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McCain Suspends Campaign to Help With Bailout
FoxNews ^ | 9/24/08 | Sharon Kehnemui Liss, FOXNews.com

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]

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To: toomanygrasshoppers

A 527 group should put out an ad, something to the effect of...

At 3am, when that phone rings, do you want a president who will issue a press release, or one who will lead?


681 posted on 09/24/2008 1:09:40 PM PDT by Brytani (Abortion does not make you a real woman - it makes you a murderer)
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To: Onerom99
Politically targeting the people that caused it? Great, I'd love to also, but that's not going to fix this disaster!!

If the truth gets out that should happen (targeting) in November. This is a bad issue for Democrats.

682 posted on 09/24/2008 1:09:50 PM PDT by TruthWillWin
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To: steve-b

I wouldn’t bail out anyone. Bad business has caught up with many and they need to pay for it . Stop loaning money to people who have NO WAY of paying you back. A damn kid knows that much.


683 posted on 09/24/2008 1:10:04 PM PDT by sonic109
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To: roses of sharon; All

I rather have McCain in office rather than Hussein so I can wait for a “true” conservative.. Country first..


684 posted on 09/24/2008 1:10:13 PM PDT by KevinDavis (McCain/Palin 08 Palin/Jindal 12)
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To: Cedric
The Dems will now try to drag this thing out.

Let them. Their members are anxious to get home. The longer they are in DC, the more time for GOP challengers to attack, attack, attack.

A central thesis to the McCain candidacy is that he can get things accomplished across bipartisan lines. Essentially he is assuming the mantle of presidential leadership.

Another point: McCain has gotten inside BO's head and rattled him again. BO has done all this cramming on foreign policy for Friday, perhaps for naught. Additionally, the global economic implications of foreign policy are now guaranteed to enter the Friday debate, which further escalates BO's learning curve. He's cramming for an exam for which McCain is continuing to raise the stakes.

685 posted on 09/24/2008 1:10:38 PM PDT by mwl8787
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To: kabar
McCain should send Gov. Palin on Friday and have her state this on the first question asked of her.

“Sen. McCain, while excited to discuss his years of experience and future ideas for US foreign policy, and while also recognizing the great importance of this topic and how it pertains to the future of our great country, feels that tonight is not the night for a debate on the subject. He is hard at work in Washington, trying to ensure that every citizen of the United States can go to sleep tonight knowing that Sen. John McCain is doing everything in his power to get this economy back on track. Sen. McCain, as he has done many times previous, extends yet again an offer to Sen. Obama for a weekly townhall meeting, at locations all over the country, on every and any topic, beginning next Friday. Thank you, and God Bless America.”

/exit stage left/

686 posted on 09/24/2008 1:10:47 PM PDT by Carling (I'm a Typical White Person)
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To: roses of sharon

Yes, these trolls are getting really old. They think they’re sneaky!


687 posted on 09/24/2008 1:10:57 PM PDT by KansasGirl (READ MY LIPSTICK!!!)
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To: jacquej; All

Found the entire text, and it seems so appropriate to this day. A link is included below for those of you too young to have heard these wonderful old hymns in church.

Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side;
Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight,
And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.

Then to side with truth is noble, when we share her wretched crust,
Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and ’tis prosperous to be just;
Then it is the brave man chooses while the coward stands aside,
Till the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.

By the light of burning martyrs, Christ, Thy bleeding feet we track,
Toiling up new Calv’ries ever with the cross that turns not back;
New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth,
They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

Though the cause of evil prosper, yet the truth alone is strong;
Though her portion be the scaffold, and upon the throne be wrong;
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own.

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/o/n/oncetoev.htm


688 posted on 09/24/2008 1:11:13 PM PDT by jacquej
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To: rollo tomasi

0bama was surging in what polls? Are you talking about the outlier polls by abc and fox news today? These polls don’t line up with Rasmussen and others who continue to show the race at a virtual tie.


689 posted on 09/24/2008 1:11:26 PM PDT by jim35 ("...when the lion and the lamb lie down together, ...we'd better damn sure be the lion")
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To: Brytani

He just scored and threw the ball to Obama and challenged him to top that. He just took that 3:AM phone call and made it look like he had to call Obama and tell him what needed to be done. He made it look like Obama can’t recognize a problem and know when to act. I hope it resonates with the American people. Talk about a risk taker! McCain still has a lot of the young daring John McCain left in him. I’d say he has gotten better over the years. This is a man America can trust. He is even showing he is ready to take the reins from George Bush.


690 posted on 09/24/2008 1:11:50 PM PDT by beckysueb (Drill here! Drill now!)
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To: steve-b
1. Obama privately raised the possibility of suspending campaigns for the next few days.

The word is that Obama raised the possibility of working together to get a bailout bill. McCain went one step further with the campaign suspension.

691 posted on 09/24/2008 1:11:52 PM PDT by CedarDave (Gloom and doom Democrats cheer for financial despair, losing wars and hurricanes. That's leadership!)
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To: kjam22
McCain speaking from the floor of the Senate and being shown on the news will play good.

Do you really think the MSM will show video of this? Fat chance...

692 posted on 09/24/2008 1:11:56 PM PDT by Carling (I'm a Typical White Person)
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To: tioga
this is silly, if there is a debate in the Senate on this economic crisis, both obama and mccain should be THERE participating in this....they ARE senators, they can leave a decision on the debate till friday morning........we all might want a break for the debate by then, or they may have solved the financial crisis....or be well on their way.....but why does’t obama want to go back to the senate chambers and work on this?

Because Obama is an idiot who doesn't understand what's going on here. The guy (and his campaign) are so focused on their schedule, and perceived opportunities, that they appear to have missed the entire point of "leadership."

McCain has shown something of himself that I think will resonate with people. "Oh.... so THIS is what a statesman looks like. "

693 posted on 09/24/2008 1:11:58 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: Plutarch

The same INTRADE who had Romney at 80% the day before the VP announcement?

Or the one that had Bush at 15% on election late afternoon 2004?


694 posted on 09/24/2008 1:11:58 PM PDT by Wilder Effect
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To: toomanygrasshoppers

And ya wanna bet he gets bi-partisan cooperation (with Leiberman’s backroom help)?

{Hello, independent and “moderate” voters!}


695 posted on 09/24/2008 1:12:03 PM PDT by Cedric
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To: steve-b

fanning flames of panic?

like jack welch and warren buffet?


696 posted on 09/24/2008 1:12:24 PM PDT by sanchmo
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To: roses of sharon

This thread needs a can of heavy-duty Troll-Be-Gone.


697 posted on 09/24/2008 1:12:37 PM PDT by mplsconservative
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To: Thane_Banquo

//He is also forcing 0bama’s hand to put a vote on the record on this issue, thus making it impossible for Zero to use it as a campaign issue//

What you said.


698 posted on 09/24/2008 1:12:48 PM PDT by valkyry1 (McCain/Palin 2008)
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To: T. Jefferson

People have short memories. For seven years, McCain has the biggest thorn in the republican party’s side legislatively. He will return as the head cheerleader in presenting the democrat’s bill, which will be a financial disaster. No bill is always better than a dem bill.


699 posted on 09/24/2008 1:13:23 PM PDT by T. Jefferson
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To: jim35

I was thinking the same thing! fake one up 6-9 points? False.


700 posted on 09/24/2008 1:13:27 PM PDT by NoGrayZone (Michelle Obama...Queen of the Damned (courtesy of CougarGA7))
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