McCain calls all hands on deck for crisis

I thought he was running back to DC. What's he still doing in NY?

McCain is just adding to the panic Bush started with his "only thing I have to offer is fear" speech last night.
Peddling panic for purely political purposes.
Anything to try to deflect attention from Barack.

You can run from Barack, McCain, but you can't hide.

Since McCain wants to cram Palin down our throats perhaps he should let her fix the bailout....We the people are totally being manipulated and have no choice in the matter..Oh that's right..Our only involvement is just to PAY FOR THIS BAILOUT...While young people are scrimping to buy gas, food and diapers and the old can't even run their a/c and most of us have cut back to the bone already,the rich just keep getting richer and manipulating us the little man..Is this still America???Sure doesn't sound like it...Now McSame is attempting to raise his poll numbers at our expense..Is this just another ploy to win or are we seeing senility coming thru?

As a US Vet, it would have been nice to see McCain with the same enthusiasm when it was time to vote on the bill for decent Veteran benefits. Instead, he didn't show up to vote at all. I guess it is more important protecting the failures of the benefits the Lobbyists on his campaign pushed for. I used to admire McCain but during the course of this campaign I've lost a lot of respect for him.

On the surface, McCain's announcement of suspending his campaign - and the suggestion of cancelling the debate on Friday - for the stated aim of working full time to fix the economy, sounds honorable and statesmanlike.

But then - after that announcement, that McCain did NOT fly to DC, but rather he found time to have an interview with Katie Couric on Wednesday, and then to meet present to the Clinton group on Thursday in New York City - this proves McCain did not in fact focus on saving the economy.

He is making expedient political plays. In McCain's world, it is more important to spend a comfortable interview with Couric, than to debate Obama on stage. And to McCain it is more important to present to Clinton's group in person in New York (Obama does it via satellite) than to find time to fulfill his promise to debate Obama on the same stage for the first time, in front of the American public.

So clearly, the stated reason for cancelling the debate was not so McCain could spend his time in DC to solve the financial crisis.

Why did he do it? The topic was on foreign policy - McCain's strong suit, but today all answers could be turned to the economy - McCain's weak suit. There is a second debate on the Economy coming as well (Obama's strong suit). Clearly McCain does not want to debate foreign policy now, when the crisis is still going on.

Blatant, transparently obvious. He's a coward..

This Tom Cruise / Top Gun mentality is fine for one-on-one combat, or even as a Senator, but is not the temperament needed by a President of the US.

I'm happy John is in the Senate. Let's keep him there, where he belongs.

I don’t believe anything McCain says now or then. The story about him telling his captors he didn’t want to go home unless others went home doesn’t make sense. As a 23 year vet, your enemy didn’t say to you, “you can go home because you daddy is a big wig in the military.” If anything, it was more reason to keep him for interrogation. The story is full of holes and all we have is McCain’s word that it happen.

It is unfortunate McCain was a POW, but McCain is an opportunist then as he is now. A man of any integrity does not approve such low blow campaign ads, distort the truth, and out and out lie as he has in this campaign. I don’t care if you feel Obama has done the same. As a military man, we still maintain our integrity no matter how dishonest the enemy is. McCain’s campaign character does not reflect the integrity of a true hero.

I want proof from McCain that someone in the enemy camp said he could go home. McCain, do you really expect veterans, like me, believe that? When in history has the enemy told a captive he could go home? You have proven your word means nothing now and I suspect you took the opportunity to distort your story then for political purposes, as you seem to be doing now. Country first, if it advantages McCain, is your true motto.

McCain quotes of 2008.

“I don’t believe we are headed for a recession”.

“The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should, but I’ve got Greenspan’s book”.

“I believe the fundamentals of this country are strong & I believe they will remain strong”.

John McCain admitted he “doesn’t really understand economics” and then pointed to his adviser and former Senate colleague, Phil Gramm - whom he had brought with him to the meeting - as the expert he turns to on the subject.

What is he going to do in Washington to help this economic disaster?

Didn't Obama call McCain first, at 8:30 in the morning and ask him to issue a bipartisan statement together? JM got back to him at 2:30 and said "yeah, okay". Then he up and pulls this grandstander, like he did when he chose Palin.

The market is up, based on the fact that Congress is making progress.

In the meantime, McCain has tried to throw a wrench into the works so he can come in and save the day.

If he stalls that progress, we'll all know immediately, because the market will drop like a rock...whether you like Wall Street or not, it is a pretty good indicator of sentiment.

What an incredibly cheap political stunt - and he is doing it with my retirement funds.

He is grandstanding. The candidates were asked to NOT show up during these meetings to not use this crisis as a political move. I have the list of all those in these meetings and John McCain's name is not on that list.

Obama has been in constant contact with congress and he told them he would be there asap the minute he was requested. He was asked last night by Bush and is going there today. He, at least, knew enough to not use this time to further is political ambitions.

Canceling this debate is ridiculous. Mississippi has already paid 5 million dollars for this and 850 million are due to be watching it. There is no reason McCain can not fly home, go to this debate then return to Washington 90 minutes later.

This is nearly as dumb as Palin meeting all those foreign dignitaries and then saying nothing on camera.

First Joe Lieberman (D) and now former President Bill Clinton (D) are now in the McCain camp.

Shows how weak and inexperienced Obama really is...everyone is bailing on him.

Paulo

The guy just gets goofier every day.
Here's the thing about running a country: you have to carry on doing more than one thing at at time even in a crisis. I strongly doubt that the time it takes to participate in a couple of debates will make the difference between a solution and the collapse of the economy. I especially doubt that what's needed most in this crisis is the immediate, 100% participation of a man who already admitted he knows very little about the issue.
I'm pretty sure that the schools can stay open, the trains and buses can keep running, Sen. McCain can take a few hours to debate his opponent, and the remaining "hands on deck" will still find the optimal way to redistribute all our wealth upward, to the criminal fools who created this mess after being cut loose by Republican policy grounded in the theology of "No regulation, no oversight."

John McCain was a Navy man so he understands when the ship is going down, all hands need to be on deck. Obama is part of the do-nothing Congress and, instead of joining other senators to work on this crisis, decides to continues with his fund raising effort. Is this how Obama responds when the nation is in need?

That call was sent out in 1999, when, your good buddy and advisor, former Senator " Whiner " Gramm, along with some more of your Republican buddies, Leach and Bliley, came up, with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, 1999 !! You miss the call !! You thought they said, there's some money in the hall, so you left the chamber, to see if you could get some.
Is there any real chance, of the real Senator McCain, ever standing up and presenting his real self and his real positions on issues?!! I hope so. He claims, " America first ", than he should prove it and share with our nation, his positions, not some pandering, posturing, as he continues to do !! That is not America first, that's Me first !! Come on, Senator McCain, get real, or get lost !!!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.

This guy's had more come-to-Jesus moments than Jimmy Swaggart.

http://enough2008.blogspot.com/2008/09/with-soft-touch-of-bull-in-china-shop.html

Just what we need, someone who hits the panic button when others around him (the House, the Senate, even the White House) have kept their heads and are working through the issues.

McCain clearly doesn't have the right stuff for this job.

McCain's phony call for "all hands on deck" reminds me of another misplaced military man's howler moment in a crisis: Al Haig's "I'm in charge here!" after Ronald Reagan was shot. He had to be reminded that, no, he wasn't actually in charge. There was a well-established system in place and he wasn't next in line.
McCain should just stay out of the way and keep reading Greenspan's book, and Palin should just keep learning the names of foreign leaders and that so that they can go to the debates and cast aspersions and Obama's lack of experience.

Totally bogus. He said he was "suspending" his campaign, yet sent all sorts of surrogates out to trash the opponent. He said he was heading to DC, but had to stop and talk not only at the Clinton event, but with Lady de Rothschild, who is a wealthy NOBODY!

County First, my foot.

I say let McManchuria and Nurse Palin really get in touch the fundamentals of American Capitalism.
Let them start with $5000 in a bank account, and work at Wal-Mart for 5 years and survive on those wages and bennies, and see where they are at the end of that period.

Steve: THANK YOU for verbalizing what I've been thinking for quite a while!
Paolo: What the hell are you TALKING ABOUT????...IS THAT YOUR WISHFUL THINKING?????...(AGAIN)

"All hands on deck" is the command for" let's look good because somebody is going to be watching us topside". In a crisis, the command is "Man your battle stations" (most of which are below deck in the modern Navy) But then, McCain probably did serve on a galleon, given his age.