Maybe we should send Obama a map of Washington D.C. so he can find the Senate:
Posted on 09/24/2008 11:52:13 AM PDT by Qwackertoo
Edited on 09/24/2008 12:11:21 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
John McCain announced that he will suspend his presidential campaign on Thursday to return to Washington to help with bailout negotiations. He urged his opponent Barack Obama to do the same.
The Arizona senator also asked the Presidential Debate Commission to postpone Friday’s scheduled debate with Obama so that he can work on the financial crisis bailout plan now on Capitol Hill.
“America this week faces an historic crisis in our financial system. We must pass legislation to address this crisis. If we do not, credit will dry up, with devastating consequences for our economy. People will no longer be able to buy homes and their life savings will be at stake. Businesses will not have enough money to pay their employees. If we do not act, ever corner of our country will be impacted. We cannot allow this to happen,” McCain said.
Here is Senator John McCain’s office number: (602)952-2410
The receptionist will tell you that Senator McCain does not discuss how he intends to vote, or if he intends to vote on the issue.
Tell him you want him to VOTE.
Yes or No, but VOTE.
Dear Senator McCain:
Don’t be like Obama and just vote “Present” or not at all.
Senator McCain, show us your leadership ability by taking a principled stand, and VOTE your convictions!
That’s what a leader does.
The country will follow.
lol...good one!
Over at the DUmp, they actually believe McCain did this because he is scared to debate Obama. Wow.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3508550
Good move...let’s put Obama’s vote on record!
THE BOTTOM LINE...what #91 said
What the heck are you talking about?
Take your head out of the sand!
Thanks, I couldn't remember his name.
Still waiting for Barry to respond. Tick, tick, tick. It took less time for President Bush to respond on 9/11.
What is the use of campaigning when the state of the nations current situation makes a stop in Dubuque look trivial.
Since all eyes are on Washington you might as well be there.
However if he uses the time to take after Chris Cox and not speak to the problem he will lose the election.
Just a thought!
Obama and Biden are members of the Senate. Obama saying "I'm running for the highest office in the land" is not good enough. He is paid to be a Senator and this isn't just a garden-variety sewage treatment plant bill. These are serious times and SENATOR Obama should be doing his job, not merely "letting the Senate do what it's supposed to do". He sould be doing what HE's supposed to do.
Maybe we should send Obama a map of Washington D.C. so he can find the Senate:
Obama is whining that Friday’s debate must go on.
Who complains when debates are cancelled?
The guy who’s behind!
This is the right move for McCain.
He’s wanting to renegotiate from scratch.
Don’t be surprised if McCain comes in and takes the leadership role on the Republican side.
0bama will have to do the same or look small and marginalized.
And if 0bama does try to step in on the Democrat side as McCain has, he will step all over Schumer, Frank, and Dodd, and expose just how out of his league he is.
If the Democrats try to block McCain from getting into the bipartisan leadership meetings, then Mitch McConnell must step aside and the Senate Republicans must immediately install senator McCain as the GOP senate leader.
And lose!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Say McCain does’t do this. Say the bill doesn’t pass (which it shouldn’t, but that is another story altogether). Say the stock market drops 10% on Monday morning. All week long CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NYT, etc, will be running pieces about how McCain fiddled while Rome burned. Of course, Obama would have been just as guilty, but you never would have heard about it.
Keats whats shaken?
True to Form, Barack Obama Waits for McCain’s Reaction, *Then* Comes Up With a Position
On Thursday, freshman Senator Barack Obama promised that he would be unveiling “new proposals” for dealing with the mortgage crisis at a Friday campaign stop in Florida.
On Friday, Obama reneged [Ed.- Somebody call CNN and check if that word is still OK to use] on that promise, instead saying that this was “not the time to present specific details for how to fix the immediate problem” — because, clearly, the height of a crisis, during the last two weeks that Congress will be in session for the rest of the year, is the wrong time to propose solutions.
That night, the administration sent its proposed legislation to Congress, for those still showing up to work to consider.
On Saturday, John McCain released a statement tentatively opposing the bailout and encouraging Congress and the administration to consider his own proposal for preventing similar crises in the future. At the same time, the L.A. Times accused Obama of “voting present” on the bailout, as the freshman Senator maintained his silence and watched his opponent for guidance.
Today, after taking a day to wet his finger and put it in the wind (and to watch his grown-up opponent for what to do), Obama came out guns a-blazin’ (figuratively, of course; we all know Barack Obama doesn’t own any guns, and doesn’t want you to either) and “assailed” the plan, to use the AFP’s word.
The Bush administration has “only offered a concept with a staggering price tag, not a plan,” Obama declared at a Charlotte, NC rally (conveniently ignoring the fact that he has offered neither, instead backing off his promise of a “plan” with the excuse that it was “not the time” to present one).
“We have to come together, as Democrats and Republicans, to pass a stimulus plan that will put money in the pockets of working families, save jobs, and prevent painful budget cuts and tax hikes in our states,” said the post-partisan Obama, just before launching his usual, partisan attack on his opponent, whom he accused of wanting to “keep going down the same, disastrous path.”
Of course, his opponent has, as mentioned above, actually made a proposal to alter that path; but then again, when have accuracy or attention to detail been a strong suit (or any type of suit) of Obama’s?
As always, Barack Obama takes the easiest (and lowest) road. From having his political opponents removed from the ballot so that he could run unopposed (or the next closest thing to it), to repeatedly voting “present” on legislation, to, in this race, waiting for John McCain to take a position on an issue before making up his own mind on it, then coming out firing at McCain (rather than actually talking about his own position on, and proposed solution to, the issues), Obama’s career has been marked by cop-outs, relationships of convenience with very disreputable figures, and machine-politics-as-usual attacks.
This situation is no different. Obama is allowing the President, the rest of the Congress, and his own opponent in the presidential race to take all of the risk and make all of the statements, while he sits up straight on his highest of horses and tells them all that they’re going about fixing the problem the wrong way.
Anybody can sit back and tell the folks actually coming up with ideas, be they good or bad, that they are wrong. It actually takes brains and a certain amount of risk to conceive an idea and put it before the public.
And Barack Obama, freshman Democrat Senator from Illinois, former State Senator who voted present over 100 times in seven years (and tried to change his vote ex post facto on even more than that), and former community organizer who was utterly unable to organize his community or to describe what a “community organizer” does?
Well, he wouldn’t know anything about that.
Hear Hear!
Another smart angle of postponing this debate. McCain knows he can absolutely destroy this idiot in a debate. We’ve seen Obama without the teleprompter. McCain’s seen him. McCain knows he has no original thought. He also knows he has no chance against the mainstream media, which the flake (15-20%) voters watch because they don’t know any better.
The angle is, the MSM is going to go out and rip McCain for dodging Obama.. For being afraid to debate Obama.. How Obama is so much this and that above McCain.. Well,.. let the flakes soak that up and raise the bar for Hussein and when the real debate happens, the flakes will finally see Obama to be the fool that he is.
>>All senators should be back at their posts in Washington.
That leaves Sarah out there alone.<<
Too bad Biden can’t continue to “help” Obama in the meantime....
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