BREAKING NEWS: McCain SUSPENDS HIS CAMPAIGN (merged)

[Nikolokolus]

Well played, Senator. Well played.

-Pop

In fencing that would be parry, riposte, touche'

I do however think that McCain made a really brilliant move, tactically speaking, grabbing the headlines when his poll numbers were starting to sag a bit. I have a feeling we'll see this call to suspend the debate/campaign shore up the slide that he was starting to go through, but I'll give Obama and his advisers credit for coming up with a fairly deft response.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

Did McCain said he wanted to pass on the debate? I'll answer that for you: He didn't. He said he wanted to delay it. Of all the the debates, McCain wants the one on foreign policy and national security. By asking for a delay, he's only hurting his chances. However, it does jibe with "Country First".

Not following you. First you say brilliant strategic move (something about changing the rules for his benefit) and now you are saying the decision shows country first?

 

[drexlersdad]

its not as if mccain is a dealbreaker in negotiations. i thought our economy was fine anyways.

obama should have no problem contributing to help this crisis brought on by the very republicans he will undoubtedly wallop in november.

while still getting that very message across to the voters.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

Re: McCain wants to postpone Friday's debate

This whole election is being turned into a referendum on Sarah Palin.

Because it was such a gimmick selection . . . it speaks volumes about McCain

 

[The_Lillard_King]

So does this mean we will see less of the MILF Palin the next few days?

No, you will continue to see her, she will just continue to refuse media interivews.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

Re: McCain wants to postpone Friday's debate

It really pisses me off when a senator runs for president and doesn't resign from his senate seat so someone can be appointed to actually do the job.

Why would he resign . . . that means he wouldn't have a job after the election. : )

 

[Real]

Re: McCain wants to postpone Friday's debate

Because it was such a gimmick selection . . . it speaks volumes about McCain

How is it a gimmick?

 

[Jurassic]

Honestly this could be the decision that costs McCain the election IMO. Running from opposition, cowardly. Get in your hotel room study, make your aides work twice as hard covering all of the issues. Don't run away.

And LOL at whoever said that McCain is taking the high road and is up to Obama to follow.

 

[Real]

No, you will continue to see her, she will just continue to refuse media interivews.

She gave interviews to Gibson and Couric.

If most of the media is rooting for Obama either implicitly or explicitly, wouldn't you try to limit your exposure to them as much as possible?

 

[Minstrel]

If most of the media is rooting for Obama either implicitly or explicitly, wouldn't you try to limit your exposure to them as much as possible?

If you knew you'd look bad talking about the issues, due to lack of knowledge, that is definitely the excuse you'd make up to avoid interviews, yes.

 

[Real]

If you knew you'd look bad talking about the issues, due to lack of knowledge, that is definitely the excuse you'd make up to avoid interviews, yes.

You completely missed the point.

She's going to get hammered by these people regardless.

 

[Real]

Honestly this could be the decision that costs McCain the election IMO. Running from opposition, cowardly. Get in your hotel room study, make your aides work twice as hard covering all of the issues. Don't run away.

And LOL at whoever said that McCain is taking the high road and is up to Obama to follow.

The campaigns would be suspended.

Instead of bashing each other over the head through tv ads, these two guys would be going back to their jobs, working together in a bi-partisan fashion to get something done to save us from going further into the depths of economic hell.

I thought that was the change we need.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

She gave interviews to Gibson and Couric.

If most of the media is rooting for Obama either implicitly or explicitly, wouldn't you try to limit your exposure to them as much as possible?

While presidential nominees John McCain and Barack Obama each held press conferences where they addressed the Treasury Department’s $700 billion rescue plan for the financial markets, and Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden continued to make news with his awkward remarks, Palin continued to sidestep the media to an almost unprecedented degree for a national campaign.

Perhaps as a result, Palin’s meetings with foreign leaders Tuesday were nearly marred by stories chronicling her campaign’s brief standoff with reporters over access to her pre-meeting photo ops.

Palin, who has not held a single press conference since McCain announced her as the Republican vice presidential candidate, in the past week has held only one rally on her own, and has ditched her print press contingent to make an ice cream run with her family andto pose for staged photos with foreign leaders.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/200...politico/13823

 

[julius]

This kind of seems to suggest he doesn't have the ability to deal with major issues AND still be president.

 

[maxiep]

Re: McCain wants to postpone Friday's debate

I don't think it's changing the discussion. I am talking about perception. You generally only get credit for "doing your job" and "doing the right thing" if people feel you're doing it genuinely, and not to try and get good PR. So, I think whether it is seen as a "stunt" or not is entirely germane.

We'll agree to disagree.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

This kind of seems to suggest he doesn't have the ability to deal with major issues AND still be president.

Agreed. Economics isn't even McCain's strong point. He is one of how many senators?

The country is about to vote for a new president, independents are registering at record rates and McCain decides to "delay" the debate to go deal with the financial crisis. What exactly is McCain going to do besides retract his recent statement that the American economy is fine.

 

[maxiep]

Just like I suspected. Obama says exactly what I expected him to say:



Well played, Senator. Well played.

-Pop

I guess he realized if he couldn't vote "present", it was best to stay away completely. I'm disappointed. As the de-facto leader of his party and a member of the Senate, he should be working in DC to help fix this problem. Given his record as a US Senator, this act is par for the course.

 

[Minstrel]

You completely missed the point.

She's going to get hammered by these people regardless.

I didn't miss the point. I'm saying that your contention that all the media is rooting for Obama and inherently opposed to the GOP is an assertion without basis and is simply part of the rhetoric around Palin's refusal to talk to the media. It's the standard thing...whenever you avoid a certain group, you paint them as the enemy.

 

[maxiep]

Not following you. First you say brilliant strategic move (something about changing the rules for his benefit) and now you are saying the decision shows country first?

It's two, two moves in one!

 

[drexlersdad]

I guess he realized if he couldn't vote "present", it was best to stay away completely. I'm disappointed. As the de-facto leader of his party and a member of the Senate, he should be working in DC to help fix this problem. Given his record as a US Senator, this act is par for the course.

im just wondering, this "voting present" thing you keep reffering to. nearly all of the illinois senate would do it on a regular basis. critcizing ANYONE for doing it seems only to announce that you do not fully understand how the legislative process works. he voted present on 130 bills out of over 4000.

 

[maxiep]

im just wondering, this "voting present" thing you keep reffering to. nearly all of the illinois senate would do it on a regular basis. critcizing ANYONE for doing it seems only to announce that you do not fully understand how the legislative process works. he voted present on 130 bills out of over 4000.

I know how the Illinois legislative process works; Barack Obama was my State Senator. I still think it's a chickenshit thing to do.

 

[mook]

You completely missed the point.

She's going to get hammered by these people regardless.

I've seen thousands of staunch conservatives come on Meet the Press and This Week and Charlie Rose over many years. They never seemed overly worried about getting "hammered." Are you saying she's much more vulnerable than all those people?

My goodness, if she needs such protection from America's own media, what chance does she stand against Vladimir Putin or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Will we have to protect her from them as well?

I thought she was supposed to be the barracuda moose killing pit bull. She can't hack it against some latte-sipping Prius-driving liberal media elites like Charlie Rose?

Here's a photo of Charlie Rose. I'm no barracuda, but he doesn't look that terrifying to me:

No matter how you spin it, Biden has given upwards of 80 interviews since nominated. Palin has given two, and one was an infomercial on Fox:

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[Denny Crane]

Re: McCain wants to postpone Friday's debate

Why would he resign . . . that means he wouldn't have a job after the election. : )

Lieberman should have resigned in 2000 when he was running for VP, and Kerry in 2004 too. That he and Kerry didn't may have swung enough voters for the republicans to win.

 

[drexlersdad]

Re: McCain wants to postpone Friday's debate

Lieberman should have resigned in 2000 when he was running for VP, and Kerry in 2004 too. That he and Kerry didn't may have swung enough voters for the republicans to win.

haha yeah either that or blatant voter fraud.

 

[mook]

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BTW-- before you get too scared of the black eye, he got it by tripping in a pothole in NYC. He got the black eye while saving his Macbook.

 

[e_blazer]

I don't know for sure, but Obama might be a bit more comfortable if Biden were kept under wraps a little more.

So far, he's said that Hillary might have been a better VP than himself, he said that Obama's recent commercial was "terrible", he contradicted Obama on the AIG bailout, and then he got in this beauty in an interview with Katie Couric:

“When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'”

Of course, Hoover, not FDR, was president when the market crashed in 1929 and television hadn't been invented yet.

Oops.

 

[Denny Crane]

Re: McCain wants to postpone Friday's debate

haha yeah either that or blatant voter fraud.

Where's all the whining about the electronic voting machines fixing the elections? Oh yeah, the Democrats won, they seem happy with them now.

 

[mook]

I know how the Illinois legislative process works; Barack Obama was my State Senator. I still think it's a chickenshit thing to do.

It was only 3% of the time....

 

[drexlersdad]

Re: McCain wants to postpone Friday's debate

Where's all the whining about the electronic voting machines fixing the elections? Oh yeah, the Democrats won, they seem happy with them now.

i dont know about happy, i still think they are a horrible idea. do you like them?

 

[Denny Crane]

Re: McCain wants to postpone Friday's debate

i dont know about happy, i still think they are a horrible idea. do you like them?

No. I didn't like the republicans, either.

Sadly, I suppose, I do think things were a lot better ~2 years ago before the Dems took control of the congress.

EDIT: My bad. If you're talking about the machines, they're fine.