Posted on 09/25/2008 7:34:42 PM PDT by GeeMoney
Barack Obama and his Democratic colleagues in Congress blasted John McCain on Thursday, accusing him of injecting presidential politics into the high-stakes debate on Capitol Hill over economic bailout legislation.
The round of recriminations came after the two rival candidates left what was supposed to be a landmark summit with President Bush and congressional leaders. Aides and officials in the meeting said the discussion ended badly, with Democrats fuming at House Republicans over their refusal to drop objections to the administration’s proposal.
But they also spread the blame to the Republican presidential nominee, who on Wednesday announced he was suspending his campaign to work on the negotiations and called for such a high-level meeting of candidates and officials in Washington, D.C.
“Here’s my observation and I think this may have been confirmed at the meeting today — when you inject presidential politics into delicate negotiations, sometimes it’s not helpful. The cameras change things,” Obama told FOX News after the meeting ended. “It’s not clear to me that having presidential candidates in a high-profile way in the negotiating process is useful.”
Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill were more blunt.
“He’s slowed it down,” Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said of McCain’s impact on the negotiations. “The next thing we know, he’s in a position frankly where he’s making it harder to get things done, rather than help us negotiate differences.”
McCain’s campaign countered that he merely called for the final plan to have Americans’ confidence. The campaign claimed it was Obama whose presence disrupted the meeting.
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“Franks has nerve to say anything since he is part of the reason we have to do this”
It’s a gift of from God that this lisping faggot is getting a lot of TV time.
These congress morons have nothing but disdain and disgust for the American taxpayer. Evidence is ACORN recieving monies in this bailout. They cannot be trusted! These are the same congressmen who protected freddie and fannie from the republicans, Mccain and Bush. Lets send a message come election day
Let’s just hope it gets to the Mainstream and not just talk radio.
>> accusing [McCain] of injecting presidential politics into the high-stakes debate on Capitol Hill over economic bailout legislation
It’s more like an acid test in my opinion.
You will not believe what Obama is saying
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080925/ap_on_el_pr/obama_68
1. quotes saying not to inject politics, followed by exactly that
2. saying its hard standing by watching this admin do nothing and then having to have to come in and fix - totally contradicts the reality that in 2003 they stood in the way!!!!
Another McCain ad is made tonight using these quotes compared to what the dems did in 2003, with Barney Rubble as the key enabler.
The Democrats should lose on this issue alone!!!! Obama has taken more money from these banks. Obama is tied to the voter fraud ACORN group. The Dems stood in the way of Fannie reform in 2003. Dem people are tied to these companies. Obama is tied to Jim Johnson.
This is a culture of corruption far beyond what got the GOP out in 2006.
Watch as McCain carries the Cantor plan to the Senate to the acclaim of the Republicans and the nation, while 0bama is left holding Bush’s $700 billion bag looking impotent.
McCain is showing what Leadership means.
He’s snatched the ring from Bush.
And the irony of it is that it’s now Bush, 0bama, and the Democrats vs. McCain and the GOP.
Not the side 0bama thought he would be on.
Hopefully Republicans will realize this and capitalize on it.
[“He’s slowed it down,” Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said of McCain’s impact on the negotiations. “The next thing we know, he’s in a position frankly where he’s making it harder to get things done, rather than help us negotiate differences.” ]
Too bad, So sad Barney. You got us in this mess in the first place. McCain seems better all the time.
Uh, huh. First Obama claims that McCain’s suspension of his campaign was all Obama’s idea. Then the Democrats claimed, before McCain had arrived in town that a deal had been struck and that McCain wasn’t needed. No such thing had happened and now the Dems blame McCain for stalling the non-existent deal that they claimed they had. Pathetic.
Did anyone see Hannity and Colmes tonight?
According to Gingrich and Dick Morris, McCain has killed the Paulson bailout and will present an alternate version, which will require the government to lend, not give the money, and regulations will be reformed and taxes will be loosened to help them pay us back.
Both Gingrich and Morris were giddy. They both said McCain has shown that he will stand up to anyone—including the president—to fight for the country, and he’s changed the argument: Now, the Dems support giving a trillion dollars to the Wall Street “fat cats,” as they called them over and over, but McCain has refused, in the name of the taxpayer.
McCain has used their own words against them! If they’re worthless fat cats, which do you want to give them a trillion dollars, eh? Eh?
Both Gingrich and Morris said that McCain had utterly and totally pwned the Dems, who will be forced to support McCain’s plan.
McCain will then go to the public and explain that Obama supported handing a trillion dollars of their hard-earned money over to crooks, but McCain supported an alternative, despite immense pressure from the president and the Department of the Treasury.
As a bonus, McCain stood up for the conservative wing of the party, not the moderates, as everyone expected him to do. Both Gingrich and Morris said McCain has totally won the argument.
Let’s hope it all pans out this way.
Morris said that he’s never seen anything like this: McCain, the man of principle, united with the most effective campaigners in the history of American politics.
He was as excited and happy as I’ve ever seen him.
Both Gingrich and Morris predict total victory for McCain on this topic.
Bookmark to read in the morning & see if this is all a dream...
Well I certainly hope McCain blasts it from the rooftops that the Paulson plan was going to give billions of dollars to ACORN!!!!!!!!!!!! Arggggh!!!!! I am furious over this! I want heads to roll!!!!!!!!!!!! This was nothing less than an attempted coup-de-tat.
Since McCain is the head of the Party he had to be in these negotiations. He knows it will be hard to get something done by Monday.
Pray for W, McCuda and Our Troops
Barney forced the banks to loan money to multitudes of sketchy, marginal people who can't, don't, and won't pay their bills, and then tries to cover it up by buying off their houses when the deadbeats default. He needs to be hounded into oblivion.
We need to research and disclose Obama’s ties to ACORN, and how they would have benefited from the “bailout to nowhere”. You'd better believe they're around somewhere. That kind of graft, vote fraud, and collusion would have been far too irresistible for an inner-city Chicago “community organizer” to pass up.
He's as guilty as he can be, and that's why he wanted to keep as much distance as possible between him and Washington this week. He knows that when the excrement hits the air disturbance device, they won't go down alone.
What an election year this is! You got Bush siding with Obama. Then you got Bill Clinton all over TV praising John McCain!
McCain just doing his job as a Senator. And where is Obamanation?
Like Bull Halsey said (I think), “Attack, attack, then attack again.” GOP should shout it from the rooftops.
God has always given America the right leader at it’s most critical moments. Tonight I think we have seen God gave America John McCain.
He had my vote all along, but now he has it with 100% confidence.
As the presidential nominee, Obama is also the putative head of his party.
Yet his fellow Democratic senators felt no need to call him to Washington to work on the bailout.
And after he was called to the White House to join in, he’s disappeared again.
His Senate colleagues know how ineffective Obama is as a senator. Their silence speaks volumes.
Sometimes I think Laura gets it wrong; her heart is good though and she is sharp.
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