McCain Suspends Campaign to Focus on Economic Crisis: wants to postpone debate

[ProfessorPlum]

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Whatta chicken. Like he can do something about all this.

[ProfessorPlum]

1. Gramps must have been doing poorly in the practices.

[Virginia Dare]

4. If he actually is senile or has Alzheimers..

it will show during the debates unless he wears a wire like the shrub did.

[ihavenobias]

16. I forgot about the wire n/t

[raystorm7]

14. He's SCARED! Obama should just go to the debate forum by himself.

[livelongandprosper]

2. Just like Bush. Can't walk and chew gum at the same time.

He is a joke.

[DS1]

3. you fucking bottomfeeding piece of shit

[EnviroBat]

5. Fuck you you son-of-a-bitch!

You should be suspending your campaign indefinitely, and marching your feeble ass before a grand jury indictment. They should find you guilty of high crimes against the United States and throw your ass in a prison cell! HOW FUCKING DARE YOU COCKSUCKER!

[Skink]

6. Showing his true Thug side he's calling to sneak this through.

The public has seen now that Fannie and Freddie and by default Aig were done right.... but this one is a naked power grab. They, the thugs, want to buy up assets that are now worth ten cents on the dollar at a price that no investor would pay.

[Sanity Claws]

7. What's wrong with his eyes?

One is considerably larger than the other; something is off.

[DarlaJ]

8. Most people will lie or stretch the truth for one reason and that is money

Believe me, the campaign isn't being suspended, it's going full force ahead using every attack angle they can think of. Bush was recently in Oklahoma City to raise money for McCain and my friends, John Scripsick and Warren Henthorn who lost their sons in Iraq were there to ask some questions. Here is John Scripsick's op ed piece:

A parent looking for answers
http://www.tulsaworld.com/opinion/article.aspx?articleID=20080914_65_G4_USArmy793371

By JOHN SCRIPSICK
9/14/2008

My son died in Iraq one year ago and it has made me study the reasons we went to war, as any parent would do looking into the loss of their child.

President George W. Bush came to Oklahoma City Friday, to raise money for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. I think for a donation of $5,000 you got your picture with Bush at a beer distributor's house.

My son joined the Marines to help this country do good. I tried to talk him out of joining, but after 9/11, lots of young men and women joined. One day before his final signing, I thought he was having second thoughts, but Bryan looked at me and said he already gave them his word. I was worried, but proud that he was a man of his word.

As time went by, I'd seen that Bush, Dick Cheney and others were not men of their word. They will lie straight to your face. Most people will lie or stretch the truth for one reason and that is money.

I was there, on Friday, but not to get a picture taken with him, but to ask some questions:

How can our government pay $800 to $1,000 a day to Halliburton, KBR, Blackwater employees, which Cheney has ties to, and only pay our troops $70 to $100 a day?

Is it true that Blackwater, which has cost taxpayers billions to provide security in Iraq, has given generously to your campaign?

Was Enron your largest contributor?

Did a Texas oil company, that gave to your campaign, drill in the Kurdish region yet?

Did you read the report sent to you in August 2001, about an attack in America coming soon?

Did you pay $5 million to a man from Iraq so he would not talk about weapons of mass destruction?

Did you ignore Iran's offer to infiltrate al-Qaida after the 9/11 attack?

Why did you ignore Joe and Valerie Wilson's knowledge about WMDs and al-Qaida in Iraq?

How many military leaders, CIA officials and others have resigned since you have been president?

If you collect enough money, pull a good-looking rabbit out of the hat, and McCain becomes president, do you get a pardon from these questions?

My son died in Iraq on Sept. 6, 2007. Does my asking these questions make me unpatriotic? Did my son die for my freedom or did he die so Bush could pump money through private contractors and please the Republican campaign contributors?

I was sure standing on a corner, outside the fundraiser, would not get these questions answered. But maybe the right person will hear the message. I do know that doing nothing will produce nothing.

John Scripsick, a resident of Wayne, who lost his son in the Iraq War.

[Phoonzang]

9. Oh my god....he even mentioned 9/11

What a piece of....work.

[jberryhill]

10. chickenshit - there are 98 other senators, and I want to know...

What McCain is going to be doing Friday evening.

[Wetzelbill]

11. Everything is a constant game to win the newscycle.

No integrity whatsoever! After months of making a huge deal out of the townhalls and building himself up, he now can't play down and lower expectations in a debate, so he has to do this? Just low, really low.

Now why didn't he suspend his campaign and call everybody to get together to work out something on Iraq? Everyday soldiers are getting maimed for life and dying or coming home with psychological wounds, why no concern on that? Oh wait, there is no political benefit in addressing that injustice, it's much better to showpony around 2 days before a debate he's going to look old and tired and ignorant in.

[HopeHoops]

12. I don't see the point. Letting it wait will just make his failed policies fresh news again.

[raystorm7]

13. Now if Obama did this the Repukes would go CRAZY! and call Obama a coward for not debating.

[DWilliamsamh]

15. I hate to say this but McCain has been winning the perception war on this

He has successfully ginned up the fake outrage at the crooks on wall street and his grumpy old man persona naturally plays to that. He looks natural, fuming about the sons-a-bitches who are ripping us off. Of course he a LIAR, and his hands are all over his buddy Phil's legislation. Of COURSE he has spent 27 years as wanting to be the "Deregulation President." But the average asshole-stupid American who fell in love with Sarah Palin because she's a "hockey mom" (whatever the fuck that means), doesn't know that, and McCain has been playing it right.

NOW - there is real danger that he will look like the magnanimous, self-sacrificing one (the ONLY one) who wants to put the country before his personal gain. THAT will be the way this is spun by the right wing and MOST of the American Media. About the only place it won't be spun that way is here, Daily Kos and Olberman and Maddow. I REALLY hope I am wrong but this has the potential to elevate McSenile again in the poles.

[wowimthere]

17. Did he just mention 9/11? Debates! ON McChicken!

[mcjackson]

18. could this be...

...a health thing maybe?

[happygoluckytoyou]

19. send in PALIN, she's qualified...send in PALIN, she's qualified...send in PALIN, she's qualified...

and it is in AMERICA... she has been there before

[Pete2069]

20. McSame & Palin don't need to debate

We all should know by now they are the good guys , they wear
RED hats....
People other then the elitist that vote for McSame and Palin
deserve everything the receive in the total destruction..  
One problem ,, all Americans will be destroy in their arrogant
stupidity.....

[RagAss]

21. He's low on money !!!