In an act of desperation after trailing Senator Obama in the national polls, John McCain will "suspend" his campaign tomorrow morning to "focus on the crisis" in Washington. Running away from the debates, and running away from the numbers portending his inevitible demise is a cheap trick to fool Americans into believing his weakest point is his strongest - the economy. See you at the political graveyard John!
John McCain is getting desperate
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To the contrary, it's an act of leadership.
This is the man who said he's rather lose a campaign than lose a war.
The economic crisis right now is quite severe and it needs to be addressed.
McCain would like to issue a joint statement of principles with Obama regarding this issue. Leadership and an ability to put aside bitter and petty partisanship in order to best serve the country. McCain has this ability. Obama doesn't appear to, judging by the reaction of his campaign and his surrogates so far.
Mccain isn't "running away" from the debates. He has long requested that he and Obama do a series of ten town hall debates for months now. Obama has run away from the offer.
To think that McCain is going to "run away" from a debate on foreign policy with Obama is not only laughable, it's dishonest... or you're just totally clueless.
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MCCAIN SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN TO FOCUS ON ECONOMY; WANTS DEBATE DELAY
Wed Sept 24 2008 14:58:02 ET
MCCAIN: America this week faces an historic crisis in our financial system. We must pass legislation to address this crisis. If we do not, credit will dry up, with devastating consequences for our economy. People will no longer be able to buy homes and their life savings will be at stake. Businesses will not have enough money to pay their employees. If we do not act, ever corner of our country will be impacted. We cannot allow this to happen.
Last Friday, I laid out my proposal and I have since discussed my priorities and concerns with the bill the Administration has put forward. Senator Obama has expressed his priorities and concerns.This morning, I met with a group of economic advisers to talk about the proposal on the table and the steps that we should take going forward.I have also spoken with members of Congress to hear their perspective.
It has become clear that no consensus has developed to support the Administration' proposal. I do not believe that the plan on the table will pass as it currently stands, and we are running out of time.
Tomorrow morning, I will suspend my campaign and return to Washington after speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative. I have spoken to Senator Obama and informed him of my decision and have asked him to join me.
I am calling on the President to convene a meeting with the leadership from both houses of Congress, including Senator Obama and myself. It is time for both parties to come together to solve this problem.
We must meet as Americans, not as Democrats or Republicans, and we must meet until this crisis is resolved.I am directing my campaign to work with the Obama campaign and the commission on presidential debates to delay Friday night's debate until we have taken action to address this crisis.
I am confident that before the markets open on Monday we can achieve consensus on legislation that will stabilize our financial markets, protect taxpayers and homeowners, and earn the confidence of the American people. All we must do to achieve this is temporarily set politics aside, and I am committed to doing so.
Following September 11th, our national leaders came together at a time of crisis. We must show that kind of patriotism now. Americans across our country lament the fact that partisan divisions in Washington have prevented us from addressing our national challenges. Now is our chance to come together to prove that Washington is once again capable of leading this country.
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MCCAIN SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN TO FOCUS ON ECONOMY; WANTS DEBATE DELAY
Wed Sept 24 2008 14:58:02 ET
MCCAIN: America this week faces an historic crisis in our financial system. We must pass legislation to address this crisis. If we do not, credit will dry up, with devastating consequences for our economy. People will no longer be able to buy homes and their life savings will be at stake. Businesses will not have enough money to pay their employees. If we do not act, ever corner of our country will be impacted. We cannot allow this to happen.
Last Friday, I laid out my proposal and I have since discussed my priorities and concerns with the bill the Administration has put forward. Senator Obama has expressed his priorities and concerns.This morning, I met with a group of economic advisers to talk about the proposal on the table and the steps that we should take going forward.I have also spoken with members of Congress to hear their perspective.
It has become clear that no consensus has developed to support the Administration' proposal. I do not believe that the plan on the table will pass as it currently stands, and we are running out of time.
Tomorrow morning, I will suspend my campaign and return to Washington after speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative. I have spoken to Senator Obama and informed him of my decision and have asked him to join me.
I am calling on the President to convene a meeting with the leadership from both houses of Congress, including Senator Obama and myself. It is time for both parties to come together to solve this problem.
We must meet as Americans, not as Democrats or Republicans, and we must meet until this crisis is resolved.I am directing my campaign to work with the Obama campaign and the commission on presidential debates to delay Friday night's debate until we have taken action to address this crisis.
I am confident that before the markets open on Monday we can achieve consensus on legislation that will stabilize our financial markets, protect taxpayers and homeowners, and earn the confidence of the American people. All we must do to achieve this is temporarily set politics aside, and I am committed to doing so.
Following September 11th, our national leaders came together at a time of crisis. We must show that kind of patriotism now. Americans across our country lament the fact that partisan divisions in Washington have prevented us from addressing our national challenges. Now is our chance to come together to prove that Washington is once again capable of leading this country.
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fossten
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As he did during the Russo-Georgian crisis, Obama is fiddling while McCain acts. Eventually Obama will come out and say that he supports whatever action McCain has already endorsed.
Judgment to lead, my arse. He's a lieutenant, nothing more.
Judgment to lead, my arse. He's a lieutenant, nothing more.
MonsterMark
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Au contraire, it's an act of political maneuvering. It took the cries of 300 million Americans and a lickin' in the polls to get John McCain to realise we were even having a problem. John McCain is as transparent
Clearly, he is. He's taken a pounding in the polls and is grasping at straws to regain ground. Did he forget to order his Depends from Liberty Medical for Friday?
No, because he's fallen behind in the polls he needs to do something to regroup. Let's face it, McCain can only focus on one problem at a time. Real presidents have to focus on many issues at the same time. John can't do that. It's further proof that your candidate is unsuitable for the presidency.
TheDude
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/24/campaign.wrap/index.html
Republican presidential candidate John McCain announced Wednesday that he is suspending his campaign to return to Washington and focus on the "historic" crisis facing the U.S. economy.
McCain said it was time for both parties to come together to solve economic crisis.
1 of 2 Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama in a news conference later Wednesday said that he and McCain had spoken by phone and had agreed to issue a joint statement about shared principles in the approach to resolving the economic crisis.
But he disagreed with McCain's call for postponing Friday's first presidential debate in Oxford, Mississippi.
"It's my belief that this is exaclty the time when the American people need to hear from the person will be the next president," Obama said. "It is going to be part of the president's job to deal with more than one thing at once. It's more important than ever to present ourselves to the American people."
Regarding McCain's call to join him in Washington to help participate in the debate over the economic recovery plan, Obama said: "I will be anywhere at any time," he said. "If you need us I'll be there." -end snip
fossten
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These same people criticized Bush for not leaping to his feet and rushing immediately to Washington on 9/11, or diving headlong into the flooded city of New Orleans during Katrina.No, because he's fallen behind in the polls he needs to do something to regroup. Let's face it, McCain can only focus on one problem at a time. Real presidents have to focus on many issues at the same time. John can't do that. It's further proof that your candidate is unsuitable for the presidency.
You can't have it both ways.
And saying "Call me if you need me" as Obama just did (while he's "multitasking" by sequestering himself studying for three straight days) is not Presidential.
fossten
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Ha. I just had to c/p this post from HotAir:
Can you say anything about John McCain without referring to Barack Obama? McCain ain't a leader if he has to define himself through another person. The facts speak for themselves, John McCain is incapable of handling multiple issues at once. A president needs to be able to multitask. George Bush is doing a better job than John McCain from a technical standpoint. Running a war, dealing with the economic crisis, administering the bureaucracy, etc. Poor little old John can't manage to run an eensy weensy campaign. John McCain is not ready to be president, and it looks like he never will. This is the American public's presidential election. McCain doesn't dictate the terms of our election, and the American people aren't buying his hissy fit.
If that were the case, then why would McCain have been repeatedly asking Obama to participate in a series of open format townhall meetings all summer long?
The foolishness of your statement is only made more apparent when you realize that the format of the first debate is scheduled to be FOREIGN POLICY, an issue that EVERYONE recognizes is advantageous to McCain.
I'll disregard your pathetic cheap shots at Senator McCain, it's apparent that you are injecting them thinking your dull wit will compensate or distract from your gross ignorance.
Real men recognize that they have a job to do and that he was elected Senator of Arizona to simply campaign and put the needs of the country behind those of his campaign.No, because he's fallen behind in the polls he needs to do something to regroup. Let's face it, McCain can only focus on one problem at a time. Real presidents have to focus on many issues at the same time. John can't do that. It's further proof that your candidate is unsuitable for the presidency.
I know that Barry Obama has been cramming all week for this debate and he's terribly afraid that once he goes to sleep he'll forget it all, but it's reasonable and important for the leadership in Washington (McCain leading the RNC, Obama now is the head of the DNC) to arrive at a bipartisan solution.
That's Presidential.
Any grown up can recognize that.
John McCain said he would debate Obama "anytime, anywhere." Now he's backing down. John McCain won't win this election but Perdue has a position for him.
You don't speak for everyone. You speak for yourself. John Strangelove McCain doesn't have the temperament do handle international affairs, let alone have his finger on the nuclear button. He belongs in an adult day care center.
Real men recognize that they have a job to do and that he was elected Senator of Arizona to simply campaign and put the needs of the country behind those of his campaign.
Presidential my *ss. John ran away from the debate and has proven that he is incapable of handling more than one thing at a time. It's a sign of an old, worn out mind in a frail, old body; a sign of a man who cannot competently handle the office President.
fossten
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Well, it didn't take long for Max to morph back into his hate-spewing, talking point repeating, rhetoric-spraying self.
I guess the thread's been hijacked.
I guess the thread's been hijacked.
Fossten, we share similar goals for our country - people at work, a peaceful, free nation, but have different opinions on how to achieve those goals. I have no hate towards you or anyone on this board. Don't take debate on a presidential candidate so personally.
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fossten
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I don't take it personally any more than I take a mosquito bite personally.Fossten, we share similar goals for our country - people at work, a peaceful, free nation, but have different opinions on how to achieve those goals. I have no hate towards you or anyone on this board. Don't take debate on a presidential candidate so personally.
McCain has been saying that we need to fix this issue long before anyone else, way back in 2005 to be precise. He also has been the one asking for more debates (supposedly even offering pay Obama's way to some of those debates). Obama has refused to debate him.
For someone who claims to be better educated and informed then everyone else you come across as rather stupid and ignorant.
fossten
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It's nice to see you folks are more interested in vitriol than facts. McCain has backed down from a scheduled debate that the country was prepared to watch. No amount of weaseling on your part(s) changes that fact. John McCain ran away from the debate leaving you holding the bag.
It's nice to see you folks are more interested in vitriol than facts. McCain has backed down from a scheduled debate that the country was prepared to watch. No amount of weaseling on your part(s) changes that fact. John McCain ran away from the debate leaving you holding the bag.
And to be clear, you think John McCain ran away from a debate on foreign policy with Obama? Despite the fact that he's been asking Obama to debate him all season long and Obama has refused, despite the fact that this is widely believed to be McCain's strongest issue- you think he's looking a way to duck out of it?? ... because that whole Wall Street melt down thing isn't such a big deal?
McCain has put country first, suspended his campaign and is working for a bipartisan resolution to this issue. Whether the debate goes forward or not remains to be seen, but unlike Obama, McCain will return to Washington, perform his duties as a Senator, and do what he thinks is best for the country. Obama will continue to do what he thinks is best for Obama, politicize the issue, misrepresent the truth, and take credit for whatever he can AFTER the hard work has been done.
Even with a lead, Obama can't put the campaigning and partisanship aside for a couple days and be actively involved in one of the most important policy decisions of the century designed to prevent an economic catastrophe on par or worse than 9/11?
There's a strong likelihood that McCain will still attend the debate on Friday. I doubt he's overly concerned. He doesn't need to cram for it like a high school girl preparing for her final exams, as Obama does.
fossten
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Vitriol instead of facts, eh? Look who's talking...It's nice to see you folks are more interested in vitriol than facts. McCain has backed down from a scheduled debate that the country was prepared to watch. No amount of weaseling on your part(s) changes that fact. John McCain ran away from the debate leaving you holding the bag.
You just shot yourself in the foot.
Obama can't suspend his campaign because he still needs to raise funds. He's spending fifty cents for every dollar he raises, and he's running out of money.
McCain hasn't cancelled the debate, he's asked to postpone it. If you really believe McCain is afraid to debate Obama about foreign policy, you're delusional. I'm actually disappointed, since I think McCain will clean Obama's broken clock in that debate. But there are still 40 days left until the election. That's plenty of time. Don't worry, McCain will destroy your guy, just a little later.
I think you're worried that your Marxist candidate has been outfoxed by McCain's OODA loop yet again.
About the debate on Friday, they should:
1) Still have the debate.
2) SWITCH the subject from foreign policy to the economy.
That would have America glued to the screen, and really bring out which candidate we want to lead our country.
1) Still have the debate.
2) SWITCH the subject from foreign policy to the economy.
That would have America glued to the screen, and really bring out which candidate we want to lead our country.
fossten
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Agreed.
MonsterMark
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That would mean the Messiah would have wasted 3 days cramming for his exam. He needs to take his test now. That is why he won't postpone the debate. He's afraid he will forget all the lines he was forced to memorize and he might have to take a shower and then all his crib notes would wash of his hands. Geeez. Have some pity for the guy.