Posted on 09/25/2008 7:11:08 AM PDT by Bill Dupray
I am with those who say that McCain made a shrewd political move suspending his campaign (big, important-sounding language usually reserved for ending a campaign - but in this case meaning a couple of days off) to tackle the nation’s financial troubles. McCain does a big, splashy announcement, gets leadership points, and frames and prioritizes the issue as the most important of the day.
Obama is screwed, because he either follows McCain’s lead, as really junior Senators usually do, and looks like the me-too guy, or he says the hell with it, the debates must go on (more frickin’ talk from the talker advocating more talking - this while the doer is doing). Of course, with Obama, there is a third option: pretend that McCain stole your idea.
(Excerpt) Read more at patriotroom.com ...
The beauty of the McCain move is that he remains in Obama’s grille.
He dominates the news cycle, he looks decisive, and he gets all the credit for the solution, even if his role is just to bring Republicans on board.
McCain continues to impress with his cagey instincts.
Poll needs freeping
Debate over the debate
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Do you agree with John McCain’s proposal to delay Friday’s debate?
Yes (1918 responses)
19.9%
No (7730 responses)
80.1%
o 9648 total responses (Results not scientific)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-mccain-economics-poll,0,6154824.poll
Man, I hope Steve Schmidt and Rick Davis are thinking along these lines right now.
Obama gets to vote not present.
Multi-tasking....I seem to recall Nero saying something similar...or was that “playing” something similar?...HAR HAR
The first rebuttal should be that McCain has opened his schedule for the past couple of months for town halls yet hussein never accepted. The point should be made over and over. Everyone knows postponing the debate a day or two is irrelevant.
Where is the footage of hussein at the dem convention when he stuck his chest out and called for debates, yet he never backed it up with action. There are millions of Americans who call that leadership.....puff out your chest, then hide under the desk.
He must be getting new advice.
i don’t get this “multi-tasking” thing. Obama is not multi-tasking. If he were multi-tasking, Obama would be in Washington working on this, as part of his current job as a U.S. Senator, then fly back to Mississippi on Friday afternoon to get there for the debate, then back to Washington after the debate as needed. Obama is staying away from his current job in Congres so he can practice his one-liners and zingers that he is planning to use in the debate. He is not multi-tasking, he is staying away to concentrate on his campaign.
McCain is the one who is multi-tasking, if we’re keeping score.
Bush & McCain shouldn’t have invited Obama to come to Washington. When he said they could call him if they needed him, they should have said, “You aren’t needed.” They should have then dismissed him as an irrelevant, present-voting, junior senator whose cronies are responsible for the crisis in the first place.
And this “multi-tasking” charge comes from a guy who had to take four days off to seclude himself in a room to cram for a debate, after telling us for months that he’s brilliant and is well-versed enough in foreign affairs to be our Commander-in-Chief.
I only hope the fence-sitters aren’t dumb enough to fall for the multi-tasking schtick.
Sadly, I believe they just may be that dumb and as you note, they have no clue what the big deal is...
OTOH, they do know it’s hitting them in the wallet and they see McPain making it a priority to “Git’R Done”...while Obama wants to “fiddle” around ...LOL...The Nero tie-ins just keep coming!
No. The offer to send Palin is too cute and undercuts McCain’s edge on this issue.
McCain will likely be positioned to take a victory lap at the debate tomorrow night and mock Obama throughout the evening - talk vs action.
McCain has also (1) disrupted the Obama debate preparations, (2) recharged his bipartisan bona fides with independent voters and (3) expanded the debate conversation into the global economic impacts of various foreign policy issues, thereby leaving BO in the dust.
The Obama people are amateurs and are being kicked to the curb again.
I truly hope the president calls on Obama at the Cabinet table (with the cameras rolling) and let BO stumble and stammer for every voter to see.
AND, the foreign policy debate — McCain’s strongest and Obama’s weakest area — is moved out of a time when the entire national focus is on the financial mess.
Great article! The icing on the cake would be for McCain to help work out the issues, get the press and then zip down to Mississippi to clean BO’s clock in the debate.
During the debate, Mac can point out how the “Undecided One” the “Non Messiah” followed along for the ride! Picture “Curious George” holding the hand of his keeper!...”Duh, where to now!? Can we get some ice cream at the presidents office”?
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