According to the New York Times, John McCain has not been spending that much time preparing for the debates. So, call for a time-out! Brilliant!
The debate on Friday was to focus on Mr. McCain’s perceived strength, foreign policy. Mr. McCain had not planned to devote large blocks of time to debate practice as did Mr. Obama, who was holing up with a tight circle of advisers at a hotel in Clearwater, Fla., on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to prepare. Mr. McCain had a preparatory session on Wednesday afternoon at the Morgan Library in Manhattan, but advisers said it had been interrupted by his decision, announced immediately afterward, to suspend his campaign.Preparatory session Wednesday? Uh huh.
From the comments, thanks MFranti! Some of us do our homework.
i really liked obama's response
"Presidents are going to have to deal with more than one thing at a time. It's not necessary for us to think that we can only do one thing and suspend everything else.... We've both got big planes. We've painted our slogans on the sides of them. They can get us from Washington, D.C. to Mississippi pretty quickly."
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i really liked obama's response
"Presidents are going to have to deal with more than one thing at a time. It's not necessary for us to think that we can only do one thing and suspend everything else.... We've both got big planes. We've painted our slogans on the sides of them. They can get us from Washington, D.C. to Mississippi pretty quickly."
and mccain thought he could BS obama around by pretending to give a shit.
Hilarious! I'm promoting your comment. The dog didn't eat your homework (or is it chickens that are the hazard around the franti household, that, and of course, spearhead reveries.
....and it seems pres bush is making them come home to do chores.
i can't help but think that was done as a favor to mccain.
I think the timing was too great to miss; but I really really really think that the economy wasn't supposed to tank until shortly after the next election. OF course, this way Paulson and his band of ever-merrier men may be able to make the biggest heist of all time this way.....
i heard that the money, the 700 billion dollars mr. P requested is to come with no strings attached. nobody get's to know how the money is spent.
and our idiotstick leadership is willing to give it to him.
wtf?
No strings. Strings are just for the little guys without 700,000,000 in their enormous pockets. Besides? How did Paulson get that money? `1) By promoting De-regulation 2) using that deregulation to create exotic derivatives, and 3) because there was no regulation, leveraging the hell out of (33%) said derivitaves. So of course it came down all at once. When you're leveraged at 40X, which Lehman was, a drop of a dollar in real assets requires a drop of 40$ in investments being held on those assets. Now, when those assets are mortgage backed securities, (aka toxic, at the lowest tranches, worth a big ol' nothing.) That's the sort of deleveraging that will bring down a really really big company in a day or two.
I liked Warren Buffet's bet on the stupidity of the American people. (5B into, was it Goldman Sachs?) Sure, we'll just hand you all our money for nothing in return. Hope he's wrong.
I too find this ironic b/c this debate was originally supposed to be about domestic policy but per McCain's request, the Obama campaign agreed to switch the topic nights a few weeks back. And you are right, this disaster was supposed to wait until AFTER Nov 4!!!! I can't wait to see tonight's debate!
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