McCain seeks to delay debate

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Head Hunter wrote:

Nero's rule is often associated with tyranny and extravagance.[3] He is known for a number of executions, including those of his mother[4] and adoptive brother, as the emperor who "fiddled while Rome burned",
Obama sat in a Clearwater hotel studying for a debate while America burned financially.

MZC wrote:

A few new slogans McCain should try out:
"COUNTRY SECOND ... nap first"
"STRATEGY OVER SUBSTANCE"
"WHO'S ON FIRST??"
"REFORM, POW, REFORM, POW, POW, REFORM!"

Ann Ominous wrote:

This is America... there is always going to be a crisis of some kind to deal with. Is John McCain going to stay home every time the country needs leadership? If so, he's not fit to be Commander in Chief.

Space Cowboy wrote:

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Not going home. Going to work

AMY wrote:

As a Muslim who believes women to be inferior it would be impossible for him to have Hilary as VP canidate. Rhat is why he has turned his liberal press and campaign attack dogs on GOV Palin.
Women of America...This in not the change you are looking for or need..VOTE MCCAIN/PALIN and Straight Republican. Take back the US from the illegals and entitlements from those who wont work

SongBookz wrote:

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http://www.electoral-vote.com/
John McCain suspended his campaign, stopped running ads, and said he would not participate in the first debate scheduled for tomorrow at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS. He said that the nation is on the brink of a serious recession and this is no time for politics. McCain has been in the Senate 25 years. He knows precisely what will happen if he barges into the office of Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), chairman of the Senate banking committee and announces: "OK, Outta here, I'm taking over now. Dodd's reaction would not be printable on a family Website like this one and McCain would be instantly and unceremoniously shown the door. There are two people responsible for writing banking bills: Dodd and his House counterpart Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA). If Dodd wants input from the Republicans on this, he will ask the ranking member on his committee, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL). McCain and Obama play no role and McCain knows that very well.
So why did McCain propose cancelling the debate? In a word: politics. By flying into D.C. as the savior he might appear as a man of action to people who don't know how the Senate works. The reality of course, is that Obama and McCain's appearance in Dodd's office would instantly turn the entire event into a political circus. If left alone, Dodd can come up with a bill a lot faster than with McCain, Obama, and the entire national press corps in the room "helping." A second point is that by pulling all his TV ads, he saves money, something Obama has more of. McCain may need that money at the end of October, so a penny not spent now is a penny available in October.

Here is a Thought wrote:

The financial bailout agreement has been reached. So, I guess McCain can't hide now! LOL

The laughing liberal wrote:

Obama grant being probed
$100,000 DEAL | State to charity: What happened to garden money, other cash?
September 25, 2008
A $100,000 state grant for a botanic garden in Englewood that then-state Sen. Barack Obama awarded in 2001 to a group headed by a onetime campaign volunteer is now under investigation by the Illinois attorney general amid new questions, prompted by Chicago Sun-Times reports, about whether the money might have been misspent.
The garden was never built. And now state records obtained by the Sun-Times show $65,000 of the grant money went to the wife of Kenny B. Smith, the Obama 2000 congressional campaign volunteer who heads the Chicago Better Housing Association.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/watchdogs/118404...
Smith wrote another $20,000 in grant-related checks to K.D. Contractors, a construction company that his wife, Karen D. Smith, created five months after work on the garden was supposed to have begun, records show. K.D. is no longer in business.
Attorney General Lisa Madigan -- a Democrat who is supporting Obama's presidential bid -- is investigating "whether this charitable organization properly used its charitable assets, including the state funds it received," Cara Smith, Madigan's deputy chief of staff, said Wednesday.
In addition to the 2001 grant that Obama directed to the housing association as a "member initiative," the not-for-profit group got a separate $20,000 state grant in 2006.
Madigan's office has notified Obama's presidential campaign of the probe, which was launched this week. But Obama's actions in awarding the money are not a focus of the investigation, Smith said.

Here is a Thought wrote:

<quoted text>Obama showed he's not going to be railroaded into letting McCain chicken out!
What would be so wrong with McCain & Obama taking care of two things at the same time as I suggested???
Or is it that McCain just isn't capable of multi-tasking? Can't handle being the president then that's for sure!
Even George Will, ultra conservative, has doubts about McCain's age and leadership ability.
GEORGE WILL - "I suppose the McCain campaign's hope is that when there's a big crisis people will go for age and experience...the question is who in this crisis looked more Presidential, calm and unflustered.....it wasn't John McCain...who, as usual, substituting vehemance for coherance, said "Let's fire somebody!" And he picked one of the most experienced and conservative people in the Administration, Chris Cox, and for no apparent reason, at least non that he vouched safe....he said fire Chris Cox at the SEC. It was un-Presidential behavior by a Presidential aspirant."
SAM DONALDSON - "Well.... it was two days after he said the fundamentals of the economy were strong.....I mean his talking points have gotten all mixed up. And I think the question of age is back on the table."
Your boy is running scared!

Roy wrote:

I heard Obama was going to prepare for this debate for 3 days.
Is he afraid he'll forget if the debate is posteponed?

SongBookz wrote:

McCain can't walk and chew gum at the same time so he's headed back to Washington to master - er, I mean masticate.

The laughing liberal wrote:

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Please stop making me laugh.
There's a $700 Billion dollar problem and you're more concerned about a stinking political debate?
Are you a moron?
These 2 need to get off the campaign trail and back to Washington to wake up their sleeping colleagues for a few days or week until this gets resolved in a way that doesn't sock the Taxpayer with more debt!