Will Obummer suspend his campaign "to do the work of the people"??
“The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people…and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit!” -Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
Good leadership move on McStains part: Nobama will be reacting to him, now.
“The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people…and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit!” -Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
I think McKooK has put another hole in Obummers Titanic.
The MSM Orchestra is still playing on the poop-deck....
“The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people…and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit!” -Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
How does McKook go from saying "the economy is fundamentally sound" to this in a little over a week?
Politics....
One of McKooKs handlers is using this to derail Obummer. Lets see if Obummer is smart enough to thwart McKooK or if he has to follow the leader.
Mind you, Biden and Obama cannot agree on many things in public, not good. Someone at the top needs to tell them flat out, stop running your mouths as if this was a company picnic.
Obama is NOT a poker player, you can see him sweat. I suspect McStain played his share of poker in the Navy.
“The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people…and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit!” -Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
As you say, politics, played well, with Obama left sucking his thumb.
Obama had a shot, to show command, leadership, a take charge response, even if superficial, would have been beneficial, and use his senatorial access to put some money where his mouth is, and IMO, blew it.
McCain charges ahead while the TV's focus on shit like Troopergate and the like, Palin visits the UN, and the Dems are left foundering trapped aboard the SS Obama.
Brilliant politicking. Gotta hand it to them. And the hiIQ dems seemed doomed again. Events are pulling the rug out from under their campaign.
Will Obummer suspend his campaign "to do the work of the people"??
Obama's two years in the Senate were nothing but a 730 day-long ad for his Presidential campaign, so why bother?
Mad Dog won't accomplish any of the "work of the people" either, but his handlers seem to be smarter than Obummer's. They try hard to make him at least look relevant and productive even though he isn't.
FReeper, sure. Never hidden it. LP? Banned. Go figger.
You can take it as spin if you want, but it's my observation, FWIW.
You sound like a DU'er, so touchy and sensitive that any hint of sunlight or cold water or god forbid, reality, caresses the epidermis of the one, last, true hope for America. HAHAHA!
How does somebody who opposes the war in Iraq and doesn't think that the sun shines out of George Bush's ass survive beyond the first two or three posts at FR?
Wednesday: John McCain announces he is suspending his presidential campaign to return to Washington to help work out legislation to bail out Wall Street (FNC).
John McCain announced that he will suspend his presidential campaign on Thursday to return to Washington to help with Wall Street bailout negotiations. He urged his opponent Barack Obama to do the same.
The Arizona senator also asked the Presidential Debate Commission to postpone Friday’s scheduled debate with Obama so that he can work on the financial crisis bailout plan now on Capitol Hill.
“America this week faces an historic crisis in our financial system. We must pass legislation to address this crisis. If we do not, credit will dry up, with devastating consequences for our economy. People will no longer be able to buy homes and their life savings will be at stake. Businesses will not have enough money to pay their employees. If we do not act, ever corner of our country will be impacted. We cannot allow this to happen,” McCain said in remarks to reporters from New York.
A senior Obama campaign official told FOX News that Obama still plans to go forward with Friday’s debate. Obama is expected to issue a statement shortly.
McCain said he will leave the campaign trail after delivering an address to former President Clinton’s Global Initiative on Thursday morning. He canceled a Wednesday afternoon taping of The Late Show With David Letterman show and a Thursday interview with FOX News.
McCain’s move suggests he’s serious about dealing with the bailout since he had negotiated strongly to make the first of the three debates between the candidates on foreign policy, McCain’s strong suit. The first debate had been set for Friday at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.
However, McCain has fallen in recent polls — largely attributable to the economic crisis — and the move immediately was viewed by rival political analysts as opportunistic and a chance to stem the free fall. The latest FOX News/Opinion Dynamics poll shows Obama has taken a 45-39 percent lead over McCain, in large part because of independent voters. A Washington Post poll also showed that most voters think Obama has a better approach to dealing with the economy than McCain.
Within minutes of McCain’s statement, Obama’s campaign issued its own statement suggesting that the idea to work together came from that camp. [Upon which McCain said, did not, and Obama said did too, and then John threw a mud clod and Barry said, oh yeah? I'm telling your mom, and then === ]
“At 8:30 this morning, Senator Obama called Senator McCain to ask him if he would join in issuing a joint statement outlining their shared principles and conditions for the Treasury proposal and urging Congress and the White House to act in a bipartisan manner to pass such a proposal,” spokesman Bill Burton said.
“At 2:30 this afternoon, Senator McCain returned Senator Obama’s call and agreed to join him in issuing such a statement. The two campaigns are currently working together on the details,” Burton continued.
McCain adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer said that McCain is just following his belief in putting the country first. She noted that he suspended the Republican National Convention when Hurricane Gustav hit the Gulf Coast and in defending the troop surge has said that he would rather win the war than win an election.
“We all watched the (Senate) hearings yesterday. … The bottom line is he did not think we would reach a conclusion and it’s absolutely imperative that we do so. This is vintage John McCain. He is going to put the country first and suspend the campaign,” she told FOX News.
In his remarks to reporters, McCain said he did not think the Bush administration’s $700 billion bailout plan, being shepherded by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, adequately addresses the crisis at hand.
“It has become clear that no consensus has developed to support the administration’s proposal. I do not believe that the plan on the table will pass as it currently stands, and we are running out of time,” he said.
In announcing McCain’s expected return, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Republicans want to see included in the president’s bill limited executive compensation, debt reduction, congressional oversight taxpayer protections.
McCain announced his decision shortly after the White House said President Bush will deliver an address to the nation Wednesday night. McCain called on Bush to convene a meeting of congressional leadership, in both chambers and parties, including him and Obama.
“It is time for both parties to come together to solve this problem,” he said.
“I am confident that before the markets open on Monday we can achieve consensus on legislation that will stabilize our financial markets, protect taxpayers and homeowners, and earn the confidence of the American people. All we must do to achieve this is temporarily set politics aside, and I am committed to doing so.”
“Obviously we appreciate the seriousness Senator McCain and other leaders — Senator Obama as well — are taking to this issue,” said deputy White House spokesman Tony Fratto said of McCain’s move.
While McCain’s decision appears to put partisanship aside, both campaigns have used considerable energy casting the other as not definitive or aggressive enough on the financial rescue and other reforms.
Earlier in the day, Obama said McCain had been absent on the issue a year ago when the Illinois Democrat introduced Senate legislation to restrict executive compensation.
McCain is suddenly talking like “a hard-charging populist,” Obama said, even though Obama claims McCain’s policies favor the rich.
The McCain campaign responded that Obama incorrectly claimed that he “‘blew the whistle’ on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac CEOs for their golden parachutes, when he actually hired one for a critical job in his campaign and reportedly had his campaign seeking policy advice from another.
“The truth is that while John McCain sounded the alarm on the need to reform Freddie and Fannie to protect American taxpayers, Barack Obama took record amounts of their money and refused to take action to reform and regulate them. If ‘lying’ is saying you did one thing when you actually did the opposite, then Barack Obama just lied,” said McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds.
Is it me, or does that one eye look droopier than normal? If he strokes out, then what?
EDIT To Rupert- Sorry I misspelled your name. Got it now.
I absolutely LOATHE the Republican Party and, in particular, the Bush Crime Family which has ruled over it for most of the last 35 years.
The country is gone as a direct result of the Chimperor and his Chimpministration, probably irretrievably so.
If that makes me a DUer, so be it. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Ron Paul has figured this out too. In a recent press conference with third party candidates, he effectively said that even a vote for Cynthia McKinney or Ralph Nader is better than a vote for McCain/Palin or Obama/Biden.
But the DUers are not "enemies of my enemies." By supporting one of the two establishment parties, they're just shills for one half of the ruling elite over the other. Obama is fake opposition to neoconservatism, just as neoconservatism is fake opposition to "liberalism."
But the DUers are not "enemies of my enemies." By supporting one of the two establishment parties, they're just shills for one half of the ruling elite over the other. Obama is fake opposition to neoconservatism, just as neoconservatism is fake opposition to "liberalism."
YES YES YES!
they're just shills for one half of the ruling elite over the other
Exactly.
To add a thought, some don't even know it, but some DO. Their job is to keep us fighting amongst ourselves, to ensure, the continuity of the status quo.
When you see you are being used against one's own survival, the game ceases to be about 'politics'.
Then we get to have a Bible thumping, ditzy cheerleader for President instead of a senile psychopath.
I don't see that happening. Let's be totally honest here. None of the candidates are worthy of the office or leading this nation, it's military, or maybe even crossing guard duties. They are all dirty. We do not have to settle for it, and there are other candidates running. Not that voting means a damn thing, to which I understand there are those that will disagree. However, these are false choices, and it's long past time for the childish games to stop.
I don't see that happening. Let's be totally honest here. None of the candidates are worthy of the office or leading this nation, it's military, or maybe even crossing guard duties. They are all dirty. We do not have to settle for it, and there are other candidates running. Not that voting means a damn thing, to which I understand there are those that will disagree. However, these are false choices, and it's long past time for the childish games to stop.
Bravo, bravo...
Just add...
The government is our enemy, anyone that supports any of the candidates, supports the government and system.
I don't see that happening. Let's be totally honest here. None of the candidates are worthy of the office or leading this nation, it's military, or maybe even crossing guard duties. They are all dirty. We do not have to settle for it, and there are other candidates running. Not that voting means a damn thing, to which I understand there are those that will disagree. However, these are false choices, and it's long past time for the childish games to stop.
Let the revolution begin by jamming all four asshats into a cannon, pointing it into the wind, and then proceed to blow them all to hell. We're in this mess b/c of politicians and no clear thinker can possible expect a politician to lead us out of the abyss. Up theirs.
The government is our enemy, anyone that supports any of the candidates, supports the government and system.
Thank you thank you! No flowers please. ;)
This why I have asked that people reject all incumbents. If there are babies in the bathwater, so be it. We can deal with it. The people are the government, it's time to take responsibility and work with each other, across the miles (not aisle), to right the ship.
Let the revolution begin by jamming all four asshats into a cannon, pointing it into the wind, and then proceed to blow them all to hell. We're in this mess b/c of politicians and no clear thinker can possible expect a politician to lead us out of the abyss. Up theirs.
Amen. There are but a handfull that have a conscience left. You know it bugs the hell out of the rest who know their shame.
In their own Private Idaho. Where all policians have a wide-stance.
So much for McCain being a free-market conservative, as his advertisements suggest. He's proven to be a liberal interventionist before; he continues to prove otherwise today.
Caribou Barbie and Ken with snowmobile and dogsled accessories.
Well, considering tonight Bush will make the case for powers to be swept to the FedRes & Treasury, whoever becomes the occupant is truly irrelevant. Negotiation with Foreign Powers, continued wars, bypass the voice of Congress in spite of themselves, they've managed to work themselves out of a job.
The partisan behaviour adds to the disgust the world must feel over this insanity. I'm sick of it more than anything. What an embarassment. The facts, historical facts of each administration, paving the ills for the next is there to see. To deny or hide from it, disqualifies one from any true intellectual debate about the way to fix anything.
Like anybody was going to watch. He would get blown outta the water by Obama. Obama can still remeber what he's supposed to say. McCain the the SEC and the FEC are the same organization. Called for the removal of the FEC the other day.
If we get saddled with McKooK it will be Obummers fault.
Rumors are swirling that he will dump Biden and pick up Hillary. If he does, that is a sure win.
Yep. The complete erasure of the illusion of checks and balance. Well I have noticed that the media has shown Obama carrying his own garment bag from time to time. Hillary will see that his talents are broadened.
I did hear that Obummer on his work experience application for Hahvud law school listed two years as a Red Cap at O'Hare.
Did you know Obummer graduated from Harvard law skool????
LOL. Yes, many times. Those Harvard and Yale guys are superior leaders of government wouldn't you say? They are smart. Our nations reputation is a testament to their brilliance. Where breeding, privilege and access to the finest teachers have forged a world community dedicated to peace, prosperity and opportunity, if only one whispers a peep of interest, a hand is thrust forward to the hungry mind with an aimless but service minded heart. I get woozy just thinking about meeting such beings if only in my dreams! Oh we of the government schools can not possibly recognize how lucky we are to have saints step upon our tattered sails to the collection plate. /s The purging room is down the hall to the left.
I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the world . . . no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men.” Woodrow Wilson (He was the President that signed the creation of the Federal Reserve into law in 1913.)
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt.” Henry Ford
“Fifty men have run America, and that’s a high figure.” Joseph Kennedy, 1936
“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933
“We shall have world government whether or not you like it . . . by conquest or consent.” James Warburg (Rothschild banking agent, financial adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt), 1950
“The real rulers in Washington are invisible, [and] exercise power from behind the scenes.” Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1952
“The case for government by elites is irrefutable.” William Fulbright, U.S. Senator, 1963
“The Trilateral Commission is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States... They will rule the future.” Barry Goldwater, U.S. Senator, 1964
You know, We The People, the ones who get to pay for this mess.
“The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people…and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit!” -Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
Obama took a record amount of money in the short time he was in the Senate, McStain was in the Senate long enough to know better and did nothing.
DRAFT RON PAUL!!!!
“The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people…and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit!” -Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
