BREAKING: McCain will attend debate

cnn ^ | September 25, 2008

[Fox_Mulder77]

(CNN) — John McCain will attend the first presidential debate in Oxford, Mississippi, a senior campaign aide tells CNN.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

Okay the debate is on. How many nano seconds after the debate will the MSM declare Obama the clear victor no matter how bad he does?

[trisham]

On thing he has been doing this is successfully keeping Obama on the defensive and off guard. McCain is controlling the timeline.

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Agreed. Good for McCain.

[Aquinasfan]

Why? If there’s nothing to do in Washington tonight, why shouldn’t he go?

The public perception is that we are in the midst of a crisis. By his own account, McCain was needed in Washington to do his job. And as far as I remember, he said that he was not going to go to the debate.

So here we are now, a week after McCain's announcement, apparently no closer to a resolution of this crisis. Yet now he thinks it's a good idea to go to the debate? What happened to the crisis?

John had to know that the Democrats would drag out a resolution indefinitely, but he should have postponed the re-commissioning of his campaign until early next week, after skipping the first debate.

[1Old Pro]

McCain won the looking presidiential chess match all while pulling omama along behind him like a puppydog.

McCain can point out he was bipartisan and solved the crisis all while omama whined.

[LS]

That means my appearance scheduled for "Hannity's America" Sunday night is almost certainly killed, as they said if the debate happened they would air debate crap. Bah!

That cost me a few grand.

[Scythian]

PALIN 2012 - We must not let Obama have a 2nd Term

[ruschpa]

While it’s probably a good idea to do the debate... someone in the campaign really screwed up and misjudged the situation in Congress. It seems to me they blinked... played ‘chicken’ with the situation and lost.

[VanDeKoik]

McCain isnt a FR poll smoker, and doesn’t make his moves based on the same sissy emotional roller coaster too many people here are on.

[mhx]

Okay the debate is on. How many nano seconds after the debate will the MSM declare Obama the clear victor no matter how bad he does?

After?

[COUNTrecount]

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

I’m in a real bad mood today, so this is going to come across a lot harsher than I usually let myself post.

But what a bunch of freaking whiny crybabies on this site lacking even a modicum of political sense!

McCain says, “We need to deal with this issue, I am stopping my campaign and would like to push the debate back. I ask for Senator Obama to join me in this.”

Obama says, “No, a President should be able to multi-task.”

McCain goes to Washington, is seen in the press all day working on the deal. The deal isn’t done, but since Obama refused to agree to postpone the debate, McCain hops down to Mississippi to debate him.

With the above situation we have people saying “He caved!”, “It backfired!”.

When they get to the debate tonight, and an economic deal still isn’t finished, people will say “Why are they debating when they should be coming up with a solution?”

and the only answer they can come up with?

Because Obama said “No” to postponing the debate.

Now who looks “political”?

[RC2]

Obama went to the gym because he doesn’t care about this country. He only cares about himself. But then again.....people in Congress probably told him he wasn’t needed......go away.

[mnehring]

Obama must not have a first term.

[Katya]

exactly...McCain’s controlled the dynamic and the news at this point. He gave the house republicans their due and allowed their grievances to be COUNTED!

HUGE viewership for tonight..woot!

[j_k_l]

"We must not let Obama have a 2nd Term"

Don't you have to have a 1st term before you have a 2nd term?

[mwl8787]

NO, McCain never said that he would not go to the debate. He requested that it be postponed. His statement speaks for itself.

You are peddling RAT/MSM nonsense.

[dfwgator]

McCain just saved his campaign.

[redk]

This is so not good.

I was feeling good about things until now.

[LegalEagle61]

Let's hope Dick is right on this, it seems he IS on to something here...(I usually don't agree with Dick, but I think he may be right here)

THE BRILLIANCE OF MCCAIN'S MOVE

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN

Published on DickMorris.com on September 26, 2008

McCain has transformed a minority in both houses of Congress and a losing position in the polls into the key role in the bailout package, the main man around whom the final package will take shape. He arrived in Washington to find the Democrats working with the Bush Administration to pass an unpopular $700 billion bailout. The Democrats had already cut their deal with Bush. The Dems agreed to the price tag while Bush agreed to special aid to families facing foreclosure, equity for the taxpayers, and limits on executive compensation. But no sooner had McCain arrived than he derailed the deal.

Knowing how unpopular the bailout is with the American people, the Democrats are not about to pass anything without broad Republican support even though their majorities permit them to act alone. Instead of signing on with the Democratic/Bush package, the House Republicans are insisting on replacing the purchase of corporate debt with loans to companies and insurance paid for by the companies, not by the taxpayers. That, of course, is a popular position. McCain would be comfortable to debate this issue division all day. And, if the Dems don't cave into the Republican position, that's probably exactly what he'll do on Friday night's scheduled debate in Mississippi.

But the Democrats are not about to be stubborn. They know their package is a lemon and need the political cover of Republican support. So the Republicans can write their own ticket -- and they will. John McCain will be at the center of the emerging compromise while Obama is out on the campaign trail kissing babies. If the deal is cut before Friday's debate, my bet is that McCain shows up in triumph. If it isn't, he shows up anyway and flagellates Obama over the differences between the Democratic package and McCain's.

By Monday, at the latest, the Democrats have to cave in and pass the Republican version. They don't dare pass their own without GOP support, so they will have to cave in to the Republican version.

Then McCain comes out of the process as the hero who made it happen when the president couldn't and Obama wouldn't. He becomes the bailout expert.

And, of course, the bailout will work. With the feds standing behind the bad debt, whether by purchase or loans and insurance, Wall Street will breathe a sigh of relief. Bears won't dare bet against the economy with the entire weight of the federal government on the other side. They may be bears but they are not rabid.

Finally, McCain, as the reigning expert on bailouts, then can take the tax issue to Obama, saying that a tax increase, such as the Democrat is pushing, would destroy the bailout, ruin the economy, and trigger a collapse.

This bold move by McCain is about to work. Big time.

[1Old Pro]

omama is a whiner and McCain came out looking Presidential.

IF, as I expect, McCain smokes omama tonight then the stage will be set for a landslide election win for McCain Palin.