DISQUS

Btalk314 · 1 year ago

Good. This will give the media more time to talk about Palin's adultery charges in this week's National Enquirer.

Millineryman · 1 year ago

Move the debate to DC then.

I'd love it if the press didn't cover his stunt in DC.

naschkatzehussein · 1 year ago

Ole Miss claims it would lose $5.5 million. This is part of the bum's rush to get the Democrats to sign onto their bailout plan.

Millineryman · 1 year ago

Then McCain's campaign should make up the difference. I know that won't happen.

Mollie · 1 year ago

This guy is acting like he is the President and can do what the hell he wants. When are people going to see what this guy would do to this country ? He thinks he runs everything. This man is senile from the get go. Yes, he is afraid of the Palin adultry charge. It is the truth, it has been out for weeks now.

shrrrr · 1 year ago

The debate night dinner party at my house is still on, though.

jebauer · 1 year ago

I said it before, I'll say it again. Have the VP debate Friday. Do the 1st Prez debate on the VP date.

naschkatzehussein · 1 year ago

And I say, don't cave into the lunatic. If McCain doesn't show up, Obama gets a one on one with Jim Lehrer.

triple7s · 1 year ago

OMG!!!! Did you see Palin grab and hug poor old Henry Kissass at the UN. He looked terrified.

moreleesafer · 1 year ago

no..........she..................di'int.....................


oh gawd

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

Obama needs to NOT budge one inch and insist TONIGHT that McCain show up at the Friday debate OR send Palin to replace him there, just as a president DOES in a crisis.

McCain can NOT be allowed to manipulate things. The pubic is NOT on McCain's side on this, and this is a TEST to see who flinches first. McCain can NOT win if Obama simply holds his ground. If McCain doesn't show up, he will shrink even more in the polls.

devis1 · 1 year ago

Hah, that' the ticket!! Send Palin. LOL

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

And MEMO TO LINDSAY GRAHAM: Clay Aiken just did it. You can, too.

shrrrr · 1 year ago

Shirley, you crack me up.

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

Merci ma chere.

interlude · 1 year ago

if this were not so tragic it would be high comedy

tlsintx · 1 year ago

unbefuckinglievable

chicken chicken chicken

grandma · 1 year ago

So it's up to McCain when the debates will be now?....first they demanded and got a change in the VP debate format to make it easier.....and now they are going to decide when the Pres debates are???

McCain needs to be told when the debates are ....period....show or no show.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

on MSNBC: Debate commission said debate will be Friday.

grandma · 1 year ago

Good...I hope they stick to that.

interlude · 1 year ago

does McSame belong to any of the committees that might deal with this directly?

anybody know?

grandma · 1 year ago

Palin wasn't even allowed to answer one easy question today....per Politico:

Palin gets question, looks to McCain, demurs

This is what happens when campaigns let reporters into photo ops. They get all uppity and ask questions.

From the pool report account of what happened after McCain and Palin's meeting with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvilli and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko:

McCain then looked around the room and gestured as if to welcome questions. The AP reporter shouted a question at Gov. Palin (“Governor, what have you learned from your meetings?”) but McCain aide Brooke Buchanan intervened and shepherded everybody out of the room.

Palin looked surprised, leaned over to McCain and asked him a question, to which your pooler thinks he shook his head as if to say “No.”
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/09...

shrrrr · 1 year ago

Lou Dobbs is about to have a heart attack. He is just a mess.

grandma · 1 year ago

I'd be a mess if I had to watch Lou Dobbs...

dacnova · 1 year ago

I can't even imagine what McSame's campaign is thinking. The debates are huge for convincing the undecideds, but what makes them think this isn't going to hurt them?

Do the debate in DC! I'll reserve the party room in my condo. It doesn't seat many, so the press would be limited. I think they'd like that.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Yeah, I don't know why they have to fly around the country for those things anyway.

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

I'll put Sarah Palin up at my place here in DC. She can even burn a few books here to feel at home.

grandma · 1 year ago

What a freakin farce the whole McCain campaign is.....it's a joke.

lucky hussein · 1 year ago

perfect. and by oct whatever, the bombing of iran/russia/venezuela/syria will have begun and it's bye-bye american democracy....

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

Lets take a step back and imagine:

Barack Obama runs to the national media, gets on network television and proclaims, "I am suspending my campaign and will participate in the next debate because partisan politics have got to stop, and my job in the Senate is getting really hard right now!"

Now, imagine the hysterical gnashing of teeth, screams, howls and roar of the media BASHING Obama for that suggestion.

McCain does it, and the media are bending over backwards to try to explain away the unexplainable. If Obama had done this, 99.999% of the media and 110% of all REPUBLICANS would have said Obama was not competent to be President. They would say he could not multi-task, and that he should be able to handle a crisis and a debate. Instead, we've got media talking about how patriotic John McCain is for being so... incompetent.

grandma · 1 year ago

Exactly !!!

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

Right on, there is just absolutely no excuse and Obama would have been ripped to shreds if he pulled this.

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

Plus they'd be interviewing Jeremiah Wright for his thoughts on the subject if Obama did what McCain just did.

michaelt · 1 year ago

what a pussy.

i can't believe people actually want this guy to be in charge. of anything.

kim45 · 1 year ago

What a p**z McCain is!
Who are his advisers? Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne??
Such a farce, they must be all rocking and sucking their thumbs by now at McCain HQ.

Happy_Housewife · 1 year ago

Hmmm.... Since Senator McCain is obviously so very, very invaluable in solving this crisis (after all, he is one of the very few people around who remember the last depression) I can go along with this.

But what to do about the open airtime on the networks....???

OF COURSE!!! Let's just schedule the Vice-Presidential debate for this Friday instead of the Presidential debate. Sarah's ready at a moment's notice to stand in, right?

Right?

WDemDem · 1 year ago

That is the absolute solution. Just switch the debates. Let's not put off the inevitable, which is the thorough tongue lashing of Palin and McCain in their respective debates. Oops, was that sexist? My bad! What a coward. The hissy fits are getting be TOO MUCH!

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

Okay, the very idea McCain thinks he can just proclaim the debate will not happen makes me wonder does he think he is President and is applying the "Imperial Unitary Executive" crap Bu$cho brought us? What is this?!!?
The "imperial unitary candidacy" for President? Where does he get off just proclaiming a debate will not happen? McCrazy is insane.

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

Palin - McShame - CHICKEN!

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Tweety just had two Repub talking heads talking up McCain and no Democrats.

An_American_Karol · 1 year ago

Keep watching, BB.

grandma · 1 year ago

Watching too...and waiting..

devis1 · 1 year ago

Is this a replay of the 5PM show? Maxine Waters on now.

Clatech · 1 year ago

By reading these posts it would seem you are all enamoured with John McCain and Sarah Palin and Barrack Obama just isn't worthy of conversation :-)

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

If Obama were to ever act in a monumentally cowardly fashion we would discuss it. But it's a safe bet that will never, ever happen.

Clatech · 1 year ago

John McCain has always put this country first. It's a matter of recorded history. This is just another example of his desire to help in a time of need. John McCain would rather lose an election and save our economy. Barrack Obama just wants to be the "Pres"

gumbygirl · 1 year ago

Are you lost?

lilyannerose · 1 year ago

Have to wonder WTF is going on in his campaign? Sure got everyone off the Rick Davis story though, didn't it?

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Good point.

Betterin09 · 1 year ago

First thing I thought of. It's amazing how many people who consider themselves well-informed are unaware of the connection.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

So, they want to hide Palin's ignorance and McCain's senility.

Chris From Maine · 1 year ago

Finally the real plan is revealed.

Push the debate back, cancel the VP debate, save Palin's ignorant ass.

How obvious.

An_American_Karol · 1 year ago

It's becoming more and more apparent - Palin is Quail with better looking legs. Republicans need to keep her in the closet.

benb · 1 year ago

Hiding is the new McCain strategy. What a patriot that guy McCain is.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Ouch.

Maxine Waters just said McCain's backing out because he's not prepared to debate.

gwpriester · 1 year ago

Outrageous. Cowards.

LunaStick · 1 year ago

Show of hands:

Who didn't see this coming?

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

Me! I have never ever heard of something like this EVER

DougStamate · 1 year ago

I'm looking forward to 90 minutes of Sen. Obama responding intelligently to questions while the cameras focus on the empty podium (almost said empty suit) that is standing next to him.

michaelt · 1 year ago

that is exactly what he should do too.

Betterin09 · 1 year ago

No need to cancel veep debate - flip the dates! Have Biden v. Palin this week. That should free up plenty of time for McCain.

grandma · 1 year ago

My thought too

tlsintx · 1 year ago

too bizarre

Fireblazes(CheetohsandCatfood) · 1 year ago

Couric asked palin to give her one example that McCain has done to call for more regulation and to control big business better. She couldn't name one thing.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

"REFORMER!!"

that was my deep movie announcer voice.

gumbygirl · 1 year ago

You know the guy that did those movie promo's died recently- the job's open!

LawMichigander · 1 year ago

Fine then Obama can go to the debate and give a national address. McCain doesn't want to be there with his 130+ lobbyists many of which run his campaign and lead the deregulation.

McCain isn't suspending his campaign at all, that would require legal paperwork in all 50 states and would prevent him from being on the ballot in some states. Everyone can see through this move. McCain is not the President, Bush is.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

Wait a minute, there is NOTHING about this on the news. Is this a credible story?

An_American_Karol · 1 year ago

The video was from CNN.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

I find it VERY strange this latest development is not mentioned on CNN on line or NBC nightly news.

Mark217 · 1 year ago

"America First" my ass! McCain missed 412 Senate votes (64.1%) during the current Congress:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/mem...
This economic mess didn't happened overnight, but over 2/3 of U.S. Senate business
and voting have been blown off by John McCain. He wasn't in the Senate chamber to cast many important votes at all. McCain didn't care about the economy or his Senate role before, why should anyone believe him now?

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Subprime slideshow.

Kind of long, but pretty funny. It was going around our office today.

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/02/...

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

Yet another tactical blunder by rovists who've yet to realize America's moved on from 8+ years of Animal Farm.
Johnny First and his $5K make-up lady will be scuttling to Mississippi after a loud, hallway-clogging and meaningless press availibility and pedestrian hazard in a generic Capitol hallway tomorrow...

bdhp · 1 year ago

Then I think Moose hunting season opens.

Lolis · 1 year ago

Democrats should stall the bill until Monday and call McCain's bluff.

grandma · 1 year ago

The American Prospect’s Ezra Klein blogs a line that just might become an Obama campaign talking point: “You don’t get to call time out when you’re president.”

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/24...

Busboy · 1 year ago

Looks like McCain just staked out the high ground. Obama should have announced first; but, he didn't. As old and stupid as McCain is, he seems to have a visceral understanding of human nature.

An_American_Karol · 1 year ago

Busboy, you and three other people believe that ploy. The rest of us know better.

Busboy · 1 year ago

Who are the three? Please send me their e-mail addy's so I have someone to talk to.......

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

lindsey graham, michelle malkin and sarah palin.... you can look up the email addresses, I don't have time.

Busboy · 1 year ago

Well, don't expect me to have time to listen to your crap in the future. You used to have some pretty good ideas. Guess the current crisis has overwhelmed your capabilities...?

An_American_Karol · 1 year ago

Don't hurt my feelings, Busboy.

Busboy · 1 year ago

Come on,..... that was a response to soundboy; not to you. BTW, your namesake movie: "An American K(C)arol?" is supposed to debut on Oct. 3 here in "no man's land" You gonna watch?

An_American_Karol · 1 year ago

Oops, four people. lol

An_American_Karol · 1 year ago

lol - one is your friends from Utah - Hatch

Busboy · 1 year ago

Don't know him/her. Are they ever on this blog?

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

except for the fact that 86% of the people WANT the debate to go on as planned.

so much for his understanding of human nature.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

Huh? Remember that "reach across party lines" thingy. Obama reached and McCain bit him in the hand. Further this is a ploy to keep Palin away from Biden

Busboy · 1 year ago

It's working so far.....

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

And you are happy about this? I would think ANY thinking person would want to know where their candidates stand on issues. You really wouldn't mind Palin as your president.

Busboy · 1 year ago

She seems to have more grit than the other 3 stooges in the race....

shanobama · 1 year ago

Yea, the Madam de Rothschild high ground. He is going to F*ck up the deal.

Where is his "bipartisan" statement he promised the Obama campaign?
Where is that?
And where are his demands on Congress for the bail-out? He does not have a plan, just a pander.

Too late, Congress is already requesting Obamas 4 recommendations.

mirth · 1 year ago

C'mon, Bb. You know what you wrote here is a pile of poo poo.

Busboy · 1 year ago

Sorry, can't get mad at you Mirth, don't know why...

mirth · 1 year ago

I don't want you to get mad at me, Bb, and I can't get...ok, I can't stay...mad at you either. But that has nothing to do with what you wrote.

I know you are an intelligent man, which makes me wonder why you would write something so unintelligent. And then call us Obamafascists? What's up with you tonight?

Busboy · 1 year ago

Mirth, you are probably more at risk on this crisis than me. But, I am at risk for a whole bunch also. You put your money in a bank and they invest it in "repo certificates" which are guaranteed by Freddie and Fannie; but, ultimately, by the faith and credit of the USA. The banks pay you 3% in your money market and make 9% on the repo's. If Freddie and Fannie default on the repo's? Then your bank is under and you depend on the FDIC to reimburse you for your deposits under a hundred grand. Takes about 6 months.

Obama wants to void the mortgages which are the assets of Freddie and Fannie and let the deadbeats have the houses for free and equalize the market by buying up the worthless paper. That means that you and I will pay for both the excesses of Freddie and Fannie and also for the homes that the squatters are living in. I think things have pretty much reached the "puke point"..

scytherius · 1 year ago

"a visceral understanding of human nature"

I assumed what that means is something like . . . in his gut he gets how most people think. I somehow thought that "most people" was more than 10%. .

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

I see the trolls aren't getting enough air in their stacked hamster cages...

Busboy · 1 year ago

Sounds like the Obamafascists don't understand how ordinary people view this huge financial charade...

michaelt · 1 year ago

ordinary, is that code for stupid?

scytherius · 1 year ago

The ordinary people balme the Republicans 2-1 and the ordinary people, at least 90% of them, think this is a political stunt so, yeah, we know EXACTLY how they think.

mirth · 1 year ago

Obamafascists?

tlsintx · 1 year ago

yeah, those old fighter pilot instincts are really kicking in now! whooooeeee!

grandma · 1 year ago

Palin: I can give you examples of things that John McCain has done, that has shown his foresight, his pragmatism, and his leadership abilities. And that is what America needs today.

Couric: I'm just going to ask you one more time - not to belabor the point. Specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation.

Palin: I'll try to find you some and I'll bring them to you.

http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/24/19318/4...

Kcunac · 1 year ago

But just in case I don't find any, would you settle for a Moose Casserole recipe? I know I can get one of those!

unrepentant_expat · 1 year ago

So much for McCain's ability to multi-task . Maybe he can play dead and send in Sarah instead.

scytherius · 1 year ago

Not only is this election over . . . it is a Dem landslide. I mean O V E R and L A N D S L I D E. This may even get the Dems 60-61 Senate seats. With this move McCain has lost everyone except a handful of screaming Republicans. Even the "I will vote for who is most presidential" crowd is now abandoning him in droves. This move was so stupid that I am amazed. I mean AMAZED. Glad . . . but . . . .the A word.

red_dwarf · 1 year ago

scy - I do believe you've called it. That's probably why the bailout is now - so the rePIGs can take their money and run. Let's hope the rePIGs stay out of power for at least the next 30 years.

scytherius · 1 year ago

I'm with ya Red.

michaelt · 1 year ago

mccain mccan't

Busboy · 1 year ago

Are you a Mexi"can" or a "Mexi"can't"?

michaelt · 1 year ago

if everything you say was true, then why would you be here? there would be no reason.

your scared. and you know what?

you should be.

Kcunac · 1 year ago

I know! Let's swap! McCan't can go Oct. 2nd and Sarah and Joe can go Friday.
She's up to it. Right? (PS... apologies to Saturday Night Live for putting you in a rush job situation.)

HereinDC · 1 year ago

McCain is more a Drama Queen than Dancing Queen.

Clatech · 1 year ago

John McCain has always put this country first. It's a matter of recorded history. This is just another example of his desire to help in a time of need. John McCain would rather lose an election and save our economy. Barrack Obama just wants to be the "Pres"

An_American_Karol · 1 year ago

I know a road in Alaska you might be able to buy.

jebauer · 1 year ago

If McCain and Obama want to help in this time of need, by all means, fly to Washington. But surely the American people deserve just 2 hours of the candidates' time Friday night, especially given the limited availability of McCain and Palin the past few weeks. After the debate, they may fly back to DC. I'm sure the leaders of our country will wait and we'll all enjoy seeing this important debate. That's the beauty of the 21st century... airplanes.

michaelt · 1 year ago

really? is that the best you can do? are you new to being a troll? because you need to do much better than that.

Clatech · 1 year ago

Truth sometimes sounds "trollish" but it still remains the truth.

michaelt · 1 year ago

true, but how does that relate to you?

Fireblazes(CheetohsandCatfood) · 1 year ago

You have to be able to do more than one thing at a time to be President. That leaves McCain out.

tlsintx · 1 year ago

Obama got blindsided by this chicken shit ploy.

McDesperate didn't have the guts to say it to Obama before he ran to the press and and made his oh so principled and very, very seriously important announcement of cancellation....

tlsintx · 1 year ago

any Lady de Rothschild Redneck worth his salt can see through McCain's bullshit maneuver...he hasn't given a crap about runaway greed in the financial world for the last 26 years...why all of a sudden this burst of concern and urgency?

JamesR · 1 year ago

I wonder how long it will take for someone (who is not Jon Stewart) to say with a straight face "If only Obama hadn't canceled all those town meetings McCain proposed doing we would have already had several debates..."

Clatech · 1 year ago

It's apparent when liberals start swarming to attack conservatives that they're worried about they're own agendas.

red_dwarf · 1 year ago

Typical rePIGlican response. Who knows Clatech - you still have a chance at stealing the election - don't give up yet.

michaelt · 1 year ago

what's the going rate now for posting stupidity on blogs?

you are getting paid aren't you?

Fireblazes(CheetohsandCatfood) · 1 year ago

Why don't you just cut and paste that crap about John McCoward always putting Amerika first. That would be easier than actually thinking.

You've already posted it twice.

Clatech · 1 year ago

And you still haven't gotten the message? Too much Hollywood Koolaid!

Fireblazes(CheetohsandCatfood) · 1 year ago

Haven't you heard repeating the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. McCain=Bush's 3rd term!

Fireblazes(CheetohsandCatfood) · 1 year ago

David Lettermen blasts McCliar.

http://www.americablog.com/2008/09/david-letter...

mf_roe · 1 year ago

Brilliant repug frame job. Now everyone is blindly pushing for the fraudulent bailout. The debate scam is a distraction, intended to short circuit the debate on whether a bailout is the correct answer. That question has been killed, we will get the bailout (Along with the shaft) without ever debating the merit. The repugs will happily accept an Obama presidency shackled to the destruction that will pour forth from Paulson's scam.

FloridaMom · 1 year ago

This is so typical of Bush type leadership - if you don't let me screw you in the a%$ (approve the bailout NOW) you won't get what you want (to hear the candidates debate actual issues)! What a disgrace to the process of the election season!

Happy_Housewife · 1 year ago

John McCain is no longer capable of being the President. Simply put, he's a weak old man who is in failing health, and knows it. He just wants this last chance at immortality. It's really quite sad, when you think about it.

Sarah Palin, on the other hand, lacks the intellectual capacity to be President, or even Vice-President. She's just being used by a cynical party, to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

red_dwarf · 1 year ago

Happy - well said. Exactly. McShank is literally dying; his brain is failing daily. Palin is a religious fruitcake who wouldn't make a good HS principal, much less a VP. Their only hope is another theft of the election. Let's hope we don't get another false flag before Nov.

ZennButtKicker (tlhwraith) · 1 year ago

the sad part is she doesn't even have the qualifications to be a principal. In most places I believe you need some kind of advanced degree, from what I understand she barely got her bachelors.

Milli · 1 year ago

Game over. McCain is done.

jmcon007 · 1 year ago

Shut up, Lindsey Graham. You allowed your honor to evaporate right along with your buddie John McCain. You're 'all in'. As an honorary neo-nut, your political capital was used up many months ago.

jmcon007 · 1 year ago

McCain has been outmaneuvered by Obama with every move made on the chess board and today's latest 'checkmate' has caused the McCain campaign to go bezerk, knock the board to the floor and walk out in disgust at their own impotence. Can't hardly blame em.