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McCain asks that Friday debate be postponed

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by yo, Sep 24, 2008.

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  1. mc mark

    mc mark Member

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    via TPM --

    Desperate McCain Reacts to Financial Polling Crisis

    McCain asks Barack to call off presidential debate.

    (Desperate and Reckless: Ramp up Georgia Crisis for votes; Call off half the GOP convention; pick a demonstrably unqualified freshman governor to salvage his campaign; calls for firing head of the SEC; now ask to have presidential debates delayed or canceled so he can politicize the bailout debate ... )

    --Josh Marshall
     
  2. Lil Pun

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    I guess it is a nice gesture, maybe, but how does suspending the debates help the economy? How does keeping them hinder it?
     
  3. rimrocker

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    Obama Campaign statement...

     
  4. mc mark

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    again

    its a stunt

    Obama says no, lets have the debates and McCain can turn around and scream COUNTRY FIRST!
     
  5. Caboose

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    mccain's just trying to run out the clock. he's been avoiding talking about the issues and he's going to keep avoiding it. He hasn't been holding press conferences, Palin is off limit, and he ran those bull**** ads to control the new cycle and have everyone talking about lipstick and pigs and bull**** like that.
     
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    Politically this is a good move for McCain. Momentum is moving away from him b/c of the financial crisis . This makes him look like he's relevant. Also, it will be hard for Obama not to follow his lead without looking like he is treating the problem lightly.

    If an agreement is reached in the next week or so McCain will benefit.
     
  7. rimrocker

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    McCain's statement...

     
  8. tested911

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    On a side note how many weeks until we select a new president?
     
  9. mc mark

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    from josh --

    Statement from Obama Campaign

    At 8:30 this morning, Senator Obama called Senator McCain to ask him if he would join in issuing a joint statement outlining their shared principles and conditions for the Treasury proposal and urging Congress and the White House to act in a bipartisan manner to pass such a proposal. At 2:30 this afternoon, Senator McCain returned Senator Obama's call and agreed to join him in issuing such a statement. The two campaigns are currently working together on the details.

    --Josh Marshall
     
  10. Baqui99

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    The only way to solve the financial crisis is to postpone a 1 hour debate on Friday? Yes, that makes a lot of sense.
     
  11. glynch

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    Well they have already changed the VP debate to short answer so that Palin won't look so bad.

    McCain is just thrashing around trying to do anything to change things.

    He is trying desperately to make himself look like the savior of the economy or something.

    I don't know if this will work, but I have never seen a candidate look so desperate.
     
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    if mccain was trying to pull off this bull**** political move, couldn't he have given more then 2 days notice? it isn't like he didn't know that there was a financial crisis until today. now he's saying, we're gonna postpone this and we are just waiting for barack to come along. this is just political bull****. i hope people are not buying that mccain wants to postpone the debates because he's putting country first.
     
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    So McCain wants to create a "political free" zone just when Obama ups his ad buys by 50% and is starting to spend McCain under the table? This is a ploy to negate Obama's money advantage... if McCain can shorten the campaign by a week or more, that means the time constraints make him more able to stretch his dollars and match Obama's ad buys.
     
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    My problem with it is that neither Obama nor McCain are economic experts, but they will have an oversize voice in the debate as their partys' nominees. That's all around a bad thing.
     
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    Somebody's running scared. Unbelievable. If people don't see through this, I give up.
     
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    exactly. he's just trying to stall and stop barack's momentum. political free zone means that obama can't point out that mccain= george w. bush.
     
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    Vote on personality, not on the issues.

    Typical.

    I hope the Dems don't give in.
     
  18. rimrocker

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    Only if you trust the Masters of the Universe to make decisions about the future of this country in secret meetings with no oversight... all of whom, by the way, appear to be under investigation.
     
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    they won't, he'll say country first, even though as major pointed out, what does he know about economics.

    this debate was his strength, foreign policy.
     
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    not surprised that the democrats would view such a measured, and dare one say it, patriotic, move by a candidate, in purely political terms.

    you guys are pathetic.
     

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