McCain Fails His 1st Test of Leadership

Monday, September 29th, 2008

McCain said he was personally going to deliver the votes, accused Barack Obama of “phoning it in.”

What really happened? Republican leaders worked hard and twisted arms, to support the President’s plan. Meanwhile McCain went to dinner with Joe Lieberman, at a 5 Star Washington DC restaurant. He didn’t work the phones, twist arms, and in fact did nothing to support the bill. (Source)

Remember, McCain blew up the Republicans original bailout, then ignored the new plan. When he thought the revised plan was going to pass McCain claimed earlier today that it was “he” who got the votes from Republicans in Congress.

Then the vote happened, and as we all know, failed. McCain’s surrogates were caught off guard, but tried to recover by blaming the failure to pass on Nancy Pelosi’s speech, calling it “partisan,” and blaming that for losing 12 Republican votes they thought they had.

Barney Frank replied:

“I’ll make an offer, give me those 12 people’s names and I will go talk uncharacteristically nicely to them and tell them what wonderful people they are and maybe they’ll now think about the country.”

(Source)

McCain read a statement to reporters later in the afternoon, where he again tried to pass the blame on to Barack Obama, and the Democrats.

Interestingly he took no questions from reporters at that press conference.

Tags: Bailout, Economy, McCain, Obama
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Zero

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

The number of times McCain mentioned the Middle Class during the first Presidential Debate.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqqyTcdCzc8

Whattaya want to bet he mentions the Middle Class a whole bunch next time?

Tags: McCain, Middle Class, Obama
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McCain Blows Up the Deal

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

Remember how John McCain said he was going to “suspend” his campaign, go to Washington and hammer out a deal to rescue the economy? Well he did the exact opposite.

40 Republican Senators had already agreed to a re-worked deal, but according to GOP Senator Graham, McCain came in and blew it up, sending the GOP caucus into turmoil.

“I appreciate what you’ve done here, but I’m not going to sign on to a deal just to sign the deal. Just like Iraq, I’m not afraid to go it alone if I need to.” - John McCain to Robert F. Bennett (Utah) and Judd Gregg (N.H.) architects of the revised bailout plan

(Source)

Why would John McCain do the exact opposite of what he said he was going to Washington to do? It’s because of who got stuck with the check in the revised bailout.

Under the Bennett-Gregg compromise plan the money would come from a new program of mortgage insurance paid by the banking industry. I guess John McCain couldn’t stomach the idea of the bailout being funded by some of the same people that caused the mess.

He’d apparently only be happy if the taxpayers picked up the check.

Tags: Bailout, Economy, McCain, Taxpayers
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How Twitter Saw the Debate

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Post Presidential Debate wrap up, Twitter style! Break it down people:

lifestudent83: McCain looks like he didn’t even want to show up tonight.

sk8bette: Obama: Yes we can! McCain: …he doesn’t understand!

bookofjames: The Character Assassination of Barack Obama by the Coward John McCain http://bit.ly/2ZHw59

jeremydstanley: if McCain uses “he doesn’t understand” Obama needs to use “he doesn’t get it”

JDTwitt: obama didn’t seem to have best game. alas. wonder what the race would look like now if mccain’d picked a credible challenger veep?

mathiou: CBS “poll results suggest more uncommitted voters saw obama as debate winner”

kctrey: Still wouldn’t look at Obama when they shook hands. Ass!

RobertBluey: Obama’s stance on missile defense continues to evolve. I blogged about this on @RedState last month. http://is.gd/3cgh

orbitaldiamonds: @kcrusher Deployed servicepeople have donated to Obama over McCain six to one

scbalazs: @Marti_L I think both of them were uneven. Obama did OK, McCain swung from old grumpy/snipey to bland.

tankgrrl: It’s funny… reading the comments and there’s the lone tie & collar guy saying McCain won and Obama is ’scarey’ (sic)

bessemerprocess: I think that was a win for Obama. McCain looked like he was lying, he was disrespectful and generally prevaricated.

JavaVoodoo: McCain seemed like an angry old man, who absolutely HATES Barack Obama, kids, puppies and clouds.

ronnyislam: go Obama ! if US wants to stay as the global leader , we need to invest in edu-research so we can be the 1st 2 not rely on oil!

seanodotcom: McCain WINS! Oh wait… that was _before_ the debate. Obama for the (slight) post-debate victory

DJLein: Obama killed McCain tonight. Unless we give points for name dropping.

pluggpro: Unless you’ve been president before, EVERYONE gets on the job training.

marquesstewart: #debate08 McCain talking about supporting the vets is a joke. Let’s talk about that GI bill he voted against and his Vet’s rating.

selil: And the fact checkers are already hammering McCain.. dang that was fast.

ZachTumin: McCain doesn’t believe that Obama has the experience - but he believes that Palin does?

DocMara: Obama just won the election

undiplomatic: Last statement of the night: a noun, a verb, and POW.

Awesome group of Twitterers posting on #debate08. If I missed your great line, feel free to leave it in the comments.

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