Calming the market?(Mccain)

[akhenaten]

If confidence is key and calming the market is essential...
how is (supposedly) putting your campaign on hold and cancelling a debate helping ???
Seems almost like yelling fire in a theatre!!!

 

[SteveInBrooklyn]

If confidence is key and calming the market is essential...
how is (supposedly) putting your campaign on hold and cancelling a debate helping ???
Seems almost like yelling fire in a theatre!!!

Good point.

 

[djm99]

The bipartisan consensus on the general direction of the legislation was reported just hours before President Bush was to host presidential contenders Barack Obama and John McCain and congressional leaders at the White House for discussions on how to clear obstacles to the unpopular rescue plan.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26884523/

No excuse for McCain now!!!!

 

[rayelias]

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Obama piddled while Wall Street turned.

 

[djm99]

Calm - not McCain

 

[rie'smom]

If confidence is key and calming the market is essential...
how is (supposedly) putting your campaign on hold and cancelling a debate helping ???
Seems almost like yelling fire in a theatre!!!

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Obama piddled while Wall Street turned.

Seems to me putting a campaign on hold and canceling a debate is the right thing to do during a crisis. To me it shows that McCain is concerned about the country and Obama is concerned about himself.

 

[akhenaten]

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Obama piddled while Wall Street turned.

Uh HUh...if you say it it must be so right??


" the fundamentals of our economy are sound" .. ....oh I mean the people are the fundametals....

 

[HakunaMatata2]

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Obama piddled while Wall Street turned.

Don't forget walking and chewing gum at the same time. He multi-tasks!

Actually, he needs the time to cram for his debate!

 

[Laugh O. Grams]

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Obama piddled while Wall Street turned.

It's preposterous that we can't have a presidential debate in the middle of this economic crisis. We had a presidential campaign in 1864, when Sherman was marching on Atlanta. We had a presidential election in 1944, when D-Day was going on in Normandy. In fact, it's probably the most important thing McCain and them could be doing, would be to debate the issues. Thank you, Paul Begala!

 

[elan]

What I don't get is why a man who just 10 days ago stated "the fundamentals of our economy are strong" all of a sudden just had to be in Washington. He didn't even now anything needed fixing until someone told him. I would think he should be far, far away.

 

[Laugh O. Grams]

Don't forget walking and chewing gum at the same time. He multi-tasks!

Actually, he needs the time to cram for his debate!

You're turning the fact that McCain wants to cancel tomorrow nights debate into Obama's imagined need to cram for tomorrow nights debate? That line of thinking may play like gangbusters on the Conservative thread, but out here in the real world, it only makes one look ridiculous.

Next thing we be reading is having the mental ability to multitask is "elitist"...

 

[Brianne]

It's preposterous that we can't have a presidential debate in the middle of this economic crisis. We had a presidential campaign in 1864, when Sherman was marching on Atlanta. We had a presidential election in 1944, when D-Day was going on in Normandy. In fact, it's probably the most important thing McCain and them could be doing, would be to debate the issues. Thank you, Paul Begala!

Exactly.

And where was McCain the day Hurricane Katrina hit? Or for that matter, where was Bush?

Oh, that's right.

 

[akhenaten]

You're turning the fact that McCain wants to cancel tomorrow nights debate into Obama's imagined need to cram for tomorrow nights debate? That line of thinking may play like gangbusters on the Conservative thread, but out here in the real world, it only makes one look ridiculous.

Next thing we be reading is having the mental ability to multitask is "elitist"...

multi tasking is overrated.... just like education...

 

[HakunaMatata2]

You're turning the fact that McCain wants to cancel tomorrow nights debate into Obama's imagined need to cram for tomorrow nights debate? That line of thinking may play like gangbusters on the Conservative thread, but out here in the real world, it only makes one look ridiculous.

Next thing we be reading is having the mental ability to multitask is "elitist"...

Some call it multitasking. Some call it disorganized.

 

[Geoff_M]

multi tasking is overrated.... just like education...

Not that this would matter to anyone here, but CBS's Bob Schieffer said this morning that the "stunt" was at the request of Treasury Secretary Paulson:

BOB SCHIEFFER: I am told, Maggie, that the way McCain got involved in this in the first place, the Treasury Secretary was briefing Republicans in the House yesterday, the Republican conference, asked how many were ready to support the bailout plan. Only four of them held up their hands. Paulson then called, according to my sources, Senator Lindsey Graham, who is very close to John McCain, and told him: you've got to get the people in the McCain campaign, you've got to convince John McCain to give these Republicans some political cover. If you don't do that, this whole bailout plan is going to fail. So that's how, McCain, apparently, became involved.

Continued Schieffer . . .

SCHIEFFER: He has gotten what he wants, he's going to have this meeting, kind of a summit today with the president and Barack Obama. I'm told that the leaders of both parties are getting close to having some kind of a bill. The question, though, is whether rank-and-file Republicans, especially, are going to vote for this. Link

Paulson wanted, according to the CBS reporter, McCain to come and rally the GOP support that would be needed to get any deal passed in Congress.

 

[mrsv98]

Not that this would matter to anyone here, but CBS's Bob Schieffer said this morning that the "stunt" was at the request of Treasury Secretary Paulson:

And once at band camp.....

 

[rayelias]

Exactly.

And where was McCain the day Hurricane Katrina hit? Or for that matter, where was Bush?

Ah. So there's the rub. ONLY Obama can multi-task. McCain & Bush can't.

How non-partisan of you. That's the way to promote hope, change, and unity!

 

[elan]

Not that this would matter to anyone here, but CBS's Bob Schieffer said this morning that the "stunt" was at the request of Treasury Secretary Paulsonaulson wanted, according to the CBS reporter, McCain to come and rally the GOP support that would be needed to get any deal passed in Congress.

So McCain just went along with suspending his own campaign because he was asked? Do you think he will if asked again?

 

[Laugh O. Grams]

Ah. So there's the rub. ONLY Obama can multi-task. McCain & Bush can't.

How non-partisan of you. That's the way to promote hope, change, and unity!

Wow! Are you saying that Brianne is actually Sen. Obama?!?! How cool!

 

[Brianne]

Ah. So there's the rub. ONLY Obama can multi-task. McCain & Bush can't.

How non-partisan of you. That's the way to promote hope, change, and unity!

I find that it works better when one tells the truth. How can someone begin to trust a person if there are too many lies being told?

Oh, and for the record, I don't agree with lying on either side, and I do think Obama's told a couple whoppers in this election as well.

And no, I don't think Bush can multi-task. Look up 9/11 and "My Pet Goat". Never mind the fact that he didn't address the economy until last night? It's not like this happened overnight.