How stupid does he really think we are? In a feeble attempt to make it look like he is so worried about how they’re doing in Washington with the Wall Street rescue plan, he went on television and announced he’s suspending his campaign, pulling his ads and immediately going to D.C. to help with negotiations. Oh, and he said he asked Obama to do the same thing.
Now for the REAL chronology of events: Sen. Barack Obama, in a news conference later Wednesday, said that he and McCain had spoken by phone and had agreed to issue a joint statement about shared principles in the approach to resolving the economic crisis.
But he disagreed with McCain’s call for postponing Friday’s first presidential debate in Oxford, Mississippi.
“It’s my belief that this is exactly the time when the American people need to hear from the person will be the next president,” Obama said. “It is going to be part of the president’s job to deal with more than one thing at once. It’s more important than ever to present ourselves to the American people.”
Regarding McCain’s call to join him in Washington to help participate in the debate over the economic recovery plan, Obama said: “I will be anywhere at any time,” he said. “If you need us I’ll be there.”
Announcing his decision to suspend his campaign, McCain said, “I am calling on the president to convene a meeting with the leadership from both houses of Congress, including Senator Obama and myself. It is time for both parties to come together to solve this problem.” (No such meeting was even discussed, let alone scheduled)
Barack Obama said he wants Friday’s scheduled presidential debate to go ahead, despite John McCain’s call for a suspension of campaigning to deal with the faltering economy.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid issued a statement saying the presidential debate should go on and that McCain’s negotiations should not be a “photo op.”
“It would not be helpful at this time to have them come back during these negotiations and risk injecting presidential politics into this process or distract important talks about the future of our nation’s economy,” the statement said. “We need leadership, not a campaign photo op.”
“If there were ever a time for both candidates to hold a debate before the American people about this serious challenge, it is now,” he added. He also said that they haven’t heard hide nor hair from John McCain on this issue, so why now? In fact, he hasn’t made one Senate vote since April 8th. At least Barack Obama continued to vote until July 19th!
Obama called McCain early Wednesday morning to ask for a joint statement, a McCain senior advisor said.
An Obama campaign source confirmed the call and said that McCain returned his call six hours later, and accepted the concept and suggested the two of them return to Washington to join the negotiations. The source says that Obama told him that he would do that only if negotiators saw it as useful.
According to the Obama source, soon after they ended the call, McCain announced he was suspending his campaign and returning to Washington.
Stunt? Fear? One-upmanship attempt? Just plain old stupidity?
The University of Mississippi, site of this year’s first presidential debate, released a statement Wednesday afternoon saying the school still expects the event to take place as scheduled Friday evening.
“The University of Mississippi is going forward with the preparation for the debate. We are ready to host the debate, and we expect the debate to occur as planned,” read the statement. “At present, the University has received no notification of any change in the timing or venue of the debate. We have been notified by the Commission on Presidential Debates that we are proceeding as scheduled.
Hmmm. Seems everyone but McCain is still planning on having a debate Friday night.
What are your thoughts?
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Wednesday, 24. September 2008
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Leigh Reply:
September 24th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Hi, Jamie.
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Wednesday, 24. September 2008
Excuse me, but it seems a bit much for you to be accusing someone you don’t even know personally of being “stupid” or of being insincere about his wanting to help if possible with this situation. You can disagree with a persons stand on issues but when you go verbally assasinating him as a person you don’t even show the respect that your candidate shows towards his opponent. You don’t know his heart any more than you know your own candidates heart. What if it had been Obama that suspended his campaign to try and help if help was needed? Would that have gotten the same treatment by you ? And Harry Reid ? The man who has bad mouthed our soldiers efforts in Iraq and said long ago that the war is lost ?Why quote him? I don’t think he has much influence anywhere in this country.
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Leigh Reply:
September 24th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Hi, RogerDJ. Thank you for taking the time to leave your thoughts.
First of all, let me begin by saying I didn’t accuse him of being stupid. I asked a question. I asked if it was a stunt, fear, or perhaps plain old stupidity. Even though I didn’t outright accuse him of stupidity, I can say that his actions don’t smack of wise decision-making. I really think he shot himself in the foot with that move.
Secondly, I didn’t quote Harry Reid; CNN did. I simply relayed what they said.
I hope that answers your concerns about what I posted. Thanks again for taking the time to comment.
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RogerDJ Reply:
September 25th, 2008 at 5:02 am
While I appreciate the reply, I disagree. Your implications are clear throughout the tone and words you chose. While you yourself did not quote Harry Reid, you posted his comments to bolster your own comments. The whole post is a derision of Senator McCain based on your judgment of his heart motives and that is the heart of my response to you which you did not address in your reply.
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Leigh Reply:
September 25th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Hi, RogerDJ. I appreciate where you’re coming from, and will try to speak more pointedly to your comment.
Harry Reid was quoted in the story; I posted the story. I posted the story because I think it is important, and because I really can’t stand the thought of McCain being President. It’s downright scary. And please, with all due respect, if you think his move yesterday was solely because he only wanted to help and had nothing to do with wanting to appear the superhero, not to mention political positioning, then I believe there might be a bridge in Alaska you might want to buy. I mean really, only 40 days out from the election EVERYTHING they do is 100% political positioning and trying to bolster their campaigns. The difference between Obama and McCain is that Obama actually sits back and takes the time to make a rational, well thought out decision, whereas McCain is reckless and impulsive. I do NOT want that kind of person in the White House!
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RogerDJ Reply:
September 26th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Well, you’re a little closer to the point I was making.
My point was that neither you or I or anybody else is in a position to say he did it for political gain. If so , you could just as well say that Obama does what he does for appearances sake, thereby eliminating credit for his “rational, well thought out decision”. You are not inside his mind and heart. Can you at least admit that you really don’t know for sure what his real motives are ? Or do you profess to be able to know another persons secret thoughts and motives of his heart as, say,…. God ? It’s fine if you don’t want him as president. But why this attack on him for something you have absolutely no way of knowing. He’s a US Senator. He’s doing his job. He wants to be where the action is that will affect every one of us for some time to come. There’s no reason not to give him that much credit regardless if you want him to lead or not. And by the way, that bridge does not exist. Thanks for your polite responses. So many out there are using the worst kind of diatribes and insults in commenting on these things.
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Leigh Reply:
September 27th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Hi again, RogerDJ. Just a couple of points I want to make. First of all, the bridge thing? I know it doesn’t exist. That was the point of my comment. As in, “If you believe all the moves these two men make at this point in time are not politically motivated or an attempt for political positioning, then they have a bridge you can buy in Alaska”. You see?
Secondly, NONE of us EVER know what’s in another’s heart or mind PRECISELY, but that doesn’t stop us from making assumptions, decisions and judgments every single day about people. A far-fetched application of your way of thinking is that we could never really know what was in the heart and mind of a person who committed a crime — whether it was with malice or not — so therefore we should not judge them in a court of law. I know, it’s ridiculous, right? But on a certain level, so is your argument. There is NO DOUBT that every move both McCain and Obama are making right now are ABSOLUTELY motivated by their need and desire to position themselves in the best possible light for election to the office of President of the United States! That’s a given, Roger. But the argument is moot now, since he DID go to Washington and ended up screwing everything up! And by the way, you know that “suspension” of his campaign? Yeah, it never happened. When over 15 of his campaign offices in key battleground areas were called and asked if they suspended campaigning for the time, they answered a great big NO, and some of them hadn’t even heard about it! Now, what does that tell you?
As far as secret thoughts go, of course I don’t profess to know anyone’s. But the things politicians do, especially so close to the election, are FAR from personal thoughts! Motives are much more easily deciphered. After all, a doctor’s motive for treating you is to make you well; a politician’s motive for doing what he/she does is to get elected. Period.
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