[nralife]

“Bush basically just bailed him out on this issue. Now McCain will not be able to point out that he was the only one who went back to help in the crisis. McCain should ask Bush to just stay out of this election. He is not helping.”

Exactly! I can't believe this! McCain had Obama on the ropes over this and Bush just saved Obama’s arse. Stupid is as stupid does.

[gswilder]

Yea, I think Bush saved Obama on this one. Although the Fox News team thought Bush saved McCain from the limb he had gone out on.

At least Bush is out on front on this. He should have called a prime time news conference last Wednesday.

Maybe the show of non-partisanship on Thursday will be OK in the end. I doubt that Americans really want one party running congress AND the presidency.

McCain will get some good campaign lines and commercials out of this. Obama’s “I’ll show up if they need me” should make it into a commercial.

Regardless, I am very proud of McCain for taking a great political risk to do what is right. I just hope the American people understand that kind of real sacrifice when they vote on Nov 4th.

[section9]

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Obama wanted to vote "present" so he could say that "BushMcCain" voted to give Wall Street FatCats 700 Billion dollars of your money.

McCain knew this. So did Bush. They're sandbagging Obama into showing up around the Big Table so he is in on the Takeoff. .....and the Crash Landing.

Obama desperately wants to vote Present. Bush and McCain won't let him!

The price of making Obama accountable is to give him part of the credit. Once he said "call me", McCain had him.

This is just a way to make Barack just another Washington politician. Which he always was.

Best,

Chris