McCain to suspend campaigning, wants to delay debate due to financial crisis

[Gutenberg]

guitarist, once again you are so intent on ridiculing me that you did not read what I wrote. I wrote about video conferencing, which is far different than twitter and the rest of that crap. In fact there are five teleconference rooms in the Hart SOB for use by either party. Why don't you just calm down? You would look less foolish if you did.

[guitarist]

Sorry I poked a hole in your irrelevant comedic performance, Gutenberg, though it was fun to hear the air rush out of it. Actually, I appreciate the effort to be funny and sarcastic, we could use more humor here. The Obama campaign theme you were mirroring--even though Biden went on record speaking against the ad, noting that it tastelessly mocked McCain's physical limitations--was a bit over the top, but I liked that particular ad better than a lot of Obama's negative ads this season, I thought it was more light-hearted than its critics contend. It appealed to an important demographic--young voters--in a fresh, original way, and was a welcome distraction from the general tone of the rest of the campaign.

[Seacrest]

[kanesa]

McCain now appears to have backed himself into a corner. He will not attend the debate unless a bailout deal has been reached. Well, I guess he really is a maverick. Or a loose cannon. Or a desperate man.

I think America wants the debates. Maybe I'm wrong.

[lafinfil]

I do believe that Senator McCain is needed in Washington at this time.
He has the insight to the situation that Senator Obama does not have and maybe never will.
The kind of insight that one can only be gained with real life experience ....
like being one of the Keating Five - caught up in the savings and loan scandal in the 1980's.
He's the only one in congress that can bring that kind of experience to the table(s)

Deregulate here .... deregulate now !

[swampy]

Gutenberg wrote:
Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski's comment just came over my interweb.

"We need solutions, not John McCain's grandstanding. Congress must take prompt but deliberate action to resolve the credit crisis. John McCain returning to Washington, does nothing to move us forward. Instead, he is putting politics in front of finding a real solution to this issue."

Mikulski (D-Md.) is a proud liberal and backed Hillary Clinton in the primaries.

Grandstanding? Wait, I thought McCain was elected by the people of Arizona to represent them in the Senate. So he goes back to Washington to _do_his_job_ he's grandstanding? Gutenberg... thanks for assuaging my need for a good laugh.

Of course, Obama doesn't want to touch this thing with a ten foot pole. He (and Dodd and Frank et all) are all so deep in doo-doo over their financial "interests". Now with the FBI investigating the movers and shakers (among them some Obama's advisors who headed up Fannie Mae) Obama is avoiding Washington like the plague. I can't wait to see what the FBI comes up with.

[Gutenberg]

Well, swampy, I can see that one tab on your interweb is connected to Faux News, which is busily spinning this thing like a drunken corps de ballet.

guitarist, nice attempt at cover, but no. Next time you want to go after me please comment on something I actually wrote.

[MacMagus]

I think McCain is probably ill and needs some time off. I doubt that he'll take much part in the Congressional hearings or negotiations other than for a quick show.

This is the foundation for my (tentative) conclusion.

1. He has been avoiding the press almost as much as his veep-pick lately. He went 41 days between press conferences. That's the longest he's gone without speaking to the press in decades. That's out of character and suggests that something's seriously wrong.

2. Several Congressmen have come forward to say that McCain has not participated at all in any of the negotiations over the bailout. That he would go from zero interaction to full-commitment is very strange and suggests that some new factor came into play in the last day or so. (I don't think Obama's phone call is sufficient prodding to justify this big a leap.)

3. He's worn much more face-makeup than usual during recent appearances. What is he hiding? A new cancer-lesion? A face that's pale with pain?

4. Reports suggest that he could only commit an hour or so each day this week to prepping for the debate. Either he's got a lousy scheduling clerk or something else supervened and kept him from work. I don't think he hires incompetent staffers.

5. He's aged and has a history of ailments and absenteeism.

I wonder what we'd find if we canvassed DC-area hospitals for tell-tale black SUV's and black or blue choppers this week.

[guitarist]

Gutenberg wrote:
guitarist, nice attempt at cover, but no. Next time you want to go after me please comment on something I actually wrote.

Oh, please. 90% of what you wrote---yes, you actually wrote that, and I enjoyed it--was a second-rate elaboration on the Obama campaign ad you lifted it from, the "McCain is an out-of-touch technophobe" ad aimed at young voters. What was the other 10%?

[Gutenberg]

I haven't seen any Obama ads. I live in a state where the outcome is a foregone conclusion and neither candidate is spending any money here. So sorry.

Let me put this more simply and perhaps you can understand it better. Since you like pointed rhetoric and ridicule, your argument will be more effective if the rhetoric and ridicule refers to something your target actually wrote. Otherwise you are just standing there looking silly, and I don't think you intend that.