Your bumper sticker is in the mail.
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.
Fair Enough.
Same here. Saw the interview before I left to walk the dog and that routine task had more excitement than the interview. I kept waiting for McCain to make some suggestions and then he said he was for increasing the FDIC cap from $100,000 to $250,000 that Obama had already proposed. A totally worthless interview, IMO.
Here are some suggestions Newt made on Greta last night. The President can do some of these himself without the Congress. They deserve to be discussed if nothing else. Instead we get arm waving. Bah!
Gingrich's four-point plan includes:
(1) suspending immediately mark to market provisions (the accounting practice of valuing a financial position in an investment at its current market price) in the hopes of stopping the downward spiral in asset values and eventually replacing it with a three year rolling average;
(2) repealing immediately Sarbanes-Oxley, the 2002 accounting law Gingrich described as "an enormous drag on small business";
(3) setting the capital gains tax rate at zero "matching the Chinese and Singapore" (to encourage private capital to flood into the market picking up properties without the taxpayers being at risk); and
(4) passing an "extraordinarily powerful" energy bill ("to return $500 billion a year to the American economy that are currently going overseas").
‘This is up to McCain and Palin and GOTV and of course our votes.
As a huge optimist for McCain/Palin I say this, he needs to fight with every inch.”
I’m with you. I’m not ready to throw McCain/Palin under the bus. They both need to start punching back and I think we’ll see this Thursday night. I think Sarah Palin will be back in full force.
The idea of Obama as Commander in Chief scares the **** out of me while my loved ones are sitting in Iraq. We’ve all got to work to GOTV.
When did we start posting every fleeting thought as a thread?
Good insight Mw, hopefully McCain has a plan here.
I see....Thanks...
Although I ribbed Brian’s assessment too, he isn’t a troll, probably just hasn’t had his coffee yet.
I just had good news from a friend on another board, Nascar of all things, that she has two friends who said they were scared of O but would vote for him anyway because they didn’t want “4 more years of Bush” She gave them some info I had provided her on the real O and they said OMG we didn’t know that!! Now we have two more votes for McCain.
It’s the “troll” comments we can do without.
>> I’m no huge McCain fan, but the good people must close ranks behind him.
Clearly you’re articulate and you have something to say and are inclined to support your position.
Puzzling, because you didn’t put those formidable skills to work on this thread. Your post #2 consisted of two things only: a) name calling and b) a demand that the powers that be silence the viewpoint you don’t like. That’s so... liberal.
So next time, how about adding to the discussion rather than demanding with no justification that the opposing viewpoint be “taken down”?
FRegards
At the Corner NRO today, they said in 1992, Bush 1 was down much farther to Clinton at this point, but was able to inch away to even in the tracking polls due to Quayle and others ripping Clinton on taxes. It worked even though Bush raised taxes.
But then before the vote, Casper Weinberger was indicted by a DEM special Prosecutor, and Bush tanked.
Fair enough. Newbie mistake,
the idea that Republicans voted against the bill because Nancy Pelosi insulted them is PATHETIC. I would NEVER vote for a congressman who was that petty.
Not saying that I support the bill-—although I don’t see it as bad as some others do. Many of the mortgages will be bought at less than 50% of their value, and can be saved with restructuring and a better interest rate. The money will come back into the system. In fact, many economists are saying that it could be a net profit, although in the short term it is a MASSIVE hit.
Of course we all want McCain to win but God helps those who help themselves.
McCain has been asleep since Friday night and refuses to add anything new to the dialogue. His apparent determination to stand by the failed bill with no enhancements is political disaster.
Cindy McCain probably took a good hit yesterday from her beer distributor empire. I notice many of FOXNEWS peole are upset about the failure of bailout as well. Many are deeply into 401k’s and many are heavily invested in the stock market (O’Reilly and Cavuto were really depressed).
People on bulletin boards tend to be “instant gratifiers”. The truth is that this whole gridlock thing and Obamas connections to the mortgage mess plays right into the McCain/Palin platform.
McCain has to stick with “country first” and choose his battles very wisely, or he is at risk of losing the war.
Yes tick, My mistake.
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Why are there so many Freepers so worried about membership dates?
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