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Mc Cain wants to suspend the campaign and deal with the "crisis". Obama wants to talk about the "crisis". Hmmmm, is Obama just sorry he didn't come out first with the idea? Grown-ups have to sometimes give up what they want to do for what they have to do. Is it just a ploy? Maybe, but it would seem McCain is a little quicker on the draw than the kid. What do you think? As a footnote: Obama doesn't seem to think his position as Senator is very important does he? It is all politics so I guess we should pick the one that is best at it. Many, many Democrats must be quite regretful that Hillary isn't in this spot.

Senator McCain should show up as a leader has to do. And if he can't show up, send in his vice-president choice. This is a political maneuver masquerading as come lately concern for the economy which according to McCain was just fine. The debate would be a fine time to examine the ruinous policies of unregulated markets that McCain favors.

I think they should have both suspended their campaigns days ago so that they could DO the job they are getting paid to do. This economic situation trumps everything else, and until it is resolved, they need to be there in the trenches. One of them will have to deal with the consequences during their time in office. I did think two things were very interesting; one is that Harry Reid insisted that McCain be present to vote, but then when he says he's coming, Mr. Reid says "stay away." Can you say "politics as usual," Mr. Reid?Secondly, BO said "I'll come to Washington if they need me." What? I just don't get it. And for him say that the country needed to "hear from the candidates during this time," well, wasn't the debate going to be about foreign policy, not economic policy?

If the Republican convention can be postponed a day because of Gustav, then the first prez debate can be delayed for this economic storm. Some things are just more important. I predict we'll get resolution and McCain will be at the debate, but I guess we'll see.

BTW, deregulation didn't cause this, greed for money and votes did.

As I've been saying in most of these posts, Obama doesn't have the experience. I agree with DJ they should have both gotten their keesters back to DC last week to be in the house where America needs them most. I'm sure Obama doesn't see the urgency because he only votes present instead of up or down, yes or no anyway. I'm sure McCain was keeping an eye on it but he should have gone back sooner. The people of Arizona and Illinois deserve their elected officials doing the jobs they were hired to do. Some people will say that Campaining is a job and I disagree, their first job is to represent the people that put them in the positions they have now not the one they are hoping to get.

Neither McCain or Palin have enough political savvy or knowledge in finance to be able to make a difference in the financial disaster the U.S. currently finds itself.
This current financial crises came about entirely within the Bush terms of government, one only need to look at what has transpired during the past eight years!
I do strongly believe that the U.S. people have a much stronger chance of recovery from both the financial and political world crisis with the election of Obama/Biden as the next leaders of these United States!!!

Stiff Johnny has to do what he can to not have to face the truth and the facts. Because he is no match for Mr. Obama in a debate or otherwise, he would rather try and devert the attention of the American people. His lack luster performance that portrays him as a concerned Senator is insulting. He could care less about what is going on with the economy, he just needs more study time for himself and grooming time for Sarah "get your gun" Palin to ready herself for Mr. Biden. Afterall, John secured his own economy when he married his second wife.

If you are scared, say you are scared and stop making excuses. If you want to be President Mr. McCain, you are going to have to learn to multi-task.

That's my 2 cents..Have a Victorious Day!

You aren't paying attention.....

Senator Obama called Johnny as a concerned citizen to see if he was willing to suspend the campaign and go back to Washington in the midst of all the crisis. Johnny called the media instead and made that suggestion his own...

Again, I am not surprised...

A drowning Man will grab at anything, won't he?

PS...no, many Americans (republican and democratic) will be regretful that Senator McCain exposed the world to Sarah Palin.

I guess he is unable to multitask. If he were elected president and times got tough would he suspend his presidency? Suspending his campaign is a sign of weakness. Who does he think he is fooling - if he really cared about the economy he would have reacted much faster - way to come in at the end when the problems are already being worked out - without you. McCain should suspend his campaign indefinitely...

This problem began yeeeaaaars ago, with roots as far back as the Carter administration. Ask yourself something: If this was a problem caused by Republicans, why are the Democrats in Congress not screaming for investigation? You know that's what they do with any situation involving Republican blame. Don't have an answer for that? I do: Democrats wanted more mortgages for people who otherwise couldn't afford them (a large voting block for them) and resisted any efforts at fixing Fannie and Freddie. Any bills that passed involving deregulation were passed without problem, and that requires both parties, last time I checked.

Obama called John McCain yesterday morning to ask him to issue a joint statement, not act jointly and go to Washington. McCain decided empty words were not going to fix anything, so he made a tough decision. If you think he is afraid to debate Mr. Uh-bama, then you haven't been paying attention.

Definitely the crisis at hand is far more important than a debate that can be held at a later time.
The whole U.S. future is at stake financially, and this is as serious as a few days down the line, not weeks or months. Here in Georgia one of the largest car dealerships just shut down from one day to the next, because they couldn't get credit, and 2700 people lost their jobs. This affects all of us, no matter your politics, no matter where you live, no matter your economic status.

The current economic crisis didn't happen overnight. But good ol' McLame seems to think we should suddenly 'fix it' over a long weekend. Get real! Yes, I agree this is a serious crisis, but I also believe the election is equally important and we deserve to know more about the candidates we'll be electing very soon. Nothing will be accomplished by delaying this important debate. Unless McCain is running scared against a strong candidate in Obama (no to mention the one who WILL win!), his message will be loud and clear: He chooses to run from problems (debate) and uses LAME excuses to attempt to get out of it. Just last week, he said the economy was just fine. Now, why all the urgency! He's definitly NOT presidential material.

I am surprised that Mr. McCain has to drop everything to go to Washington to solve the economic crisis. It positions him as if the crisis cannot be solved without him. Is that true? If he's the only one that can solve it, he should go to Washington and suspend the debate. If there are others working on this crisis who are more knowledgeable and can manage to solve the crisis without Mr. McCain, he should go to the debate.

I believe it was McCains responsibility to go back to Washington. They were elected for a purpose to serve Americans not themselves. Country first, then politics. Quote: 'It was while on the "bridge to the 21st century," during the first (and possibly the last) Clinton administration, that we deregulated financial markets. The Congress enacted the Private Securities Law Reform Act making it easier for Wall Street to defraud investors. Like night follows day, that brought us Enron, World Com, Tyco and a host of other robber barons. Then, at the urging of Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, Congress repealed the Depression Era Glass-Steagall Act, allowing Wall Street banks to become investment firms.
A "shadow" banking system followed, free of regulation; billions of dollars in newly invented hybrid securities were issued, erroneously classified "AAA"; countless home loans were made without due diligence; and massive fees were generated to those very same Wall Street bankers.
Now, banks are overflowing with bad paper and nearly 3 million sub-prime adjustable loans are past due. We are at recession’s door, all from market deregulation. While denying that our economic woes came from this failure to regulate, Treasury Secretary Paulson this week announced banking reform that isn’t. So here are a few questions:
Were Glass and Steagall right – should banks stick to banking and leave investing to stock brokers? Should we re-enact their law? While we’re at it, should we enact the Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act, now stalled in Congress? Should securities fraud laws be strengthened, including undoing a recent Supreme Court decision letting "third party" bankers in cahoots with fraudsters off the hook? Do we need more and bigger government?' I found these comments from Al Meyerhoff a public interest attorney in Los Angeles and a board member of Campaign for America's Future interesting.

You really did mean it when you said "Country First."

it's the absolute worst thing a candidate can do. Everyone wants to know more during a crisis, not less. And furthermore, what is John McCain going to do--other than vote on a bill once it's presented--in Washington that he can't do on the road. Now more than ever, I want to hear the candidates' plans and ideas.

I think that McCain is grandstanding -- does he think that we're going to be duped into believing that he flew back to Washington and "fixed" the problem? Just two weeks ago he was insisting that "the fundamentals of the economy are strong" and now all of a sudden there's a "crisis" and he's the one to fix it. Give me a break!
I think he's afraid of the debates. And notice I said debates plural. The word I hear is that if the debate tomorrow is postponed the date they have in mind in October 2 for rescheduling -- which coincidentally is the date set for the VP debate. I think they are really worried about both McCain and Palin being able to handle being asked to speak to actual issues instead of the rhetoric they have been spouting in speeches and campaign ads recently. I think the debate should go on as scheduled -- we all need to hear what both candidates have to say!

It's not about who called who first, or who went on TV first. If Senator Obama wants to pick up the phone and here a report on what is going on and make another to relay the message to Senator McCain that is not problem solving. Senator McCain doesn't need Senator Obama's blessing to do his job as a US Senator first candidate for President second. As for the first phone call do you think Mr. Obama asked Mr. McCain to stop campaigning and do our job, or said man it is a real mess it is a good thing that their are 97 other Senators are working on it, because Senator Biden and I are planning our debate with you on Friday.

I don't know about you, but I don't need to pick up the phone and here that people are in bad shape. I see it all around me everywhere that I go.

What do we want for a president, a person that talks or a person that puts his words into action? It is hard to be part of the solution not the problem.

Before John McCain is a presidential candidate, he is a U.S. senator with a job to do--and is getting paid to do.
I can't think of too many companies on the brink of ruin would let their paid employees take time away to tend to personal business while the rest of the staff works long hours to fix the problems.

McCain puts the country before politcs, pretty simple don't you think. That is why he has been there for 22 years unlike OBAMA who hasn't done anything.

what difference can these two make by dropping everything and running back to Washington? I also think McCain is grandstanding, pretending to care about what happens to us financially. As far as I'm concerned, the only person's financial security McCain cares about is his own. Obama is right - if McCain can only handle one thing at a time, how in blazes is he going to handle being president, when everything happens at once?
The debate should be held on schedule. And let it include this financial "crisis."
And I still say that the greed of these corporations is what got them in trouble in the first place, let them take the money from their own pockets to fix it.

Let's cut to the chase; the American people deserve to see and hear the two candidates side by side, without their aides and mouthpieces to cover for them. Consider the few hours they need to travel to and participate in the debate an extended dinner hour and let's finally compare the two men, their idea, policies and plans for our future.
The economic resuce plan has basically been crafted without the assistance of either senator and their presence in Washington is just going to be a distraction---unnecessary and possibly detrimental to the process.
Finally, Obama is correct about a President having to deal with multiple issues at once. If McCain chooses to thumb his nose at the American people and not show up, Obama should be given the entire stage and the moderator should ask all the questions that have been planned for weeks.
McCain and Palin are going to have to face Obama and Biden eventually, and at the moment, regardless of his stated motives, McCain is looking scared about finally having to stand on the same stage as Obama.

I have read all of these posts and I am a bit confused.

If I choose to do something else with my time and still maintain my 8-5 job, my boss expects me to maintain the same level of quality as if I weren't doing anything else. Why is there a different standard for our politicians?

Personally, I would rather see the candidates doing someting proactive than just talking. Mr. Obama should be working on the crisis, too, not just wanting to talk politics.

Those people in the other posts who said that we are paying them to do their jobs as senators are right. Just because they are running for president, does not mean they can let their 8-5 job go. They still have a job to do. Whatever else they choose to do should not take precedence over their "real" job.

Fix the problems, gentlemen. Then work on getting your 'second job'.

People for McCain will see what they want to see. People for Obama will see what they want to see.

Let's face facts though...McCain is faced with alot of economy negatives. Everything from saying he doesn't know much about economics, he will have to read Greenspans book. To his chief financial advisor calling everyone a bunch of whiners. To running on a platform of NO REGULATION, ( why we are in this mess ), note his RNC speech. To saying NO bailout for AIG (quick leadership) to changing to YES we need to bailout AIG. To calling the SEC the FEC. To mixing up anything shortened by letters to the wrong letters. To the fundamentals of the country are strong.

To continuing to hide Palin from the press and the country, so we have no idea what her economic savy is. ( I don't know about the rest of you but I've had to answer more questions in job interviews than Palin has for the second, possibly highest job in America).

What are they trying to hide? Or is she getting some kind of speed course ? And why aren't more people outraged and demanding to know why this is going on?

If she is President does it mean she doesn't have to talk or explain anything to the people? And we are willing to risk everything on an unknown gamble?

Regarding this economic disater on the brink of a collapsed country... Call in all the best economic experts, the ones presently working and add some like Buffet and University professors and political historians ( look to the past like FDR's plan that got us out of the depresson ).

What do the majority of politicians know about economics anyway, other than taking and keeping money and enriching themselves. Some don't even know how many houses and cars they own ( 7/11 ).

Funny McCain can show up for talk shows,Katie Couric etc. but when it comes time for the country to look at the two people side by side that could be president he wants to be a no show. Just like Palin he is afraid of something. Could it possibly be looking bad?

It is unethical to go job hunting on your current boss's nickel. McCain is walking the talk..OB is just talking. Its a lot easier to reschedule a debate than to fix the economy.

What do you think the FBI is in the process of doing right now? As one FBI agent said ... this is a "scandel on steroids" and the solution so far is showing that the fox is still in the chicken house!

Also ....
Could someone explain why they feel McCain is a 'good worker bee' for canceling a PRESIDENTIAL debate and rushing to DC? We have 39 days before we vote, for those states with mail-in ballots even less time. This debate is critical to not just the economic issues, but ALL issues. The selection of the best candidate for the job IS our biggest issue. If it's not a priority, we're doomed to continue repeating history.

And, by the way, which committees are either of the Senators on that would put in a position to work on these financial issues?

This is unbelievable!! They should be called the McNasty and Sarah Pinnochio ticket.
McCain is using this "sudden" (please read with great sarcasm) financial crisis as an excuse to back out of the first debate with Barack Obama on the same day Sarah Palin is given an extension on having to reveal her finances until AFTER the V.P. debate...Boy are they slick!
What has he been doing as a senator for all those years? He certainly hasn't been concerned about the American people. Did he only notice this financial crisis was happening when it was convenient for him???
The McCain/Palin motto is "Quick, Quick Look over here, and ignore one more attempt by us to cover things up!!!" Another famous bit of creativity from the McCain/Palin "Red Herring Machine!!".
This is typical of how they deal with issues. McCain and Palin are continually Manipulative, Secretive and Deceitful. This week it is them feigning concern for the economic difficulties of the American people, while the truth is that they have used their power and position to fleece the American People for their own enrichment.
Telling the truth is so foreign to John McCain and Sarah Palin that they must make excuses at every turn to avoid confrontation or exposure of their lies.
The campaigns are difficult enough without having to deal with this.

Yes, he is first and foremost a Senator of the United States. Barack should be there as well. Whoever wins the Presidency will need to know the details of this bailoout or purchase of the debt or whatever you might want to call it. I think this was very necessary.

He was talking about the Palin family....

McCain is well known for his ability to work across the party lines to come to resolutions, even if he is not part of a committee. Maybe Obama does not yet understand that the work that is done in DC is not just done when they're all gathered on the floor, but rather throughout the day through research and gathering all of the facts.

Multi-tasking is concentrating on all facets of the economy. One element, like a bailout, of a solution won't get us out of a mess that a million factors have been a part of.

Moreover, if the people want to hear what our nations leaders have to say on this issue at this time, how about watching CSPAN and watching the debates on the Senate floor? Why does it have to be how two people interact with one another?

If Obama shows and McCain is still tied up, I hope he sends Palin. A presidency is a team effort, and he takes his responsibilities seriously. Besides, Obama is only sour because he's spent 3 days preparing for this, as if a teenager cramming for a final as he knows nothing on the foreign policy (NOT economy) that will be highlighted in this debate. How long did McCain prepare? And as I'm sure they've been getting Palin up to speed, I'm sure she's just as prepared as Obama is.

Having structured debates will benefit Obama. We all know it, and that's why he's afraid of Town-meeting style. He can't give an unprepared answer to a question. McCain knows his answers. He's lived and breathed this for a long time.

I'd also like to make a comment on the vast amount of ageism that there's been throughout. Do you realize that, in most parts of the nation, many people over 55 are terrified of losing their jobs because they think they've no chance at being hired because of their age? And companies actually have "financial reasons" to do it, so they get away with it every day! How do you think not hiring someone of an ethnic minority would play out if there were "financial reasons" for that discrimination?! People are much more adversely discriminating against McCain for his age than Obama for his skin tone, but you'll hear "racism" all the way through this campaign and never once hear "ageism."

First McCain grabbed the glory for something that was not his idea and then he claims to suspend his campaign and wants to cancel the debate.
Next he will want to postpone the election.
It's all a ploy on McCain's part. A president should be able to multitask. He's plainly showing that he cannot. Furthermore, his going to Washington only made things worse, not better.

Doing the right thing for the wrong reason gets no points .... and he did it to make himself and the party look good... The public is not as stupid as the party thinks...........

Doesn't surprise me that Obama asked McCain for his opinion about it, then McCain went ahead and announced it like it was his idea. Regardless, from the video I saw, they both sat there like two lumps taking up space at the table. Total waste of time, it was not necessary for them to be there. They should not cancel the Debate.

In response to JBNJ, what are you talking about? There is no Private Securities Law Reform Act. There is the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Is this what you are referring to? I'm not sure how you are relating this to the current crisis as it applies to certain lawsuits brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation, and awards fees and expenses. How does this apply to banks offering investment services?

And, the charge to repeal provisions from the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999 was not led by Sec. Robert Rubin. Instead, you can credit Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas. If you do your homework, the legislation that repealed those provisions was titled the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. If you will do your homework even further, you will learn that all three men who lent their name to this bill are Republicans.

McCain's economic expertise is pretty limited, with the exception of his involvement in the Keating 5 scandal. Yeah, I trust this guy to do what's best for taxpayers.

Any Presidential candidate who is a cop out is not a good candidate - period! Maybe it is a good thing he did this because he showed his colors once again. He can't speak well in public and he doesn't have the intelligence to debate anything. Let's not make the same mistake again - Hello George Bush II!

Check it out....Obama got big money through the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac organization.....cooked books and big bonus's......McCain went back to Washington because that is his job.....and if he becomes President it will become his problem....I learned a long time ago that you need to stay involved in anything that you have any real interest in.....I sure wouldn't want to go into office when I didn't have any say in what happened in the buy out.....staying involved is the smart thing to do......

I have learned so much reading dailycents, I have to agree with most of the topics reading it from a womens view. I would think it would be an injustice not to have a women or if we can go there a black man/white man to lead our country. The thing that I believe should be the foremost thing is what they can do. It seems to me the policts as usual has just caused us 700 Billion plus. Put my wife or another women in the office and I do not think we would be bailing out wall street. I blame the Replublicans as well as Democrats for this mess. Remove all the senators and congressmen that has benefited from the Wall Street problem and we would not have to many in capitol hill. Why do we have to pay for the utmost greed of people, not caring what gender, race or political affiliation. NOW we have to search for alternate energy measures, funny the oil companies have made billion over the past years but now it a priority to search for an alternative. Why are the hybreed cars so expensive? Why not use Hydrogen too expensive? I take my hat off to women in general, they multi task and can get things done more efficiently then most men, this is a fact. If it weren't for my wife I would be a mess. Don't count Sarah Palin out, I think she is a fox waiting to pounce on someone.