http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080925/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_s_gambit
This article brings up an interesting point. What do you think?
Plumberrock: I am a Republican and I am having serious doubts about his agenda on this one.
Gardenerforgod: I have been watching things on TV and I would agree that this is a very serious situation. Somehow I believe that the election of a new President is a very serious situation as well. John McCain has missed 412 votes out of 643 in the senate. So now he suddenly cares?
As far as he is concerned at this point their is not much he can do. As President he could do much more. Regardless of anything this will still be an issue on November 4th and when the new President is sworn into office in January.
July 1st, 2009 at 2:02 am
Yes. CNN reports that McCain arrived AFTER the bulk of the meeting was over. What a waste of trip
July 4th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Yeah, a political strategy to keep our economy from sinking into a depression as the direct result of having no credit available.
July 6th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
I don’t think that, I am absolutely positive. This close to the election, everything you do is political strategy. He just said the fundamentals of our economy was strong a week ago, didn’t he?
He’d like us to forget that,right?
July 6th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Obama not returning to FL now he has to work tomorrow in DC there is a SERIOUS meltdown
July 9th, 2009 at 11:09 am
Only a liberal would think that.
July 9th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Yes, it was for many reasons McCain is doing this and one reason is that he isn’t showing himself as a bipartisan leader.
July 12th, 2009 at 5:45 am
It probably was, but I think it was stupid.
July 13th, 2009 at 12:44 am
Yes, but it was great one that only someone who actually cares about this country would do. The other guy is a faux American.
July 14th, 2009 at 12:02 am
Yes, Obama is a better debater.
July 16th, 2009 at 5:24 am
Nothing passed people - those Republicans and Democrats saying that it did FORGOT THE HOUSE, of which this must pass through, of which it is not.
This is serious, and you want to keep picking at McCain.
Bottom line, McCain was right to go, Obama followed suit. They will be back meeting in the morning.
If you are a Republican, haven’t you been following the unfolding events on the TV? NO STUNT DUDE, this is the real deal with dire consequence, said by MCCAIN, OBAMA and BUSH
AND - do you realize thatif McCain was playing and if he was wrong it would cost him the office of President. That is a big gamble - Bill Clinton even said that McCain made the right choice and is for real
July 16th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
No, I do not. Unlike Obama.. I think John McCain genuinely loves this country. It takes a special person to go and fight for your homeland and he did that voluntarily.. he could have gotten off, many of his stature did.. but he went and he fought and he suffered.
So while I think he wants the presidencey because he does beleive he can make a difference.. I do not think he craves it like Obama does.. I think he just wants to do his part for his country.
Obama on the other hand wants to do this for himself.. for his people.. whoever they are.. and for his ego.. he wants to stick it to the man.. be the first black president.. well, I don’t even mind if he makes it.. it will set the African Americans back 50 years for he does not and will not have any solutions.. he has no experieince.. but maybe it is a lesson he must learn.
July 18th, 2009 at 11:37 am
When you’re running for president, everything you do is political.
Right decisions, wrong decisions; they all have political consequences.
What is important is whether you believe that it is the right thing to do, regardless of politics.
Was it courageous and self sacrificing to quit your campaign and go to Washington? After having struggled for almost two years to reach the presidency, you shut down your political guns and tend to the wounded, even though the enemy is still firing?
Many on the Left are saying it’s stupid. It’s political *******. And it very well may be. On the other hand, when American’s see that politics are a secondary concern to this man, they see a vast contrast between him and his opponent.
So in this sense, it’s politically very smart.
But either way, he’ll go down in history as the guy who did what he felt was right, just, and moral, rather than politically expedient.
July 20th, 2009 at 2:08 am
I am not sure. At first I did, I though it was a Rove tactic. But now I am wondering if McCain has a heath problem that they are keeping quiet and if he went to Walter Reed while he was in Washington.
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Yes of course every time Obama is up in the polls McCain pull some stupid stunt liking picking Palin.
July 22nd, 2009 at 9:53 pm
partly. All things are at that level. Even going to the bathroom can be one.
July 23rd, 2009 at 9:05 am
It was a nice attempt, but the dog and pony died before the show started.
July 26th, 2009 at 12:45 am
Absolutely it was a political ploy. Palin flubbed her second consecutive interview, and he’s going to get his a** handed to him in the debates by someone who is far smarter and more eloquent. He knows there’s only so many questions he can dodge by recounting his P.O.W. days before people catch wise to the strategy. He’s trying to shore up some ammo so that after his campaign manager is done mopping him off the floor, he can put out some snarky political attack ad against Obama for not caring enough about the economy and about the American people, even though right now it’s such a dire non-political issue. It’s just more McCain whining. When it’s not sexism, its ageism, or anti-patriotism, or media bias, or those ridiculous community organizers. Life’s just not fair for rich old white guys and their unqualified to run a Dairy Queen MILF sidekicks. Sorry McCain folks, you’ve got the misfortune of having an angry, unstable ex-POW on your ticket, who has admitted that The Issue Of Economics Is Not Something I’ve Understood As Well As I Should. and then, wouldn’t you know it, the economy blew up right before the election. He’s bowing out of an economics debate because he knows he’s ill equipped to craft a coherent argument, and because he’s been part of the problem in Washington for such a long, long time.