McCain: focus should be on economy not debates

"FUCK THE ELECTION"? PEOPLE WAKE UP , WE'RE IN A STATE OF CRISIS ...... YES OUR SENATORS NEED TO DO WHAT THEY NEED TO DO .... BUT ... WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE NEXT FOUR YEARS ... ITS GONNA TAKE ALLOT MORE THAN A WEEK TO FIX THE FUCK UP OUR REPUBLICANS HAVE DONE !!!!!!!!

what a joke! he, a senator, needs to take time off to vote. its the only thing he can do. what else can he do as a senator?

While it's good that McCain is openly putting our economy on the forefront, he definitely should not postpone the debates in order to do so. He needs to be prepared to discuss its current state, right here and now.

god Damn it i have been looking foreword to this debate since the DNC

McCain cares so much about the economy that he canceled his appearance on Dave Letterman's show, telling him he was on his way to Washington...but instead stayed in New York to appear in an interview with Katie Couric to campaign about what he will do about the economy.

If the economy collapses, I blame McCain for chatting with Couric in New York instead of catching that Washington flight.

He's running scared ...... McCain is a chicken shit ...... lol

Senator with 26-year record of disdain for oversight and regulation of financial institutions calls off presidential debate as to offer his personal oversight
for lending/insurance institutions that have crashed due to lack of political oversight and regulation!

Does anyone see the sick irony here?
Shakespeare couldn’t write this stuff!

Mccain are you strong enough, are you mentally fit, and is your health capable to endure the demand for the job?
Evidentially not!

GO MCCAIN GO

they couldn't get the earpiece ready in time to feed him his 'SMART' answers

Logging off. Major league headache.
Better minds to prevail.
Peace out.

Um, as far as I'm aware political leaders are supposed to be able to multitask, not just postpone things when it all gets a bit too busy for them! I'm really hoping McCain has shot himself in the foot now...

McCain wants time for his party to figure out exactly what their policy on the bailout is going to be. Wouldn't want any divisions in the ranks. (yes we do)

The upcoming debate is the perfect time to talk about this crisis. Why would you ditch out?

While I can see where he is coming from, I think a president should be able to balance/juggle many issues at once and not have to call off everything he has already planned to take care of just one issue.

maybe he is trying to make a statement by taking off time from the election to show that he cares more about the country's need for economic stability and not his campaign, sort of a "selfless hero" kind of nonsense... whatev.

McCain is clearly not ready for this debate because we all know the topic is on the Economy and McCain sucks.. There is no need to cancel this debate, Mccain has already made his comments made on the economy he is the one that said it was Good!!. McCain needs to face this wuppin like a man.

Thanks, crob80227.
That helped me considerably.
(especially the "fuck ya")

EXCUSES, EXCUSES... Bye Bye McCain!

I guess someone with 7 homes, 13 cars and a wife with a few billion does have to do a little more planning for the fall of the economy than others.

Obama responds to McCain below:

At a press conference Wednesday afternoon, Barack Obama responded to John McCain's announcement that he is suspending his campaign to return to Washington to help with negotiations for a Wall Street bailout. The key question was whether Obama would follow suit and suspend his campaign or perhaps just join with McCain in asking for a postponement of the first debate between the two men, currently scheduled for Friday.

It took a little while, but Obama made it clear that he plans to continue, and thinks the debate should go on.

"With respect to the debates, it's my belief that this is exactly the time when the American people need to hear from the person who, in approximately 40 days, will be responsible for dealing with this mess. And I think that it is going to be part of the president's job to deal with more than one thing at once," Obama said. A hint of a smile crossed his face after he delivered that line. He then added, "I think there's no reason why we can't be constructive in helping to solve this problem and also tell the American people what we believe and where we stand ... So in my mind, actually, it's more important than ever that we present ourselves to the American people and try to describe where we want to take the country and where we want to take the economy."

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Fuck ya!

I swear to God. I just don't know what to make of this.
The joint whatever-the-Hell-happens-next?
I can't keep up.
*scratching head*

NO, wrong McCain, the debate should be on the only thing that is important; who is fit to run the country over the NEXT four years, not the next few months.

It shows McCain's priorities are the American people. Obama's is to win the presidency. Something is more important to one of them...

Washington Told McCain, "Thanks, but no thanks!"

Ouch!

Basically they explained to McCain (as politely as possible) that it wasn't necessary for him to participate.

Listening to McCain offer his insights into correcting the regulatory process is like listening to Britney Spears pontificate on proper parenting....both huge wastes of time!

Go back to sleep, Johnny. We'll wake you when it's time for you scheduled ass-kicking in the debates!

would not be the first time.

the 2000 election was not decided for quite a while.

if they do not debate, then there is a real problem.

not that it matters, the debates are a private company.
owned and run by the reds and blues.

they will not allow any other voice but their two to be
heard. it is just a two-party dictatorship layout.

and everyone seems fine with this... well I do not.

maybe we should postpone the election, just until we have the economy under control. . ..

Sounds like Obama is still planning on debating.

i do believe he is just not ready. obama just mentioned how the debate can still be done. especially to let the people know where each of them stand on all the issues. because in just a little over a month, one of them will be president and have to deal with these issues.

Just how long does it take to fire your campaign manager?

Oh yeah he has to find a replacement first.

For those of you thinking about voting third party, and perhaps don't remember the 2000 election, let me offer you some advice. I was a progressive young person in 2000 and was dissatisfied with Al Gore because he wasn't being progressive enough. Thinking that there was "no difference" between the two parties as Ralph Nader told me, I voted for him. Living in Kentucky, it probably didn't make much of a difference, but Nader got more votes than the margin of victory in Florida. If those people had voted for the major party that was closest to them on the issues (Democratic), Al Gore would have been President (it wouldn't have been close enough for a recount) and we never would have invaded Iraq.

We wouldn't have the Patriot Act, we wouldn't have warrantless surveillance, and we sure wouldn't have a national economic crisis. We also would have already begun working on climate change. Can you imagine?

The video is misleading because Obama does still promise to get us out of Iraq, Maliki endorsed his plan, if single payer crossed his desk he would sign it. I was a Hillary Clinton supporter in the primaries so I'm not getting my preferred candidate, but I could not live with myself if I voted for anyone other than Obama this November. How would I explain that my pettiness and pickiness had caused people to die? Everyone who cares about progressive issues should think about that. A President Obama would be working WITH Ralph Nader to do these things, whereas McCain would call him a left-wing extremist and be telling him to go shove it.

This is an easy choice, people. A change in the agenda or more of the same.

Yeah we want the team responsible for the current financial Crisis, McCain and Phil Gram to help decide how to spend the 700 Billion dollars. This smells like a political manuever to give Palin more time to prepare as it would push everything back. Need we forget this is the man who said last week our financial markets are stable and in good shape. What a joke...........

I'm sorry...but anything that happens during election season is part of the campaign. McCain saying he is "suspending his campaign" is all part of the campaign... Maybe I am being cynical, but this move just seems to be more 'politics as usual' to me.

Sounds like someone wasn't ready for the big show

Why does McCain suddeny care about the economy 2 days before a major national debate? Is one of his 7 homes up for foreclosure?

Seriously, he has had weeks even years before now to do something about it. The economy has been going south for years, and now he decides to pull this excuse out of the usual place. It's a complete load of bullshit, for lack of a better term for it.

This problem has been developing for the last two years! Why now? I think he knows he is going to look like an idiot. Keep the debate Obama.

Is McCain's inability to multi-task indicative of age or his inability to lead?

With his decades of foreign policy experience, McCain should barely need any prep time at all for a debate on foreign policy. . . so surely, he'd be capable of juggling day work on the economy and evening talk on foreign policy.

Translation: Do you mind kicking my ass a little later?

Breaking news, John McCains campaign is acting like Rove, strategery. John McCain knows he is on the hook for his campaign being a big part of the problem. Getting money for nothing! He has no defense, so use strategery.

He waited till after Sarah Palin met diplomats at the UN. Strategery. We need leadership and conversation not strategery. Strategery is distorted strategy. Its an Assault on Reaon!

Im sure by not debating.....the economy will get fixed....maybe they should just switch the topic from foreign affairst to the economy

Isn't part of being President, you know, the ability handle multiple things at once? Or are we going to have to put the entire country on hold every time there's a crisis?

this really is a thinly veiled excuse to stall for time on mccain's part. he has no genuine interest in cooperating with obama to improve the economic crisis, it's merely another ruse to sway voters.

THINK FOR YOURSELF.

QUESTION AUTHORITY.

QUESTION EVERYTHING.

both campaigns are corrupt anyway.

both are bad for this country.

I am so pissed at you brainwashed liberals and conseratives.

why cant you vote for real and actual change.

do yourself a favor, watch some information on Nader.

I can just picture one of McCain's advisers coming to him with an idea that would give them some time - and also make him look really concerned with a current issue. Come on.

I can't believe McCain is taking credit for asking Obama to come together on solving the financial crisis. It was Obama who called McCain:

"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," Mr. Burton said in an email to reporters. "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."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122228304121472135.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

cop out, yes.

so is this just another distraction from McCain?
to keep us from talking about his campaign manager?

and the $15,000 every month his partnership received
up until last month from Freddie Mac for lobbying?

huh?

where is the American peoples voice huh?
WE WANT THE DEBATE, PERIOD.

NO EXCUSES OLD MAN, GET ON THE STAGE.

What a surprise that a man who is a horrible public speaker is deciding to postpone debate with a great orator.....and hey while we're at it let's use the excuse of "its the economy, stupid!".....

(good job John, you have everyone fooled!)

He's just not stable right now...but then again some could argue that Barack Obama did the same thing when McCain requested to have town hall debates...but THEN AGAIN this is NO town hall debate; this is a debate where the world will be watching and MCCAIN is stalling.

The word for today is "cop-out."

Obama will give in too. These political retards had years to prevent the current crisis and did a horrible job. They should both lose the election.

PR stunts.

Wasn't the economy "fundamentally sound" just a few days ago?

i heard that the debate was supposed to be on the economy and McCain had the topic changed to foreign policy. due to the simple fact Obama is equipped with a economic plan and McCain is not.

this article sounds like propaganda FOR McCain.

I mean think about it. he doesnt want to debate so he can work on the economy.

someone is trying to make him look good here.

Just a taste of how us as Americans will be treated.

Put us on hold?

What happened to multitasking?

After having to hear and look at them for the past two and half years I really don't care if they debate at all. Since they both have practically the same views on so much from continuing this war and on other issues like the climate crisis (which obviously isn't important enough for either of them to stop a debate) it isn't a big loss. Although, it is very predictable to see them using this to gain political ground for themselves.

Maybe McCain can get Bush to suspend the whole election, like a good little dictator??

So... if this goes down, can we expect to hear something in late October to the effect of "Let's postpone the election due to (insert crisis here)?"

No... both of you, it's time to stand and deliver.

McCain is slipping in the polls. All of his "questionable" associates are being outed as crooks connected to even bigger crooks. Now, McCain has turned the spot light back to himself. He is making news, wagging the dog. What will they be doing on a Friday night that is more important than this debate?? What can one Senator and a wing-nut from Alaska possibly do to turn things around in one night? God forbid they answer some direct, unscripted questions.

McCain's a chicken-shit.

Nice one Tori! tip of the hat.

Alright, I guess the economy is more important than Ole Miss. But not by much!

Man, the GOP just kills on PR.

Obama actually called McCain first, this morning, to discuss the issue and discuss joint action. (McCain's campaign agrees this is true.) Then McCain calls Obama back this afternoon and issues this press release making him seem like the bi-partisan initiator.

They need to discuss the economy right now! Not wait until the bail out happens. I'm sick of McCain dictating the terms on which they will debate. The public has been waiting for this and NOW IS THE TIME!!!! I guess McCain just figured out the fundamentals are not so strong after his nearly 10 point ratings drop.

I was pretty amazed to hear about this. I think it's fair to hear the guy out. The recent economic crash is a major blow to America and it doesn't need to pointed out that it's having huge repercussions and the US isn't even close to being out of the woods yet.

McCain hasn't suggested the election gets delayed, just simply that they postpone the debate. If his priority is to focus on ensuring the best bill to help resolve the financial crisis is passed, as opposed to putting his efforts into pithy put downs and press-friendly debate catchphrases, I can see where he's coming from.

It's easy to let political bias cloud judgement and presume he's chickening out but it would be narrow-sighted to jump to that conclusion without considering all sides.

Sorry Mr. McCain !!!That was all we needed to confirm that you are not ready to talk about the issue in public, because you have no explanation to give to America since you supported and was part of the whole Bush's administration that drove this country to its biggest crises ever. You are not ready to confess that your party wants to use 700 billion dollars from taxpayers that should be used for something else like helping victms of Ike and Catrina who are still struggling down south, instead of helping rich bankers who have billions of dollars in their pockets already and will have the US money to clean after their mess. Lame, lame, lame

This chump

This year is full of surprises. 8^D