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September 27, 2008 9:14 PM

McCain Accuses Obama of “Exploiting” Financial Crisis

(CBS)

From CBS News’ John Bentley:


(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – In his first public address since last night’s presidential debate, John McCain accused Barack Obama using the current financial crisis for political gain.

“It was clear that Sen. Obama still sees the financial crisis in America as a national problem to be exploited first and solved later,” McCain said. “I am determined to help achieve a legislative package to help avoid the worst, and to set our economy back on the path of stability, confidence, and growth.”

Although he was scheduled to appear live at the 12th annual “Save Our Heritage Rally” in Columbus, Ohio, McCain spoke via satellite from Washington, D.C., because he said was working on the bailout legislation. Sponsored by the U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance, a hunting and fishing organization, McCain also invoked Obama’s now infamous comments from last April when he said small-town Pennsylvania voters “cling to guns or religion.”

“You can also tell a lot about a man by how he speaks when you're not around,” McCain said. “Earlier this year, Sen. Obama gave us all a little insight into his opinions of gun owners when he was among friends in San Francisco. He was in a room full of rich liberals, right at home. And he reported on some of his findings from his encounters with ordinary Americans. He said that in places like Pennsylvania, Ohio, and elsewhere, people are ‘bitter.’ And that is why, in his clinical opinion, you folks ‘cling’ to your guns and religion.”

The Obama campaign attempted to change the subject to an infamous McCain comment. “John McCain should be careful throwing rocks in his eight glass houses,” said Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor.
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by greenfun September 27, 2008 9:30 PM PDT
Excellent video about bailout and economic disaster. 442,000 hits since Sept. 23rd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5
tZc8oH--o

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by dinslc September 27, 2008 10:07 PM PDT
John McCain is a crotchety, erratic old man who has to tote around signs saying "country first" to try to counter his own self-serving actions. The man no longer has honor.
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by puppiesc2 September 27, 2008 10:08 PM PDT
All day I have heard how OHB had bettered McCain but what I feel is important is that Mac is where a good statesman should be trying to solve a problem for us, while OhB is off seducing more dummies who lap him up.God help us if this super salesman, con artist gets in.
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by PulSamsara September 27, 2008 10:08 PM PDT
We saw who tried to exploit the financial crisis John McCain.
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Your Double talk will go Nowhere this time. Nowhere.
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Just LOOK around YOU !

****-Poor State-Craft...
A Bungled Economy...

Is this the America you remember growing up?
So where does the Buck Stop NOW ?

Why would America REWARD complete Republican failure ?

We wont.
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by puppiesc2 September 27, 2008 10:12 PM PDT
Obamas actions this weekend are just a sample of what we will get if he gets in. Me and MY interests first then I''ll getto you and your middle class problems. Never mind what I promised, that was just for show!
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by matoosaferre September 27, 2008 10:14 PM PDT
I appreciate that McCain is in touch with the crisis. Obama is, well, who knows?
Mccain/Palin
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by stevemehere September 27, 2008 10:14 PM PDT
What McCain is not getting is that Americans, Main St, is more scared of losing their dreams, more concerned about our families, more afraid of not being able to meet our basic needs of health care, paying our bills, etc, than we are of the terrorists.

In other words, American people have a lower opinion of the people in power, corporate America who steals from the poor to give to the rich and politicians who ignores our needs than we are of the terrorists an ocean away.

At least we expect the terrorists to try to crush the American dream, but for our own representatives to do so is ten times more frightening.
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by john0211 September 27, 2008 10:16 PM PDT
Bush, McCain can run. But they cant hide anymore.

What ever congress does to try and fix our stunning economic catastrophe needs to be done very carefully. Congress needs to take their time, and be sure of what they are doing. Whatever is done needs to be sharply focused at helping, and protecting the best interest of the ordinary Americans. In particular the vast American middle class. 700 billion dollars is a lot of the peoples money to spend to bail out a bunch of corrupt Bush loan sharks.

My fellow human beings, just as I warned you ahead of this catastrophic economic meltdown, I must now warn you that what is ahead has the potential to be even more catastrophic than what we are going through now. The worlds geopolitical landscape has been booby trapped by the Bush McCain administration and their republican allies in congress. These booby traps are poised to spring at any time.

Fortunately the Worlds Nations have been blessed with many excellent leaders (except the US) who have been careful, wise, strong, and self-restrained in dealing with the provocations, and antagonism''s of the Bush, McCain administration.

Barack Obama and the democrats are your best hope now. Tell your family, friends, and everyone you know to support them as best you can, and vote for them like your life, and the lives of your loved ones depends on it. Because it does. You will not survive 4 more years of Bush McCain.

JACK SMITH - WORKING CLASS...
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by ohio_indy September 27, 2008 10:20 PM PDT
Wow
This is clearly a classic case of projection.
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by mediaspy_nv September 27, 2008 10:28 PM PDT
***?? Projection, double talk, what a freakin'' nut case! McCain has gone into the twilight zone. If he thinks he''s a loser right now, wait til after Thursday''s debate!
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by mediaspy_nv September 27, 2008 10:36 PM PDT
This old man is sitting there in his office in Washington, picking his nose and idling away the time, making some phone calls - same as Barack is doing - and pretending he is actually part of the bailout negotiations. So who''s exploiting the crisis? John McCain.

Since this is his third dramatic hail mary, it''s pretty obvious what his intentions are: gotta save my campaign. What a loser.
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by puppiesc2 September 27, 2008 10:43 PM PDT
It took MANY men months creating this mess, including the dingy democrates who couldn''t agree amongst themselves on how to fix things because it might make Bush look good. Who cares about the cause of it. Belly up and try to fix it. At least show up and try. I cannot believe my fellow Americans are are buying the consession stand on the Brooklyn Bridge that Obama has been selling you. If he gets in God help you all and your kids. But you fools deserve it! I am old and saw this act, many times in many other countries.Serves you right with your own greed, credit card stupidity, I want it now attitude and don''t fix things just get a new one syndrome. Main St. Look in the mirror, look around your house, How much "Stuff" do you have that is not yet paid for? Already discarded,outdated,not really needed. We have to STOP borrowing NOW. Save your money,sort your priorities.Whats Wanted is not always needed. You think this is bad? Just wait till you get The Great OHB!
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by sallievoter September 27, 2008 10:48 PM PDT
Let''s all talk about REAL EXPLOITING FROM WAR MAN MCCAIN.
while you''re busy bashing Obama about taxing you and taking any of your precious "stuff" to help OUR OWN COUNTRY, keep this in mind,

YOU ARE SENDING YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY---LOTS OF IT---TO FUND A WAR FOR PEOPLE WHO HATE YOUR GUTS:

From the Citizens for Tax Justice web site:
For a typical family with a taxable income of $60,000, and a typical tax bill of $8626, that works out to an Iraq War tax bill of about $2150. For a family making $100,000 in taxable income, with a typical tax bill of $18,614, that is a war tax of about $4650. Even a student making a taxable income of say $7000, and paying a tax of around $700 to Uncle Sam is paying around $175 to support the killing in Iraq.

thanks, bush and mccain for the expensive and pointless war. mccain will continue this. so repubs, be ready to SMILE AND PAY your taxes for a completely pointless war---happy about that, are you? SEND YOUR TAXES TO THE MIDDLE EAST....OBVIOUSLY YOUR OWN FAMILY DOES NOT NEED THAT MONEY.

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by ellabella9 September 27, 2008 10:55 PM PDT
Give me a break-This is just the latest lie McCain wants us to buy.McCain needs to give it up and get on with his campaign.Obama has made phone calls for the last week-Where was McCain?Obama is the statesman for being there at the beginning and not making it such public knowledge.McCain comes in at the last minute and acts like a savior.How DISRESPECTFUL to all those guys that have worked long,hard hours to solve this.McCain hasn''t been in Washington since April-He''s not fooling anyone.Three senators have all said that they don''t want McCain interferring and one of them is a republican.I''m sure by tomorrow he will appear on TV and completely take credit for this-Shame on you John McCain.
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by Harvybing September 27, 2008 11:08 PM PDT
BILL CLINTON AGREES THAT DEMOCRATS TO BLAME FOR FINANCIAL CRISIS

Watch The Clinton Interview On ABC News ---
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/09/bill-clinton-do.html
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The Reason We Have A Financial Crisis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5tZc8oH--o

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by Bec1164 September 27, 2008 11:11 PM PDT
Obama exploiting the crisis???***? He has really gone insane. HE WAS THE ONE "SUSPENDING THE CAMPAIGN AND RUSHING TO..."Oops the CBS interview, the dinner out, the hotel and then the Clinton thing in New York, arriving to "save the day" some 22 hours AFTER he said he was rushing to DC, then MULTIPLE members of congress including his own party members and peers said he was the one grandstanding and using the crisis to make himself look presidential and to get more tv time. He did not suspend anything. Ads still run, Palin still out there doing whatever it is she is doing (badly), campaign offices still going at it full speed. Who does he think he is fooling? The talks were going pretty well till he showed up and pissed everyone off. Interjecting himself and his campaign into the situation did nothing but make him look like a desperate loser.
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by puppiesc2 September 27, 2008 11:16 PM PDT
I am so tired of Obamas blame game. We are the joke of all Europe.Nixon went to China.So went the jobs and Bush wasn''t even a pimple then. Fire the thieves in the Senate and Congress who have been collecting your money while they push their pencils with no lead. Change Washington? Yes! Vote out every lazy Rep in your state.. Taxpayer do your homework and stop listening to the costly spin these old thieves have been giving you. Don''t fall for the rhetoric OHB has learned from them. Mac is his own man, never was Bushes boy. Anyway he is the lesser of two evils. Plus his wife inherited a lot of those properties, they didn''t have to buy their mansions in a shady deal, from a guy under suspicion of questionable deeds.I really don''t like either of these men but if knowledge is power, we better stick with the cranky dude who will protect us first,Create new jobs with energy programs,and kick some butt like Truman did.Affirmative action and educating the slow,promising tax breaks (LOL) will just have to wait a year.Your dreaming if you think he can REALLY give you money.He won''t even try to work on the Wall St problem cause he don''t know how. A street corner reble rouser,a MLK wanna be. God Help You all.
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by sallievoter September 27, 2008 11:24 PM PDT
too bad about the gambling scandal about mccain coming out in the NY Times tomorrow. Dreadful for mccain---its on their website tonite.

BUT if it is all liberal media lies then surely mccain will sue them....right? like all the other times....right? right.
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by vhs21-2009 September 27, 2008 11:37 PM PDT
If you want someone who can talk the talk, vote Obama. If you want someone who can walk the walk, vote McCain.

McCain isn''t a great orator like Obama, but McCain has substance and proven leadership. That shined in the debate.

Obama hasn''t had 25 years in the Senate to make more mistakes. He''s pretty much a blank slate-- and that''s a pretty smart tactic if you think about it. He can paint himself however he wants given the current political state because he has no history. He''s a smart man, he knows how to sell himself as the guy who''s opposite from Georgie & Friends. He''s smart to pin McCain to Bush. BUT you forget how much in pain all the Republicans are that the most liberal amongst them is their Presidential nominee. McCain needs to push for their support, but he is McCain, and if elected, will be sure to **** them off in many ways by reaching across partisan lines.
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by DCropp September 27, 2008 11:43 PM PDT
McCain''s plan...

Charge terminal companies $10 billion a month for insurance. These companies can''t even pay their debtors.

Anyone else hear the music from Godfather playing in the background?

At the same time, suggesting that America should lower taxes for these corrupt CEOs.
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by inkfingers September 27, 2008 11:56 PM PDT
Pow! Blam!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/opinion/28rich.html

May John McCain rest in peace.
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by September 27, 2008 11:56 PM PDT
I believe McCain suffers from a borderline personality disorder called Psychological Projection...... In psychology, psychological projection (or projection bias) is a defense mechanism in which one attributes one%u2019s own unacceptable or unwanted thoughts or/and emotions to others......http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
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by vhs21-2009 September 28, 2008 12:20 AM PDT
And here you can learn more about Barack Obama:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism
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by oaklynne September 28, 2008 12:30 AM PDT
John McCain has become derailed in his campaign. He has no shame. He has the unmitigated gall to accuse Obama of exploiting the financial crisis??? Wow, that is really choice coming from the "Mighty Mouse" who had to "suspend" his campaign in order to fly back to DC to resolve the bailout crisis only to sit there mutely and not offer a thing except photo ops. Then, when that transparent and cynical ploy backfired, McCain suddently agrees to appear at the debate? What a joke his campaign has become with Sarah Palin as the warm-up act.
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by puppiesc2 September 28, 2008 12:33 AM PDT
I guess you all forgot 9/11 or you wouldn''t be crying about how much it cost to burn out the sand jockeys that caused it. Bush was a wimp about fighting back. Had McCain been in it would be all over. I did not say I like the guy but as a lesser of two evils he is what we need right NOW,to get back our strength, our independence. You silly fools,crying about money,There is so much more on the line here and you stay blinded by endless rhetric and promises from a phoney JFK, MLK wanna be. I don''t agree about the war but whats done is done and now get real and end it. We had no business except OUR greedy need for oil in going over there( we don''t want to car pool,conserve our energy,Or be inconvienced in any way.) You know those tribes were happy fighting amongst themselves as they had for centuries. But Big Daddy Geo W.droped some bombs and ran saying we succeded, HEY all we did to them was what the *** did to us on Dec 7th. Pearl Harbor for those Obama fans who don''t remember history We woke the sleeping giant in them, now they united and are having a ball bombing us instead of each other, which by the way was their main form of entertainment to begin with Lets get the guy who can NOW put some fear in them. We need a Leader That''s MCCAIN, Let Obama in next time around. This point in time is to critical to pass to an eloquent, dynamic,speaker&dreamer He is good BUT, We need a warrior, we Need a Victory now or there will be no American dream to lose or even a Wall St. to gripe about.
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by indflvoter September 28, 2008 1:15 AM PDT
The political stunt that was pulled was staged by the Democrats and Obama. Just go back and review who was out there making partisan political statements instead of looking out for the taxpayers. I can guarantee you it wasn%u2019t McCain. Yes, McCain actually went and met with the Republicans. And yes, he did find that the Democrats were trying to steamroll a bill that included what amounted to a $140 billion earmark bill for companies like ACORN instead of actually paying the taxpayers back.

So I%u2019m glad McCain was there and he actually did what was good for the country. I know for the Democratic party it is all about getting elected. And Obama, its too much to ask him to come and actually do something he was paid for. Maybe that%u2019s why Obama%u2019s been in all of these past roles and has NOTHING to show for it. He was the editor of Harvard Law review, and failed to write a single article. He was in the state Senate and failed to even vote half the time. He came to the US Senate and hasn%u2019t had a single piece of legislation to speak for.
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by Ed Abelia September 28, 2008 1:28 AM PDT
Leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid had the power as leaders to do something about America%u2019s national financial crisis over their last couple of years in Congress. Bush is responsible for signing bills into law, but Pelosi and Reid have the responsibility to set the country''s legislative agenda and provide leadership to pass financial institution laws and banking regulations, but they both ignored the looming loan crisis until the very last minute. They failed our nation big time and should resign.

The senators and House leaders on the senate and house banking committee''s should also resign because they failed to take action, when they were fully aware the country would eventually face a liquidity and banking crisis. They failed the nation along with the rest of the senate and house that relies on their banking committee to hold hearings, write banking laws and provide legislative oversight of our banking institutions.

The leadership in the White House - Bush, Senate - Harry Reid, House - Nancy Pelosi, and both Democrats and Republican''s on the banking committees have failed to provide leadership and foresight to protect and regulate our nations financial system and institutions. Over the years Greenspan warned them that the increasing national debt was unsustainable that could lead to a national financial crisis if other countries lose confidence in our financial system and stop buying our national debt.


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by Ed Abelia September 28, 2008 1:31 AM PDT
Did Congress and Bush really think they could run up the national debt forever and the rest of the world would continue to finance all of the nation''s debt with a falling dollar? What about worthless American housing loan securities that they bought that are now becoming worthless? No! Now the world is slowly stopping to buy our debt and our nation may go bankrupt. Our only solution is to print more money to make up the difference, only leading to a lower dollar. This in turn may require the fed to increase interest rates to a premium to eventually attract more foreigners to buy more of our risky national debt due to a declining dollar at the expense of our own economy.

Bush, Pelosi and Reid had the legislative and executive power to prevent this nation%u2019s financial crisis but they simply ignored it until the nations financial institutions practically crashed.

Now all American''s will suffer, but they will now just continue to blame each other or the other political party, when they were all to blame.
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by Ed Abelia September 28, 2008 1:31 AM PDT
Bush, Reid and Pelosi should all leave office because they over time allowed the nations financial crisis to evolve and continue to get worse until it practically crashed, all on their watch as national leaders. There is a reason that both Bush and Congress have low national approval ratings, it is because they as leaders they have failed to make American better over the years. If either Obama or McCain is elected both leaders in congress should step down so congress can start fresh with new House and Senate leadership so congress once again can gain the confidence and approval of the American public.

The "time of change is now" and we need national leaders to put the "country first" over party politics%u2019 and corporate political donations influences that have led the country to the biggest country''s financial crisis since the great depression.

Right now Obama and McCain should both be very involved with what congress is doing with the bailout because it is going to greatly impact their potential presidency in a few months and one of them will need to fix this country%u2019s financial mess as president.

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by donkeysafire September 28, 2008 4:20 AM PDT
How about exploiting anything you can? What about that? What about exploiting the fact that Obama is a better speaker, and calling him all talk and no show? What about that?

John, I''m talking personally to you, if only you would read this sort of thing; you will exploit any possible edge you can find, whether or not it furthers the discourse, so why harp on Barack for exploiting his ability to kick *** where the economy is concerned?

Or would you rather have politics first? Seriously.
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by stevekelson-2009 September 28, 2008 5:39 AM PDT
McCain is %u2018projecting%u2019 with the statement, %u201CIt was clear that Senator Obama still sees the financial crisis in America as a national problem to be exploited first and solved later.%u2019%u2019

A journalist has to first, keep their job. This motivation is what prevents them from telling it like it is: McCain is a seriously mixed up human being. Real sickos have as routine, a habit of shifting blame to others, on things they are guilty of doing.

It%u2019s nearly impossible to believe that such behavior occurs from a US presidential candidate. This trait is common among%u2026%u2026well, criminals.

Anyone understanding criminal justice and forensic psychology would know this to be fact. Unfortunate that more editors won%u2019t let their staff go quite this far into descriptive territory.

A socipopath is a master at this technique. They are also masters of derailing conversations.
McCain does this in nearly every interview where the other party starts to ''uncover the truth.''
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by ioweign September 28, 2008 6:58 AM PDT
Is McCain Captain Queeg ??
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by emcclard September 28, 2008 5:18 PM PDT
McCain%u2019s histrionic and erratic behavior in the last few days has been exploitive, petulant, impulsive, and divisive. Respect for his heroism in war does not excuse excessive deference, and we must face the painful truth that he would be dangerous as President.

Unstable, hotheaded behavior characterizes post-traumatic stress disorder(PTSD). In my role as physician I would also consider borderline personality disorder, or tumor as possible causes. Regardless, these personality traits do make McCain simply unfit as a Commander-in-Chief.

Consider PTSD. We now know that a biological response to torture is shrinkage of two parts of the brain. While these changes do enable the tortured to survive, they make the victims forgetful, irritable and jumpy. Furthermore, loss of the part of the brain that forms new memories is later associated with senility. Loss of brain that weighs, judges, and moderates social behavior causes impulses toward aggression and *** to be acted upon before consideration of the pros and cons%u2014forever inclining to over-quick, under-considered defensive behaviors. Sound familiar?

In the Senate McCain has "reached across the aisle%u201D in pay back to his Republican colleagues when they have insulted him%u2014as when they convicted him of "poor judgment" in regard to dealings with Charles Keating. That makes even his highest achievements motivated by vengeance. The large egalitarian body has served to modulate and direct his impulsive fury. For President?
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by emcclard September 28, 2008 5:44 PM PDT
McCain%u2019s histrionic and erratic behavior in the last few days has been exploitive, petulant, impulsive, and divisive. Respect for his heroism in war does not excuse excessive deference, and we must face the painful truth that he would be dangerous as President.

Unstable, hotheaded behavior characterizes post-traumatic stress disorder(PTSD). In my role as physician I would also consider borderline personality disorder, or tumor as possible causes. Regardless, these personality traits do make McCain simply unfit as a Commander-in-Chief.

Consider PTSD. We now know that a biological response to torture is shrinkage of two parts of the brain. While these changes do enable the tortured to survive, they make the victims forgetful, irritable and jumpy. Furthermore, loss of the part of the brain that forms new memories is later associated with senility. Loss of brain that weighs, judges, and moderates social behavior causes impulses toward aggression and *** to be acted upon before consideration of the pros and cons%u2014forever inclining to over-quick, under-considered defensive behaviors. Sound familiar?

In the Senate McCain has "reached across the aisle%u201D in pay back to his Republican colleagues when they have insulted him%u2014as when they convicted him of "poor judgment" in regard to dealings with Charles Keating. That makes even his highest achievements motivated by vengeance. The large egalitarian body has served to modulate and direct his impulsive fury. For President?
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by emcclard September 28, 2008 5:45 PM PDT
McCain%u2019s histrionic and erratic behavior in the last few days has been exploitive, petulant, impulsive, and divisive. Respect for his heroism in war does not excuse excessive deference, and we must face the painful truth that he would be dangerous as President.

Unstable, hotheaded behavior characterizes post-traumatic stress disorder(PTSD). In my role as physician I would also consider borderline personality disorder, or tumor as possible causes. Regardless, these personality traits do make McCain simply unfit as a Commander-in-Chief.

Consider PTSD. We now know that a biological response to torture is shrinkage of two parts of the brain. While these changes do enable the tortured to survive, they make the victims forgetful, irritable and jumpy. Furthermore, loss of the part of the brain that forms new memories is later associated with senility. Loss of brain that weighs, judges, and moderates social behavior causes impulses toward aggression and *** to be acted upon before consideration of the pros and cons%u2014forever inclining to over-quick, under-considered defensive behaviors. Sound familiar?

In the Senate McCain has "reached across the aisle%u201D in pay back to his Republican colleagues when they have insulted him%u2014as when they convicted him of "poor judgment" in regard to dealings with Charles Keating. That makes even his highest achievements motivated by vengeance. The large egalitarian body has served to modulate and direct his impulsive fury. For President?
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by bonnetteblj September 28, 2008 11:51 PM PDT
Senator McCain IS projecting. He is the one who tried to GRANDSTAND this past week because his poll numbers went down. HE went to Washington and then had Bush call Obama and invite him to come also.

McCain does not understand the economy. BEFORE, he got to Washington there was an agreed upon settlement (which by the way Senator Obama helped to provide input on over the phone with Paulson and Bernake). ALL that McCain did was stir up trouble and get the Republicans to say they had a DIFFERENT plan which involved even more deregulation!

Senator McCain caused the crisis to be extended further instead of letting the Senators and Representatives finish what they had been working on for a week.
NO, Senator McCain, you are the one who is "exploiting" the financial crisis!
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