If you listen carefully, you can tell Brown garbles a few words because her tongue is in her cheek...
Obama was the first one to call McCain and discuss the economy before this became a mess. McCain turned it into a drama fest by making it public first without consulting Obama that he would and just happened to slip in that he wanted to postpone the debate without consulting that to Obama as well. As others have said, its not hard to take a phone call and be told to come to DC to help. It's not hard to take a jet and fly a few hours from Florida to DC should that phone call be received. And its not hard to do a debate that will take a single hour tomorrow night. This is an important matter to deal with but currently handling the situation is out both McCain and Obama's hands.
Obama campaign... There has got to be more to this. Why would Bush and McCain give Obama a chance to go to DC and look presidential when his other options were to either go without an invitation from the sitting president or appear on stage by himself in Mississippi? This is a truly weird election.
I like Obama's response about this being the exact time when Americans need to hear the candidates and their differences on the issues. This is the absolute best time for the candidates to present their case before the voters.
who is running mccain's campaign? they want to delay the VP debate too. so with like 5 weeks left, they don't want to debate? so when he becomes president and a crisis occurs, he'll suspend his presidency too? this dude is old.
Update: Drudge reports that Letterman mocked McCain during the show's taping Wednesday afternoon. "In the middle of the taping Dave got word that McCain was, in fact just down the street being interviewed by Katie Couric. Dave even cut over to the live video of the interview, and said, "Hey Senator, can I give you a ride home?" Earlier in the show, Dave kept saying, "You don't suspend your campaign. This doesn't smell right. This isn't the way a tested hero behaves." And he joked: "I think someone's putting something in his metamucil." "He can't run the campaign because the economy is cratering? Fine, put in your second string quarterback, Sarah Palin. Where is she?" "What are you going to do if you're elected and things get tough? Suspend being president? We've got a guy like that now!"
Apparently McCain ducked out of an interview with Letterman today and said he had to head back to Washington to work on the crisis. Then Letterman finds out about the Couric interview going on at the same time. Good times
I think Barack showed great leadership thorughout this. 1. He's been talking to both Paulson and and Head of the Senate Banking committee. 2. He is the one that first called McCain and reached out in a bi-partisan way to issue a joint statement from the both of them. 3. Is in favor of demonstrating that leadership to the American voters in the scheduled debate. McCain is once again showing that he can't handle a crisis. His campaign is full of lobbyists who were part of the problem, his former chief economic adviser was a huge cause of the problem, and even still McCain thinks the deregulation was a good idea. The pressure has gotten to him and he's made gaffe after gaffe on the economy, on Spain, etc. McCain went out in a bellicose manner threatening to fire people who aren't subject to even being fired by the President. I'm sorry but McCain is proving time and time again that he can't handle the pressure involved in the campaign, let alone actually being the president. McCain's initial idea of leadership was to form a commission and just study it. The list goes on and on. We are seeing a real difference in the candidates at this time.
LOL if anyone hasn't seen that Sarah Palin interview, i can't wait to see her in a debate...Joe biden will tear that up
McCain's not going to DC until after a morning speech at the Clinton Global Initiative. By then, Congress may already have a final bill in place. http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN2448412920080925 UPDATE 1-US lawmakers set to draft final bailout bill:source WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - U.S. congressional Democrats and Republicans plan to meet on Thursday to draft a final bipartisan Wall Street bailout bill, a Democratic source said on Wednesday night. "Not too many unresolved issues remain," the source said. The source spoke after meetings earlier in the day by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and members of the House of Representatives and Senate. House and Senate Democrats, along with some Republican committee members, intend "to sit down at 10 a.m. (1400 GMT) tomorrow to draft a final bipartisan bill to be passed and signed into law," the Democratic source said. Earlier on Wednesday, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd emerged from a meeting with Paulson and other Democratic senators saying there was no deal yet on a financial bailout bill, but he expressed optimism one could come soon. "We're not there yet," Dodd told reporters, adding there was a "good possibility we'll get there in a day or so." Dodd refused to discuss details of the negotiations, but said lawmakers would work deliberatively on a bill he said could have an impact for "decades." (Reporting by Richard Cowan and Thomas Ferraro; Editing by Peter Cooney)
Guess the non-celeb had stick around New York for a day or two before heading down to DC (wife's plane no doubt) for a photo op. nice....
