Debate Still In Limbo

Democrats Blame McCain For Interrupting Process Of Reaching Bailout Plan Compromise

(Washingtonpost.com) 
The White House meeting was the result of McCain's startling announcement Wednesday that he would cease campaigning and return to Washington, urging Bush to convene a summit to address the financial crisis. Bush did so, informing the nation in an address Wednesday night, and inviting Obama and McCain to attend.

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Yesterday's photo opportunity amounted to Bush's first public appearance with McCain since May, when the two briefly shook hands on a tarmac at the Phoenix airport. The Republican nominee has sought to distance himself from the president, whose approval rating has touched new lows in recent polling, and campaign aides have said they have no plans to ask Bush to appear on the campaign trail.

McCain, Obama, administration officials and congressional leaders had hoped to emerge together from the West Wing to deliver a forceful joint statement that would at least show a display of unity behind the principle of a massive federal intervention in the financial markets.

McCain's "Straight Talk Air" landed at Reagan National Airport just after noon, and his motorcade headed toward the Senate. But even before his charter plane took off from Newark, senior Democrats and Republicans at the Capitol were already announcing that a deal in principle had been reached.

That declaration turned out to be premature, as McCain's colleagues in the House objected to the ideas presented and arrived at the meeting adamant that they had never signed on to a deal.

At the White House, the gathering turned contentious when House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) brought up a new set of principles that conservative House Republicans had been laid out earlier in the day.

Boehner's move was received poorly by Obama and the other Democrats, who quickly pressed McCain to say whether he supported Boehner's position, according to a detailed account of the meeting. McCain declined to commit, one source said.

In a statement late last night, McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said the GOP nominee "did not attack any proposal or endorse any plan," adding that Democrats "allowed Senator Obama to run their side" and that the meeting "quickly devolved into a contentious shouting match." The statement also said that McCain plans to return to Capitol Hill today to work toward a bipartisan solution.

For much of yesterday, McCain shuttled between meetings and his Senate office, but rarely came close to the Capitol suites and committee rooms where the talks were taking place. He had returned to his Crystal City condominium by 6 p.m., where aides said he continued to work the phones in support of the deal.

Earlier, McCain had emerged from his office in the Russell Senate Office Building to a crush of reporters, saying nothing as he made his way to Boehner's office. In tow were a trio of his closest allies, Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), as well as top campaign aides Rick Davis and Mark Salter.

Boehner and McCain discussed the bailout plan, but Republican leadership aides described the conversation as somewhat surreal. Neither man was familiar with the details of the proposal being pressed by House conservatives, and up to the moment they departed for the White House yesterday afternoon, neither had seen any description beyond news reports.

At 1:25 p.m., McCain left Boehner's office through a back door, walking across the Capitol's rotunda to the applause of tourists. Graham conceded the group knew little about the plan the nominee had come to Washington to try to shape.

[kansas1946]

You can put lipstick on Obama and he is still a Muslim!

Please see Rev. Manning discuss Obama at the You Tube link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T
eujrFbh5LU

Libs,
Take a break and go color for a while!
http://www.putlipstickonapig.com/



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Posted by CBSCensorsU at 06:47 PM : Sep 30, 2008
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Gosh, we are so scared. A "constitutional crisis." I remember all of the wailing and gnashing of teeth in 2000 about a "constitutional crisis." The constitution will stand. There will be no crisis. You are safe.

[sjsjas2]

I''m a Vietnam era Marine vet. I don''t put my short length of fairly easy service in the same league as Sen. McCain''s. However, the fact that he is a vet is not enough for me to support him. And I deeply resent his emotional speeches on how he will take care of vets when his legislative record does not seem to support that appeal. No American President, including Sen. Obama, will be soft on terrorists.

[ioweign]

I am a Navy veteran 68-72 and I will not vote for McCain. His behavior should scare the hell out of everyone...

[liberalme]

Just quickly from what I have partially read:

McCain voted against the GI Bill

9/27/07 Voted twice against support for injured servicemen

9/20/07 Voted against strong support for the US armed forces.

10/3/07 Safe redeployment for troops from Iraq--did not vote
10/3/07 Improve US Security--Did not vote.

In 2007 he voted 32 out of 109 times.

4/24/08--Increase benefits for disabled vets--did not vote

Am working on the 2008 voting record, but McCain is NO friend to our troops or veterans.

[barrylies]

(Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania %u2013 09/29/08) - Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama%u2019s lack of %u201Cqualifications%u201D to serve as President of the United States, announced today that he filed his Opposition and Brief to Obama and Democratic National Committee [DNC] Joint Motion to Dismiss in the case of Berg v. Obama, No. 08-cv-04083.

Berg feels confident that he has %u201CStanding%u201D and the Court will allow the case to go forward. Our response was due in 14 days, but the Court requested our answer by Monday, September 29, 2008 and we complied.
In our response we set forth sufficient reasons that I have %u201CStanding%u201D to bring this lawsuit. Furthermore, I set forth additional reasons that indicate Obama does not meet the qualifications for President of the United States and Obama should be removed from the ballot and held accountable.

Our website obamacrimes.com has received 17.1 + million hits. We are urging all to spread the word of our website %u2013 and forward to your local newspapers and radio and TV stations.
Berg again stressed his position regarding the urgency of this case as, %u201Cwe%u201D the people, are heading to a %u201CConstitutional Crisis%u201D if this case is not resolved forthwith.

For copies of all court pleadings, go to obamacrimes.com.

Philip J. Berg, Esquire
555 Andorra Glen Court, Suite 12
Lafayette Hill, PA 19444-2531

[misha128-2009]

With McCain''s record of (lack of) support for the troops they better make this a very small venue unless he brings his running mate.

I don''t want a president who was called Senator Hothead by fellow Republican senators.
I don''t want a president who can''t look his debate opponents in the eye, apparently for fear of losing control.

[leftyintexas]

The headline is misleading. It should read ''SOME'' veterans rally support for McCain.

[G H M]

I don''t think so.
vote for Obama
end the war!

[armydog2]

I work at a VA hospital in Pennsylvania, and all the Vets I know and meet have no use for Mccain because he votes against everything for them. Palin scares them. Majority say they will vote for Obama.

[grammawhamma]

Posted by kansas1946 at 12:04 AM : Sep 30, 2008

Believe it....it''s true! Yes, I am from a military family. Two of my kids live on base right now. The majority of the military and their families support John McCain.

[kansas1946]

I think McCain just voted not to long ago against the bill that would have increased educational benefits for veterans. In fact, he votes most of the time against vets. I can''t believe a lot of veterans are supporting him.

[janetlynn12]

veterans answer to "Swiftboating".

http://vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/

[janetlynn12]

veterans answer to "Swiftboating".

http://vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/

[starleo146]

so after all that Tell me again How John "I neversaw a vet beill I like or supported " McCain is fior vets I got more reasons for vets to not ,not like him but to HATE John McCain

Posted by dennisam01 at 03:36 PM : Sep 29, 2008

He stops his campaign to go to Washington to get it fixed, where was he when the boys and girls fighting to save his butt, where was he when they needed equipment, and Walter Reed was in a mess, oh yes, he was walking down Baghdad''s main street saying it was safe. I ''M WITH YOU THE MAN IS NOT RIGHT IN THE HEAD

[tibu987]

I am a veteran, McCain''s age, and I certainly do NOT support him.

I''m sorry, but being a lousy pilot, a prisoner of war, serving 35 years in the senate as a yes man to the Bushes, and being 72 years old, does not a president make.

I could, under different circumstances; a stronger economy, a better feeling of where we are with the war in Iraq and in the Middle-East, the low standing of the U.S. in the world and earning us the enmity of 2.3 billion Muslims, vote for a Republican president. This is not one of those times. The last eight years speaks plenty to me.

As for Obama, I do agree with his view that the U.S. should speak with our enemies before we may quarantine them or attack them, no matter who they are. Look, the U.S. carries a very big and powerful stick and talking does not diminish that strength but may, however, prevent the many deaths and costs of war.
Hell, talk to them, say, "look, this is how it is, would you like to agree or face the consequences"?
Perhaps some good could come from talking with our enemies and if not, we are back to square one, nothing lost..

[dboyer7-2009]

I am a Vietnam Vet, received combat infantry badge, air combat medal, bronze star, purple hear and am disabled. I do not support McCain because he does not support Vets and his record shows that he is not putting country first. He continues to support Bush policies and hurt us Americans and veterans.

[hugochavez9]

MCCAIN IS A LOSER JUST LIKE HIS SUPPORTERS!

[woodjd42]

I am a Vietnam vet and I have great respect for McCain, however that does not give him a free pass. Although I respect him I disagree with many of his policies. I also keep up with the different bills for vets and am upset with his voting record on bills that support us vets. In addition one of the biggest disappointments is his judgement in picking Palin. She truley does scare me. She reminds me of bush/chaney, unable to tell the truth about anything.

[noloyalisti]

Only a really demented and brainwashed vet would support that pasty war-mongering man man puppet. Only someone suffering from PTSD could want 4 more years of the McSame.