BREAKING: John McCain asks for debate postponement!

[Subdivisions]

On now at MSNBC-TV. Says he needs to work on bailout bill.

[NNN0LHI]

1. He is sick again

[libertypirate]

2. McSame just blinked!

I think they are trying to stop the bleeding.

[sakabatou]

3. Did he piss in his pants when he knew he was going to fail?

[guitar man]

4. chickenshit!!

He's afraid to debate Obama, spread the word, loud and wide!!! :bounce:

[Jack_Dawson]

6. Second that!

[firedupdem]

5. When his campaign manager was completely busted yesterday

he figured he had to wait for it to cool down! He's not working on the bail out!! All he needs to do is vote on it! Barack is kicking his ass!!!!!

[AlCzervik]

7. McCain has seen the poll numbers, he's so weak and he scared to debate.

[Mabus]

8. What? He can't fuck things up from afar?

So he's going to head back to Washington and go back to work for his buddies.

[DemoRabbit]

9. He's doing way more than that - he's requesting Obama

he's suspending his presidential campaign to return to washington to work on this bill... he has spoken to Obama and requests he do the same

[lame54]

10. delay it till tuesday when more people will be watching

[kskiska]

11. Obama is ahead in the polls

and has momentum.

[derby378]

12. Did McCain just hand the White House to Obama?

I gotta sit down for this one - I'm feeling faint.

[elizfeelinggreat]

13. UNbelievable

And he'll probably get it ...


Let's see now, as president he would just postpone the tough jobs in favor of something he'd rather do, right?

[firedupdem]

14. He'd rather quit the campaign instead of getting his ass kicked

by a black guy! LOL!!!!!!!

[Sydnie]

15. Not very good at multitasking, is he?

That's what phone conferences are for John, to brainstorm with your colleagues while taking care of other business.

Hope he has Aflac, he's going to need it when he has no job next year. :)

[orleans]

16. oh, no-no-no. n/t

[Jack_Dawson]

17. Backing Down from a Fight - Howz that play in Red America?

:shrug:

It's over.

:beer:

[orleans]

18. randi just announced it and said faux is reporting it n/t

[PA Democrat]

19. Any bill that has McCain's fingerprints on it is one that anyone with a BRAIN would

run away from as quickly as possible. Who is the economic moron going get to advise him? Phil (Americans are whiners) Gramm AKA Mr. Enron. Carly Fiorina fired CEO of HP with the $42 million golden parachute who spied on her employees and outsourced tens of thousands of jobs? Some other vile poster child for corporate malfeasance?

Hope McCain brings his slide rule and his copy of Ekonomicks $ Dummies.

[TahitiNut]

20. "The sky is falling! The sky is falling! The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Postpone debate!"

[McCamy Taylor]

21. OMG! Cut and Run!

[morgan2]

22. I think that'll play well for mccain

fitting into his so called "country first" strategy. Showing he realizes how serious this is, and needs to be working on it not playing politics.

[Gin]

24. I bet he initiates some dumb bill just to get his name on it saying...see I am working

for you little people.

[rateyes]

23. WOW! What should Obama do?

I would say, "I'm working on it, now. And, this is the best time for us to talk to the American people about it. And, I can take a couple of hours off for the debate. In fact, I think we should change the subject matter of the debate from foreign policy to the economy."

[crickets]

45. BINGO!

Then we'd all see who has a greater grasp on this and the best ideas for dealing with it--as if we didn't know already. I like.

[Canuckistanian]

25. McSame is going back to the Senate??

I hope he remembers where it is.

[glinda]

26. IF TRUE THAT BUSH DECLARES IT A NATIONAL EMERGENCY

then we are f*#%@ed.

WHERE THE HELL ARE THE DEMS AND THE SMALL AMOUNT OF GOOD REPUBLICANS?????????????

[ahhaammhm]

27. I don't THINK so. . . .

Wow. Leave it to McCain to make this century's most important debate an afterthought while he whisks away to Washington to TAKE CARE OF OUR BUSINESS. I feel much better now. Please, please don't throw me in that briar patch!

[MadrasT]

28. Oh, hell, YES!

[bdamomma]

29. financial shock and awe

unbelieveable. financial 9/11, the sky is falling the sky is falling what total BS, FEAR USE FEAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHATEVER IT TAKES, I hate these people.

[girl gone mad]

30. I told my husband just last night that..

I thought he wasn't going to go through with the debate.

He has looked very unhealthy for weeks now. He ran off the stage yesterday after he started to have a "senior moment". I think he is heavily medicated, but the meds aren't working properly.

[bdamomma]

31. let's fight back guys, call your reps and Senators and say

no bailout, they are playing us as fools again.

[redqueen]

32. He is incompetent!

You can't just shut everything down every time there's a crisis!

[bdamomma]

33. I hope this flys back in McCains face.

what he can't multi task, this is their way of getting out of the debates.

[redqueen]

35. How could it not? If he wants to stop campaigning cause he can't walk and chew gum at the same time,

fair enough.

But to propose that a debate be cancelled? He can't spare a couple of hours?

Nonsense! Lunacy!

He should be embarrassed, as should his supporters. This is just pathetic. Flat-out pathetic.

[dysfunctional press]

40. well...cnn could continue to show a serious looking mchoover in front of american flags...

and play up the seriousness of the situation...

for one thing.

[bdamomma]

42. and I guess wall street is more important than the presidency.

[Hatfield]

34. Didn't McCain say last week that the economy is "Fundamentally Strong"

And now he's running, or in his case riding his rascal scooter back to the white house to fix something that he feels is "Strong" The dipshit even said himself that he wasn't very well versed in economic policy.

Somethin stinks folks, bad, what the hell are they up to this time?

[Gin]

36. he is sounding the alarm bells worse than Paulson.......

this is a ploy...and it will backfire...the general public does not want a bailout..

[bdamomma]

43. to get the Congress to fork over our money, to one person

$700 billion of it to bail out their friends on Wall Street.

[DeschutesRiver]

37. A repeat of how he cut and tried to run from his own RNC

after panicking about watching Obama at the DNC. He pretended he was needed in the hurricane areas; in fact, there were tons of folks in charge there and his presence wasn't needed at all. He just didn't know what to do about a failing convention, and it was after that that he cam up with the wild shot Palin, once it was clear the hurricanes would not provide an excuse.

Same deal here - this is a campaign to elect a president in one of the scariest times I've seen. There is nothing more important than that, when I consider we have a whole Congress full already of bright senators, a whole House of Reps, a whole administration no matter how dumb they are. There are plenty of qualified people working on this issue.

Somehow, McCain thinks we need one more Senator on this, and esp. one who graduated 5th from the bottom of his class, says he knows zip about the economy, and in fact, said it was fundamentally strong last week?

Maybe he is going to Washington for the same reasons that Palin hit the U.N - a field trip as a crash course in something he knows nothing about. And of course, it is the perfect "excuse" in his mind to not do the debate, without shame.

This is Wednesday - the debate is Friday night. Only McCain can't handle doing more than one crisis at a time. He is unfit for office, and that is now an obvious fact.

[dysfunctional press]

38. He's admitted not knowing anything about the economy- what the hell help would he be?

he was the one always pushing for de-regulation- he helped out his buddies on the keating 5, his son was on the audit committee of a bank that failed last month...we'd be better off letting him stay as far away from it as possible.

[sonias]

41. Bingo you got that right

He's been pretty useless coming up with any solutions in his career up to now, so what can we expect from him? Nada, zip, zilch. It's a ploy to make him look like he gives a damn. This guy who doesn't know how many houses he owns is going to "fix" our financial crisis. Yeah right!


Sonia

[misanthrope]

39. If Obama had the gumption...

...he could make some serious hay with this.

"Sarah Palin's running from the press while John McCain's running from the debates. And they want to be your leaders?"

This couldn't be more transparent. He's already stated his position. What's he going to do in Washington that can't be done from the road?

[elizfeelinggreat]

44. New Thread needed

Look at this :

Republican presidential candidate John McCain announces he'll suspend his campaign and return to Washington in order to focus on the economic crisis. McCain also seeks to delay Friday's debate with Democratic rival Barack Obama.

I don't know how to start a new thread but this is bigger than a postponement - he's going to STOP campaigning?

he must know he's out of the game.


ETA: I did manage to start a new thread :)