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Charlie Gibson Interviews John McCain on Bailout
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Posted on 09/25/2008 4:02:49 PM PDT by GOPinCa

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1 posted on 09/25/2008 4:02:51 PM PDT by GOPinCa
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To: GOPinCa

Operative Q&A

GIBSON: Do we have a debate tomorrow night?

MCCAIN: Well I’m hopeful, very hopeful that we can. I believe that it’s very possible that we can get an agreement so that — in time for me to fly to Mississippi. I understand that there is a lot of attention on this but I also wish Senator Obama had agreed to ten or more town hall meetings that I had asked him to attend with me. Wouldn’t be quite that much urgency if he agreed to do that, instead he refused to do it.

Nice, nice shot, Senator McCain


2 posted on 09/25/2008 4:06:44 PM PDT by StAntKnee (Why'dja say I was a community organizer? You know how I always wanted to pretend I was a soldier.)
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Very groovy response.


3 posted on 09/25/2008 4:08:23 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: GOPinCa
but I also wish Senator Obama had agreed to ten or more town hall meetings that I had asked him to attend with me. Wouldn't be quite that much urgency if he agreed to do that, instead he refused to do it.

Hoo yah! So it over and over again, Mac!

4 posted on 09/25/2008 4:08:50 PM PDT by scottinoc
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To: GOPinCa

After what he did to Palin, why would they even agree to talk with that arrogant, biased bastard?


5 posted on 09/25/2008 4:08:59 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: GOPinCa
Fox News reporting that the meeting was very contentious ... yelling by Dems.
6 posted on 09/25/2008 4:09:02 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: GOPinCa

MCCAIN sounds fantastic!!


7 posted on 09/25/2008 4:09:24 PM PDT by valkyry1 (McCain/Palin 2008)
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To: GOPinCa

McCain treads on thin ice if he signs onto a Dodd/Frank legislation that bails out everybody and has a massive central government determine who gets paid what for their labor.

McCain will lose the base if he agrees with those who created the mortgage crisis in the first place.


8 posted on 09/25/2008 4:10:13 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: GOPinCa

McCain delivered a body blow to the stuffed shirt Gibson.

Gibson asked him if he would be at the debate tomorrow night.

McCain answered by saying the focus on the debates would not be so great if Obama had agreed to participate with Mac in the Town Meetings.

Gibson changed the topic with the next question.


9 posted on 09/25/2008 4:11:44 PM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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Because McCain has been doing this a long time and can easily make gibson look like the fool that he is


10 posted on 09/25/2008 4:12:59 PM PDT by italianquaker (McCain country first, Odumbo campaign first)
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> After what he did to Palin, why would they even agree to
> talk with that arrogant, biased bastard?

To make him face a man, instead of a girl.

McCain flattened the stuffed Giblet.


11 posted on 09/25/2008 4:13:24 PM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: GOPinCa

Has anyone written a projected chronology of how events would unfold if there were no bailout?


12 posted on 09/25/2008 4:14:43 PM PDT by farmer18th (I had a brain transplant after college. (The original was ruined.))
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To: Miss Didi

Thanks. Haven’t heard “groovy” in a while. Let me guess. You were born in 1951.


13 posted on 09/25/2008 4:16:11 PM PDT by StAntKnee (Why'dja say I was a community organizer? You know how I always wanted to pretend I was a soldier.)
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Not even close. ;)


14 posted on 09/25/2008 4:21:07 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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Has anyone written a projected chronology of how events would unfold if there were no bailout?

Why don’t you do it ~ since you would be guessing just like everyone else?

You could do karnak!

Lurking’


15 posted on 09/25/2008 4:26:09 PM PDT by LurkingSince'98 (Catholics=John 6:53-58 Everyone else=John 6:60-66)
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To: GOPinCa
IMHO, McCain has won this round. He has done a great job of changing the debate. Clearly he is now the power broker, the go to guy, all decisions must be approved by him.

Meanwhile Obama slinks away and wants a pointless debate on foreign policy.

So politically McCain scores, now if he crafts together a better deal then he gets a big boost on this issue.

Well played so far.

schu

16 posted on 09/25/2008 4:26:26 PM PDT by schu
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Has anyone written a projected chronology of how events would unfold if there were no bailout?

A darn good question...as many different opinions as there are Freepers. I personally believe things could be 1974 bad, but not 1933 bad.

I posited this on another thread, under the hypothesis that things really are that close to a meltdown.

If I had enormous investments right now, and a public podium, and really wanted to make out like a bandit, I would NEVER advocate anything structural to really fix the crisis.

What I would do is scare the crap out of everyone and insist that a quick infusion of Treasury cash would do the trick.

If I got it, I'd wait a few days for the relieved small investors to pump the markets up, up, up.

As soon as the time was right, I'd sell out. Like a greased weasel. All my buds, too.

Boom! 1933 the sequel. And I'm Papa Joe Kennedy on steroids. Reform all you want, after I get that done.

17 posted on 09/25/2008 4:27:36 PM PDT by Notary Sojac (I'll back the bailout if Angelo Mozilo lets me borrow his Lamborghini on Saturday nights.)
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I'm confident that we're going to move forward and get this issue in a bipartisan agreement which is what the American people want.

FU McLIBERAL. Go join the 'Rat party you senile media lap dog. Go straight to hell and do not collect $200. Get this senile old fool out of here. A pathetic 'Rat water carrier.

18 posted on 09/25/2008 4:27:36 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Palin is sugar on a turd ... No mas Juan "Traitor Rat" McAmnesty)
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Leet the man do his work before slamming him, McCain hasnt even finished yet and quite frankly would you prefer the Dems to just ram through their bill without saying anything.

No one else seems to be challenging them.


19 posted on 09/25/2008 4:40:30 PM PDT by sunmars
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To: LurkingSince'98
Why don’t you do it ~ since you would be guessing just like everyone else?

Well..me old mammy has been predicting another Great Depression since 1968, so I'm afraid I would be both a) macroeconomically ignorant and two b) prone to a very DIRE forecast. (I live on a farm with pigs and guns.)
20 posted on 09/25/2008 4:43:54 PM PDT by farmer18th (I had a brain transplant after college. (The original was ruined.))
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