Posted on 09/24/2008 6:25:59 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
White House spokesman Tony Fratto said President Bush called Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama tonight around 7:30 pm. Bush and GOP presidential hopeful nominee Sen. John McCain also spoke this afternoon, and their staffs conferred afterwards, Fratto said.
The president has invited the bicameral and bipartisan leadership, and the two senators running for president, to the White House tomorrow, "to work on driving to a bipartisan and timely soultion."
Obama has agreed to attend the meeting.
"A few moments ago, President Bush called Senator Obama and asked him to attend a meeting in Washington tomorrow, which he agreed to do," Obama-Biden spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement...
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John McCain.
Sure as hell not Obama.
Obama caved. Some leadership on his part...
Obama is still clinging to wanting to debate on Friday, though.
I guess he still hasn’t learned, has he?
Should make for an interesting commercial.
A commercial is all McCain will get out of this now. Sounds like they basically already have a deal done in congress. They’ll have a big photo-op meeting on Thursday afternoon to announce the deal.
The average American will just see McCain and Obama working together.
McCain looses the benefit of risking his political career to get this bailout done.
I don’t think Bush helped McCain on this one. Sorry...
Obama priorities: “Me” first, Country last
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Should be funny watching Obama HUSSEIN walk into the WHITE HOUSE tomorrow with his Tail between his Legs and his Notorious Teleprompters under his Arms! This, hopefully, the closest The Empty-suited, Closet Radical Muslim ever gets to the WHITE HOUSE ever again!!!!!!!
But, Obama’s vicious attack on McCain will not be forgotten, nor will McCain's willingness to drop everything to fix the financial mess be forgotten, either.
I think that this will be seen as a filp-flop on Obama’s part, and that he made a big mistake in the first place by not going to DC when McCain asked him to and found a way out.
All of this equals...
Obama: Not Ready To Lead. Not Ready To Be President.
For someone who is willing to sit down and talk with our enemies without pre-conditions, Obama showed very poor judgment in not heading to Washington to begin with. He had to be shamed into it by the President calling him. His arrogance reminds me of General McClellan's snubbing of President Lincoln.
Bush let Obama off the hook, but I understand it was Mccain the requested the afternoon meeting. McCain will be back on the Job Thursday AM when will Barry drift in?
I heard the debate is still on. Flip Hussein Obama will argue with Flop Hussein Obama. Odds are on an Obama loss.
Sounds kind of like: “I actually did vote for the $87 billion dollars before I voted against it.”
Hehehe. Yes. President Bush was at his finest. The Senators were called back to Washington. After watching President Bush’s speech, he was not kidding. When the President tells you to return to DC, it’s normally best to comply.....
Obama looks like the bratty school kid that didn’t want to join in with the others and had to get called in by the principal to learn how to work better with others instead of putting himself first!
I hope President Bush will be serving his guests some lovely pork BBQ....
Just loved hearing some jackass a little while ago saying the joint statement by McCain and Obama was solely written by Obama.
There is no end to the bull coming from the msm
this could work out well for McCain...meet the prez, grill hard, get his efforts applauded for this crisis, then STILL debate on Friday and beat hussien...
it could be a winner every way possible a turn the tide of the election....
If so, they both should get their carcasses back to Washington and do the jobs we have been paying them to do until a solution is reached.
How many months has 0bama been running around -- tooting his own horn (and scarfing up $$$ from Fannie Mae)-- instead of being in the Senate, doing his job?
And now, he whines about simply delaying a debate while he gets his sorry --- back to work?
“Obama is still clinging to wanting to debate on Friday, though.”
He has been practicing all week and his tiny little brain can’t hold that much information too long.
In all seriousness, debates are more about how you appear than what you say. Personally, I would rather they not have them. Since they can’t be avoided, I wish the following would be how they are handled:
(1) NO AUDIENCE AT ALL. They just act as a distraction.
(2) NO TALKING HEADS FOR AT LEAST 24 HOURS AFTER THE DEBATES. Let the people not the media decide who won, etc. I’m so tired of pundits telling me what to think.
(3) ALL QUESTIONS BY MODERATORS SHOULD BE ASKED OF BOTH CANDIDATES AND CANDIDATES SHOULD KNOW THE QUESTIONS BEFOREHAND. MODERATOR QUESTIONS SHOULD BE VERY GENERAL. I go weary of a biased moderator steering the debate to their boy’s way by controling the questions. Asking loaded ones only to the candidate they don’t like.
(4)HALF OF ALL DEBATE QUESTIONS SHOULD BE FROM ONE CANDIDATE TO THE OTHER WITHOUT THEM HAVING PRIOR KNOWLEDGE. This would be more interesting and allow each candidate to attempt to trip up his opponent, but also reveal something of the character of the candidate by the questions he asks.
(5) AFTER THE DEBATES THE MEDIA SHOULD BE BARED FROM THEIR SO-CALLED FACT CHECKS. The tend to spin things here also. Let a candidate refute his opponents, bad facts, not the media.
(6) MEDIA SHOULD BE BANNED FROM SOUND BITE QUOTES FOR AT LEAST 24 HOURS. If they want to report on the debate, provide an exact transcript and not snippets.
That’s my short list. Any thoughts from others?
I believe the debate is going to be on the economy and it isn't to Obama's advantage to suspend the debate...
His true colors are showing...
I sure hope McCain gets air time and credit for his voluntary action on this. And I hope people remember that obviously Obama didn't feel he would be helpful, since he said he would only come if he "thought it would help."
Obama couldn't have given us a better sound bite to remember how highly he thinks of his own leadership skills.
Guess he just figured that saving the economy instead of talking to us about how great he is, is above his "pay grade."
“I believe the debate is going to be on the economy and it isn’t to Obama’s advantage to suspend the debate...”
I actually think the debate was foreign policy but I could be wrong.
However, fixing the economic crisis is not to Obama’s advantage.
“However, fixing the economic crisis is not to Obama’s advantage.”
BINGO! The DEMS don’t want this to get fixed, they want the economy to tank. They are using this to blame Bush and by association McCain.
Obama can debate himself.
Obama was against NAFTA before he was against it.
Against FISA before against it.
Pro-Palestine before he was Pre-Isreal.
Pro immediate withdrawal of troops before he wanted to delay withdrawal.
Against nuclear plants before he was for it.
The one thing that irk’d me about Obama’s remarks earlier today was describing the financial crisis as the worst since the Great Depression and then concluding with “they can call me if they need me”.
I don’t think Democratic leaders in Congress want Obama to come in and stand in front of them in the spotlight (or be pushed into it by Bush’s request for him to join the leadership tomorrow).
No you are correct. The debate is supposed to be on foreign policy which is McCain’s strong point.
is supposed to focus on foreign policy, but the candidates are likely to inject their views on the economic crisis.
“BINGO! The DEMS don’t want this to get fixed, they want the economy to tank. They are using this to blame Bush and by association McCain.”
Yep. Believe me I was ticked when I thought Bush was giving Bambi an out. But now it appears they have forced the Dems to do this instead of riding the wave to the election.
It’s funny how you always hear 0bama talk about “republicans and democrats working together”, yet he hardly has done it himself, and seems to resist working with republicans at every turn.
As much as it disgusts me at times, McCain has always worked in a bipartisan way.
Mass brainwashings tommorow.
**Obama Flip-Flops, Caves In - Will Go To DC**
LOL!
McCain truly won this, didn’t he?
What about Biden?
Yes, I have an even shorter list: No media "moderators". The candidates face each and ask each other questions. Some time limits on the answers and brief rules on rebuttal.
The less media involvement, the better.
Those self-important media dopes should just go away.
If I had to guess, I’d say there is also some political strategy by McCain here: If he and Obama go to DC, that might leave Palin and Biden out on the campaign trail. “No contest”.
Well, that little secretarial chore is the least Obama could do since he's already advertised that McCain's not as qualified to be a typist.
O got smoked. Any face saving claims from his butt boys will be laughed at.
The Obominable One wanted to stiff the economy for his own gain.
Now, he will be part of the solution and has to own it. If he complains about the fix, he complains about himself. If complains about no bipartisan fix, he owns that too.
He’s forced to govern and take responsibility for it. Rather than throw rocks at those who do.
Actually having to do something - his worst nightmare.
And the voters have a front row seat.
LOLOL.......good point. McCain is so old he can’t type, but he surely outsmarted the messiah.
“, is above his “pay grade.”
I need better glasses. I thought you said “gay parade”.
Are we going to pay for the deadbeats?? Obummer said he wanted to.
Pray for W, McCuda and Our Troops
“If McCain & Obama are there, will Biden be too? What about Sarah Palin?”
Let Biden and Palin continue to make speeches on the campaign trail.
If BIDEN really wants to help the economy, he can loan Sarah his jet, and he can rent a CHRYSLER Town&Country Van.
It has enough cup holders to accomodate the media that still ‘travel’ with him.
“If he and Obama go to DC, that might leave Palin and Biden out on the campaign trail. “
McCain asked him to go, Obama said, “Who’s gonna take your place at the debate?”
McCain said, “Sarah will. Who’s gonna take yours?”
Obama said, “uh...uh....uh..... call me if you need me, John”
Gee, I'm getting cynical. :-(
Will Uhbamuh vote “present”.
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