[Home]  [Headlines]  [Latest Articles]  [Latest Comments]  [Post]  [Sign-in]  [Mail]  [Setup]  [Help] 

Status: Not Logged In; Sign In

Jimmy Dore: CHINA & 20 Nations To Intervene & End Israel’s Genocide!

20,000 Women. 350 Kilometers. Zero Pay. In One Week. How Did Ibrahim Traore Pull This Off?

Spain is in CHAOS! Revolution is in the air

Joe Rogan Ambushes Gavin Newsom Via Text With A COVID Question He Never Saw Coming

Batman Vs The Joker: Democrats Will Double Down On Chaos To Save Their Party

US Vows To Quit IEA If The Agency Keeps Pushing Green Transition

Tucker Carlson: People Are Frustrated That Certain Commit Crimes With Impunity

No news again, but the battle of the machines marches on...

Cash Jordan: Rioters ATTACK ICE HQ… Troops FLATTEN Uprising With ‘Zero Mercy’

Doctor Reveals What COVID Vaccines Do to the Lungs in Just One Week

Sorry paid off influencers, MAGA bot accounts, and Satan....but I'm not going to just "move on"

Marjorie Taylor Greene Bombshell Interview

Welcome To The Land Of The Free... Until You Express An Opinion

Putin ‘tells Iran to accept nuclear deal with no enrichment’

76% of Honey at Stores is Fake

"225,000 Ukrainians have now DESERTED the war" Ukraine is in a death spiral Col. Dan Davis

The New York Times Finally Stops Avoiding The G-Word

The Gaza Water Massacre: What Israel Just Confessed About Shooting Children

Powerful ERUPTION spit out volcanic mud and debris - Army Personnel ran for their lives

Another 'Conspiracy Theory' Comes True: California Bill Passes To Buy Fire-Ravaged Palisades For Low-Income Apartments

A 1,600-year-old church in the Holy Land has been torched. But not by ISIS.

More civilians have been killed while seeking aid in Gaza than were killed on 7 October.

MORE TRANS VIOLENCE

WAYNE ROOT: Here’s How Trump Turns the Epstein List Fiasco into Home Run

Maxwell Says Epstein Client List Implicates Top Democrats

Medical Record Review Of the Twins Who Died After Vaccination

New federal secrets exposed as Republican unravels Lee Harvey Oswald's hidden ties to CIA

Protest outside migrant hotel in Essex erupts into violence

Congressman Faces Eviction Over $85k Back-Rent For Luxury DC Penthouse

This Is Not Normal! We Just Had Four “1-In-1,000-Year Storms” In A Single Week!


(s)Elections
See other (s)Elections Articles

Title: McCain remains undecided about debate with Obama
Source: [None]
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93EEFS80&show_article=1
Published: Sep 26, 2008
Author: Nedra Pickler
Post Date: 2008-09-26 10:02:14 by christine
Keywords: None
Views: 168
Comments: 13

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican John McCain has yet to commit to participating in Friday night's scheduled debate with Democratic rival Barack Obama, tying his appearance to progress on a Wall Street bailout plan being negotiated by the Bush administration and congressional lawmakers. McCain walked into his Senate office building Friday morning without a word to reporters traveling with him. However, a close friend and supporter, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-N.C., appeared to lower the bar on what sort of agreement would satisfy McCain that sufficient progress had been made.

"What's more important than anything that when we go to Mississippi tonight, both candidates can say that the Congress is working, back in business, that we have an outline or proposal that will protect the taxpayer and save the country from financial Pearl Harbor, as Warren Buffet called it," Graham said on "Today" on NBC. "We are not there yet, but we will get there."

Obama said Thursday that he intended to travel to the University of Mississippi in Oxford, where the debate had long been scheduled to begin at 9 p.m. EDT. He tried to press McCain into showing up for the first of three scheduled debates between them, saying they should be able to handle the 90-minute forum and the financial crisis at the same time.

"Sen. McCain has no need to be fearful about a debate," Obama told reporters. "He's a person of strong opinions and he's been expressing them on the campaign trail."

Both McCain and Obama had returned to Washington on Thursday at the urging of President Bush, who invited them to a meeting with congressional leaders at the White House. But a session aimed at showing unity in resolving the financial crisis broke up with conflicts in plain view. McCain would not commit to supporting a plan worked out by congressional negotiators, said people from both parties who were briefed on the exchange.

McCain's campaign said the meeting "devolved into a contentious shouting match" and implied that Obama was at fault—on a day when McCain said he was putting politics aside to focus on the nation's financial problems.

Democrats differed.

Meanwhile, debate preparations continued in Oxford, with streets blocked off and big TV screens set up on campus and near City Hall for large debate-watching parties.

Television network officials were left with the uncertainty of whether their Friday night programming would be the scheduled debate or something else arranged at the last minute. Pressed in an interview on the "CBS Evening News" about whether he would show, McCain responded: "I understand how important this debate is and I'm very hopeful, but I also have to put the country first."

Obama told NBC that, should the debate go on, he would raise the economy even though the focus was supposed to be foreign policy.

"It's one of the fundamental differences that I have with John McCain, and it's something that I think we need to explore in a debate format," Obama said. "We're only talking about 90 minutes here."


Poster Comment:

big PR mistake if mcCain doesn't show, imo.

Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread  


TopPage UpFull ThreadPage DownBottom/Latest

Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 6.

#1. To: christine (#0)

Republican John McCain has yet to commit to participating in Friday night's scheduled debate with Democratic rival Barack Obama

Dumb idea on his part.

Really wont matter, Obama has it in the bag anyway. If Obummer throws Bidet under the bus and takes Hillary aboard it is all over but the hanging.

If Obama would say if elected he would hang Bush and Cheney, I would vote for him.

Cynicom  posted on  2008-09-26   10:35:00 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Cynicom (#1)

If Obama would say if elected he would hang Bush and Cheney, I would vote for him.

I love you.

angle  posted on  2008-09-26   10:41:42 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: angle (#5)

I love you.

That wont get you up any higher on my good guy list.

Sometime try Thomas thick slice raisin bread, well toasted, well buttered, with huge helping of Smuckers Red Raspberry preserve just before bedtime. yum

Cynicom  posted on  2008-09-26   10:45:08 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


Replies to Comment # 6.

#12. To: Cynicom (#6)

Uh oh. This love affair is falling aprt. I don't like raisins and raspberries together.

angle  posted on  2008-09-26 11:21:46 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


End Trace Mode for Comment # 6.

TopPage UpFull ThreadPage DownBottom/Latest


[Home]  [Headlines]  [Latest Articles]  [Latest Comments]  [Post]  [Sign-in]  [Mail]  [Setup]  [Help]