McCain looking to suspend campaigning, to help in WA.

[RedTop]

Absolutely true.  But we won't know the answer to that question for a few years... which is exactly why they should be there to make sure the bailout is done as best it possibly can be done. 

And by the way, isn't Obama currently a U.S. Senator?  This is the single biggest thing Congress has dealt with in the new mellenium, with repricussions that will follow for years to come, and he isn't going to be there to take part?  Here would be his chance to finally do something worthwhile in the Senate, and he isn't taking it.  This is a huge opportunity he is wasting.  The people advising him are total idiots if they don't see this. 

Just words...just speeches....

He's not interested in helping....he's interested in getting elected....then he and his wife will help themselves but good and you and I along with millions of others will be looking back at what used to be our ass. since he will have taken it from us.

[Stang]

I mean I just cannot believe this... this isn't about dirty political tricks or who called who when and said what... adversity in life brings us unforseen opportunities.  At this moment, Barak Obama has a huge opportunity here to step up and be a leader and do the things he would want us to believe he would do as president.  Yet he is choosing to do nothing. 

I'm speechless.

[Bodhi]

I mean I just cannot believe this... this isn't about dirty political tricks or who called who when and said what... adversity in life brings us unforseen opportunities.  At this moment, Barak Obama has a huge opportunity here to step up and be a leader and do the things he would want us to believe he would do as president.  Yet he is choosing to do nothing. 

I'm speechless.

It's like I said.  Obama is an empty suit.

[Stang]

Chris Weber calling timeout has nothing on this move by Obama.

[AWMac]

*my best announcing stadium voice*

"Evening folks and it's a tight game..bottom of the Ninth.. Cubs are up but a few runs behind.
Obama at the plate and Whoaaaa a swing and a miss...
McCain on the mound and here comes a fast one!!!
Whooooa another swing and a miss for the upcoming Rookie.
It's 2 down and looks like a no hitter for McCain tonight my friends...tensions grow..Biden on first and Palin covering second...the Dude as shortstop and Hillery on the batters up list ....
Obama chokes up on the bat and here comes the next pitch and... and...and...stay tuned as we break away for a message from our sponser...."

*Enter Viagra Commercial here*

 

Too dramatic?

Mac

[bj229r]

McCain knows that he is about to have Phil Gramm hung around his neck like an albatross. Obama is going to destroy McCain in the debates, and McCain knows it.

So he's hiding.

Only the wingnuts in the O'Club would regard NOT facing the public and stating your policies for moving ahead in a public forum as progress.

Phil Gramm proposed a bill getting rid of the Glass Steagall Act, and 92 of 100 senators, plus President Clinton voted for it. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=s1999-354  Trying to blame this on him is pathetic, read a LITTLE more than Kos talking points

[MORAY37]

So Obama is going to win this debate friday on foreign policy? I think NOT. They both need to get to Washington along with all the other folks that work for US and get this thing right. It does not matter who had the idea first. What matters is that WE THE PEOPLE become the investors for these companies. WE get the benefit of any profits that come from this bailout. The CEO's and management of Wall Street need to suck it up and go live like the majority for a change.




P.S. Foreign poilicy is not one of Obama's strong areas.

I dunno about POILICY, but on POLICY, McCain sure has had his issues lately, with senior moments.

I mean, Sunni, Shiia....what's the difference?
Iraq bordering Afghanistan....He's got no clue.
Not even having a clue that Zapatoro is the president of Spain... thinks he's a Central American leader in interview.

I could go on and on.... I still say this man is in the beginning stages of Alzheimer's...Look at Reagan in his early to mid 70's..... having issues on what he saw in real life versus on TV.  McCain wasn't making these mistakes 4 or 5 years ago.  His short term gaffes, that weren't there before,  I think, are an indication of a deteriorating mental state.

[Raptor]

Wait... I thought that conservatives believed that the economy would control itself and balance itself out...

[MORAY37]

Phil Gramm proposed a bill getting rid of the Glass Steagall Act, and 92 of 100 senators, plus President Clinton voted for it. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=s1999-354  Trying to blame this on him is pathetic, read a LITTLE more than Kos talking points

Actually, Phil inserted that ammendment into the Budget the night before the vote.  Most didn't even know it was in there, and did not re-read the budget before passage..  Your attempt at revisionist history is admirable.

[RedTop]

I could go on and on....

and ya probably will........

[AWMac]

 

If Biden was a V8 he'd be only hittin on 5 cylinders...and smokin outta the tailpipe.

President FDR addressed the Nation on TV concerning the Stock Market Crash in 1929?  

Hubert Hoover was the Prez then..no TV's.. FDR wasn't Prez until 4 Years later and his addresses were on radio.

The more I see Biden the more I'm thankful he's a Democrat.

Just my thoughts.

Mac

[Dago]

From the Associated Press, posted approx 7:30pm EST.

NEW YORK - The economic crisis and raw politics threatened to derail the first presidential debate as John McCain challenged Barack Obama to delay the Friday forum and join forces to help Washington fix the financial mess. Obama rebuffed his GOP rival, saying the next president needs to "deal with more than one thing at once."

Let's see, McCain understands the situation, and is choosing to put country before his own ambition.  Obama doesn't much give a crap about the country and the current economic crisis, he is all about his ambition.

Pretty clear I think who should be elected, and it isn't the self-serving clown.

[Elfie]

It's like I said.  Obama is an empty suit.

You aren't the only one who has been saying that.

[bj229r]

Actually, Phil inserted that ammendment into the Budget the night before the vote.  Most didn't even know it was in there, and did not re-read the budget before passage..  Your attempt at revisionist history is admirable.

IT was an ACT, (S. 900 [106th]: Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act) not a mere line in a bill, debate went on several months http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s106-900   Are you saying Biden didn't know what he was signing?

[Getback]

IT was an ACT, (S. 900 [106th]: Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act) not a mere line in a bill, debate went on several months http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s106-900  Are you saying Biden didn't know what he was signing?

This bill has nothing to do with the financial crisis. This is a very sorry attempt to blame republicans. It was democrats that had control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. One was barney, the pimp, frank.

Hilliary was on one of the talk shows and just outright lied through her teeth about this.

Right now the FBI is investigating both of those Democrat institutions. I can't wait for Barney to be subpoenaed.