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09-24-2008, 02:07 PM
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| Fresh off the Press: McCain suspends campaigning
CNN is giving an initial report that the McCain campaign wants to suspend campaigning and postpone the debate to work on the economy, asks Obama campaign to do the same. | 
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09-24-2008, 02:14 PM
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| Probably a good move from a strategic sense. It will force Obama to make the same decision. It will also put Obama in a place he's not all that familiar with, the halls of Congress, where he's only spent 145 days in the last 4 years.
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09-24-2008, 02:23 PM
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| I think it was a good move.. | |
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09-24-2008, 02:23 PM
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| You guys don't think if it was an international crisis we were trying to immediately deal with McCain wouldn't jump at the chance to debate Obama on this in front of 100 Million people? | |
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09-24-2008, 02:27 PM
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| by doing this he can illuminate the point that obama has never actually done anything in the senate. | |
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09-24-2008, 02:27 PM
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09-24-2008, 02:27 PM
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Originally Posted by rjd970  You guys don't think if it was an international crisis we were trying to immediately deal with McCain wouldn't jump at the chance to debate Obama on this in front of 100 Million people? | If it was a crisis that required congressmen and women to be there I hope every last one of them would be. If his position as congressman had some bearing on the situation my answer is yes, he would be there.
If it was something that he could not help with in congress I don't think he would be there, wouldn't be any need for it.
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09-24-2008, 02:28 PM
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Originally Posted by rjd970 You guys don't think if it was an international crisis we were trying to immediately deal with McCain wouldn't jump at the chance to debate Obama on this in front of 100 Million people? | McCain isn't afraid of debating Obama, if that's what you're wanting to imply. Like the toned down first night of the RNC because of Hurricane Gustav, this is just another example of McCain's leadership experience.
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09-24-2008, 02:30 PM
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| If everyone is expecting McCain to show some leadership on the banking crisis don't hold your breathe.
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09-24-2008, 02:32 PM
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| Too late, I already exhaled. | |
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09-24-2008, 02:32 PM
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| it's true his recent populist rhetoric isn't endearing himself to conservatives. If you're referring to the Keating 5, McCain's role in that was dismissed as minor and irrelevant.
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09-24-2008, 02:32 PM
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Originally Posted by oklavol If everyone is expecting McCain to show some leadership on the banking crisis don't hold your breathe. | Too late! He has already done just that by putting off the debate to do his duty by being present in congress.
How do you hold your breathe anyway?
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09-24-2008, 02:33 PM
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| i think mccain is sincere about this and not seeing it as a political stunt. it wouldn't hurt though. i wonder what hussein obama is going to do. | |
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09-24-2008, 02:35 PM
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| To be fair, of course we McCain supporters are proud of him for this. Stunt or no stunt. | |
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