Wednesday, September 24, 2008
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Obama Wants to Debate
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Posted by:
Matt Lewis at
4:47 PM
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Barack Obama just gave a press conference. He wants to keep the debate on, and essentially said that it's going to be part of the president's job to deal with more than one thing at the same time (so I guess fixing the economy and debating foreign policy is good practice ... you know, multitask)...
Update: McCain has canceled appearances on Letterman and Fox. His ads will come down tonight. This is now a showdown. If McCain shows up now, will he look weak? If Obama shows up and McCain doesn't might McCain look like he snubbed Ole Miss? But if McCain does show up, will he look weak?
Has Obama called his bluff? How long can McCain afford to have Obama's ads run unopposed? After all, if the reason for canceling campaign operations is to focus on the economy, what if it doesn't improve for weeks???
This is a chess game now, with McCain winning the opening move (which may have been a "game-changer"), but there are several moves ahead. I think we won't know if this worked, or not, for a day, or so ...
Update: Adam Brickley just poked his head in my office and suggested that if Obama is going to insist on debating (rather than focusing on the economy) that McCain should send Palin. This was said mostly in jest, but if Obama postures on this, and if McCain wants to up the ante, who knows ...
Update: Newt on Senator Obama Refusing to Suspend His Campaign:
"As Speaker of the House, I know what being in deep negotiations is and what it takes to get members in Congress to get something done. We were able to work through welfare reform and a balanced budget. Let me just tell you first hand, what Senator McCain is proposing will take extraordinary hard work and it is going to take many long hours.
It is surprisingly irresponsible and politically dangerous for the Obama campaign to try and insist on a debate Friday night.
While both of these men are candidates for president, they are still both currently serving as United States Senators. The American people, in this kind of economic situation, want to see their elected leaders working to solve this crisis, not debating. They want this problem fixed and that will mean getting real bipartisan agreement. .All members on both sides in both houses including Senators McCain and Obama are going to have to roll up their sleeves, sit down, listen to each-other, and work very hard to get it done.
I’m not sure Senator Obama has ever participated in a crisis of this magnitude at this level, but he should set aside politicking and commit to working with Senator McCain to find a solution to this problem.
The economy can’t wait, postpone the debate. We can get back to talking later. For the moment, let’s produce a real solution for America."
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This will be a typical response to how he wants to run this country. Obama, is in this mess deeper than he wants to admit and you will all find out just how much. He loves debating himself, he is the only one who can understand his stuttering.
Ok Libs get on here and start defending why he doesn't give a hoot about what happens to the taxpayers of this country.
Obama's response below
If you need me, call me I will be there, such a great response from someone who wants to be a leader? |
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"I'll debate McCain, anytime, anywhere" means ...
Only on Friday Sept. 24 while ignoring his actual job as a Senator ...
Obama is right, the President has to often mutitask ... So why has Obama failed to do his job as Senator while running for President ? |
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should have been Sept 26th ... |
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SINCE THE END OF THE PRIMARY SEASON, McCAIN HAS ASKED OBAMA FOR 10 TOWN HALL MEETINGS....OBAMA REJECTED EACH TIME EVEN THOUGH YOU WOULD HEAR OBAMA SAY "ANYTIME, ANYPLACE"....NOW OBAMA MAY WANT TO KEEP THE DEBATE ON....WELL, MCCAIN SHOULD TELL HIM TO GO FLY A KITE. |
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Obama has not already gotten a head's up on the questions that will/would be asked in that debate? Obama doesn't want to forget the answers he has had to learn.
How is his being a call away actually doing anything? I guess he figures he can just let everyone else do the legwork because he doesn't have a clue as to what to do to get anything done. |
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lots of phone calls, lots of TALK --- but zero action on Obama's part.
The press conference is still going on, and Obama is still talking, but not acting.
Good to know Obama is still preparing for the debate.
Press conference just ended. Not many questions taken. Lots of rhetoric.
Guess the economy isn't THAT big a deal after all, since it can't take precedence over a political debate.
By the way, Obama could have debated McCain 10 times already, had he not refused the unprecedented offer of the joint town halls McCain offered. |
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...but last time I heard McCain apparently still has enough time to appear on letterman and meet with Bono
"McCain was also scheduled to meet with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and with Bono, the lead singer of U2 and an activist on global poverty and AIDS. He was scheduled to tape an appearance on "Late Night with David Letterman.""
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93D8TDO0&show_arti cle=1?
also, on ignoring his actual job as senator, McCain can't really make any attacks.
Of all Senators, John McCain has been the most absent. Out of 643 votes taken in the current Senate session, McCain has missed 412.
McCain has not voted in the Senate since April 8th. Since March, he has missed 109 of the last 110 votes. |
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...change his mind.
Over @hotair they say- SEND SARAH to...
...debate Barack.
Dang- THAT IS BRILLIANT!!! Mac is busy cleaning up the mess the DEMs made, so he sends Sarah to handle Barack!
Wouldn't exactly be FAIR though - considering Sarah can speak without a teleprompter.
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Maybe I'm in the minority, but frankly, I'd rather have a VERY public debate about this socialization of our financial sectors then let these political cockroaches gather in the dark and hash out a secret plan to bail out their corporate buddies at my expense. |
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While Obama has issued lots of statements and made phone calls, McCain has apparently done the following:
1) suspended advertising
2) suspended fundraising
3) canceled interviews
4) postponed the debate
5) rolled up his sleeves to lead
Wow.
Obama? Many statements, phone calls, and more talk.
McCain / Palin: REAL Change! |
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Come on people poor little Obama has been practicing for this debate for three days. The h--- with the economy and the people who are struggling he want his own way. Remember he didn't want to debate Hillary. Questions were to hard. |
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So Obama wants to lead this country. NOW is the time leadership is needed. He and the Dems should want his presence and his input in Washington right now.
Isn't Obama the one who claims he wants to end partisan politics. Well Barack it is put-up or shut-up, right now. Be a bipartisan player Barack. Get back to Washington and show us what you're made of, or cower away from this crisis issue on some facetious premise.
Leader indeed. |
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Matt was right earlier when he said that, after issuing his statement, McCain should refuse to show up at the debate on Friday. Here's what should happen next (bear with, me, it's a crazy stretch, but it just might work):
The Mac campaign (or at least that parts of it that aren't shut down) should lambaste Obama for his selfish decision to go on with the debate rather than do the people's business. Then they should issue a statement saying that they have no intention of allowing Obama the free airtime he might get from a one-man debate and that Sarah Palin (who luckily is not a member of Congress) is willing to stand in and debate Obama. Palin has been prepping anyway, and Obama might actually be an easier opponent than Biden. Plus, there's a good chance that Obama will turn down the offer and make himself look bad. Lastly, this would dispel the "they're hiding Palin!" line from the media (and perhaps force them to accuse McCain of recklessly OVERexposing his VP). Expectations would e so low that anything short of an implosion would be considered a success on Palin's part. |
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fight but is really hoping his friends will pull him away before anything breaks out. Pitiful.
KL: McCain aides say Obama is a lying piece of crap, Obama has not spoken to Mccain all day. |
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I say make Friday a Town Hall and move the foreign policy only discussion to the 2nd or 3rd debate.
If Obama is so serious about presenting himself to voters at this time, in the midst of an economic crisis, then let REAL PEOPLE ask questions of both the candidates.
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doesn't need to run any ads right now. He is demonstrating Country First right now, and all the media are discussing it. |
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I think she'd be great!
Palin has predictably been underestimated, while Obama has been blown up to messianic status.
So, expectations would be low for Palin.
And, she would overcome that the way she did with the convention speech.
VP candidate Palin debates Obama, who should be his party's VP (based on experience) instead of at the top of his ticket.
I like it! Brickley's a smart dude!
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If the bill gets done before the debate, then McCain goes to the debate. He looks like a leader.
If the bill is not hashed out yet, then he doesn't go to the debate, but Obama does or whatever the heck he's going to do - but McCain is working hard in Washington to avert the next Great Depression.
meanwhile, Obama is waiting for a phone call with someone saying he's needed.
Obama is staying away b/c he doesn't know how to do bipartisan politics. He votes with Dems 97% of the time, which won't work this time around. |
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I don't think anybody will give him brownie points for this. McCain ticks off Letterman, and gets blasted on his rather popular late night show. McCain looks like he's ducking Obama. Doesn't McCain realize that Obama's ahead? Obama can just try to run out the clock. McCain is the one who needs to campaign and catch up. It seems like McCain is pannicking and just letting this election slip away. |
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The sad fact is that no one in the Senate is particularly worried about what Obama thinks about this pending legislation. On the other had, McCain is viewed as one of the few key, if not the key, players needed to get a bipartisan deal done. Obama does not want to have to go back to the Senate and sit at the kids' table.
I think McCain should offer to debate on the evening following the day on which the legislation is enacted.
I also think he should say to Obama: "Come on. Get in here and get busy. If you've got so many great ideas about fixing about the economy, now's the time to show us. You'll get your chance to debate on the Senate floor." |
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Is called leadership by McCain.
Obama will vote absent instead of present. |
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Aren't they Senators first, then Presidential candidates? Neither of them is President of the United States, but they are US Senators and they are still getting paid to do the job. They both should have gone back to Washington the other day.
As for Obama wanting to debate. He agreed to Town Halls and he backed out. Post pone the debate until next week. We will live. |
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"It is surprisingly irresponsible and politically dangerous for the Obama campaign to try and insist on a debate Friday night. "
Hilarious. From the party that gave us de-regulation.
And yes, for two hours on Friday, McCain will be saving the country by not debating Obama.
Spin all you want, but this looks like a BS ploy by McCain AFTER Obama reached out to him.
McCain will go down in the polls after this.
Or as Hugh's Wall Street friends would say, "Trust me." |
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Let Sarah*Cuda take on Gaffer*Biden on Friday night and move Obama-McCain to their date.
They don't need Biden in the Senate to pass the "Bailout Bill"
Get to work. |
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