Comments on: Debate Still In Limbo

Democrats Blame McCain For Interrupting Process Of Reaching Bailout Plan Compromise

[tejasdemo]

A complete stunt. To think that Republicans give a d amn about the country at all is naive at best.

[martin9p2]

Here is the GOP ploy:
1. Delay tonight''s debate by false claim of saving the bailout process.
2. Move Sarah''s debate to the end of the schedule to give her more time to memorize answers.
3. Realize that there''s no time for so many debates, and attempt to cancel the Palin debate so she doesn''t get blown to smithereens by Joe Biden.

[louiville2]

Watching you idiot.
"While the barbs fly back and forth between the McCain and Obama campaigns as to who can better manage the current financial crisis, one indisputable fact is John McCain has actively been seeking reforms that may have prevented the current situation. Congressional records show McCain Co-sponsored S. 190 the Federal Housing Enterprise Act of 2005. On May 25, 2006 McCain made this impassioned plea on the floor of the Senate.

Where was Obama and what was his position on Freddie/Fannie while McCain was calling for reform? Obama was the beneficiary of hundreds of thousands of dollars from the lobbyists McCain mentions in this speech, making him the #2 recipient of Fannie/Freddie money. "

[dbaker13-2009]

i am happy mccain will be there to mop up nobama on stage tonight.

obama you left wing nutbag!

[usclimey]

I find the fact that Bush and his cronies suddenly started taking notice of the bank problem now, 4 months before they''re out of power, after saying everything''s fine for the last 15 months. I have three thoughts;

1) Things have gotten SO bad that even they couldn''t hide it any more - otherwise they wouldn''t have said a word until after 1/20/09 and then blamed the mess on the democrats.
2) They thought they could sort everything out real quick and look the heroes right before the election. (I guess they didn''t expect congress the suddenly grow a backbone).
3) They just want to gift their Wall St. buddies 700 billion now so the real collapse (which will occur after that money runs out) will happen on the democrats watch.

Take your pick. But in reality "the American People" only fit into their plans for speeches.

[eroosevelt08]

McCain appears to grandstanding. What a stunt to pull. It makes me sick.

[docpeter1953]

McCain is brilliant and the liberals are ignorant. They live in a world called " Me first" This is why they will lose even if they think they have won.

Posted by john43218
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Let me think on this for a minute.

Liberal: We need to help the poor and down troden (as Jesus recommends)

GOP: You ignorant liberal, We are the family value Christian values and we need to take care of the wealthy like the Pharases.

Guess you might be right, in your own mind, but surely doesn''t sound right to me.

Don''t confuse Family values with christian Values.

Family values is blood is thicker that water, and hides the criminals. Even Jesse James'', Bonnie and Clyde''s, Billy the Kids'' families hiding them from the law.

Christian Values is what people like Mother Theresa of Calcuta, Ghandi, etc live by.

They are not the same!

[spiritwalk]

"maddymappo" McCain is not the problem, you are. You and all the others who are spitting venom at both candiates.

The banking heads are the ones who are causing this problem and McCain and Obama are as impotent as you the banks know it.

The bankers don''t need lobbyists and talking heads, they have all of you bloging your anger about the elction while they manipulate the congress to give them the power the want.

Face it, no matter what agreement the congress comes up with it will still be the banks running the economy. And...anytime someone may start to see this the banks can count on you or some other bloger going off on Palin and witchcraft or some other sillines while they take more control.

[watching_you]

How many of you believe this fear-mongered economic collapse is real? Maybe its%u2019 just another way for these priks to bleed a little more money out of us.

Naw, they wouldn%u2019t do that, would they?

Not this group of corporate Nazis, who lied us into a fake war with Iraq, sold our nation to China, whose belief in an unbridled, free market economy has been proved wrong, again.

Now, suddenly, Bush is FOR regulation?

You know what? We stupid Americans, who love our football and American Idol and ipods ----- we DESERVE these a$$holes.

[DCropp]

It was just announced that McCain will be there. The debate is on.

Also, several TV stations are reporting they have been told to start running McCain ads on Saturday.

At the very least, there should be a forum about how they view the current crisis and the long term effects that will ensue during their administration (if elected).

McCain has polarized the situation by inserting himself in talks about economic and banking issues about which he admittedly is not expert in and so far he has had nothing to contribute.

The idea that these candidates can %u201Csuspend%u201D their campaigns 40 days before the election is moronic. We need to judge how they think under pressure and formulate a plan for our nation''s future.

McCain has slowed down, frustrated and aggravated this dire problem by putting his ego and misplaced sense of duty above the needs of our country. If that was not his intent, than he lacked good judgement.

Obama%u2019s assessment of how presidential politics could be divisive was correct, as was his request that he and McCain issue a joint statement agreeing to be supportive of a bipartisan solution. He is also correct in wanting the debate to go forward. Although he may not have come up with an instant solution ( who has?), at least he showed a reasoned sense of responsiblity and did not grand stand at the expense of making things more complex than they already are.

[spiritwalk]

whitedude4BO -- Do you really think that it is just a coincidence that this crisis is happening just now?
Do you really think it is a coincidence that just when congress is one month away from the elections that a crisis would send the voters into a panic?
What a perfect time to get congress to make agreements in haste that will change banking laws.
The banks are counting on you forcing the politicians to act quickly to calm your fears so that they don''t lose your vote.
They want you to be fighting and they love it when you throw in Palin''s name because it distracts you from what is going on.
You say that bankers are greedy and dishonest but you don''t think they are are greedy and dishonest enough to to working now to turn your fears to their advantage?

[watching_you]

msa123: posted: %u201CMcCain tried to get him to do more debates. . .%u201D

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The underlying rational for McCain asking for debates was to demonstrate that he McCain, was in control of Obama ------- that he, McCain, was calling the shots. This is probably a bit to subtle for conservatards like you to grasp, but it was all about grandstanding and trying to look presidential. You know, like when McCain hummed his little ditty, %u201CBomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran.%u201D Presidential, huh?

Here%u2019s the legacy McGeezer has to live down:

1. Total economic infrastructural collapse
2. sub prime mortgage crisis
3. record foreclosures and unemployment
4. Abandoning Afghanistan (where terrorists HAD strongholds) for a $12 billion/m fake war with Iraq
5. bin Laden never captured
6. country beggared to China
7. ExxonMobile, Shell, Chevron all scoring record profits
8. Unprecedented corruption, felony convictions GAO-reported fraud
9. Illegal domestic surveillance
10. Violations of Geneva convention
11. Presidential Directive 51
12. Military Commissions Act -------retroactively immunizing the Bush administration from persecution for war crimes
13. Largest national debt ever
14. Preservation of no "windfall profits tax" policy for bloated corporate behemoths.

[usclimey]

McCain is brilliant and the liberals are ignorant. They live in a world called " Me first" This is why they will lose even if they think they have won. McCain asked for 10 debates in the last 4 months but Obama preferred to go to Europe and Hawaii during a campaign. The first real crisis and Obama now wants to debate.. and the liberal losers still don''''t understand. Shameful.

Posted by john43218

During a good part of the last 4 months, Obama wasn''t yet the candidate, so how could he possibly debate McCain at that point?

If Russia is beginning to act bear-like again, you don''t think that improving relations with allies in Europe could help?

If Mc.Cain''s brilliant, what does that make the 872 guys who graduated Navy ahead of him in their class?

Liberals are not "Me First" that is purely a lie and applies directly to Conservatives who want to keep all the toys for them selves.

Mc.Cain/Palin is the sorriest excuse for a ticket in history, however, what does one expect from the party that gave us the sorriest excuse for a President in history for the last 8 years.

It''s GOPers like yourself who are shameful and ignorant. You are the ones who should look in the mirror and blush with embarressment.

[nmiller17]

Who cares about a debate??? I want this financial crisis solved!! I%u2019m sooo MAD I can hardly stand it!! This bail out plan is full of PORK - like 20% for ACORN. You know the group that Obama was an attorney for. The group that he was a trainer for. The group that is at the TOP of the list for voter registration fraud!! Where is our money going? Transparency? I so mad at our congress right now. Why can%u2019t they pass a bill that does NOT have any pork in it? No wonder Obama is taking a back seat %u2014 he doesn%u2019t want to be %u2018tied%u2019 to these negotiations!! Remember in his statement there must be relief for main street people in trouble w/ their mortgages? Yeah, folks, he means ACORN which is tied to so much fraud including embezzlement & misuse of tax payer dollars!

Debate? Who cares!!!! We need a solution!!! McCain made MANY attempts to get Obama to debate him before this!! And now in the midst of a US Financial Crisis - Obama whom is NOT involved in ANY of it, wants a debate?

COUNTRY FIRST!!!!


Posted by Charlie1000 at 10:31 AM : Sep 26, 2008
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Wow, Charlie1000, that''s absolutely incredible!! Nobody else outside of those actually IN the deliberations have any idea what''s in the bill, but somehow YOU do...probably by ESP or something, right?

That IS amazing, how ever do you do it?

Lying will get your McCandidate nowhere, but keep on trying if it makes you feel better.

[whitedude4bo]

All you "McCain is doing" folks. What exactly is he doing? He dosn''t sit on the committee that is negotiating this thing and he even said himself that he dosn''t understand economics. So what is he doing? The house republicans can''t stand him and that''s where the issue is. So again I ask, what is he doing? Maybe ya''ll can get with Sarah Palin and come up with some stuff and get back to us. Katie Couric is waiting also.

[spiritwalk]

Please stop the McCain vs. Obama bickering as it is muddying the waters.

What should be of concern right now is to not let congress rush into an agreement to calm the public''s immediate fears.

You know that there are people in the banking institutions who are right now trying to figure out how to profit from this crisis.

In confusion there is profit and politicians who are a month away from the elections are panicing that if they don''t "fix" this to the voter''s satisfaction that it wil get them defeated.

The big investors know this and you know they are unscruplous and greedy to use the crisis to manipulate your fears for your money and the politicians fear for their jobs to get both of you to grasp at a plan that relieves your immmediate fears.

Whatever its is that the banks really want out of this you know they will push to see the agreement has the loopholes they want and if they play on everyone''s fears you will accept what you think the agreement says and not take time to look at what it doesn''t say.

[watching_you]

john43218 posted: %u201CMcCain is brilliant%u2026%u201D

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I%u2019ll give him this: The phony war hero is smart enough to try to postpone debating a constitutional law scholar.

But, when McCain the weather vane finally gets up on that podium ------- all 5%u20197%u201D of him standing on several phone books, I hope the questioning begins like this:

%u201CWhy are you running around the country calling yourself a %u201Cwar hero?%u201D Isn%u2019t it true ------- according to your own book ------- that you began ratting out your own country after only 4 days of captivity as a POW?

Isn%u2019t it also true that you disclosed details to the enemy that endangered and got your fellow soldiers killed? And that you made lots of anti-American videos?

As for liberals being stupid, some are. On the other hand, if it hadn%u2019t been for a democrat named Harry Truman, you%u2019d being posting your idiotic rants in nice in Japanese. You know, nice little vertical columns.

[notmudrose]

President Elect Obama will take the red states of Indiana, Nevada and Virginia as well as the former red states of Colorado and Florida.

Truly epic landslide for Obama. I said it here first and I''ll be gloating come the day after the election.

[usclimey]

Mc.Cain hasn''t voted on anything since April. Mc.Cain has admitted he knows nothing about economics. Why DC now?

Mc.Cain keeps on about Obama not wanting to debate him - Obama just wanted a fair audience not a group of hand-picked GOPers. Mc.Cain knew 10 Town Hall debates wouldn''t be covered by the press too well - he''s afraid to stand up for a 64% country-wide TV audience.

Mc.Cain''s grandstanding - Obama''s helping from the wings. Mc.Cain and his people now realize what a mistake Palin was - she''ll be sliced and diced in the Veep debate so they want it cancelled.

Overall Mc.Cain''s getting in the way of negotiations rather than helping.