Wednesday, September 24, 2008
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McCain Leads; Obama Runs For the Tall Grass
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Posted by:
Hugh Hewitt at
6:38 PM
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I have been playing John McCain's statement and Barack Obama's press conference, and the hugely negative reaction to Obama's refusal to join McCain in Washington and work towards a rapid, bipartisan solution to the financial crisis is incredibly negative for Obama. One sample from the e-mails:
What a despicable character Obama is, his response to McCain’s delay of the campaign/debate continues to show his true colors. Can you imagine this guy being in charge if this country were hit with another terrorist attack or worse ! ? Can you imagine him being in charge if Israel strikers Iran?
Obama's "if they need me I may come" responses are simply incredible, as is his insistence that a debate move forward before any legislation is agreed to. The contrast between McCain as a leader and Obama as a schemer has never been more clear than today, and it will be incredible if a majority of Americans forget this sharp contrast over the next six weeks.
John McCain is absolutely right to focus on the legislation and to suspend his campaign until that solution emerges. Mccain will never be accused of fiddling while the markets burned, while Obama now owns the consequences of putting his political ambitions ahead of the country's interests.
I guess Obama's reaction to a terrorist attack would have been to hold another fund-raiser?
Perhaps Obama just doesn't understand the significance of what is going on?
UPDATE: Harry Reid steps in by teklling John McCain not to come to D.C. after previously saying Mccain was crucial to the resolution of the crisi. The Mccain campaign put out this statement:
“While Senator McCain has suspended campaigning in order to return to Washington and lend his assistance to the negotiations now underway on Capitol Hill, Senator Reid has put out a statement informing McCain that his presence would ‘not be helpful.’ In fact, this is quite a reversal from yesterday, when Senator Reid told reporters ‘We need the Republican nominee for president to let us know where he stands and what we should do.’
“Unfortunately, Senator Reid is putting partisan politics ahead of the business of the American people. But there should be no mistake: 24 hours ago Reid and his Democratic colleagues on the Hill couldn't have been more desperate for Senator McCain's help in resolving this crisis. Now they've got it.” --McCain-Palin spokesman Brian Rogers
The Same Democrats Decrying Today's Action By John McCain Are The Same Democrats Who Were Demanding John McCain's Involvement Yesterday
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV): "We Need The Republican Nominee For President To Let Us Know Where He Stands On What We Should Do." REID: "We need, now, the Republicans to start producing some votes for us. We need the Republican nominee for president to let us know where he stands and what we should do." (Sen. Harry Reid, Media Availability, Washington, D.C., 9/23/08)
? Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3f0BwyZKMw
Roll Call: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Told The White House That Senator John McCain Was Crucial To Any Bailout Deal. "Fearing a political backlash against Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has told the White House that it must serve up support from Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) if it hopes to ensure bipartisan backing for a massive economic bailout package by week’s end." (Erin P. Billings and John Stanton, "Reid Seeks McCain Pledge," Roll Call, 9/24/08)
Roll Call: "McCain Holds The Key To … A Bipartisan Vote, According To Reid …" "McCain holds the key to such a bipartisan vote, according to Reid, because Republicans are likely to defer to his position on a bill that holds political peril. McCain on Tuesday night joined Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) in lending qualified support for the $700 billion package, but it remains unclear whether his backing is strong enough and timely enough to persuade the Congressional rank and file." (Erin P. Billings and John Stanton, "Reid Seeks McCain Pledge," Roll Call, 9/24/08)
Senator Reid Told Secretary Paulson That Senator McCain Was Necessary For Any Agreement. "According to a Democratic aide familiar with the discussions, Reid told Paulson this week that 'if McCain didn’t come out for this thing and come out for it quickly, it was going to begin bleeding Republican votes.' Democrats 'have a very real concern that opposition [from McCain] is going to drive away potential Republican votes,' this aide said." (Erin P. Billings and John Stanton, "Reid Seeks McCain Pledge," Roll Call, 9/24/08)
ABC News' George Stephanopoulos: White House Has Been Told By Democrats "That There Is No Deal If McCain Doesn't Go Along." "A Democratic leadership source says that White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten has been told that Democratic votes will not be there if McCain votes no – that there is no deal if McCain doesn't go along." (George Stephanopoulos, "McCain; Holds Key To Administration's Bailout Passage On Capitol Hill," ABC News, 9/23/08)
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McCain is the Republican candidate. It is a time of great shame and disgrace for Republicans. |
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is running a 'class' deficit.
It is despicable that his party is playing politics with the very liquidity of the american -and much of the world - economy |
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Briggsy is smoking something. |
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"Hugely negative reaction"? Most of the stuff I've seen casts it as McCain running scared from this debate 'til the economic hammering he has taken cools down. McCain's poll numbers are way down. As Hugh might say, "John McCain is having a very, very bad week," and he's using this as a dodge. Since McCain has missed more Senate business in the last year than 99 out of 100 senators, I think they could spare him this week. His "leadership" has been completely absent. |
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Where he took very few questions and talked a lot about how he talked about the financial situation through phone calls and statements --- I see at least three McCain ads that could be made from that tape.
Unfortunately, we'll have to wait for those ads, since McCain has suspended his campaign in order to put the country first, and get to work.
As another commenter pointed out, Obama can vote "absent" on this one, since he won't be "present".
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Why not work on the bailout and have the debate as well?
These are not mutually exclusive activities. |
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A comment, or rather, slur like that should be apologized for and withdrawn post haste. |
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I believe the Democrats "WANT" to push the economy down the stairs. They will block any idea McCain presents. McCain will be blamed for the crash and failure. |
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They say that McCain is running and hiding from the debate because the economy is tanking. ORLY?
1. How is GOING BACK TO THE SENATE TO DO YOUR JOB "hiding"?
B. Do they know that Friday's debate was to be about foreign issues, NOT the economy? Unless they changed the plan - which Obama couldn't handle since he's been reading the "Foreign Stuff" loaded in his TelePrompter - we would've seen them discuss Iraq (McCain wants to win; Obama wants to surrender with victory at hand) while the economy choked. Of course, the Obama cult will sneer that McCain is dodging the issues of the day. No winning with the Disciples.
3. McCain has a record of getting stuff done. Not always GOOD stuff, but forging results. Obama has done nothing and if he went back, he'd be seen as the time-marking dilettante he is.
4. Anyone else notice that everything a Republican does anything, it's attacked as being a "political move", while anything a fascist Dem does is portrayed as more noble than a mission from God? |
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... and comparing likely schedules one can see why:
John: fly from nyc to dc thur. nite. spend day in dc crafting bill. fly to ms fri. nite. slap duh1 up one side and down the other in debate. fly to dc sat. morning; get proper bill passed sat. or sun. ...
duh1 -- sit in fl cramming with note cards until fri.; fly to ms; look miserable in debate anyway. beg for money sat. and sun. ...
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We reiterate, Hugh's comments on democratic capitalism via the Goodwill visit today, is something that the Socialist Pacifist Messiah doesn't get. Dems love to talk down the economy. His leadership: Pelosi and Reid have lied about McCain's utterances. McCain showed leadership. He loves the nation and our economic system; free enterprise. Obama wants to campaign. |
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The planes have crashed the towers. McCain loads up the truck, heads downtown and heads into the burning with his brethren to attempt a rescue.
Obama gives a press conference from out of town. Then, continues reading "The Pet Goat." |
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"1. How is GOING BACK TO THE SENATE TO DO YOUR JOB "hiding"?"
Well, um, because he hasn't done it until it's actually time to debate? Because McCain has little economic leadership to make him "indispensable"? Because he hasn't really BEEN in the Senate in months and months and months? Sure, we can cut him (and Obama) some slack 'cause they've been campaigning. But come on... this is COMPLETELY taking advantage to hide. |
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Sure, there are those who hold the opinion that McCain's move to suspend his campaign and head to D.C. are purely politically motivated, and he is hesitant to face Obama in Friday's debate.
But... what if McCain *is* successful in pushing corrective legislation through congress, and the American people are better off for it?
If Obama is caught on the sidelines while this happens, it surely cannot be a good thing for his campaign. |
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One has nothing to do with the other.
First, this is not a crisis. A crisis means the president would have made a speech weeks ago, not now.
Second, why can't he do a debate? What does one have to do with the other?
and three, Hugh, what a spinmeister you have become!
You are stuck with an old man who would tell you when he was a POW he balanced the budget in the POW camp, who selected an airhead hick for VP because he and the far right are cynically hateful of this country. They think that even an idiot is better than Obama.
Can you say l-a-n-d-s-l-i-d-e for Obama? |
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...what happens to Obama if McCain goes back to DC, helps work out a bill and votes it through while your boy doesn't even show up to vote.
Do that AND show up for the debate and Obama may as well pack up & go home.
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McCain hasn't voted in DC for months and he isn't a leader anyway. Most GOP don't want this $700 billion cram down. Which way will he lead? He also lied to Letterman. |
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The planes have crashed the towers. McCain loads up the truck, heads downtown and heads into the burning BUILDING with his brethren to attempt a rescue.
Obama gives a press conference from out of town. Then, continues reading "The Pet Goat." |
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This was a genius move by mccain. He easily wins the spin because the libs have been saying how dire the economic situation is. Now they have to backtrack and say "cmon its not bad enough to cancel the debates" The libs are the ones who like they want politics as usual, while Mccain is taking drastic action. A brilliant move |
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If the Obama fanatics actually believe John McCain is hiding or scared to debate B. Hussein Obama, they have truly lost it. A POW and patriot of McCain's caliber and experience has nothing to be afraid of, but God himself. Obama maniacs over estimate Obama's ability without a teleprompter. |
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You are all out of your mind--except Briggsy and KL, of course. The idiotic narratives you come up with..and then, Hugh acting as though McCain's little play-acting shows his fiber for terrorist attacks or something? What a joke. I mean, it is begining to speak to your character..
As President, you have to deal with multiple things. If the drooler you nominated cannot handle debate prep AND his responsibilities as his party's standard bearer to provide leadership on TARP, then maybe you nominated the wrong drooler. This is not about Country First. This is grubby showboating--the type of "leadership" and dramatic hoohaw that has brought our country to this dangerous place to begin with. Voting for Mac is just more of the same photo op. Vote for Barack and get a leader who acts responsibly, and doesn't hotdog for the cameras like some attention-starved D-lister.
So, go ahead and concoct your various vainglorious narratives. You all are saps and fools to believe them--or liars if you don't. Hugh is right about one thing--this is a precipitious moment for the economy. Too bad the Reeps cannot put country above posturing for even one moment. Just one moment. Can't do it. It is all a partisan calculation with you folks--even the very real concern that business funding dries up and people are thrown out of work on a mass scale. What a bunch of bums! |
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King Liberal, keep practicing the guffaws.
They will keep you occupied while standing in the soup line. |
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McCain has more ability to debate foreign policy in his sleep than Obama can study for in all-night cram sessions, which he has been doing and has his cliff notes tidy and ready. That is the reason he does not want to do the people's business, what he is being PAID FOR; and return to Washington to lobby hard to get a bill passed and end this wild ride. If the economy sends the election to the dems, the Obama will be the one to have to deal with the mess; and his four short years barring impeachment for just cause would be far more contentious than the present administration. This congress is a disgrace in the nitpicking and bickering and inability to get anything done. For once our elected officials should get off the greedwagon and work to resolve this MESS that affects us all. |
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We are aware of your deluded, misinformed opinion, how about doing your homework and try to have a mind of your own. 'O' groupies all sound the same, like misguided programed ObamaRobots! You need a dose of Reality!
Ex Democrat |
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B. Hussein is doing the country a favor by staying out of the way while McCain fashions a plan to save the world's economy. Uh-uh-bama would just get in the way anyway. As usual once all the heavy lifting is done, he'll swoop in to take credit saying, "This is just what I told Ayers the other day that we should. You stole my plan." |
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Seriously, most emails to Hugh will go along with whatever position he is taking on his show.
I'm going to vote for McCain-PALIN, but suspending the campaign is questionable. I don't understand why McCain is going to stop running TV commercials while he's supposedly showing leadership in the economic crisis. Isn't it enough to leave the campaign trail? |
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McCain was a POW 35 years ago. Today, he is proof that moral character can devolve as well as progress. Call it the "Orson Wells effect." No guarantee ya get better as ya grow older. God bless him for what he endured, not that he had a choice, but his conduct on the campaign trail has been craven, low rent, and unsuitable for a leader of a great country. Cowardly, to use the word. He has embarassed himself and his country. The only ones he has not embarassed are the Republicans--who lack the shame, self-awareness, or even the decency. McCain is afraid to debate--there is no way around it. If he were not afraid, he would manage to split his time between debate prep and his other responsibilities. He can't--the man is not fit to be President. |
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So what's new? When has Obama EVER produced meaningful legislation or shown up for a vote? |
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I actually thought yesterday that Friday's debate was going to be pretty silly, focusing on foreign policy with this financial mess going on. I have also often thought how ridiculous it is to have senators running for President and not doing their jobs.
McCain played this just right - he's going to very publicly do his job; forcing Obama to either do his (does he even remember how?) or look like an idiot out campaigning and debating alone. |
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The central point here that needs focus is that John McCain is viewed as essential to working out the financial crisis.
Obviously, Obama knows he is not an essential player. He hasn't been one in all the time he's been in the Senate. He'd just spotlight his uselessness if he sat around D.C. while the grownups attempted to solve the problem.
Since Obama won't postpone the debate, that means McCain will be obliged to show up. Right away, McCain gains a bit of audience sympathy. Spotlight on the courageous nature of his personality. And the size of the viewership is automatically increased by this little kerfuffle.
And of course, he will powder Obama in the debate. Obama walked right into it.
We saw the stage presence of both men that night in Saddleback Church. Obama with no script is pretty lame. McCain's pulse doesn't rise 2 points I bet.
Nicely done, Steve Schmidt, Rick Davis, Charlie Black et al. |
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Look Fox has to look objective here. The DC Beltway mentality always thinks that a debate is more important than dealing with this economic mess. Our guess is that polls will not show that Obama gets many % pts. for this national move. We shall see what the Hannity show tells the moves. And of course, Matthews already is sniffing that polls are falling for McCain. Again, we shall see. This is just one event that will impact this election with 40 days to go. There will be more events and then we shall see how both candidates react. |
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is EXACTLY like keeping Palin on ice.
The perception is they think they can run out the clock by avoiding situations in which doing poorly might be fatal to the campaign.
Don't be fooled by McCain-Palin. They are not ready for prime time. They know it. Their actions admit to it. |
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This was a genius move by mccain. He easily wins the spin because the libs have been saying how dire the economic situation is. Now they have to backtrack and say "cmon its not bad enough to cancel the debates" The libs are the ones who seem like they want politics as usual, while Mccain is taking drastic action. A brilliant move
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Political Move. And, I mean that in a Good-Way.
Whatever John's inner-sincerity on problem solving in DC on this Economic Mess...His Political barometer is damned strong. I listened to Yo'Bammy's stammering, stumbling press conference during Medved's show this afternoon. Whew! Embarrassing. John's being decisive and Barack is looking weak & feckless. LUV it.
For the Slicks like Kingy, leaving their lil' Lefty fecal droppings here: The Debate this Friday was to be on Foreign Policy, NOT the economy. Speaking of which...Anybody catch Biden's virtually endless Foreign Policy-Mostly Iraq address today? OMG. Equally as clueless and tone deaf was a Bammy radio spot this afternoon about McCain, Iraq and Afghanistan. OMG.
These imbeciles look sillier and lighter weight with each passing day. NOT to be trusted is the message anyone with an Undecided Brain will be getting. |
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a) McCain want to postpone the debate to go to DC.
b) Obama does not want to postpone the debate.
Therefore
c) McCain is afraid to debate Obama.
Are you serious? I suppose Obama turning down McCain's town hall debates was heroic. |
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Let me tell you a story about a flailing economy, and it only took seven & a half years!
George Bush has been in office for 7 1/2 years. The first six the economy was fine.
A little over a year and a half ago:
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2-1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.
4) The DOW JONES hit a record high -- 14,000+
5) American's were buying new cars, taking cruises and vacations overseas, living large!
But American's wanted 'CHANGE'! So, in 2006 they voted in a Democratic Congress & yep -- we got 'CHANGE' all right!
1) Consumer confidence has plummeted;
2) Gasoline is now over $3.75 a gallon & climbing;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $12 trillion dollars & prices are still dropping;
5) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
6) THE DOW is probing another low ~11,300 -- $2.5 TRILLION DOLLARS HAS EVAPORATED FROM THEIR STOCKS, BONDS & MUTUAL FUNDS INVESTMENT
PORTFOLIOS!
YEP, IN 2006 AMERICA VOTED FOR CHANGE! AND WE GOT IT! A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS, NANCY PELOSI. HARRY REID. BARACK OBAMA and other notable suspects.
Now the Democrats' candidate for president -- and the polls say he's gonna be 'the man' -- claims he's gonna really
give us change! Just how much more 'change' do you think you can stand?
This could be the trump cardfor McCain. If he goes back to Washington and they work out the deal, McCain will lok like a hero.
Obama? He'll look like the rest of the do-nothing congress that did nothing to keep all of this from happening. |
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duhBama does not see it coming - McCain will debate after all but he will be able to start the debate off by saying we both should be in Washington doing the people's work and how he tried to do what is right for the country but uhBama would rather do what is right for uhBama.
He then cleans his clock in the debate and Obama looks horrible as he has been prepping while McCain was focused on leading. Any stumbles McCain has can be explained away as he was focused on the economy not the debate.
The distinction will be clear. |
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How apt a term, Hugh. When Katrina struck all you libs were complaining that President Bush didn't paddle down Canal Street in the first 24 hours...but when the econonmy stands on the edge of a precipice your boy is waiting by the phone for Nancy & Harry to tell him if he can help. This problem is going to get solved in a hotel room in Florida.
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You've misjudged the McCain campaign, on a par with McCain's own misjudgement. What we have here is the implosion of a vast segment of Wall Street and the last gasp of the Bush administration to support it without considering the real interests and concerns of the American people. We now have a careening, panicked Republican campaign, behind in the polls. McCain and Palin are not fit for office.
Obama doesn't just look better every day; we need him to sweep these people out. We need his steady focus on what is best for Americans in the difficult times to come. |
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from the Democrats that NONE of them call for Obama's input or leadership, but ALL of them show that McCain carries a lot of clout and without him there is fear nothing will get done. |
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Oxy do you have any kind of life? I mean really,I check before I go to work you have twenty posts,If I get a chance to go home for lunch you have thirty posts,and when I get home sky's the limit! Maybe you have a small staff if you do please pay them more because their posts are repetitive and weak.If you don't have a staff you really have to get out more and have fun.I know, you could play with your Biden doll or take a shower . Just saying. |
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This sums up the reality of the situation:
http://drudgereport.com/flash3cbm.htm
McCain is not acting presidential. |
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Your Obama doesn't have the experience or the integrity to be President of the United States. I have never been a wholehearted McCain supporter, but I am definitely not an ObamaRama brainwashed idol worshipper. Without a tele-prompter Mr. Obama stutters and hem-haws worse than George Bush, but of course Obama people will never be able to admit this fact. He is only comfortable speaking what other people have written for him. Obviously not a man who can think for himself. He has not exhibited good judgement regarding his choice for VP. In the beginning of his campaign didn't Obama talk about "hope" and "change"? What kind of change is Joe "foot-in-the-mouth" Biden? Biden has been in Congress longer than McCain and has never been on the correct side of any choice he's made. Is the "Hope" part of Obama's message that no one will notice that your Obama is nothing but an air-head rock star who has to depend on a wrong-headed old-timer congressman to give Obama credibility as a possible President?
On the other hand, Sarah Palin is the only candidate who has "the buck stops here" experience. She is the only one who has had to make the final decisions without having the luxury of voting "present" and passing the final choices on to someone else. At least McCain has Palin to offset his negatives. |
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If the economy was "fine" for the first six years of Bush's Presidency, why is it that inflation-adjusted median income was LOWER in 2005 than in 2000?
It's an atrocious record to have falling incomes and not be able to right the ship.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has been up and down throughout Bush's Presidency, and never up a huge amount. During Clinton's Presidency the Dow grew tremendously.
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C'mon, folks, if you're in a crisis, do you really want the "help" of someone who has admitted he doesn't know much about the subject at hand? |
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I learned something years ago. In a command situation, when there are no easy/popular surefire solutions to a serious problem, the leaders should agree to "own" their decisions and the consequences.
IMO the decision to suspend the campaign is risky, but highly defensible. It seems to me that McCain is just trying to force Obama (and the rest of the democrats) to own their actions during this time of crisis.
McCain might not list high finance and economics among his talents. But anybody who thinks that Obama is some kind of econ-wunderkind is kidding himself. From a technical standpoint, Obama is just as clueless if not more so than McCain. Obama stands to lose some credibility if he gets mired in specificity about the democrats' involvement with this crisis or his plans to deal with it. I think he wants to avoid that. I think he knows that right or wrong, McCain is getting the short end of this particular stick since most people probably don't know that the MSM storyline about this crisis is a bit skewed (to say the least). Why would he show some character and pitch in when he can just as easily sit on the sidelines and a) watch as the U.S. financial markets teeters on the brink and b) enjoy the fact that the GOP gets all of the blame for a bipartisan mess?
Again, I think this is a risky move. But if McCain goes to DC and is seen as having helped to help come up with a solution, it's gonna look bad for Obama. If that happens and then McCain trounces Obama in a debate (assuming it happens, and it might) it's going to be even worse. |
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on that debate stage in Mississippi Friday night or no amount of spin can save him. |
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fbear - Speaking of Clinton, did you know that he is the one that signed the bill that deregulated the banking industry in 1992? Boy now that was some forward thinking. |
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McCain is putting our Country First, as we would expect ALL of our senators to do at a time like this.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaa..nd, Mr. Uh...uh...uh...Obama, this includes YOU, whether you like it or not.
Instead, Obama says, "IF YOU NEED ME, CALL ME???!!!!!!" Are you kidding me??!!!!
You WERE called, Mr. Obama, the day that you were
elected to the U.S. Senate. Do you need a personal invitation before you do your job??!!! |
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Your concern for McCain's political prospects is touching, but I suspect he will keep his own counsel. We do enjoy the presence of the liberal trolls here, however. |
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the repeal of Glass-Steagall, that was 1999.
Clinton may have signed it, but who wrote it and lobbied for it? Whose economic theories does it reflect?
Ugh. Republicans. |
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I realize these men are running for President, but, they are currently being paid to be Senators, and are still on the pay roll for that, so with that in mind and with America facing this congress maybe it's not such a bad idea for them to go back for a coupld of days and do the job there getting paid to do. Then on Monday they can go back to running for president again. I mean this debate on foreign policy, if by now we don't know where these people stand then really we are never going to know. |
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McCain will fly into the debate at the last minute and uhBama looks like the selfish, never accomplished anything, empty suit that he really is.
McCain announces that he is flying back to DC to fix this and uhBama can call Reid with his "not present" vote.
The Rookie never was ready to lead, it just took a crisis to show it. |
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Obama, is invited by President Bush to go to Washington tomorrow, and, yes Obama is going.
Still, McCain is part of Solution, &
Obama, is part of Fannie Mae (Franklin Raines) and Countrywide (James Johnson)
corruption scandal. |
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Briggsy gets to make derogatory comment on the condition of McCain's "hide" - that is beneath slime.
Yet if anyone makes a comment on uhBama's actions/policies/statements etc. they are a racist.
If you ever were to make an intelligent comment Briggsy we would have to discount it - what little cred you have evaporates when you make classes remarks like that. |
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said that Obama is not ready to lead, and that it just took a crisis to illustrate the point. True. IMO you could've made the same statement about Obama and his reaction to the Russia/Georgia situation or the Surge. This latest crisis is just icing on the "not a strong leader" cake. |
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reform of FNMA and FMAC.
We now know that they were too worried about getting their political goals met, and gave not one bit about the public's being on the hook if FNMA hit the rocks.
Under democrat leadership at FNMA, it has hit the rocks and sunk.
Now the dems, once again, want to punt. "Don't blame us", and ,"Above my pay grade". All the while Obama and Dodd and Barney Frank are getting FNAM money.
And who serves as Obama's inside counsel today?
The past head of FNMA. Of course OBama cannot take anytime to deal with this. He has already been bought and paid for.
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Mississippi Friday afternoon, kicking Yo'Bammy's scrawny butt with total foreign policy-military policy confidence and depth--GRAVITAS--and comfort zone familiarity. Then, board the plane and go back to DC for a weekend of high powered confabs & nimble plays and heavy attention muscle flexing.
Be careful what'cha pray for, Little Lefties! |
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after the President asks him to.
McCain goes before being asked.
OK Class, which of these two men is a leader?
Must be the military background - you advance towards the sounds of the guns - not away from them.
Huge Rookie mistake.
the ads are in the can and will be released after this plan is passed:
"uhBama ...not ready to lead" |
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Seems the beginning of this "Bail-out" frenzy started out with the Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae mess and we find out that Obama is the second highest recipient of donations from supposedly unknown persons of both organizations. How has someone who has only participated in the senatorial process for 143 days received the second highest donations from failed Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae. And how has Obama been able to acquire the well compensated CEO's of those same failed companies as his financial advisors? The question is this: Do you want a President who has to get financial advice from people who only know how to destroy companies that control fifty percent of the American home mortgage market? |
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fbear - But Clinton had the power to veto it did he not? I'm just saying, where there is money there is greed and deregulation of the banking industry was either a very short sighted decision or a very profitable decision.
There was ALOT of money, billions ( according to CNN ) spent lobbying for deregulation of the banking industry. I truly wish that the FBI investigation would go back that far, but I would be blown away if they did.
My apologies for the wrong date. CNN reported that it was 1992. |
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This was the singular most selfless thing McCain could have done, and it will actually work in his favor when the dust clears. Congress clearly MUST act soon. Paulson is pushing his hardest for the Congress to agree on something resembling decisive action, and the Democrats are trying to load down any legislation to salvage the economy with more pork barrel spending and unlimited safety nets for people who made bad financial decisions.
Adding to the inability to focus on anything but their own political future, to the detriment of our nation's economy, Barack Obama is indecisive and afraid to commit to anything beyond his contempt for anyone who knows he's not prepared to lead.
Anyone who believes McCain is running scared from a teleprompter-less Obama is whistling in the dark. McCain is clearly licking his chops at the prospect of meeting on a single stage, with unknown questions, having to think on their feet, and actually understand something of your stated convictions. But there are more important and pressing matters. He's forcing Harry Reid to put his money where his mouth is. And at the same time, he's actually doing his job of fulfilling his senatorial responsibilities, something Obama has NEVER done since elected. He's no longer "PRESENT", LOL! What's he going to do, have a "debate" with himself? |
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wrinkled *white* hide.
Are age and senility off the table?
Do you want another Reagan dozing through cabinet meetings? |
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Mike writes: "Wow - Obama goes to DC
after the President asks him to.
McCain goes before being asked.
OK Class, which of these two men is a leader?
Must be the military background - you advance towards the sounds of the guns - not away from them.
Huge Rookie mistake.
the ads are in the can and will be released after this plan is passed:
"uhBama ...not ready to lead" "
Beautiful, Mike. The best post of the bunch. Obama proves what we've been saying all along.
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I love it - the talking points go out with the admonition not to reach out to the media - and that is a problem?
This is not a media stunt - it is a real call to action by McCain - and you think telling the campaign not to pursue the media is a bad thing?
uhBama's talking points are already distributed to the media who in turn put them on page one/lead at 11:
Financial crisis is Republican's fault - whatever you do, do not let the public "follow the money".
Mention that McCain's guy got $15K 2 years ago for a consulting job for Fannie or Freddie but do not report that I have taken in nearly $200K in the past two years as contributions from them and whatever you do don't point out the McCain took in much less than that the whole time he was a Senator.
DO not point out that my economic advisers took Millions(that is millions, not thousands) from Fannie and Freddie while they ran them into the ground.
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Briggsy, that's a pretty weak shot. Is that all you got? Reagan took those shots and ended up as historically one of the greatest Presidents in our history. I'm not even a McCain fan, but I'm certain he'll be light years ahead of Obama. I may not agree with everything he says, but there's no question he's a leader. There is some serious question about Obama, especially after today.
Palin only makes McCain better. Speaking of veeps, where is Uncle Joe on this? Do you suppose he's got a ticket to DC for tomorrow? Not!
Election years are always a bit nutty. But it's not because "traditionalists" get a bit unstable. It's the "progressives" who wig out.
I guess it's time, once again, for conservatives to mop up the mess after the leftists screw it up. |
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.....to the Obama behind the curtain. |
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they are brilliant and spot on.
They clearly demonstrate that one Candidate is not only ready to lead but is leading - he actually suggested to W that he should invite them back to D.C. - and W followed his advice!
King - are you sure you aren't Karl Rove? |
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good thing.
Much better than the deer in the headlights look from Mr. "I don't know what to say or even think without my teleprompter" - senility? At least McCain can use age as an excuse when he forgets how many states there are.
What's uhBama's excuse?
Race is off the table - as it should be.
Age - unless you can cite specific examples of degraded faculties(like forgetting how many states there are or stammering when the teleprompter breaks) age should be as well. McCain's mother at 90+ is far more mentally agile than uhBama. |
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Reliably, the Lefties (that somehow are ALWAYS in abundance on CONSERVATIVE sites while the same can't be said of major Lefty sites re: Conservatives) have jumped to their man's defense forgetting the MAIN POINT of this post.
Do you people even READ the posts before you start the ABSOLUTELY IDIOTIC, slavering nonsense about "Goebbels" and such??
The point is YOUR PARTY's LEADERSHIP WERE the ones HOUNDING BUSH and McCain and insisting that MCCAIN come back to DC and declare his stand on all this and be a part of the "solution."
THAT'S the issue on this thread, not whether YOU think McCain is worth anything with respect to the effort.
But as is typical, you simply sidestep that portion of the thread without comment, appearing here only to dutiful trot out the tired old Nazi comparisons.
So I ask you Clown Prince Liberal, which part of what Harry Reid repeatedly said did you, in all your ineffable greatness, not understand?? HE'S THE SENATE MAJORITY LEADER--not YOU--and he maintained just yesterday that McCain was critical to any effort to deal with this "crisis" and yet today he is here doing a complete 180. Explain that, if you can. Or are you are you too desperately wedded to your party always being right to admit the clear partisan game Reid is playing here?
You people are all together worthless. |
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Dustdevil, it is the runaway unregulated greed of capitalistic free enterprise which caused this.
A system which conservatives cheer for, even as the public treasury is being looted to save the system from itself.
Who is more likely to perpetuate the brokeness?
I say it's Johnny nine houses and his sugar mommy. |
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He is supposed to be not
the confused one
finally the President had to remind him, as a senator, he was expected to show up, in Washington!
Poor, poor, confused Obama!
Too long campaigning
Age obviously is irrelevant when it comes to Obama!
experience is something else,
experience, Obama has none. |
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Reid was clearly playing to force McCain to commit and to sow dissent in the GOP ranks. IMO Reid was also trying to distract McCain and to further intensify the bogus spotlight on the GOP as the ultimate cause of this fiasco.
My only issue with that is that it's an obvious conclusion. Can you really be so smug if all you are doing is parroting accepted wisdom about Reid's insincere motives? I don't think anybody here tried to suggest that this *wasn't* true.
Anyway, I think that McCain knows this and is now going to give them what they asked for- greater attention and scrutiny. In the end, I think he is going to try to force dems to own this just as they are trying to make him commit. The difference is that McCain actually has a pair, and now he is going to try to rise to the challenge. We'll see if he pulls it off, I guess. |
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He edits down Obama's news conference tightly, then mocks Obama for leaving "abruptly." "Good bye... seeya..." The guy is so shameless.
Listen, this is why contrarians like to hang out on this forum. The shamelessness, bloviating, the baseless attacks, the name-calling, is WAY more fun than the echo chamber of, say, DailyKos. Huffington Post has some give-and-take, but not like the AGITATION that gets going here.
Hugh never lets contrarians on the air. His show has gotten more boring... you have to make your own fun listening to him. At least Medved, another insufferable know-it-all, likes debate and lets people on to argue with him. |
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the breakup of the present conservative Republican party now underway would be very satisfactory, were it not for the economic crisis it has precipitated. God save us from Republicans.
Time for a clean sweep. Obama and Democrats! |
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Oh, don't make me laugh! He got us into this mess with his failed Reagonomics and supply side economics. Don't forget "trickle down theory," in which everything trickled into the fat cats' pockets! Yeah, what about that huge deficit he left while leaving office? Yeah,some great president all right! |
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Good leadership requires prioritizing. Not all things are of equal or timely importance. Some situations require immediate action, while talk (debate)can be rescheduled. Leadership requires quality over quantity and most of all INEGRIY over self-serving. |
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Think of the times when you hear someone say this? When people say that, does anyone actually EVER call? I always think of someone who wants to sound like they're engaged and that they care, but just not enough to want to step up on their own. |
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Obama, is going to disappoint them, big time.
It will not be just Keith Olberman's helium-filled head imploding! |
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a catastrophic terrorist attack, a financial meltdown of the economy, or any other national calamity, that leftists would not use it for political gain. Their power and their quest for more, trumps everything. Nothing can get between it, nothing!! So obsessed are they for it, that rational thought is impossible for them. Read comments from leftist leaders, to the comments posted here, i.e.(The "sane" woman)and you quickly see that all rational thought has been dispensed with. The nomination of their presidential candidate is also, proof positive of this. You cannot have meaningful debate with them, they simply must be defeated, or the original intent of the Republic's founders will be lost. No less, the survival of the Nation, hangs in the balance. |
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purse, not the President. Leftists love to spend other people's money, and give it to those who would continue to vote them into office. The current financial mess, was in great part caused by this ideology. Home loans to illegals, or minorities, without income verification, with no down payment, and no credit check, precipitated this meltdown, and then they established a governmental entity, which guaranteed these loans, this entity was made for, and managed by, the left. And to compound the problem, we find that Mssrs. Johnson, Raines, and Ms.Gorelick ingratiated themselves, to the tune of over $155M, while they cooked the books to the tune of $9B. It seems that everything Ms. Gorelick touches becomes a disaster, and therefore, she will be referred to now as "the mistress of disaster". Oh, Johnson, Raines, and the mistress of disaster are all fine leftists in good standing with the obambi campaign. Without Fannie and Freddy, this meltdown would have NEVER happened. |
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Obama/McCain's reaction to this reminds me of Yoda telling Luke why he's too inept to be a Jedi. "Always to the future he looks. Never his mind on WHERE HE IS. Humff. WHAT HE IS DOING. Heh heh. You are RECKLESS!"
Luke: "I'm not afraid"
Yoda: "You will be. You. WILL. BE."
Please tell me how someone who is unfit to be senator is fit to be President?
Apparently even voting "present" is just too darn much work this time.
Obama does one thing well, win elections by any dirty means necessary. Suspending a debate to actually do his job is just not on his radar. Why is anyone shocked at his behavior? It's perfectly consistent with being Obama. Not at all consistent with being a leader, a senator, a president, a US citizen, an employee, a manager, or even a temp, but perfectly consistent with being Obama. |
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Hugh,
It's laughable that you're trying to spin this as demonstrating that Obama is a schemer since it was McCain who initiated the whole incident. Who's the real schemer, eh? As if we're to believe that the McCain campaign will just be "on hold" for a few days! Right!
Silly, silly, silly. I think if McCain feels compelled to miss the debate, he should send his second-in-command to fill in. Let's see a show of the campaign's confidence in Sarah Palin.
Sarah! Sarah! Sarah! |
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"You can't suspend the democratic process because we're facing problems. At what point do you think, maybe we should suspend the election? We'll have the elections later. Some people have done that before: Castro did it, Napoleon did it, Julius Caesar did it. You can't do that. If you like it or not, the campaign is part of the democratic process....You wanna take your time off, that's fine, but you don't say we're suspending the campaign. You can't say that. It's the democratic process. We didn't suspend it for 9/11, we didn't suspend it for Pearl Harbor, we didn't suspend it for the Nazis, we didn't suspend it for the damn British. We don't do that in America!"
Craig Ferguson |
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