McCain is Right to Suspend His Campaign

I am not a McCain supporter but I did see his ads on TV tonight so how does he figure he pulled them?

Personally, I'd like to see Congress tie any bailout to accepting a few resignations, Bush and Cheney, Paulson and Bernacki, effective immediately. It would seem that if these are such dire straights, it would be the only patriotic thing to do and I do not trust the people who created and acquiesced in this mess to come up with let alone administer any plan. There is no trust. There should be no opportunity for them to further enrich anyone.

I also don't see why buying up bad debt that no one else is interested in is the only solution. Can't a plan B for going forward consist of a government-backed credit institution given seed money to make sound deals going forward? Although I've been there and done that, this seems like handing a new car to a kid that just rather carelessly wrecked the car he had been previously handed. Only here, we are talking about people driving Oldsmobiles asking to hand out Ferraris.

No surprise that McCain is running scared and needing to cancel debates. Kind of hard to come up with an explanation of his latest epiphany, finding himself suddenly against deregulation post disaster.

The one thing I don't agree with Robert, I don't want him anywhere near finance.

He was part of the Keating 5. He's a crook.

The real question is, is he running to save our asses or his own?

It won't happen.

It's right for him! No debate and put himself in the spotlight. He's trying to save his own butt. It won't work.

But since the election is going forward, I don't want him to have an excuse to say that should be postponed. I want the debate to happen (move it to Washington DC so the candidates don't have to miss meetings or votes)...we'll see who has a clue.

I think it was right for him, because he always puts himself before his country.

I think it's about Sarah Palin. Watch her interview with Couric. She isn't ready for prime time. Never will be. It is NOT about her being conservative. She is less fit to be President than McCain and they got to keep her from the debate.

The timing of his announcement (right after his first practice session for the debate) is very suspicious. Did he discover he wasn't as good as he (or others) thought?

I'm glad I read on, Robert, because by the time I read "He was right to suspend the campaign, pull his ads, and cancel his appearance at the Presidential Debate." I was thinking to myself,

"Robert has lost it."

My bad; my profuse apologies.

. . . but Robert, I really think that McCain . . .well, I guess it is up to the citizens of Arizona to make that call. I'll just be thankful that he is NOT one of the two Senators from the State of California. The last time he has cast a vote was April 8, and he holds the dubious honour of being number 1 in the Senate of those who have missed votes -- 412 missed votes to Obama's 295.

I have a feeling we're electing a President on Nov. 4, come hell or high water. Obama contacted McCain this morning and offered to work on a joint statement urging Congress to act in a bipartisan manner ~~ but then McCain comes up with this -- kind of puts Obama between a rock and a hard place.

Besides, aren't the "fundamentals of the economy sound", Senator McCain?

McCain is sooooooooo afraid of Obama in a debate and Palin is still kept under lock and key. She can't handle a honest question from the media or a legit debate.

The time for these games is over, and now? And now, it's time for all secrets, lies and games to be exposed;

no more playing around with the American people.

Playing games,

playing games,

playing games.

At last it is starting to catch up with them.

Now he is a bad guy because he wants to do his job? Guess what you guys thats called COUNTRY FIRST. The campaigning is personal and not important,but Obama doesnt think so.His best asset is campaigning.He was only a junior senator for 150 days when he started campaigning for a new job.Now he thinks the campaign is more important than getting his butt back to washington and doing the job he was elected to do.

Dear Patti,

It is a very important job being a Senator. It is also now part of his new "job" being a candidate for President of the United States. He owes it to all of us to show up at that debate. He is a tough debater and can take the heat. Otherwise it is a cynical ploy.

Well since Obama is going to be back in Washington, guess who is coming to town with Biden at my college on saturday....so finally I will be able to see both...

If Obama had this idea first I think I'd see a very different post and the reactions that follow. LOL

Kathy,

I am not LOL. McCain, as Chris Matthews put it nicely last night, is the master of "razzle-dazzle". He suspended the convention with the hurricane....although it didn't really make a difference in relief efforts. He chose Palin for the plain 'shock value' of a woman with so little experience that even I feel kind of sorry for her when she has to be interviewed by Couric, and now this 'campaign suspension and delay of debate'.

Give me a break. America needs steadiness at the head of this nation. Not these arbitrary and capricious moves and statements that suggest a bit of instability.

Sort of like Palin transferring 6 times to get her undergraduate degree. In times of crisis, we need calm and thoughtful leadership. Sort of like Obama.

There are two people responsible for writing banking bills: Sen. Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate banking committee and his House counterpart Rep. Barney Frank. If Dodd wants input from the Republicans on this, he will ask the ranking member on his committee, Sen. Richard Shelby, as well as the rest of the republicans on the committee, of which McCain is not one. He's the ranking member of the Armed Services Committee. McCain and Obama play no role on creating this legislation, just debating and voting on the finished products, and McCain knows that.

So is he going back because he's needed, or because he's trying to LOOK like he's needed in the eyes of the public? You do the math. :)

Good point Tad. Thanks.

Yeah its as right as using my tax money to bailout his corporate fascist friends.

The debate is going on and if he skips out it show the world the real McCain.

Gee, Robert, I'm not sure you took this quite the way John meant it. Unless, of course, the old honest John is breaking through somehow. ;-]

Selene,

Always love those hugs ;).

Take Care

It is a ploy no doubt. I am not fooled.

Linda, I didn't say any of us would or would not LIKE what they produced, just that it is in fact they who do so. Therefore McCain has no REAL reason to be in DC other than political grandstanding.

I think ANY bill they produce will be unconstitutional, but then so would anything the GOP produced too. There is NOTHING in the US Constitution that gives the Federal Government the ability or authority to intervene in the markets with taxpayer dollars. But then, that hasn't stopped anybody for the last 70+ years, why start now?

Linda,

Perhaps it has nothing to do with Palin. I was only speculating to be sure. I do know they had been talking about moving the Presidential debate to St. Louis on the same date as the Vice-Presidential debate had been scheduled. It only seems reasonable to think they might want to defer the Vice-Presidential debate at the same time.

But I was only guessing.

Then again, Obama has never said "screw the American people" has he? He merely pointed out that the American people needed to hear from the two people vying to be President. McCain wasn't really needed in Washington. I think that is obvious.

I do believe the debate will go on anyhow. We now have a more or less agreement and that gives McCain the opportunity to return to Mississippi and keep his head high and say 'told you so.'

Everyone wins I guess.

Back up your fact, Linda Walters:

You said,

"Patty, McCain contacted Obama first, before he made is announcement not after Obama contacted him."

Prove it.

"Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, two of the people who were responsible for starting this whole mess in 1999 with their good friend Bill Clinton."

Of course it was McCain's good friend and economic advisor Phil Gramm who sponsored the law that gutted the Glass-Steagall act which led directly to the credit crisis.

Fact is, it's the financial institutions that caused the problem. They went nuts with the housing bubble and aggressively pursued bad loans. The compounded the issue by creating mortgage backed securities and credit debt swaps. It was collective insanity.

and then this:

"That is Ok Lady Neetah, At least when he was there he voted yes or no and not just "Present".

Since YOU brought it up, present the times that Barack Obama voted that way in

the U.S. Senate

VERSUS

John McCain

Give us the numbers.

The voting records.

2008. Make it easy.

By the way,

WHO ARE YOU???

It's strange talking to a ghost.

I'm skeptical of someone who doesn't have the nerve to show their face.

Makes me think that you aren't real, but rather, an alter.

I stay away from ALTERS.

I will have to agree Obama is THOUGHTFUL. But eventually he'll have to take action and make decisions, neither of which I've seen from him. I want a strong hand who isn't afraid of others reactions. I want someone confident but willing to take advice. I want someone who realizes that a financial crisis is so much more important than a debate that can be postponed. I want so much more than Obama can ever hope to offer.

McCain had every reason to be in Washington. He's doing what he promised us and what he has been doing all along. Going against the flow. Protecting and serving Americans. Way to go McCain!

Kathy,

Obama has so much to offer America! America has been facing a financial crisis for some time now. In fact the origins of our crisis date back to the time of the Keating 5 when John McCain himself was the subject of investigation.

Senator Barack Obama is intelligent, educated, surrounds himself with learned individuals from Alan Greenspan to Robert Reich, and is steady at the helm.

That's the kind of leadership America deserves. Not this, 'there's a crisis in the financial world so damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead' or as Senator McCain says, "All Hands on Deck". I am afraid he may be suffering from another episode of PTSD, so please no loud noises right now.

The Monday before last he says "The fundamentals of the the economy are strong"
The nest day he wants to establish a commission to study greed.
The nest day he blames the chairman of the SEC.
The next day he has decided the chairman of the SEC is not to blame, Obama is to blame.
Now he puts on his cape to fly to Washington and save the world?
He should let people in Washington who have a clue handle this and just keep on doing what he does best- dirty campaigning.