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By Matilda

September 24, 2008 6:47 PM | Link to this

Of course he does! Newt was Rovian before Rovian was an adjective. Paint Obama as the bad guy for pressing on with the business of rescuing this country from the CROOKS and LIARS who trying to bankrupt the country out from underneath us. Clever! Rule One: Create a crisis, and do everything you can to make EVERYONE PANIC! Then swoop in with a “solution” that no one is allowed to question. Cut, bleed, and suck, the American people dry of every dollar, penny, soldier, Constitutional right, and ounce of integrity and hope we used to believe defined us. Well done, Newt Ol’ Boy! Well done.

Today: cancel the debate. Next month: the election. For our OWN good, you know!

By Will Jones

September 24, 2008 7:29 PM | Link to this

McCain, a “real” “man” of “honor” has found the “perfect” “man” of “honor” to front for him…the same way his father-in-law got rich fronting for the Mafia.

By SouthPeach

September 24, 2008 7:34 PM | Link to this

Mitilda…if you’re that unhappy living in America…go somewhere else!!!

By Tom

September 24, 2008 7:53 PM | Link to this

SouthPeach, is that the best comeback you can think of? I didn’t see anything in Matilda’s post that said she is unhappy living in America. Being unhappy with tactics of certain political hatchet men is not the same thing is being unhappy living in America. If you cannot see the difference, maybe you should be the one thinking about leaving.

By Melissa

September 24, 2008 8:07 PM | Link to this

McCain does not seem like he is acting in a panic at all, on the contrary like a leader that this country needs, but Obama sure is showing how inexperienced he is and how little he really cares. Matilda I don’t know if you are just retarded or can’t read, but the fact is that this is not some Rovian made up economic crisis. This is a real problem that requires real solutions from real leaders and right now McCain is the only one stepping up to the plate. Also I would note that there are other debates and McCain clearly one the last one so he has no problem debating Obama.

By Defending Bush

September 24, 2008 8:08 PM | Link to this

McCain’s first three acts as president: Palin, bailing out of the debates to bail out the bail out. Palin, bailin’ and bailin.

Plus his first reaction was to fire the sec chairman over AIG.

McCain has lost all credibility now. it’s over, folks.

For McCain to win, he would have to run uncontested.

By Defending Bush

September 24, 2008 8:49 PM | Link to this

What does Obama have to do to win over the Right? Steal two trillion dollars for Cheney?

Obama 08: Change we have to face.

By disappointed dem

September 24, 2008 8:50 PM | Link to this

Obama just blew it,get over yourself and act like a leader.Who is advising him,I suggest he call HC and get some advice.We are going to look back and wonder how we lost this election,what a shame,Experience matters folks.

By Will Jones

September 24, 2008 9:02 PM | Link to this

Making up an excuse to dodge the scheduled PRESIDENTIAL debate to avoid a well-deserved drubbing, and wishing it to be re-scheduled to preempt Failin’ Palin so her Nazi, whitetrash, inbred, graceless ridiculousness isn’t amplified, is “leadership?”

McCain is no hero. He is no man. He’s a bum married to the Mob from a Mob-owned state.

By NoMoreLies

September 24, 2008 9:39 PM | Link to this

Newt is an idiot.

By NoMoreLies

September 24, 2008 9:57 PM | Link to this

Temper tantrum Newt. Contract on America Newt. Balanced budget — NOT — Newt. No Regulations Newt. Two-timing again Newt. Newt is just an angry little person with no room to critique anyone much less someone who is his intellectual and moral superior. Of course, I am referring to Obama. Go back to studying your civil war books, Newt. You resigned from government because you couldn’t handle it, right. So, leave it to the big boys now.

By Mark

September 24, 2008 11:02 PM | Link to this

There are all sorts of leaders in this world.. Some show up to get things done, others show up after to take credit.

Senator Dodd, Senate Banking Committee Chair stated he’s had several conversations with Obama about the bill, but has yet to hear from McCain..

Where has John McCain been? How does his delayed input tomorrow get this bill passed and not actually stall it? The rest of Congress, on both sides, have been working on it for five days and seem to think they will have a resolution within the next few days. Both parties also agree they should not rush something though.

Overall I think McCain is being a leader. He realized there is a financial crisis and he is rushing to resolve it. It’s unfortunate however that it took him nine days to realize the economy is not in fact fundamentally strong.

Perhaps it is just politics to delay the debate though. McCains choice for the new date, October 2nd, the day of the VP debate.

By OMG

September 24, 2008 11:29 PM | Link to this

First of all, I don’t really care what Newt Gingrich thinks.

Second, If McCain cannot face the nation in a debate and answer the questions there - in the debate live in front of a nation - about what he thinks we should be doing, he ought not to be running for President, much less treated like a serious contender.

Third, I am so sick-and-tired of this bipartisan b.s.: I am not bipartisan, I don’t support either Obama or McCain, and both of these two folks’ parties are what got us here.

Finally, can our nation not see that this is pure nationalism of the worst kind? We use taxpayer dollars to bail out private companies for the benefit of private companies. Will the taxpayers own that which they bail out??? NOOOO. Will they bail out my company? How about yours? I’d rather they take the big pot of money, divide between the employees - EQUALLY - and let these companies fail. I’m sorry, b/c I have retirement funds too, but if free market capitalism doesn’t mean letting the fittest survive, then what does it mean. This is pure and simple corporate socialism. Dump that b.s. and give me universal single payer health care, which all the studies show would be less expensive than what we currently have.

Is this harsh? Possibly. But not any more harsh than the long term consequences of we-the-taxpayers continuing to bail out big corporate amerikkka for decades of failed policies.

By I have learned

September 24, 2008 11:39 PM | Link to this

The McCain campaign hires ghost writers to write letters to the editor….how many real people comment here vs people that just get paid to?

Wow.

By Bitter EX democrackkk

September 25, 2008 6:32 AM | Link to this

Folks, the mtg/housing ‘crisis’ has been brought about with mostly democrackkk sponsored legislation that allowed all these companies to make loans to anyone anytime for the past 10-12 years. Obama’s ‘advisor’ Mr. Raines FLEECED YOU for $100 MILLION thru a PRIVATE COMPANY, NOT a gov. agency, though, like the Federal Reserve, they want you to THINK its a government agency. Now, Mr. Raines HAS paid about $25 MILLION in FINES (to whom?) so he’s made out with about $75 MILLION FLEECED FROM YOU!

THEN, there’s Clinton’s gal and algores woman, Jamie Gorelick who, in effect, caused 9/11 with her sorry self as assistant AG under the Reno man, when she stopped the FBI/CIA from doing their jobs. Gorelick’s been able to FLEECE about $75 MILLION from American taxpayers somehow in all this…

As long as you people keep voting for demopublicans and cast your disdain for other solutions, then Amerikkka is surely doomed and it wont be long now.

let the rEVOLution charge forth!

www.CampaignforLiberty.com

By Melissa

September 25, 2008 7:40 AM | Link to this

To I have learned:

I find it hilarious that you want to discount my opinion by inferring that I get paid by the McCain staff. hahahahahahahaha. You Obama people are so fanatical it is scary. I am being serious, you scare me. It’s like Obama is this cult and you worship him; he’s your “American Jesus.”

By NoMoreLies

September 25, 2008 8:47 AM | Link to this

Melissa is crying about someone trying to discount her opinion while, in her earlier post, she rails against another blogger and insults that blogger for posting an opinion. Perhaps Melissa should not be so judgmental of other bloggers. Please, try to focus on the election and on our futures. Ask yourself what the policies of the Republican party have done for our nation. Have they upheld the policies that they claimed to support in the past. Bush and the Republican party certainly have not supported small government but they have supported cutting taxes by borrowing the money — money that we have to repay with interest. The Republicans want to make the tax cuts permanent but offer NO way to collect enough money to even stop the continued borrowing unless you look at how Bush planned to balance the budget (before this economic crisis) in 2011 — he planned to balance it by eliminating his own tax cuts. Of course, he doesn’t bother telling us about that. Bush also is pushing for the bailout of the financial institutions because the alternative is worse. Yet, the Republicans (Phil Gramm in particular) sneaked through legislation in December of 2000 that allowed the introduction of all sorts of financial instruments with absolutely no regulation. Phil Gramm is known as the father of the Enron debacle and he advises John McCain on his economic policy. Where is the money going to come from to pay for this financial bailout and their huge bonuses and perks, etc, for their executives. Watch closely as this mess unfolds. These executives will still walk away with millions while we pick up the tab unless we have independent (non-government) watch groups with the ability to keep close tabs on this mess. These executives at many of these financial institutions need jail cells in Guantanamo because they are truly terrorists. They actually accomplished what bin Laden wanted to do. In closing, we should all be angry and disappointed in our government for letting us all down and in the financial institutions for placing their self-interests above that of our nation. Tar and feathers are too expensive to waste on a single one of them.

By Chess

September 25, 2008 8:49 AM | Link to this

Melissa what’s scary is the thought of another republican economy. Sheep….

By Matt Jennings

September 25, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this

What’s the matter? Obama can multitask. McCain apparently can’t.

This is nothing more than a ploy by the McCain campaign to steal some headlines and get them off his lobbyist-run, out of touch campaign.

The American people deserve to hear what the candidates have to say. McCain isn’t even on the committees that would be invovled in the early stages of the bill, like the Banking and Appropriations Committees.

By Craig

September 25, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this

Let’s see. A debate - scripted questions with canned answers. Wow. That tells me a lot about who I want to be the next President. OR have both candidates go to DC to not only do the job they were elected to do BUT to work to resolve what both call the worst crisis since the Great Depression. Consider it a test drive or final exam. Lock them both in a room and let this ‘fix’ replace the debate. I’d rather see them both in action to test their real leadership and spirit of bipartisan cooperation than in some joke of a Q&A session. Considering one of these two men will basically steer our economic policy for 4 to 8 years, I’d rather let this show what they are made of.

Obama and the Dems are just mad because they did nto do this first. Obama thinks keeping a cell phone in hand is leadership. Sounds like Obama is taking after Bush with Katrina. Instead of rolling up your sleeves and getting to work, Obama would rather let someone else get dirty and try to fix this. Change I’d rather not even have to live with. Talk versus Action. Forget “Yes We Can!” It’s “No He Don’t Want To!”

By BS Aplenty

September 25, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this

Why Barack Obama Should Not be President

Barack Obama attended the Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago, Illinois, for almost twenty years. Attended, taught, learned, worshipped and sang along with his wife and children until his abrupt resignation in May 2008. That resignation was brought about due to heightened national awareness of the “nature” of Obama’s congregation. That nature being brought into sharp focus by unsavory sermon tapes of former TUCC minister, Jeremiah Wright. But for all the bluster and ignorance reflected in his sermons, Wright’s ranting from the pulpit only hinted at a deeper, more troubling truth about TUCC and Obama

What is it that made TUCC such a political liability to the first African-American nominated by a major political party? The answer to that question lies in the doctrine and teachings of TUCC. In short, this congregation, unlike ANY other United Church of Christ church in the United States, adopted, endorsed and actively promotes the doctrine and teachings of James H. Cone. Cone systematized what has been called black liberation theology as outlined in his two books, the first entitled, Black Theology and Black Power and a follow-on, A Black Theology of Liberation. These are the only two books sold by the Trinity United Church of Christ on its website. TUCC doesn’t sell or give away the BIBLE on its website – a circumstance that is very telling.

The two books mentioned are, to say the least, “interesting” reads. Black Theology and Black Power is the seminal work on black liberation theology and A Black Theology of Liberation is a follow-up. Cone viewed his theology as, “…complete emancipation of black people from white oppression by whatever means black people deem necessary. So-called (white) Christianity, as commonly practiced in the United States, is actually the racist Antichrist.” “Theologically,” Cone affirms, “Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man ‘the devil’.” And, there’s more but one gets the picture.

So there it is, the principal doctrine endorsed and promoted by the Trinity United Church of Christ teaches the overtly racist sentiments of James H. Cone. The preaching and “ignorance”, as some say, of Wright is shown to be symptomatic of that larger racism and neglects to see that the entire TUCC congregation accepts the doctrine of Cone under the guise of a Christian church. Wright was just a mouthpiece, it’s the congregation, including Obama, which endorsed and promotes this racist doctrine.

ANY person or group that attempts to systematically demonize another group because of race is, by definition, RACIST.

Needless to say for Obama and his presidential campaign by May 2008 the ‘cat was out of the bag’. And, after twenty years of commitment to TUCC, Barack Obama finally, cynically made a decision to leave. A decision his avid campaign supporter, Oprah Winfrey, made several years earlier as she cynically managed a business agenda of her own. One would have to be naïve not to understand the motivation behind both departures. Nor is it much of a political stretch to acknowledge the release of these sermon tapes focused attention on the fall-guy, Wright, while diverting a direct, and potentially, campaign-ending blow to Obama.

What’s left after all the media lights have dimmed is this unsettling fact. For twenty years Barrack Obama accepted the racist doctrine of his church – twenty years. And only when this inconvenient truth was brought to national light did he decide that maybe that doctrine was no longer acceptable.

I give you the Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama.

By ione

September 25, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this

Who cares what Newt Gingrich thinks about anything??? McCain is attempting to delay the presidential debate long enough so that there won’t be a vice- presidential debate. Of course republicans will make this a shortcoming on Obamas behalf. Bottom line- Clinton left us with a surplus, your republican president now has the biggest deficit EVER!!! We are IN the middle of another Great Depression and republicans still won’t admit they got it WRONG!!

By jane4

September 25, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

Stop the debate because we need to tend to the bail out crisis. That makes me laugh as I’m sitting here at work thinking about how I’ve already multitasked this morning. From getting two kids ready for school (ironing,breakfast, making sure projects are in the back packs, medicine taken etc.)…….to driving 20 miles in traffic while checking messages at work and returning phone calls in traffic…….to arriving to work at 8:30 to fires that had to be put out immediately…….to checking returning emails while answering my phone to clients who want me immediately. All of this and it’s just 9:22. I’m also thinking about how to run by Wal-Mart in between appointments today to purchase supplies to complete a school project tonight. How I will have to dash to school to pick up the kids after a 4:30 appointment…….prepare dinner for the family………complete the school project……go over an quiz that the teacher might have scheduled for tomorrow…….give the kids a bath…..put them to bed……..clean up the kitchen……and if time permits…….be a wife to my husband in the bed………So WTF does McCain mean by delaying the debates because he needs to go to DC. Hell, can’t he multitask. Men act like they can only do one thing at a time. I’m an Obama supporter, but maybe we need to put two women in office to get things done. McCain can leave DC on his jet thats waiting for him. Eat the dinner thats already prepared for him. Arrive in Mississippi to a car that’s already waiting for him to carry him to OLE MISS…..do his dabate and then get back on the same jet thats waiting for him……and be back in DC within hours. WTF…….women can do a million jobs in one day……….ask a man to do 2 and he looses his mind.

By jane4

September 25, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

Stop the debate because we need to tend to the bail out crisis. That makes me laugh as I’m sitting here at work thinking about how I’ve already multitasked this morning. From getting two kids ready for school (ironing,breakfast, making sure projects are in the back packs, medicine taken etc.)…….to driving 20 miles in traffic while checking messages at work and returning phone calls in traffic…….to arriving to work at 8:30 to fires that had to be put out immediately…….to checking returning emails while answering my phone to clients who want me immediately. All of this and it’s just 9:22. I’m also thinking about how to run by Wal-Mart in between appointments today to purchase supplies to complete a school project tonight. How I will have to dash to school to pick up the kids after a 4:30 appointment…….prepare dinner for the family………complete the school project……go over an quiz that the teacher might have scheduled for tomorrow…….give the kids a bath…..put them to bed……..clean up the kitchen……and if time permits…….be a wife to my husband in the bed………So WTF does McCain mean by delaying the debates because he needs to go to DC. Hell, can’t he multitask. Men act like they can only do one thing at a time. I’m an Obama supporter, but maybe we need to put two women in office to get things done. McCain can leave DC on his jet thats waiting for him. Eat the dinner thats already prepared for him. Arrive in Mississippi to a car that’s already waiting for him to carry him to OLE MISS…..do his dabate and then get back on the same jet thats waiting for him……and be back in DC within hours. WTF…….women can do a million jobs in one day……….ask a man to do 2 and he looses his mind.

By ron

September 25, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

Someone needs to tell Obama that this job isn’t about campaigning.

Ocassionally, you have to show up and do your job.

Obama ‘08 - Making it Easy to be Stupid (and Communist)

By Former Mccain supporter

September 25, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this

Blah. Blah. Blah. The bottom line is this. Barack Obama and John Mccain can’t do anymore to fix this problem than what is already being done. Congress doesn’t need them there, especially since they were invited on today by Mr. Bush. With Private Jets, helicopters, I don’t think a sit out on the debate is justifiable unless you are looking at it from a tactical stand point. Political experts have stated that this may back fire on John Mccain, and I agree because it seems as though he’s afraid to debate with Mr. Obama regarding the economy. This is very sad and I can no longer support him being that he just made it clear that he’s unable to multi-task. Is Mr. Obama still able to assist with the economic troubles by providing input while not exactly being there? I think the answer is yes, and anyone who doesn’t agree isn’t being real with themselves. 40 days until there is a new President and by Mccain acting as if he is in control of the debates by attempting to postpone, gives me the feeling he already feels he has the Presidential power to do so. I say proceed with the debates, then go to Washington to see if your assistance is needed. But right now, the people want to hear what you have to say regarding a resolution while under the pressure of debate. You can’t always predict which questions will be thrown your way and I think the problem is the ability to do so.

By c-way

September 25, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this

This is sad. For those who are still wanting to support McFalin - - it is obvious, you do not feel the financial pressures of today. Well, what happens when there are no restaraunts to go out to, no drug stores to purchase those precious prescriptions, and all beacuase people who are on the fence financially can not continue to survive. It will affect us all - - we are taking homes, cars, credit from the people who need them, and why, because the jobs have already been taken…. This is a real big problem. But if memory serves me correctly, it looks just like it did with 9/11, we were pressed to give unquestioned authority over to Bush and crew. Outcome, untold billions of dollars in Iraq and a lot of dead Americans. So now my question, What is the price of this? I do not simply see it being just the money - this can really bankrupt a future presidency…. I am a democrat and The American Way of Life is my first priority. I am a father and I would like my child to have a better chance than I had. Those are my objectives and should someone decide to pick apart my comments - what are yours? Bush is out in 40 days and MCFailin needs to demonstrate that he is not quite a President for those still on the fence. These two (Obama and McFailin) are perhaps the most powerful individuals in the media today - they can stage this debate anywhere, even via TV. This is a stall tactic and it comes from the maverick himself - wait a minute, McFailin is behind in the polls, perhaps there is no tommorrow for that candidacy…..

By Matt Jennings

September 25, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this

Ron, you don’t even know what a communist is. And considering we’re talking about a $700,000,000,000 BAILOUT for a PRIVATE COMPANY, I wouldn’t throw words like “communist” and “socialist” around.

Plus, a McCain supporter has absolutely no room to be talking about doing the job. John McCain has missed 64.1% of the roll coll votes in the Senate (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/110/senate/vote-missers/), by far the most of any Senator, including Tim Johnson, who missed several MONTHS after a BRAIN HEMORRHAGE!

Senator John Barrasso, who didn’t even become a Senator until seven months into the session (He replaced a Senator who had died), has cast nearly twice as votes this session as McCain. In fact, he’s cast almost as many votes as McCain has missed.

By Don't blame Obama

September 25, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this

@bs aplenty:

BS is exactly what you’re peddling. You didnt say anything about Sarah Palin calling this unjust & phony war “God’s War”. I get so tired of Republicans talking about 911 and how terrorists are a threat to America. If you think for one minute Bush didn’t have 911 arranged, you are the sad one my friend. If any other country on this earth invaded another country (based upon a lie), killed the leader and both his heirs, and then tried to steal the country’s chief resource(oil), it would have set off WWIII. But since America did it under the guise of “fighting terrorism” it’s o.k.. And you wonder why Jeremiah Wright calls the white man the devil- look back through history.. you’ll see why. His teachings aren’t that far off, although I don’t agree with everything he says. ..America is about to pay the piper for all the DIRT the white man has done on her behalf.

By i have learned

September 25, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this

HA! Melissa….I wasn’t talking about you…but I find it fascinating that you reacted the way you did.

Something too close to home?

By Wow

September 25, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this

Jane4-Your assessment of multi-tasking is completely asinine. There is no comparison to getting your rugrats ready for school, servicing your husband, and running a household to running a country and cleaning up the mess our government made. Do not attempt to compare yourself to either candidate. Also, if you are truly doing your job from you car, then that is a scary thought, as it is possible you could soon be responsible for killing someone because you will be failing to do the true task at hand, which would be safely driving your car. Next time make a better point.

By Mc Stallin

September 25, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

Someone is trying to STALL!!! What’s wrong McCain you can’t remember all the information that has been crammed into your brain by your advisors??? Alzheimers kickin in now, huh? Now you only have a couple of days to , not only learn what a Lehman Bros, AIG and email are, but you also have to be told what your plan is to fix the economy!!! IT’S JUST NOT ENOUGH TIME FOR AN OLD MAN TO GET ALL THIS TO SINK IN!! Sorry this is not a football game— you can’t call a timeout!!

By Wow

September 25, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

Jane4-Your assessment of multi-tasking is completely asinine. There is no comparison to getting your rugrats ready for school, servicing your husband, and running a household to running a country and cleaning up the mess our government made. Do not attempt to compare yourself to either candidate. Also, if you are truly doing your job from you car, then that is a scary thought, as it is possible you could soon be responsible for killing someone because you will be failing to do the true task at hand, which would be safely driving your car. Next time make a better point.

By pwnella

September 25, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this

What’s everyone so worried about? The fundamentals of our economy are strong, remember? This is just a minor hiccup in America’s manifest destiny.

By David Green

September 25, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this

McCain is a damn coward!!

By Rational

September 25, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this

It’s an obvious ploy on McCain’s part to look like Mr. Maverick-Tough Guy to drop everything and run back to a solution already in progress, get his fingerprints on it and a photo op, and then resume as if he didn’t just buck his responsibility to communicate to the American people his foreign policy. Friday’s schedule debate is about a subject he’s nervous on and Palin’s little visits with foreign dignitaries yesterday wasn’t even allowed to be recorded for fear of embarrassing herself further.

Oh wait - this crisis is due to deregulation policies that McCain has been a champion of for 26 years! Do we trust that he knows how to get us out of this mess if he put us in it?

Meanwhile the American people need to hear from their candidate, rather than have two Senators out of hundreds (who can easily handle this issue by proxy) who are applying for the most importantant job in the land. Would you hire the guy who skipped the interview to make sure his 500 friends had done what he hopes they will do? McCain’s not on the committee, he’s an absentee Senator, he’s disingenuous, reactionary, and seriously out of touch with his constituents. Maybe he’s worried he doesn’t remember which house he left his “YES” vote stamp in, and he’ll have to fly all over finding it, and be late for the debate. Do your Senator job in the day, the debates at night, and show that you can be responsible!

Obama understands what the American people really need, and instead of pandering (look! a woman! you must like me now!) he does the intelligent thing and makes a PLAN. He’s got good advisers and credibility. How is anyone still falling for McCain’s crap? It’s astounding how little people actually bother to learn about the candidates and issues - talking points are fluff, people. Factcheck.org will help you out.

The president does have to multitask, and this Friday’s challenge (two things in the same day at different times?) is hardly demonstrative of the stress a president will have to deal with. McCain’s afraid while his back is turned, Obama will win over our hearts and minds. Our MINDS. With his intelligence. I would rather have the top of the class brain surgeon working on my skull and a person with an actual IQ over 100 in charge of my country.

By Mike

September 25, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this

I was really concerned that the 430+ members in congress wouldn’t be able to figure out the best way to do this deal but now that John McCain is going to be there, well…….what a relief.

By D Larison

September 25, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this

Gingrich likens [McCain’s stunt] to Eisenhower’s “I will go to Korea,” but unlike Eisenhower and the Korean war McCain has no credibility concerning the crisis he is supposedly addressing.  In the end, knowing when you can contribute something and knowing when to avoid complicating an already difficult situation by intruding on ongoing negotiations is what separates grandstanding from leadership.  It is what separates the simple egomaniacs from the ambitious pols who nonetheless have some idea what public service is.  McCain’s belief that he is indispensable in a time of crisis is the surest sign that he is unfit for any office in republican government, much less the chief magistracy of the Republic.

-D Larison

By D. Larison

September 25, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this

Gingrich likens [McCain’s stunt] to Eisenhower’s “I will go to Korea,” but unlike Eisenhower and the Korean war McCain has no credibility concerning the crisis he is supposedly addressing. In the end, knowing when you can contribute something and knowing when to avoid complicating an already difficult situation by intruding on ongoing negotiations is what separates grandstanding from leadership. It is what separates the simple egomaniacs from the ambitious pols who nonetheless have some idea what public service is. McCain’s belief that he is indispensable in a time of crisis is the surest sign that he is unfit for any office in republican government, much less the chief magistracy of the Republic.

-D. Larison

By Jon

September 25, 2008 8:10 PM | Link to this

I may sound overly-left by saying this (at least to Gingrich) but what exactly did Mccain do to work on the bill? To the best of my knowledge he isn’t on the Finance Committee, he isn’t known for business talent rivaling the Rothschilds, so what exactly can a presidential candidate do in this situation that can’t be done better by someone employed to do it?

By Shiller

September 26, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this

When I saw the headline I thought McCain was going to stop running for president so he can put “country first” for a change after putting special interests first for 26 years in the senate… The whole move is a laughable joke.

By The Debate Dodger is Obama

September 26, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this

Hey Will…talk about excuses on bailing out of a “PRESIDENTIAL” debate, why don’t you offer up a few as to why Obama bailed on the 10 town-hall debates McCain begged him to attend and even offered to pay his transportation to.

You don’t get it, Obama is ticked that he’s studied like a little school kid for weeks for this debate and is fearful if it’s postponed he’ll forget what he memorized from his flashcards. McCain, however simply knows his Foreign Affairs, like a real leader should, and sees no reason why the debate can’t be held at a later date when the more pertinent issues are resolved!!

By The Debate Dodger is Obama

September 26, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this

Hey Will…talk about excuses on bailing out of a “PRESIDENTIAL” debate, why don’t you offer up a few as to why Obama bailed on the 10 town-hall debates McCain begged him to attend and even offered to pay his transportation to.

You don’t get it, Obama is ticked that he’s studied like a little school kid for weeks for this debate and is fearful if it’s postponed he’ll forget what he memorized from his flashcards. McCain, however simply knows his Foreign Affairs, like a real leader should, and sees no reason why the debate can’t be held at a later date when the more pertinent issues are resolved!!

By Will Jones

September 26, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

McCain begged…’nuff said. Any running for POTUS should at least act presidential.

He’s no man - a liar, adulterer, and a loser: A pathetic little moron who got this far on loser-admirals, father and grandfather, the pity of Americans for a moron shot down by his own martial incompetence, corrupt connections in a Mafia-controlled state, and his Mafia wife’s money.

His family fought for the pope against those, fleeing the pope, who founded America (Viz. “Faith of My Fathers,” McCain).

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

By Denise

September 26, 2008 2:41 PM | Link to this

And Palin pastor is a witch hunter.. and we are in the a holy war with irag (according to Palin its a task from god).

Ok now i am really scared!!!