I think that McCain has mis-calculated big time here. I don't see how delaying the debate is going to help him in this election. The economic issues are not going away even with this bailout law passed in Congress. It makes pretty bad press when his poll numbers are already down.
So much for suspending your campaign John – His attack dogs were all over the morning news/talk shows this morning, his attack ads are still running in a lot of states, hell even McCain’s speech in front of the Clinton Global Initiative attacked Obama.
Olberbann kind of did last night, but it was mostly in reference to the Letterman snub. He mentioned how McCain said he was suspending his campaign and going back to DC, presumably the reason for canceling, yet still did an interview with Couric and in fact wasn't going back until Thursday morning. We knew yesterday that he still planned on speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative, but if he's still running campaign ads after what he said yesterday then that's BS. Suspend your campaign or don't. I'd actually prefer it if you didn't. You can still be in Washington and have your campaign active at the same time. But don't say you're going to suspend you're campaign and not do it. BTW, Palin is going to campaign in Philly today. Was the suspension of the campaign supposed to apply to her as well or not (not that she has any way to contribute to congress in DC)?
Not sure if this has been posted, but I saw this particularly humorous headline on Fark: "Frail old man runs from African American asking for change."
Since 2007, McCain has missed 64.6% of Senate votes, and is batting 0-39 this quarter. Since 2007, Obama has missed 46.3% of Senate votes. "Present" is better than "..."
indeed Suspending his campaign, McCain makes the rounds of three major news shows this evening... ------------------ John McCain will appear on all three network newscasts tonight, a top aide said. McCain is at the White House meeting with President Bush, Barack Obama and congressional leaders now and will tape interviews with NBC, ABC and CBS after the West Wing session. McCain also appeared in a taped interview last night with Katie Couric on CBS. Aides are still in wait-and-see mode on whether they'll attend the debate but are prepared to have the candidate jet down to Memphis, the closest major airport to Oxford, as late as tomorrow afternoon if a deal is reached. http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonat...nd_of_network_interviews_tonight.html?showall
McCain didn't even do **** at the meeting today. He was probably as lost in there as I used to be in my C# and Java classes.
Not sure if this has been posted. In 2000, McCain pulled out of the California Debate with Bush. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic...L&hw=00+mccain+schnur+marinucci&sn=003&sc=636 With just a week to go before the crucial March 7 primaries, when 16 states, including California and New York, will select delegates, McCain's decision to skip the California debate -- the only nationally televised debate between now and ``Super Tuesday'' -- has flabbergasted some state political analysts. They say that in the nation's most populous state, where recent polls have shown McCain gaining in the popular vote, the move is clearly ``a major mistake.'' ``For the life of me, I can't understand what they're doing,'' said Republican consultant Sal Russo. ``When you're behind, like McCain, you need all the exposure you can get.'' Bebitch Jeffe was even more critical, saying McCain has lost an opportunity to deliver his message ``in a national debate, not just a state debate.'' ``This decision not to debate in California could be the equivalent of the Bob Jones (University) decision on the Bush side,'' she said. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE3DD1239F93AA15751C0A9669C8B63 To Californians, it was all a little baffling. Why would Senator John McCain pull out of the only Republican debate scheduled in the nation's most-populous state the week before the highest-stakes primary on the calendar? Mr. McCain's decision to withdraw from the forum this Thursday in Los Angeles took everyone by surprise, including the debate's sponsors, CNN and The Los Angeles Times, which appeared to be holding out hope today that the candidate would reconsider. It also caused dissension in Mr. McCain's own campaign. His communications director, Daniel Schnur, was quoted in several California newspapers today as saying that the withdrawal was ''a tactical error at the staff level.'' Bush aides said their candidate still planned to debate. ... Ari Fleischer, a Bush campaign spokesman, said, ''I don't think he had a scheduling conflict; he had a polling conflict.''
So can someone please clue me in to what McCain actually accomplished by abandoning his campaign for two days, calling for the debate to be postponed, going to Washington and torpedoing an agreed upon framework for the bailout and now has resumed the campaign and will now debate. Really? What did this accomplish?
He did help Obama expand his lead in the polls by demonstrating his ridiculousless, so that's a plus.
Look it is clear their campaign is in free fall and he is flailing away at ANYTHING to turn the tide. When situations like this occur, they usually end badly..... Obama 286 McCain 252 DD
