John McCain just backed out of the Friday Presidential Debate

[240 is Back]

Stick to being a stay at home father

Everything I stated was fact.  Everything in that statement:

Mccain is using the discussion over the financial bailout to get out of facing Obama in Friday's Presidential debate in Mississippi.

McCain:
'I'm suspending my campaign' because of financial crisis, and want to delay the debate.

Obama:
"I'm preparing to debate on Friday.'
"My general view is that the american people need to know what we intend to do in moving the economy forward."
"It's more imporant than ever to debate these topics for the American people."

Obama went on to explain he will work hard on the bill, then fly to Miss. for the debate as planned.  After all, a President should be able to multi-task.

NOTE:
Keep in mind - Mccain fell from 2 points up, to NINE POINTS DOWN, from Sept 7th until today.  He hasn't let his VP selection Sarah palin take a single press conference in 4 weeks since announcing, and his campaign is running out of money.  He's now behind in Ohio, and the poll aggregates at www.pollster.com have him losing.  On top of all that, he's going to look very old and fragile next to a younger Obama at the debate, and he didn't want that.

[240 is Back]

That poll was skewed.The poll said it polled democrats 3-2 over republicans.Please,get your facts straight.By the way,in case you once again say "prove it",its right on the poll itself.

Sorry.  FOX news has Obama up by 5 points right now.  ABC has Obama up by ten.

These men who conduct the polls are statisticians and mathematitians who do this for a living.  There are currently NO polls which have Mccain leading. 

in fact, it's probably skewed FOR mccain, since cell phone users (younger obama voters) aren't polled, while lanedline users (old people- vote repub) are polled.

www.pollster.com has the collections of many polls.  Obama is leading.  Nobody denies this, at this point.

[dantelis]

Obama without a doubt put politics before the country and the lives or our troops.

http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/obama_iraq_troop_withdraw/2008/09/16/131238.html

 Despite his insistent demands for a rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama secretly urged Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement that would lead to a draw down in troop numbers.

A blockbuster expose in Monday's New York Post by Amir Tahiri revealed that Obama made his demand for the delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told The Post.

Not this s**t again.  Look at the source.  Tahiri's claims are an editorial in the NY Post (that bastion of journalistic integrity  ).  He doesn't have any proof to back up his claims.

[donrhummy]

Also, OBAMA called McCain and asked him to join in a JOINT statement about unity, non-partisanship and trying to find a good solution to the problem. McCain then spent the next siz hours working on a statement to upstage Obama, then called him back and AGREED to a JOINT statement (McCain's senior advisor confirmed this). Then just a few minutes after they got off the phone with Obama, they went ALONE on air and claimed they were asking Obama to join them. What a joke. So much for joint, non-partisanship. McCain doesn't give a crap about the issue, he just wants to win.

[The Coach]

Rob, your completely delusional if you think that McCain is purposly backing out of a FORIEGN POLICY debate especially since Obama is clueless on foreign policy. Get real dude....seriously your smarter than that.

[donrhummy]

Everything going on right now in the US is unprecedented 240.  We're crumbling down to nothing at a very fast rate.

Nope. Research "Savings and Loan crises" and "The Keating Five" to see how this happened before and also right before an election. You'll find McCain with some nice ties to that scandal as well.

[240 is Back]

Rob, your completely delusional if you think that McCain is purposly backing out of a FORIEGN POLICY debate especially since Obama is clueless on foreign policy. Get real dude....seriously your smarter than that.

As I've said before... in 1960, nixon handily defeated JFK in the debate - on the radio.  In person, Nixon looked like shit and JFK was a stud.  And, JFK won the election because of it.   Mccain knows he'll look 6 inches shorter, and 40 years older, than Obama at the debates.  He doesn't want to stand next to him.


Aside from that, think about this.  Obama said we should put forces into pakistan, and mccain didn't.  bush listened to Obama, and got the #3 al-Q man with a missile.   Obama wants to put more men and missiles into afghanistan to finish the job... mccain's fine with bush's plan, which has us there SEVEN years now with no victory in sight.

Obama will handle himself fine against mccain - and besides, mccain has his own foreign policy problems.  Mayor palin at VP got her passport in 2007.

[musclepug]

If Americans elect McCain over Obama it will confirm to the world what everyone already thinks: American foreign policy is a complete and utter joke.

Go Canada !!!

[Relentless]

Nope. Research "Savings and Loan crises" and "The Keating Five" to see how this happened before and also right before an election. You'll find McCain with some nice ties to that scandal as well.

Uhhh, nah, I don't think so.  You're taking a couple of similar situations and operating within that context completely.  All of the conflicts around the world combined with the entire globe relying on our financial system hasn't happened on this scale in modern history.  We're in much worse shape than those two events you just mentioned.

[donrhummy]

Uhhh, nah, I don't think so.  You're taking a couple of similar situations and operating within that context completely.  All of the conflicts around the world combined with the entire globe relying on our financial system hasn't happened on this scale in modern history.  We're in much worse shape than those two events you just mentioned.

Actually, there's plenty of evidence that the world is less dependent on the US than it was back then. But that aside, there are a ton of similarities, not least of which is that the same deregulation McCain argued in favor of led us to BOTH crises.

[Master Blaster]

As I've said before... in 1960, nixon handily defeated JFK in the debate - on the radio.  In person, Nixon looked like shit and JFK was a stud.  And, JFK won the election because of it.   Mccain knows he'll look 6 inches shorter, and 40 years older, than Obama at the debates.  He doesn't want to stand next to him.


Aside from that, think about this.  Obama said we should put forces into pakistan, and mccain didn't. bush listened to Obama, and got the #3 al-Q man with a missile.   Obama wants to put more men and missiles into afghanistan to finish the job... mccain's fine with bush's plan, which has us there SEVEN years now with no victory in sight.

Obama will handle himself fine against mccain - and besides, mccain has his own foreign policy problems.  Mayor palin at VP got her passport in 2007.

Dude, no victory in sight? Bush listening to Obama? Are you just trying to push peoples buttons?

[The Coach]

I think you mean Governor Palin as opposed to Jr. Senator Obama

[Relentless]

Actually, there's plenty of evidence that the world is less dependent on the US than it was back then. But that aside, there are a ton of similarities, not least of which is that the same deregulation McCain argued in favor of led us to BOTH crises.

Both candidates have their hands dirty with this whole mess.  Obama was taking money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, even when he knew the company was in huge financial trouble.  And I think things are much worse off than back in 1987 in the Savings and Loan crisis.  I could go on and on listing why this situation is worse, but I would end up writing a novel.  

[240 is Back]

Mccain hasn't been to Washington for votes since APRIL?  (Repub Senator Orrin Hatch just admitted it)
FACTS: McCain most absent-missed 412 out of 643 votes of current session, 109 of 110 since March

There isn't even a vote on Friday.  Just an ongoing discussion.

A President should be able to walk and chew gum at the same time!

If he can't work on economic legislation during the day, and head to a debate that evening, then I don't think he has the advanced capacity to be President.

[musclepug]

Canada supports Obama!!! Oh, and we have universal healthcare that works wonderfully. And, our economy is not ruined. I plan on hiring an American to do some landscaping in the near future. 

[Laura Lee]

http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/president/whos-ahead/polling/index.html

[BayGBM]

Canada supports Obama!!! Oh, and we have universal healthcare that works wonderfully. And, our economy is not ruined. I plan on hiring an American to do some landscaping in the near future. 

Ouch!

[240 is Back]

MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS -- Senator John McCain says he has not decided whether or not to support the Wall Street bailout package now being reviewed by Congress.

The price tag is $700 billion, but could run higher.

In an exclusive interview he told Tom Beres,"I have not had a chance to see it in writing. I have to examine it."

It's only 3 pages!

[240 is Back]

Simple question for McCain: If so urgent, why not fly back to DC immediately?

It's my understanding that McCain has been chaperoning Palin through her UN speed-dating circuit and is keeping his schedule to speak at the Clinton Global Initiative on Thursday, and is only flying back to DC after his speech.

If the situation in DC is so critical and urgent, then why isn't McCain flying back to DC today, right now?!?

[TPSRPBBW-fan1]

Obama = Politics before country.

I'm calling you out on being full of shit

If Obama backed out you'd call him a pussy and weak for the nation

when McCain does it, he's doing it "for the good of the nation"

Baa Baa goes coach the republican sheep

post again when you take a brief second to think about anything remotely political at all

[TPSRPBBW-fan1]

Rob, your completely delusional if you think that McCain is purposly backing out of a FORIEGN POLICY debate especially since Obama is clueless on foreign policy. Get real dude....seriously your smarter than that.

why not just tell us that you suck McCain's dick? you're ridiculous

[The Coach]

Hahaha...of course Canada supports a socialist/communist. They support their own!

[doozejooze]

Rob you're starting to sound like the Jenneane (sp?) Garrofalo of Getbig with the Democratic nuthuggin'.  You're usually alot funnier. (Please don't ruin it with "Well this is not a laughing matter." cause that doesn't fly once you've established yourself as funny[re: Chevy Chase] Bring it with teh funny and I promise you'll make Obama more palatable to the great-unwashed-uninitiated-getbig-masses.

  For me "Doozejooze" b ring teh funny.

[Busted]

Obama = Politics before country.

A good president can do more than 1 thing at a time... Just becasue there is a financial crisis doesnt mean the rest of the country stops...

Putting your country first would ahve been McCain putting Mit Romney on the bill not a woman that he has to keep hidden from the press...

[MindSpin]

Obama = Politics before country.

Coach = Pathetic