Posted on 09/30/2008 6:16:09 AM PDT by Brian_Baldwin
McCain comes on FOX News cable this morning, about 30 minutes ago, and throws the election away. All he had to do was say that he is with the American people, that the American people had concerns with this bill and he is with the American people and understands why.
All he had to do was say he is working for the American people and not politicians who create the problems and then want to be the same politicians who want to be in charge with fixing the problem.
That this bill didn’t have the real reform we needed, that he will now do everything he can to work for the American people to come up with a plan that has real reform.
No one is saying there should be no plan at all. And he should have said as much. That what we need now is a plan with real reform.
Yet, despite mistakes that he already has made, and said, he actually was handed the opportunity to side with the American people and to win the election, to let Palin have the opportunity to go with the message on Thursday that the McCain-Palin ticket is for reform, and that reform means that the failed plan wasn’t good enough and that this ticket will be on the side of the American people for a better way, a better plan, for real reform, and this ticket will work with the American people.
Instead he came out, he stated he supported the plan that failed – and that he still supports the plan that failed.
He made no mention of the need for a better plan. And worse, he made no mention of the feelings of the American people. He forgot to even mention the word. The FOX anchor had to remind him.
And when asked directly about the fact that the American people were not supporting the current plan, he went into the line about how he went to Washington to get everyone to pass the plan.
And then, when was asked directly the obvious follow up to the question - the fact that, yes, he went to Washington to get everyone to pass the plan that the American people did not want, and it failed (and thus he failed) - he responded that he did not get enough Republicans and Democrats to support this plan that failed.
And so he in as much told everyone he is a failure and that he is just another Bush.
McCain is now Bush.
Obama is now going to become the leader on this issue in the eyes of the American people. Obama is for the American people, and McCain is Bush.
Congratulations President Obama.
I saw the interview. This guy is a troll.
Can someone please take this down?
He makes some good ppoints- since I did not see the interview can you counter them?
I hope you are right, but it DOES sound just like McCain
Doug TX, You signed up last month.
Brian_Baldwin signed up nine years ago.
Whether or not you agree with what he said, n00b, you’re out of line calling him a troll and asking for his post to come down.
Oh, good gawd! It was his to lose and he’s been doing a good job of losing all this week. Nail, meet coffin. Sarah, it’s really been nice knowing you.
Not so fast, McCain has reverted to our beloved McAmnesty, take a hard look folks, McCain is McDole’ing bigtime, afraid to fight back, thinks we want a unifier, he’s toast ... Leave the post, it’s right on.
I saw trhe interview as well....I thought McCain did poorly....
He stated he supported the bill that died yesterday and really showed no leadership as how to move forward.
In this case, it wasn’t what he said but what he didn’t.
How many friggin’ vanity threads are you going to post? One for every time McCain appears on TV? You could have added this to the one you posted last night.
I agree.
No one knows exactly what is going on with this financial mess. Many experts say something has to be done to help the small business and regular people including all our 401k’s.
In the meantime I still think John McCain will explain when the time is right, it may not be today.
I only know this mess is here to get O elected!
Yes I saw it too, this is a troll post.
Commentary’s John Podhoretz:
Perhaps the House Republicans whose objections to the bailout bill gave sufficient cover to House Democrats terrified of their constituent calls to join them in torpedoing the legislation will be proved right somehow, and legislation can be substantively improved or the market can somehow stabilize on its own in the intervening days before a new bill can be designed. Perhaps the stock markets around the world will not crash. Perhaps the credit markets will not instantly calcify. Perhaps the fact that Republicans broke against the bill 2-to-1 will not lead to a general consensus that the failure of the bailout legislation was entirely due to Republicans, since 94 Democrats voted against it as well. Perhaps people will accept the Republican complaint that Nancy Pelosi gave a really nasty speech just before the vote tally and made ten Republicans so angry they decided to vote “nay.”
Perhaps.
But probably not.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122270859197986331.html
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Instead he came out, he stated he supported the plan that failed – and that he still supports the plan that failed.He was saying that yesterday, so you've go to give him credit for sticking to his guns, I guess. Before the vote, he was taking credit for the bill: McCain camp claims credit over bailout changes
He posted a different vanity last night “McCain Has 48 Hours to Fix His Campaign.”
Is anyone getting the idea yet that McCain is wearing down and as the campaign drags on, seems to just want it to get over with? I don’t see that with him all the time, but it does seem to surface occasionally, especially lately.
He posted a similar vanity last night. He doesn’t need to post a new vanity each time his brain engages. He could have simply added this to the last one.
Listen troll, if that's indeed what you are: You can work yourself into a dither if you want. But you can take this to the bank: You will never persuade Freepers that we've lost until about a month after the game is over.
And the game is never over.
I saw Mac with the Friends, too, and am wondering if it’s too early for a cocktail.
Republican elites in the Bush cabal don’t really want to be in power, or exercise their power. They want to be liked by the liberal media establishment. What they don’t get is that being liked by the media establishment is only possible if you make them happy by accepting permanent minority party status.
The good news is that both he and his opponent are inept on this topic, which leaves us no choice but to vote on the other issues. McCain wins.
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