WE HAVE AN ECONOMIC CRISIS! And John McCain's approach to this was "Let's get to work! Let's do something!! Okay Barrack and the rest of you Democrats, what would you like me to do?"
No leadership. No ideas. No principles. McCain let the Democrats grab that issue and run with it. It was "It's the economy, stupid" all over again.
It was a setup. Treasury Secretary Paulson of Goldman Sachs was secretly working for Obama. He suddenly came out with all the calamity talk and the bailout plan that must be immediately passed, and played Bush for a sucker.
It was widely known that Paulson was in communications with Obama, Pelosi, and Reid over the plan, but that he refused to speak with McCain.
McCain was, as usual, a total idiot, without a clue what was happening. This was, in fact, the “October Surprise.” Not another supposed McCain mistress, but an economic catastrophe that was “all Bush’s fault” and that McCain was too stunned to respond to—for instance, by pointing out that Obama was hip-deep in CAUSING the catastrophe. He had a chance to do that in the debate, and he completely blew it.