Posted on 09/24/2008 1:16:19 PM PDT by HAL9000
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Aiming to prove how serious he is about addressing the financial crisis, John McCain has instructed his staff to take all his campaign commercials off the air, a spokesman tells Politico.~ snip ~
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And here's the funny/sad part:
What in the world would Obambi do even if he went to Washington?
He's a total nothing-burger as a Senator. He has no experience. No clout. No connections. The big boys would push him aside and tell him to shut up or they'll eat his lunch.
They won't want him out there messing up the game of the professionals just because he's running a loser campaign president.
They know they'll be there (in Washington) long after "Obambi for Prez" is on the ash-heap of history.
So McCain (and, I hope, Palin) will go to Washington and do real work while the rest of us are watching funny videos of Obambi trying to remember where the restroom in the back-forty of the Hart Senate Office Building.
I'm from Illinois & believe me, I DID NOT elect this piece of camel crap! Repubs are outnumbered in Il. and it is the most corrupt state in the U.S.
Well, "my comments" is down, so I can't find the link. But you get the idea.
Gotta take issue with that part of your post, Jag. I believe his party will do everything they can to try and make Obama the Spiritual Faith Healer appear decisive and Presidential.
Sigh.
“He’s a total nothing-burger as a Senator. He has no experience. No clout. No connections. “
True but he did vote “Present” :)99% of the time. Oh, except that one time he told his liberals pals that he meant to vote no but accidentally voted yes.
I don’t want this fool anywhere near that red button.
Exactly. Make no mistake: McCain is *still* campaigning. Only now, it’s with his actions and not his words.
Man, no offense, but I’m glad I’m not you!
Look, you obviously wish to keep the hard partisan world view, and that’s fine if it works for you. However, in spite of what the talk radio PINHEADS, and yes they are absolutely PINHEADS are regurgitating on this mess, this mess is beyond on party, and attempting to convince middle america that the multi trillion dollar credit crunch is simply because of the CRA, Fauxbama’s 100k in campaign donations from Freddie and Fannie, etc etc etc, may make for entertaining radio, but it just ain’t factually true.
The right “markets are gods” partisans trying to lay the entire thing on government are idiots. This mess was created by greed, pure unadulterated GREED! Regulatory changes here and there may have influenced things, but hardly were they any root cause. This blaming it on CRA and such is nonsense.
Unfettered capitalism breeds corruption. It’s as true today as it was when Teddy Roosevelt said it, and it’ll be true 100 years from now too.
Markets aren’t gods, Governments aren’t gods, and anyone out there arguing that either of those things are are grade a, center cut, MORONS!
You want to lay blame for this mess, you lay it right at the feet of the laws that created FDMA and FDMC to begin with, let alone the FHLB (another similiar system, that most folks even those up on capital hill I bet couldn’t tell you what that last one is) Where “private companies” are set up to take all the benefit, but the government is set up to assume all the risk! However even that alone is not the cause of this mess! Its part of why we are having to bail it out!! But its not the cause of the mess in the first place.
The cause was pure and simple greed, unfettered greed, and corruption within the government by those who were supposed to be regulating these markets turning their heads as long as they got their cut of the spoils. The SEC completely failed in its mandate, CONGRESS completely failed, the FED completely failed... Though honestly at the end of the day the FED ITSELF SHOULD NOT EVEN EXIST! Its very existance allows such nonsense to occur.
The corruption around the financial problem crosses party lines, and playing tit for tat on that is not going to sway americans who are sick and tired of the crap. THey know what’s going on, and they know its bigger than one political party, its a system that’s fundamentally failing them.
Leadership isn’t about playing the blame game, not when things are in crisis, leadership is about recognizing the issue and working to solve it. Finding and prosecuting the culprits waits until after the issue is dealt with. Until then its a pointless distraction that serves NO ONES best interest. This is a core difference between leadership and partisanship. A partisan just wants to blame the other guy and protect his arse, a leader wants the issue dealt with, and will deal with blame when the crisis is over.
McCain is once again showing LEADERSHIP, something Fauxbama has none of, and calling him on it. You partisans are free to keep screaming about fault, and play tit for tat, and I’m sure the talk radio pinheads will gladly play along with you.. in the mean time the serious folks will be taking care of business.
I hope he’s right.
Good point. Show that Sarah CAN CAPABLY FILL IN. Do it John: Offer Sarah to debate The One or Joe the Windbag.
COUNTRY FIRST. THIS IS THE 3AM CALL AND McCAIN HAS ANSWERED IT, BO HAS NOT.
There’s nothing stopping we the people from “running” McCain’s ads.
Get links from his website (I’m assuming the website will still archive those) and send ads to people on your email list, with a little note that McCain is in Washington putting country first, so we’re taking up the slack.
>> This is BAD news.
Setting aside 3 days from the next six weeks of campaigning is not going to significantly impact McCain’s standing. Lucky for the Libs they’ll get a break, can’t say the same for the rest of us.
Amen!
Wow! You nailed it...good for McCain.
WHAT has he done in Washington? NOTHING! Just like he did in Illinois!
I pray people realize he is a piece of merchandise that the Rat party put up for sale & has nothing to offer but HATRED~!
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