Panicked over Economic Crisis, McCain Suspends Campaign, Calls for ‘Delay’ of Friday’s Debate

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Telegraphing panic over the economic crisis to his fear-addicted followers, John McCain has announced he is suspending his campaign and that he wants to delay the debate Friday night, according to Washington Post

Republican presidential nominee John McCain this afternoon said he would suspend his presidential campaign tomorrow to return to Washington and help reach agreement on a plan to solve the financial crisis on Wall Street, and called for a delay of Friday night’s presidential debate.

“It has become clear that no consensus has developed to support the Administration’s proposal,” McCain said in a brief statement to reporters. “I do not believe that the plan on the table will pass as it currently stands, and we are running out of time.”

It’s not as if John McCain has announced any sort of definitive measure to resolve the crisis that he needs to be in Washington to push — or that he has a record of providing leadership on the economy in the past. (Quite the opposite, in fact. He was an advocate of the deregulation that underlies the failures.)

More importantly, if John McCain can’t juggle a debate with Barack Obama while simultaneously working on the economic collapse, how can he possibly handle the multiple world crises that inevitably come with the presidency?

It’s likely that what’s really going on here is that the campaign has seen some dire polling numbers — today even the new Fox “News” poll shows Obama support widening nationally, with a full 6-point lead, 45% to 39%, beyond the poll’s margin of error — and they want to push the debate forward, with the hope that the issues that are dragging him down have turned around.

(Please note, however, in re: the Fox “News” poll released today, FNC’s “Fox News Polls Home” on their website currently ledes with a headline screaming that “McCain Leads Obama 45% to 42%”. Click on that top headline, and one finds that it’s headlined Sept. 10. Guess they’re in no rush to update their polls page for some reason.)

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Panicked over Economic Crisis, McCain Suspends Campaign, Calls for ‘Delay’ of Friday’s Debate

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  1. 1)
    matt said on 9/24/2008 @ 2:02pm PT: [Permalink]

    McTranslation: “My entire campaign staff needs to head to DC to get themselves in on the action. Time is of the essence, and they need to claim their rightful piece of the pie.”

  2. 2)
    Phil said on 9/24/2008 @ 3:56pm PT: [Permalink]

    That’s right, suspend your campaign, your not a leader. YOU AIN’T LEADING. I a piece of shit music TV show have been speaking MORE THAN YOU. FUCKING IDIOT. If your can’t even talk, what the fuck good are you Mc Crap.

    Want me to write a hard core song for you? BITCH?!

  3. 5)
    Phil said on 9/24/2008 @ 4:07pm PT: [Permalink]

    John mc cain says…. bla bla bla bla bla bla bla.

    I SAY, GO FUCK YOURSELF. And fuck any senator that breaks his oath of office on this fucking Government Bank robber shit. FUCK ALL OF YOU!

  4. 7)
    Howard said on 9/24/2008 @ 4:08pm PT: [Permalink]

    COUNTRY OVER POLITICS !!!
    This is another example of how Senator John McCain puts country first. All Obama cares about is winning the election at any cost. Obama neglected his duties as U.S. Senator before running for President, and especially after he began running for President. Keep America strong and safe … Elect McCain/Palin in November.

  5. 10)
    Phil said on 9/24/2008 @ 4:25pm PT: [Permalink]

    I could pick Obama up and throw him FARTHER THAN I CAN TRUST YOU MC CAIN. I can do that and be DRUNK and do that and still you smell like skidmarks.

  6. 14)
    Phil said on 9/24/2008 @ 4:35pm PT: [Permalink]

    The PLAN for this economic bullshit by the CRIMINAL BERNAKE and PAULSON, comes from US Representitives (Anonymous pieces of shit, they get to be anonymous, but we get fucking snooped on..Yeah right bitch, shit breath fuckwad) was planned weeks and MONTHS before they laid it on the Lawmakers at the last second before they go away.

    FUCK WALLSTREET! FUCK THIS SHIT BREATH SHIT.
    FUCK ANY MOTHERFUCKER THAT SAYS WE OWE A SINGLE FUCKING CENT!

    WE DID NOT DO THIS SHIT. THERE IS NO FUCKING EMERGENCY. OR IS THERE? HMMM. BETTER NOT TRUST THE HEROIN ADDICTS IN CHARGE. THEY NEED A 100 TRILLION DOLLAR FIX!! Oh did they fucking LIE to you again and say it’s only 700B? They ONLY NEED ANOTHER BEER AND SHOT OF WHISKEY?

    ARE YOU THAT FUCKING STUPID?

    YOU MUST BE WORKING FOR ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, PBS, CNBC, CNN. If your that stupid.

  7. 15)
    Phil said on 9/24/2008 @ 4:48pm PT: [Permalink]

    Leadershit.

    Let’s do a PErformance Evaluation of BUSH

    LEADERSHIP

    Completely fucking failed, lied and lied and lied to try to hide the failed lies. Yet when facts are added up, it looks like this leader is actually a domestic terrorist.

    MISSION

    To completely steal every fucking cent and destroy all parts of the constitution, ignoring the founding fathers of the United States Instead want’s to create a DICTATORSHIP and NEW WORLD ORDER. . . seems to be this person’s fucking agenda. Instead of a grade raise, this person deserves a fucking jail cell for life.
    Any monitary ideas should be reversed, any laws or executive orders should be reversed, not to say there isn’t terrorism, but this person is the WORST TERRORIST.

    WORKFORCE

    This fuckwad was very adept at getting people to work for the cause, completely brainwashing subjects to nazi style law enforcement, VERY ADEPT YET VERY GUILTY.

    RELATIONSHIPS

    Sucks the dick of big corporations.

    RESOURCE

    Is very adept of manipulating shills in existing parts of government to avoid the constitution. Domestic Terrorist at minimum..Scum Fuck at maximum. A fucking Lying sack of shit who destroys every resource in it’s path.

    Okay, maybe you would like to write Bush’s Performance Evaluation, After All Your probably more of a leader than he is.

  8. 17)
    Phil said on 9/24/2008 @ 4:52pm PT: [Permalink]

    Joe 6 Pack CRAMS for performance evaluations. Joe 6 pack slams a fucking case then blurts out the truth in one or two liner sentences. No English 101 needed here!

  9. 18)
    Phil said on 9/24/2008 @ 4:55pm PT: [Permalink]

    Okay take a big puff of whatever you like to smoke, and think…..

    They had a plan for MONTHS. They laid it on the Lawmakers at the last second and said, Do this or the fucking economy will MELT.

    No who’s on drugs?

    Bernake is a terrorist. AN ECONOMIC DOMESTIC TERRORIST.

    How many more lies you need to hear?

    The opposite of ANYTHING this administration says is the truth.

  10. 24)
    WANNETTA said on 9/24/2008 @ 7:17pm PT: [Permalink]

    If You were The Boss… which team would you hire?

    With America facing historic debt, multiple war fronts, stumbling health care, a weakened dollar, all-time high prison population, skyrocketing Federal spending, mortgage crises, bank foreclosures, etc. etc., this is an unusually critical election year.

    Let’s look at the educational background of the candidates and see what they bring to the job:

    Obama:
    Occidental College – Two years.
    Columbia University – B.A. political science with a specialization in international relations.
    Harvard – Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude

    & Biden:
    University of Delaware – B.A. in history and B.A. in political science.
    Syracuse University College of Law – Juris Doctor (J.D.)

    vs.

    McCain:
    United States Naval Academy – Class rank 894 out of 899 (meaning that, like George Bush, McCain was at the bottom of his class)

    Palin:
    Hawaii Pacific University – 1 semester
    North Idaho College – 2 semesters – general study
    University of Idaho – 2 semesters – journalism
    Matanuska-Susitna College – 1 semester
    University of Idaho – 3 semesters – B.A. in journalism

    Now, which team are you going to hire to lead the most influential nation in the world?

    Please send this information to your friends and colleagues who vote!

    ——————————————————————————–

  11. 25)
    WANNETTA said on 9/24/2008 @ 8:06pm PT: [Permalink]

    JOHN MCCAIN IS JOHN MCBUSH BIRDS OF A FEATHER STAY TOGETHER. A VOTE FOR MCCAIN IS A NOTHER 4 YEARS OF BUSH/ CHENEY LIKE BUSH MCCAIN FINISH BOTTOM OF HIS CLASS NO COLLEGE HE DOSE NOT KNOW WHAT A EMAIL IS NOR HOW TO SEND ONE AND PALIN SHE HAD TO GO TO WHAT 5 ARE 6 DIFFERENT SCHOOL INORDER TO GET 1 DEGREE THEY GOT TIRD OF HER AND JUST GAVE HER THAT 1 LITTLE DEGREE. AND THESE PEOPLE WANT TO LEAD THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WE SHOULD KNOW IN DIFFERNET BY PUTTING A BOTTOM OF THE CLASS PERSON IN OFFICE THIS MEAN DUMB PEOPLE IN OFFICE

  12. 26)
    atlattl sees said on 9/25/2008 @ 10:47am PT: [Permalink]

    Suspend Depends
    John’s maximum protection undergarment got suddenly heavier, so he’s fitted it with suspenders.

    (I’d say something serious, but that would be inappropriate given present circumstances.)

  13. 27)
    osamabinforgotten said on 9/25/2008 @ 12:02pm PT: [Permalink]

    A call to arms for progressive bloggers!!!!

    Liberals, please come to Speak Free Politics it’s an easy to use message board blog dominated by right wingers. My name there is osamabinforgotten. I need to recruit some lefty bloggers as i am being ganged up on and called a terrorist for being a liberal. All bloggers are invited to come there and check it out.

    Johnny B. Goode!

    Deep down in Arizona close to Mexico
    Way back up in the cactuses where it never snows
    There stood an ancient mansion made of gold and wood
    Where lived a a corrupt politician named Johnny B Goode
    Who’d never learned the difference between Sunni or Shia so well
    But he could pretend to chase Osama to the gates of Hell

    Go! Go! Go! Johnny!
    Go! Go! Go! Johnny!
    Go! Go! Go! Johnny!
    Go! Go! Go! Johnny!
    Go! Go! Johnny B. Goode!

    He used to carry his bribe money in a gunnysack
    Go sit beneath a tree and count his Keating kickbacks
    Old lobbyist on K street would see him sittin’ in the shade
    Laughing at the doubletalk and flip flops he made
    The people passed him by they would stop and say
    Oh my but that little old mummy really hates the gays

    Go! Go! Go! Johnny!
    Go! Go! Go! Johnny!
    Go! Go! Go! Johnny!
    Go! Go! Go! Johnny!
    Go! Go! Johnny B. Goode!

    Once upon time the state of Arizona couldn’t host a superbowl
    Because it was legislated by a group of white supremacist trolls
    The bigots were led by an angry fascist who was a goose-stepping man
    A millionaire, senator who belonged to the Klu Klux Klan
    Johnny B Goode was a maverick when it came to recognizing MLK
    So the old cracker donned his klan robe and voted against a holiday

    Go! Go! Go! Johnny!
    Go! Go! Go! Johnny!
    Go! Go! Go! Johnny!
    Go! Go! Go! Johnny!
    Go! Go! Johnny B. Goode!

    His mother told him someday you will be an old man
    And you will be the leader of a murderous criminal clan
    Many people will be blown to bits from miles around
    To see you launch the nukes and take us all down
    Maybe some day you will make mushroom clouds so bright
    Sayin’ “Johnny B Goode pushed the button tonight”

    Go! Go! Go! Johnny!
    Go! Go! Go! Johnny!
    Go! Go! Go! Johnny!
    Go! Go! Go! Johnny!
    Go! Go! Johnny B. Goode!

  14. 28)
    TEDEGER said on 9/25/2008 @ 12:56pm PT: [Permalink]

    And remember that McCain, like all AZ politicians, is owned by the Mob. If you don’t believe that, Google Arizona Politics + Organized Crime.

  15. 31)
    Agent 99 said on 9/25/2008 @ 11:03pm PT: [Permalink]

    Notwithstanding her impeccable delivery of that pack of lies at the RNC, I have been unable to sit through more than a couple seconds of anything Sarah “Pig Lips” Palin says since… until tonight. Just tonight I succeeded in getting through a very short YouTube clip of her with Katie Couric. OMG! Katie Couric seems like Edward R. Murrow next to Pig Lips!

    No wonder McSenile suspended his campaign! Better to just completely not campaign from now until election day. He’ll stand a better chance that way.

    Oh. My. God.

    I cannot find the words.

  16. 32)
    Bamboo Harvester said on 9/26/2008 @ 12:23am PT: [Permalink]

    Katie Couric done Good !

    me thinks her reputation and future career depended on that interview… and no Little Fucking Trailer Trash Freak (palin) was gonna screw up her life’s work . . . Not ta mention she bore the brunt of the cbs mccain edit (cover up) TRAVESTY ! …So she was going at this witha vengeance ya could see it in her eyes.

    Wilberrr… ~ Stop talkin in ya sleep…

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