Posted on 09/24/2008 11:20:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Democrats had dared Sen. John McCain to show leadership on the Wall Street crisis and he stepped up. He put his campaign on hold Wednesday and challenged Sen. Barack Obama to postpone Friday's debate, which Democrats had hoped to turn into a forum on failed Republican economic policies.
Less than a month after he canceled the first night of the Republican National Convention, Mr. McCain again flashed his signature maverick style, declaring President Bush's proposed $700 billion bailout dead and, as he's done so often in the past, said he could help broker a bipartisan deal to cut through the political clutter.
Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama refused to cancel the debate, but Wednesday night accepted an invitation from President Bush to a bipartisan summit on the economic bailout package that also will include Mr. McCain and other top members of Congress and the administration.
In rejecting Mr. McCain's debate postponement, Mr. Obama said the Republican showed his own limits rather than real leadership.
"It is going to be part of the president's job to deal with more than one thing at once," Mr. Obama told reporters in Florida. "If it turns out that we need to be in Washington, we've both got big planes - we've painted our slogans on the side of them - they can get us from Washington, D.C., to Mississippi fairly quickly."
Mr. Obama's campaign said he called Mr. McCain at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, proposing a joint statement on the economic situation. The two men again spoke privately at 2:30 p.m., but minutes later, Mr. McCain then went much further and told reporters that he wanted to postpone all politicking.
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Barack 0bama been bamboozled.
Small point, but I read elsewhere they did not actually speak at 8:30 a.m. Mr. Obama made a call to Mr. McCain, but the latter was busy and the former did not leave a message.
Dingy Harry told McCain not to come back to Washington. If Dingy Harry doesn’t like it it must be the right decision.
(And since I couldn't be bothered doing any real work, I won't let this disrupt my schedule.)
What a flippant jerk!
Guess Obama forgot he has to be in the Senate to vote present.
pompous Jerk
The truth of the matter is that Obama doesn’t want to be seen by media in Washington sitting there like a confused dummy, not knowing what the real men are talking about.
He’ll be ambushed by media in the hallways and forced to say something, exposing himself for the know nothing fraud he is.
You’ve hit the nail on the head, however the media will do everything, including making up “genius” answers from Obama on the crisis.
Obama could sit the entire debate out, make no recommendations for the bill except for 1 million dollar earmark for ACORN, go to McDonald’s with his kids for the duration and the media will still claim “Obama saves the economy!!”
The push needs to be for a vote Firday night...just around the time of the debate. Leaving zero with his thumb up his ass
This call-if-you-need-me attitude is not why Obama gets a senator’s paycheck. He apparently doesn’t recognize a crisis when he sees one.
McCain is on BO’s tail with the Sarah on his Wing.
Mac will be pulling the trigger on the 30mm’s shortly.
The BO-plane is soon slowly arcing to the ground.
The End!
Leaders don’t say call me when you need me.
They say I’ll call you when I need you.
This will probably catch a lot play over the next 6 weeks.
I’m so sick of that G-d d@mn word “maverick”. We seem to forget that in the days of cattle herders a maverick was a cow or calf that would not stay with the herd, causing all kinds of headaches for the herders. I’m sure more than a few of them were consumed at dinner time to prevent this type of behavior from continuing.
Great response! Can I steal it?
Sure. Take it.
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