McCain Suspends Campaign

[lostfan]

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelst...mccain-got-invo

It may or may not have been a stunt, but given all the circumstances around it it certainly seems to have been handled like one.

 

Then again... one month before the election, everything either of them does is going to be viewed that way.

Edited September 25, 2008 by lostfan

[Texsox]

All this spin has me thinking

 

[Soxbadger]

The part about McCain coming in and saving the bail out was pretty predictable.

 

I told my sister last night that if Republican's were really smart they would stall on the bail out and then have McCain come to Washington as the savior and fix it.

 

The only problem is if people believe that a President has to face multiple challenges and that McCain should be able to handle a debate and the economy, because if this was some sort of international crisis and economic crisis he couldnt just call up the international crisis and suspend it while he works on the other one.

 

 

[Texsox]

Yep, when the planes hit the tower, Bush finished reading the kids story, then took off on Air Force Uno.

[Rex Kickass]

Its not just that one piece. Its been the Clinton's behavior ever since it because clear that Barack was going to be the nominee. They have pretty well undercut him every chance they got, even when it didn't make any sense. Something like this is just another piece of that puzzle IMO.

 

I would say that this is more Bill Clinton's behavior rather than Hillary. Hillary has actually been quite the good soldier.

[lostfan]

I would say that this is more Bill Clinton's behavior rather than Hillary. Hillary has actually been quite the good soldier.

I concur, and I've been a pretty big Hillary hater for a while to boot. Even if she's being phony and talking through clenched teeth, she's giving at least the impression that she's completely in the tank for Obama.

[Rex Kickass]

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelst...mccain-got-invo

 

Paulson said come and help, not why don't you stop the campaign and postpone the debate? Here's the other thing that bothers me, Paulson and Obama consulted twice yesterday on the phone, according to the Obama campaign. Paulson had to go through Lindsey Graham to get to McCain?

[HuskyCaucasian]

Prediction:

 

McCain will arrive in DC tomorrow, after the framework of a deal has been done by Congress.

and take credit for passing the bailout like he did with the GI Bill.

[southsider2k5]

I would say that this is more Bill Clinton's behavior rather than Hillary. Hillary has actually been quite the good soldier.

 

She even kept her campaign going WAY longer than she should have, giving the GOP much campaign fodder to attack Obama on. Bill has definately been worse though.

[Texsox]

Paulson said come and help, not why don't you stop the campaign and postpone the debate? Here's the other thing that bothers me, Paulson and Obama consulted twice yesterday on the phone, according to the Obama campaign. Paulson had to go through Lindsey Graham to get to McCain?

 

Or chose to go through Graham to make McCain look bad.

[HuskyCaucasian]

Not sure if this was already mentioned in here:

 

 

 

Maybe the main objective in all of this is to stall for Palin and give her more time to learn on the job. This is becoming a joke.

Postponing the VP debate is F'in ridiculous. Now his real motives have become clear.

[Texsox]

She even kept her campaign going WAY longer than she should have, giving the GOP much campaign fodder to attack Obama on. Bill has definately been worse though.

 

With enthusiastic supporters all the way to the convention. I kept my campaign going way longer, it's just no one noticed

 

The campaign is the volunteers.

[HuskyCaucasian]

seems like McCain didnt REALLY suspend his campaign:

Lemme see, two of McCain's press spokespeople on TV attacking Obama; McCain attack ads up on TV across the country. This is the suspension? What did I miss?

 

The guy is literally out of control. At what point do his friends need to start discussing an intervention?

[BigSqwert]

Bob Barr has finally sensed his opening. With Senator McCain calling for Friday's debate to be postponed, the former Georgia congressman and Libertarian Party nominee says he is eager to fill in as a replacement.

 

"Given Senator McCain's political stunt to avoid the debate, I ask that Friday's debate moves forward without him, as I am more than willing to step in to participate," Mr. Barr said in a statement this morning.

 

Mr. Barr, who is polling in the low single digits, was excluded from the three presidential debates and had been planning to host a separate, simultaneous event Friday night in which he responded to the candidates and the questions in real time.

 

LINK

 

If this were to happen it would be a death blow for McCain. Giving Barr a spotlight will eat into McCain votes.

[HuskyCaucasian]

McCain admits he hasn't had a chance to look at the Paulson plan yet.

 

Is he kidding? The Paulson plan is like three pages long.

 

 

So, McCain is marching into Washington to fix a plan he has never read. Yea.....

[HuskyCaucasian]

LINK

 

If this were to happen it would be a death blow for McCain. Giving Barr a spotlight will eat into McCain votes.

Sweet. Great idea. I actually hate the 2 party debates. I'd open it up to the "main 3" (Barr, Obama and McCain) and maybe even throw in Ralph Nader to be fair.

[Texsox]

 

So, McCain is marching into Washington to fix a plan he has never read. Yea.....

No, he's marching into Washington to pull together Republicans to back a plan. Which plan has not been determined.

[BigSqwert]

Sweet. Great idea. I actually hate the 2 party debates. I'd open it up to the "main 3" (Barr, Obama and McCain) and maybe even throw in Ralph Nader to be fair.

 

What I'm saying is what if Obama shows up to the debate and McCain doesn't thus allowing Obama to debate Barr? Barr would get a nation wide audience to hear his views and since his constituency is mostly conservative, McCain's absence could blow up in his face.

 

 

[HuskyCaucasian]

What I'm saying is what if Obama shows up to the debate and McCain doesn't thus allowing Obama to debate Barr? Barr would get a nation wide audience to hear his views and since his constituency is mostly conservative, McCain's absence could blow up in his face.

CNN (via HuffingtonPost):

"[McCain officials] understand very well that both the Obama campaign and the debate commission have no intention of delaying Friday's debate, but...if there is no bailout deal by Friday, McCain has no plan to go to debate."

[BigSqwert]

So if that were to happen and Barr were invited as a replacement, Obama would get free airtime to millions of viewers to spell out his goals as President and Barr would get a free opportunity to introduce himself to America. Win/Win for the Obama campaign.

[HuskyCaucasian]

So if that were to happen and Barr were invited as a replacement, Obama would get free airtime to millions of viewers to spell out his goals as President and Barr would get a free opportunity to introduce himself to America. Win/Win for the Obama campaign.

i doubt Barr would be invited. Call my cynical, but McCain would b**** and moan to no end and say the media has it in for him... blah blah blah.

It wont happen.

[BigSqwert]

I like this comment from a TPM reader:

 

The current stunt is certainly at the top of the list, but I think there is another aspect of his rash decision to suspend the Republican National Convention that has not been commented on enough. It wasn't just that he truncated the convention. It was that his campaign leaked that he might give his acceptance speech by live feed from the disaster zone. As if he, John S. McCain III, somehow had to be there......doing what? Commandeering FEMA? This idea that McCain had to be there in the disaster zone instead of addressing his party in St. Paul is in some ways even more ridiculous than the notion that only he could save the Wall Street bailout and that the only way to do that is to "suspend" his campaign. (Although as you and John Aravosis point out, he has a funny way of suspending his campaign given that he's doing everything he was planning on doing anyway, except debating Obama.)

[HuskyCaucasian]

Obama Will Make Debate A Townhall If McCain Doesn't Show

 

Barack Obama is committed to hosting a public, televised event Friday night in Mississippi even if John McCain does not show up, a source close to the Obama campaign tells the Huffington Post.

 

The Senator, the source says, is willing to make the scheduled debate a townhall meeting, a one-on-one interview with NewsHour's Jim Lehrer, or the combination of the two in McCain's absence.

 

Such a course of action could make life incredibly difficult for McCain, who has called for the suspension of the debate in light of the current economic crisis. Should he stay in Washington D.C. -- if a bailout if not completed by then -- and let Obama alone reach tens-of-millions of television viewers?

 

A lot, of course, depends upon what the debate commission decides to do. At this point in time, there is no indication that they are going to postpone the affair, as the McCan campaign has asked.

[Steve9347]

Lots of typos in that article, but good news nonetheless.

[mr_genius]

Yeah that was me.

Hmm, I see the new Obamatron software patch included stealing my robotics based jokes.