Posted on 09/24/2008 1:16:19 PM PDT by HAL9000
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Aiming to prove how serious he is about addressing the financial crisis, John McCain has instructed his staff to take all his campaign commercials off the air, a spokesman tells Politico.~ snip ~
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Putting Country First.
He ‘walks the walk, and talks the talk’.
Leadership on display.
What else can I say?
Obama, on the other hand, said he was not going back to Washington for the vote earlier, before McCain’s announcement. Will Obama flip-flop?
Anyway, it seems excessively theatric for the McCain campaign to pull *all* its ads. In fact, a poor idea, IMO. They should leave one or two positive placeholder ads at least until John McCain gets back into campaign mode.
“This isn’t just a crying wolf moment in time. We were THIS CLOSE to a meltdown not seen since 1929..and it isn’t over yet.”
Maybe. Maybe not. When people want you to give them 700 billion dollars based on their assurance that the sky is falling, I want some pretty definitive proof.
This is a very good point. The more Congress screws around trying to fix the economy, the more the markets tank and the more blame that is (wrongly) placed at the feet of only Republicans.
See my tagline.
Obama is now stuttering, and taking some, uh, uh, uh, credit and that he called McCain to initiate this.
Wow.
bttt
I seriously doubt the left will get the message or step up to the plate.
He drew a line in the sand something are more important than party.
Why not Obam told him to stuff it on the town hall style meeting, maybe its a good time for a little payback. Let the empty suit stand up there all by himself. Or even better offer to have Sarah stand in for him. She has as much foreign policy experience than Nobama.
Putting Country First.He ‘walks the walk, and talks the talk’.
Leadership on display.
What else can I say?
Obama, on the other hand, said he was not going back to Washington for the vote earlier, before McCain’s announcement. Will Obama flip-flop?
Yes, this is Obama's 3 a.m. phone call--and it's going to his VOICE MAIL.
The financial mess cannont be solved by more of the same legislation - which Obama supports doing. Numerous editorials have been written which demonstrate that policies and plans authored and supported by DEMOCRATS have caused the problems our country is now facing.
McCain is now suspending his campaign so that Paulson’s Wall Street handout plan goes through? Every single time he gets on the verge of staying consistent on conservative themes, his ego gets in the way, and he decides to break ranks to support profoundly stupid and un-conservative things (illegal alien amnesty, Paulson’s handout plan) just so that he can show everyone that he’s different; a maverick.
Listening to the O-dummy insisting he can do more than one thing at a time.
He’s made a few of those now. One is drawing 60k crowds in states he needs.
OBAMA is campaigning right now in his news confer. He makes me sick!
Palin should go to Washington with McCain and be with him every moment of the process. An opportunity to sit ringside at this moment in history is, in fact, priceless.
McCain knows Obambi is in a lose-lose here. Time after time (9/11, for example), McCain has set the leadership agenda. Obambi is also a Senator and should be in Washington doing his job. If he’s not, that’s up to him and voters can evaluate which leadership style suits the nation. If he does, he did so because he followed John McCain. ‘Nuff said.
As for throwing in the towel, get a grip. First, John McCain has never cared more about getting elected than about doing what he thinks is right for the country (even though, like all humans, he is sometimes wrong on what is “right”). Secondly, the election is about leadership and experience and McCain is LIVING that; campaigning on it is a far second.
The debates are fairly worthless except as media fodder and McCain has been practically begging Obambi to debate him and appear in townhall meetings over and over again, all summer. For Obambi now to be so set on debating while this crisis is ongoing, well, voters need to evaluate his judgment in that.
As I posted upthread, McCain knows he is likely to be President in a few months and he’s not going to let a bunch of yahoos back in Washington take the country down the drain, lay an egg for his administration and set a trap for him to boot, while he’s out on the stump. No way.
Perhaps the demand for $700 Billion, is, in and of itself, the proof you crave.
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