Obama takes the bait

Harry Reid is the biggest fool of the day.
Quothe the Reid...
Hot Air Blog Archive Reid changes his tune on McCain involvement - and for good reason; Update: Video added
(note the ABC YT video)

"Notice that Reid never demanded leadership from the Democratic nominee for President. I guess he already knows that would be a futile request." - Ed Morrissey

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I understand that Reid is disliked, but Morrisey's quote is a little silly. It's obvious Reid is trying to put the heat on McCain, and nothing more.

what bait?

Obama had already said he wanted to be part of the process. Is he cancelling the debates? no...

you guys congratulate yourselves over the most ridiculous "victories"

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Bingo!

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So, McCain throwing a tantrum, taking all his toys out of the sandbox, this is good for your guy how exactly?

The purely political manuevering is pretty obvious here.

I think his main motivation was to keep Palin from debating Biden.

So dishonest. So opportunistic.

so John McCain thinks it's okay to hold the electoral process hostage, knowing that he really only needs to look at the proposal and cast his vote ? this is who some people want as president? that's frightening.

and they are meeting with Bush.. there's no promise of a resolution ninja...

the debates are happening with or without McCain... he'd be wise to show up...

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Yep. We Republicans are evil and will do anything for cheap political points

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LOL well as long as it makes you happy.

Part of the problem is McCain's own admission that he doesn't know much about economics. He probably fears a question on the issue during the debate. Something along the lines of, "Hey, John, just last week you were saying the economy is fundamentally strong and now you're like, we're all going to die!...what gives?" If he puts the debate on hold long enough, he'll never have to explain himself.

Let a conservative tell you about McCain.

washingtonpost.com

"Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama.

Channeling his inner Queen of Hearts, John McCain furiously, and apparently without even looking around at facts, said Chris Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, should be decapitated. This childish reflex provoked the Wall Street Journal to editorialize that "McCain untethered" -- disconnected from knowledge and principle -- had made a "false and deeply unfair" attack on Cox that was "unpresidential" and demonstrated that McCain "doesn't understand what's happening on Wall Street any better than Barack Obama does."
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To read the Journal's details about the depths of McCain's shallowness on the subject of Cox's chairmanship, see "McCain's Scapegoat" (Sept. 19). Then consider McCain's characteristic accusation that Cox "has betrayed the public's trust.""

He did?

That man is nuts.

What he is saying is that he'd afraid to debate Obama, then.

I am frankly shocked the man wimped out.

I thought he was made of sterner stuff than that.

I think that all but the right wingnuts will realise that McCain is playing partisan politics with the financial disaster.

1. He is scared of debating Obama right now. What's Friday night's topic? Is it Foreign Policy? If so he should be less scared than if it was the economy, but he's still wussed out.

2. He attempted to embarrass Obama into going along with the cancellation of the debate. Obama wasn't fooled and importantly he has demonstrated that he is above populism. If Obama had gone along with it he would have been seen as a follower to McCain's leadership. McCain's petard has well and truly blown him up.

3. The polls will show that Americans are awake to what McCain is up to and that they see that Obama is more then a damn fine speaker.

McCain is finished.

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The best foot goes forward.

Keep up the good work, folks. Your playing right into McCain's hands.

Mark my words, if no deal is reached today, Senator McCain will not announce his decision to attend the debate until the last possible moment.

This will be the most watched debate in modern history, just the way Senator McCain wanted.

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uh, takes what bait? The President of the United States of America has recalled Congress. Three of the four people out campaigning are in Congress. I truly don't understand what the big deal is here.

Yeah, people are really going to cancel their Friday evening plans just to watch the presidential debate....