…Get back to Washington and solve this problem….

My first response to hearing McCain was suspending campaigning to get back to Washington was this: He thinks he’s in real trouble here. Barry is beating him up on the Economy, and he’s got to do something to change the dynamic. That may be correct.

As a political move, McCain is also demonstrating a leadership quality that Obama has none of. He is still inside Obama’s OODA loop.

All that said, the solutions being discussed here all amount, in one degree or another, to more of the same….more regulation, some new agency with new, consolidated powers. We’re really not changing the fundamentals here…Nobody is suggesting that we bring back Moral Hazard. It is all still just a matter of degree. I recommend John Stossel’s recent opinion piece.

Biden hits McCain for war Biden supported … again
Joe Biden went on offense
on national security against John McCain today, but skipped a few
points in making his attack. He painted McCain as dangerously out of
touch, and used Iraq as an……

It’s over and so is the Republic.

Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama was quick to blame the bankruptcy of Wall Street giant Lehman Brothers on Republicans’ “failed philosophy”. Obama’s September 15 comments were repeated throughout the media–yet reporters have not noted Obama’s glaring conflict of interest—the Lehman debt owed to a bank owned by the financier who loaned millions of dollars to Tony Rezko.

Jockeying among the other debtors seeking repayment under Chapter 11 bankruptcy rules is BNP Paribas, a large French bank whose largest single private shareholder is Nadhmi Auchi’s General Mediterranean Holdings (GMH). BNP Paribas is owed $250 million by Lehman.

Nadhmi Auchi is an Iraqi whose Baathist ties go back to 1959. A formerly high-ranking official in Iraq’s Oil Ministry, Auchi left Iraq at the end of the 1970s. His wealth then grew exponentially as a procurer of arms for Saddam Hussein’s government during the Iran–Iraq war. He is now one of the richest men in Britain. Saddam Hussein in 1995 selected BNP, which later merged with Paribas, as the sole conduit bank handling Oil-for-Food transactions. This Clinton-era arrangement was changed in 2001 by the incoming Bush administration.

Auchi was also a key financial backer for Chicago political fixer and dual US-Syrian citizen Tony Rezko. This writer explained the complex web of relationships in an August 24 article titled, “Iraqi Billionaire Threatens Reporters Investigating Rezko Affair”:

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/5076

While the American economy staggered thanks to the Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae scandal, Congress was called in to act.
John McCain answered the call.
Barack Obama kept campaigning.
Tell me… who do you think puts his country first.
Barack Obama? No.
John McCain? Yes.
Country first.
Vote McCain/Palin.

I’m either orr and I approve this message.

The Democrats have already announced that they’re going to wait to see how McCain votes on the bail-out before they vote — so that they don’t risk losing any political advantage

AZCoyote

…so, are we saying that Giuliani’s crack at the convention about Obama taking 3 days to make a decision vis-a-vis Russia/Georgia was right? “Next time, just call John McCain….”

Maybe, after the vote, Mr. McCain should submit an invoice to the Obama campaign…consultancy fee….

From among the list below, choose who will have frittered away the Obama campaign’s farm and squandered the most political capital by incompetence, mismanagement of facts, ham-handed ads and utterances, arrogant presumption of an entitlement to power, and lack of coordination.

1) Barak Obama himself
2) Joe “What-did-I-just-say?” Biden
3) Ham-faced fratboy staffers
4) Doctrinaire, lockstep ideological bloggers
5) Doctrinaire, lockstep ideological sold-out journalists
6) The Democratic Party leadership

Winners announced 5 November.

Grand prize winner gets a macaroni-and-cheese dinner with me, Puritan1648. No purchase necessary. Transportation not provided.

There is no need for BO to go to Washington he doesn’t vote on anything anyway. Present…

d1carter on September 24, 2008 at 3:02 PM

The Democrats have already announced that they’re going to wait to see how McCain votes on the bail-out before they vote — so that they don’t risk losing any political advantage.

Always putting the welfare of the country first, right Dims?

These people make me sick, and Obama is the worst of the lot.

Obama will try to pull an EAGLETON, but it’s not going to work, nobody wants HIM.

The Socialist Health Care AIN’T gonna happen, he can’t even pander about it anymore.

Chakra Hammer on September 24, 2008 at 2:53 PM

Obama threw his own Socialist Health care under the bus by taking bribes from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac! And the Democrats threw the Socialist Health Care under the bus by Blocking (S. 190 [109th]: Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005)

S. 190
Introduced Jan 26, 2005

Sponsor: Sen. Charles Hagel [R-NE]

Co-sponsors: Sen. Elizabeth Dole [R-NC],Sen. John McCain [R-AZ],Sen. John Sununu [R-NH]

Democrats voted against this bill along party lines, and blocked this bill.

The Arizona Republican senator said he will suspend his presidential campaign on Thursday to return to Washington to help with bailout negotiations. He urged Obama to do the same.
This is him putting country first!

BREAKING NEWS: John McCain has suspended his campaign. Just across Fox.
amerpundit on September 24, 2008 at 2:50 PM

Country first.