The thought occurred to me, that during a crisis like this during an election, the “Presidential” thing to do is to summon the nominee to the White House for a briefing on the situation and coordinate a common response from both candidates, to take the politics out of it. But of course, that thought would have never occurred to Obama.
Gee....didn’t Bush call both 0bama and McCain to brief them on the financial crisis?
Wouldn’t work to meet with the candidates and coordinate a common response. First, someone has to be in charge. You don’t want to have two or three people in charge (not sure if Obama realizes this key point of leadership). Second, what if the proposed responses from the candidates are significantly different? If Candidate A has one response that he feels is appropriate, and Candidate B is a different response to which he is equally committed, why should either espouse a different course in which he doesn’t really believe?