do here: Take the initiative, appear presidential, one-up Obama’s rhetoric of “coming together to solve big problems,” and put Obama in a box of either being for the debate or against quick action to steady the economy.
Obama needs to get out of this trap, and quick. He needs to agree or, as I suggested at first blush, strongly disagree—and he needs to do it soon, before a conventional wisdom develops around McCain’s move. The longer Obama waits, the more likely the conventional wisdom about McCain’s move is going to become: Bold, bi-partisan, politically shrewd, game-changing, initiative-grabbing, presidential.
McCain's decision clearly has a lot more to do with how he's doing in the polls and prediction markets than about the financial crisis. This is politics pure and simple--actually dirty and conniving. And it's pathetic in the extreme.
McCain is afraid to debate Obama on economic issues on Friday because he knows he will look terrible.
I think I'll get physically ill if the mainstream media fawns over this as an example of putting "country first" instead of calling it out for the obviously desperate political ploy that it is. But given my opinion of the mainstream media, I'd better go find a bucket really damn fast. Highly unfortunate since I had some great Indian food for lunch.
Anyway, like I said before: BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT!!!
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Seems like a bad move to me, since no matter what he does, he will not have fixed the economy by the election. His best hope is to look like he is doing something (anything). Then again, paraphrasing Bush's argument for the bailout: Well, it's better than nothing.
My vote goes to Obama. Obama's plan provides jobs here at home, jobs that can't be outsourced. He wants to rebuild our infrastructure and restore confidence in the American people for them to know that they will have food on the table the next day. This confidence level impacts the upper class - the people who providing consumerables to the consumers. WE, the Middle Class, run this country, not the upper class-the ones who caused this mess. They are pulling their money out and leaving this country heading to Beijing - where their new econimic base is. If you want to continue with the politics of the past, then I suggest you start learning Mandarin, and move there with your Economic leaders who are splitting for the hills with their money. The same phenomenn is happening in Russia. Real American heroes are going to take this country back with Obama's leadership. Mccain followers will cower sheepishly, and go ask Bush, Brnancke, Paulson, etc. what happened. We know what happened, and it's a problem that Bush has been sitting on since 2001. It's only now poltically convenient for him to pull this as a political stunt to make Mccain look like he is a leader to provide the illusion that he knows what he is doing. This is BS. The Middle Class is much smarter, and will march Obama directly into the Whitehouse.
No, no, no...what it means is Obama knows that his support of mimimum-wage working Americans that were allowed to borrow $200k to buy a home under HIS party's aggressive demands are now the ones defaulting because...unfortunately for him...2+2 doesn't equal 1000. We will be forced to pay the consequences of those who were irresponsible in borrowing and failed to pay...he is, quite honestly, burying his head in the political sand. His homeless constituents will be on the beach to console him, I suppose.
This stunt that McCain is pulling is IMPULSIVE, BIZARRE, and WEIRD.
McCain is simply CRAZY.
What? He can run and chew gum at the same time? Is he THAT OLD?
This is like a quarterback refusing to enter the 4th quarter of the Superbowl with a tied score.
There is NO MORE IMPORTANT job that McCain has than to help DECIDE who is going to be the NEXT PRESIDENT to lead us out of this bad economy.
It was McCain, Bush, and his Republican Cronies that deregulated the banking, financial, and insurance industries in the first place that lead this this nightmare collapse of these industries in the first place.
Obama and Biden should take this opportunity to point out the obvious: McCain IS CRAZY.
How can McCain help solve the economic crisis if he does not even know how many homes he owns?
Ted Kennedy just finished Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy but I bet he could tell you how many homes he owns.
Good for Obama. What is McCain going to do if he does become President and there are two (or more) things that demand his attention at once? Is he going to flake on one commitment to attend exclusively to another? I truly think this is an avoidance ploy because it's a low time in his campaign and the Republicans need to re-group and come up with more negative, mud-slinging bull-crap rather than defining themselves before going head-to-head with Obama in a debate.
And I can't express how irritating it is to hear McCain say that he is suspending his campaign and setting "politics" aside so he can go back to Washington DC to work on the bill to bail out debt-laden multi-billion dollar corporations (btw, I'd appreciate some debt relief on my student loans, too, while they're at it)--what the heck does he think that is, if not politics???? When did politics (i.e., the conduct of government: the process by which groups of people make decisions) become a dirty word? Senators such as McCain and Obama get PAID to practice politics, that's their job, they're POLITICIANS!!! Hello?!?!
Besides, I specifically set Friday evening aside to watch the debate. It's hard enough to get people engaged enough to turn off "reality" TV and pay attention to real events that actually impact their lives, and playing these little games may make it even more difficult... Or maybe that's what McCain's camp is banking on (?).
The Real Issue is Senator McCain's vote for the failed Bush Administration economic policies that the late President Reagan called "Voodoo Economics" when he debated former President George Bush I when the two were attempting to capture the presidency. Our president has the same philosophy which is top down and trickles to nothing for the average American. Economies have to be bottom up so people will purchase and save. Please do not forget that during the last quarter century, we have had the Republican revolution of presidents....17 of the last 25 years----not one balance budget-no prosperity--and no surplus and that's the REAL ISSUE!!!!
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