What a relief. So after tonight the old man will finally be K.O.

John's done with his nap.

But not any pork, the Democrats have actually earmarked the bill with 100 million dollars for left wing organizers left-wing housing entitlement mobsters and heavily tax-subsidized fraudsters at ACORN. As some of you may already know, ACORN is already under federal investigation for election FRAUD and other unwholesome acts.

http://savagepolitics.com/

When you read the Democrat earmark, specifically Section 5 of the Chris Dodd counter-proposal to the Paulson Plan, a large portion of any repayment of the $700 billion would go to the ‘uber community organizers’ of ACORN, with a smaller allocation to debt repayment. It specifically promises a minimum 20% of the ‘profits’ from the Treasury’s sale of assets to The Housing Trust Fund and the Capital Magnet Fund. (CLICK HERE TO READ THIS SECTION OF THE BAILOUT)

That is the problem with Barak, he can't KO anybody. I have given him money, I have been to the rally's but he can't seal the deal. What is the problem?

What time is this on? Anybody???

As usual, another flip-flop from McStain on America!

The funny part will be when McCain wipes Obama's butt during the debate tonight, when everyone knows Obama has been cramming for it all week.......

Looks like McCain thinks he has already won the debate since he has an ad saying so:

http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/9/26/105843/780

I just heard that they weren't closer to an agreement??? And I still don't understand why he and Obama even came to DC and why he would cancel the debate. And is McCain for or against the bailout?

andy: Tune in tonight. The deal will be not only signed, but sealed and delivered. This is so juicy, you just cannot make this stuff up!

I guess his work is done. Glad he was able to help out. It is obvious that McCain play an integral role in this whole mess.

The political meltdown of the inept campaign of John McCain continues. Stay tuned.

Yes, the ACORN earmark was a BIG part of the reason the Republicans were not wanting to go in favor of the bill.

Obama was the ACORN attorney for several years.

That bit of showboating McCain did yesterday made him look like a fool. All he did was aggravate the problem. And today he had not choice but to attend the debate -- the public was demanding it.

McLame has been very rude to the debate planners. His fear mongering and manipulating is not appreciated in this critical time. Shame on him. The American public will not suffer anymore Bush tactics. John McCain is Just More of the Same.

Hope not fear! Obama/Biden '08!

What McSame has achieved by flying in Washington? NOTHING. He is making so much noise for nothing: a tornado in a bottle. He came to Washington thinking that the senate was his private property, now that he has realised that he can't do anything about the financial situation which 8 years of his republican policies have created, he is going back to debate. What a disaster. This guy cannot manage a rum shop in Kingston Jamaica and wants to manage the biggest economy in the world, the only one superpower. God save Amnerica from McPalin. God bless America and God bless Obama.

Another new position. Yesterday it was "I won't attend until there is an agreement".

From:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/mccain-and-bushs-kabuki-theatre-mccain.html

Thursday, September 25, 2008
Credit Where Credit Isn't Due: McCain and Bush's Kabuki Theatre

Now we know why McCain hired the Bush contingent.

It emerged in the White House briefing today that McCain called Bush and asked him to initiate a meeting today at 4 pm at the White House, putatively for him to "deal with" the crisis.

That is, McCain asked Bush to help him create an trifecta: To try to lend some credence to McCain's desperate assertion that a suspension of his campaign is necessary, in effect either avoiding a debate in which he would face critical questions about his stance on the economy or marching in claiming "victory"; attempting to co opt the financial crisis thereby trying to put an end to his plummeting in the polls created by his flailing positions on the economy--perhaps best reflected by his statement days ago that the "fundamentals of the economy are strong"; and also perhaps buying more time for Sarah Palin after her embarrassing photo op at the UN yesterday, by moving her debate forward as well.

Here's how it happened, according to Q and A at the WHB:

McCain emailed Bush asking for the 4 P.M. meeting. Now, one reasonably might ask, why is today such a necessity for McCain, if his interest is solely the national good?

Because it is before the debate. McCain hopes to stage a meeting at the White House, thereby, with Bush's cooperation, lending plausibility to his claim to need to suspend his campaign. Then, if Republicans, in their own electoral interest, can be persuaded to come to agreement, before the debate, he would claim--in an act of utter stage management--to have "resolved" the crisis. Thereby hoping to take the heat off on his past careening stances and sliding polls and staunch the bleeding on the polls--before the debate.

This is Kabuki Theatre masquerading as substance--no different than what we saw at the U.N. yesterday.

It is utterly stage managed, utterly cynical, and utterly unrelated to the substantive deliberation necessary to actually resolve these matters on the merits and for our nation's future, rather than for short-term and desperate political advantage.

These occurrences are equally important for what they indicate about McCain's governing style as they are for their impact upon democratic process: impulsive acts that rely on drama and theatrical posture rather than substantive reasoning and long-term deliberation; a strong willingness to sacrifice substantive reasoning, deliberative process, and even prior structures and agreements to immediate political need; an attempt to reach outcomes through last minute stage management rather than substantive argument.

These should create deep concern for anyone who wishes for a change in governmental process from the past eight years.

We have an economy, rather than a campaign, to rescue. Putting nation before politics means putting all attempts to resolve it before political attempts to co opt it--and to move towards one's commitments, rather than towards a more immediate and short-term salvation.

Cite:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/mccain-and-bushs-kabuki-theatre-mccain.html

Well, will the American people finally wake up and realize just how ambitious McCain is and how he will desperately grab at anything to win. He is the most erratic and his running mate the most dangerous candidate we've seen in a long time. I'm convinced McCain is bipolar and is in the early stages of dementia.Obama is right, he has neither the disposition or temperament to be President of the United States in a time that could arguably be worse than 9/11

I guess he can multitask.

McCan.

Now we can not only focus on the short-term "getting the bus out of the ditch", but also who we want the next driver to be.