BREAKING NEWS: McCain SUSPENDS HIS CAMPAIGN (merged)

You completely missed the point.

She's going to get hammered by these people regardless.

 

The campaigns would be suspended.

Instead of bashing each other over the head through tv ads, these two guys would be going back to their jobs, working together in a bi-partisan fashion to get something done to save us from going further into the depths of economic hell.

I thought that was the change we need.

 

While presidential nominees John McCain and Barack Obama each held press conferences where they addressed the Treasury Department’s $700 billion rescue plan for the financial markets, and Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden continued to make news with his awkward remarks, Palin continued to sidestep the media to an almost unprecedented degree for a national campaign.

Perhaps as a result, Palin’s meetings with foreign leaders Tuesday were nearly marred by stories chronicling her campaign’s brief standoff with reporters over access to her pre-meeting photo ops.

Palin, who has not held a single press conference since McCain announced her as the Republican vice presidential candidate, in the past week has held only one rally on her own, and has ditched her print press contingent to make an ice cream run with her family andto pose for staged photos with foreign leaders.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/200...politico/13823

 

Re: McCain wants to postpone Friday's debate

We'll agree to disagree.

 

Agreed. Economics isn't even McCain's strong point. He is one of how many senators?

The country is about to vote for a new president, independents are registering at record rates and McCain decides to "delay" the debate to go deal with the financial crisis. What exactly is McCain going to do besides retract his recent statement that the American economy is fine.

 

I guess he realized if he couldn't vote "present", it was best to stay away completely. I'm disappointed. As the de-facto leader of his party and a member of the Senate, he should be working in DC to help fix this problem. Given his record as a US Senator, this act is par for the course.

 

I didn't miss the point. I'm saying that your contention that all the media is rooting for Obama and inherently opposed to the GOP is an assertion without basis and is simply part of the rhetoric around Palin's refusal to talk to the media. It's the standard thing...whenever you avoid a certain group, you paint them as the enemy.

 

It's two, two moves in one!

 

im just wondering, this "voting present" thing you keep reffering to. nearly all of the illinois senate would do it on a regular basis. critcizing ANYONE for doing it seems only to announce that you do not fully understand how the legislative process works. he voted present on 130 bills out of over 4000.

 

I know how the Illinois legislative process works; Barack Obama was my State Senator. I still think it's a chickenshit thing to do.

 

I've seen thousands of staunch conservatives come on Meet the Press and This Week and Charlie Rose over many years. They never seemed overly worried about getting "hammered." Are you saying she's much more vulnerable than all those people?

My goodness, if she needs such protection from America's own media, what chance does she stand against Vladimir Putin or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Will we have to protect her from them as well?

I thought she was supposed to be the barracuda moose killing pit bull. She can't hack it against some latte-sipping Prius-driving liberal media elites like Charlie Rose?

Here's a photo of Charlie Rose. I'm no barracuda, but he doesn't look that terrifying to me:


No matter how you spin it, Biden has given upwards of 80 interviews since nominated. Palin has given two, and one was an infomercial on Fox:

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Re: McCain wants to postpone Friday's debate

haha yeah either that or blatant voter fraud.

 

BTW-- before you get too scared of the black eye, he got it by tripping in a pothole in NYC. He got the black eye while saving his Macbook.

 

I don't know for sure, but Obama might be a bit more comfortable if Biden were kept under wraps a little more.

So far, he's said that Hillary might have been a better VP than himself, he said that Obama's recent commercial was "terrible", he contradicted Obama on the AIG bailout, and then he got in this beauty in an interview with Katie Couric:

Of course, Hoover, not FDR, was president when the market crashed in 1929 and television hadn't been invented yet.

Oops.

 

It was only 3% of the time....

 

Re: McCain wants to postpone Friday's debate

i dont know about happy, i still think they are a horrible idea. do you like them?