Obama rebuffs McCain's plea to delay Friday's debate

Check out his response below.

In all honesty people, there's no reason the candidates can't do both. They can address the financial crises AND address the nation in the presidential debate Friday night. Grand gestures aren't needed for us to feel they are putting our economic woes to rest. Don't crap out of your obligations, your obligation to the University of Mississippi, who's been planning and orchestrating this event for months now, to the Commission on Presidential Debates, to Barack Obama, to the American people, who NEED to hear your positions on the issues, and we need to hear them NOW. Time is running out. Election day will be upon us in a matter of weeks (have you registered to vote yet?). As president of this nation, you will need to multitask and multitask with aplomb. Get your ass in gear mister!

[Source: thepage.time.com]

Campbell Brown tears McCain a new one

Amen sista'!

I urge you all to listen to the following clip below. I have to say that I wholeheartedly agree with Brown and immediately thought this in response to a post I wrote yesterday. 

Free Sarah Palin!

Katie Couric interviews Palin

In her third interview - that's right, they can still be counted on one hand - Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin sits down with Katie Couric of CBS to discuss the current financial crises and Senator John McCain's plans to assuage them.

We get to hear about McCain's maverick image, Palin's inability to articulate any real specifics even when asked more than once to elaborate and get a great sign-off that should basically have a voiceover of "Errrrrr..."

Palin Power!

McCain suspends campaign and seeks to delay Friday's debate!

Egads!

Senator John McCain just announced that he plans to suspend campaigning on Thursday, and seek a delay in this week's planned presidential debate Friday, so that he could return to Washington to try to forge a consensus on a financial bailout package.

Shortly after, the Obama camp issued a statement saying the two candidates had spoken on the phone this morning about issuing a statement on the financial difficulties facing the nation, but it did not address canceling the debate.

McCain and Obama have been under pressure to enact some kind of significant change regarding the proposed $700 billion bailout package. 

"I am calling on the President to convene a meeting with the leadership from both houses of Congress, including Senator Obama and myself," he said in New York this afternoon. "It is time for both parties to come together to solve this problem."

It's all very phoenix in the rising, Mr. McCain trying to appear as the one spearheading this call to action, but it was actually Sen. Obama who began the exchange with the Arizona senator.

"At 8:30 this morning, Sen. Obama called Sen. McCain to ask him if he would join in issuing a joint statement outlining their shared principles and conditions for the Treasury proposal and urging Congress and the White House to act in a bipartisan manner to pass such a proposal," said Bill Burton, the spokesman for the Obama campaign.

Democrats reacted skeptically to Mr. McCain's surprise announcement (as they should have), accusing that it seemed like a political ploy to try to gain the confidence of voters concerned about the economy.

"What, does McCain think the Senate will still be working at 9 p.m. Friday?" Gov. Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania said, referring to the start time of the debate. "I think this is all political - I wish McCain had shown the same concern when he didn't show up in the Senate to vote on the extension of the renewable energy tax credit."

It all seems to be a game and an attempt to put Mr. Obama between a rock and a hard place. If he shakes his head no to ol' Mac and goes ahead with the debate, some will think Sen. McCain is the one concerned with solving the financial problems on Wall Street this week and if he acquiesces and agrees to postpone the debate, then he's still simply a follower.

So, here we go again, with McCain going to all lengths to appear bipartisan and maverick in the strangest of ways. Use some sense people. I certainly hope you can multitask, and deal with both things.

Not to mention, this kind of puts a hole in the latest article I've written that goes to print today. Thanks Mac!

FTW.

[Source: msnbc.msn.com]

McCain aide's firm was paid by Freddie Mac

Lies!

One of the mortgage giants at the heart of the current credit crisis paid $15,000 a month from the end of 2005 through last month to a firm owned by Senator John McCain's campaign manager, the New York Times is reporting today.

The revelation directly undercuts a statement by Mr. McCain on Sunday night that his campaign manager, Rick Davis, has had no involvement with the company for the last several years.

Read the article in full here.

Yay for lies! Looking forward to more!

[Source: nytimes.com]

Dean: Bush just trying to protect Wall Street

The DNC chair, Howard Dean, tells MSNBC that Congress will is likely to only support a bailout bill that also helps taxpayers and mortgage payers. And then basically goes on to say that President Bush really only wants to keep money in the pockets of them big CEOs.

Click here to view the video.

He also added that McCain tends to react to things in a "hot-headed way" and is sometimes "irascible" compared to Obama's "calm" demeanor. I don't know, I think that if the calm and debonair Obama took a cue from Howard Dean's handbook, he might be a little more entertaining. No?

[Source: thepage.time.com]

Obama ad upbraids McCain on equal pay

An unannounced spot by the Obama camp features former Goodyear employee Lilly Ledbetter discussing how getting paid less than the men at her job affected her family.

The ad lambasts Sen. McCain for his belief that equal pay isn't an issue for women.

McCain camp responds: "Barack Obama claims he's for equal pay for women, but women working in his Senate office earn an average of $9,000 less than men, while women in John McCain's Senate office earn an average of nearly $2,000 more than men. American women understand that real leadership is about what you do, not just what you say."

[Source: thepage.time.com]