John Kerry today on Fox News:

 

Barack Obama was in constant touch with Secretary Paulson almost every single day, sometimes several times a day for the last two weeks. Barack Obama was the first person to speak and lay out at that meeting at the White House for about seven or eight minutes the entire parameters of what we had resolved. John McCain, when offered the opportunity to speak, passed, didn’t speak until the very end, and when he spoke, did not offer a solution and did not say what he would support. The fact is that on a Monday of about a week ago, John McCain said the fundamentals of our economy are strong. Within a few days, John McCain was suspending his campaign because of the greatest crisis since World War II. He suspended his campaign and it took him 22 hours to get from New York to Washington, a one-hour flight, had time to go do Katie Couric in an interview, had time to give a speech to the Clinton millennium, and when he got here, he wound up — I mean, he said he was going to interrupt his campaign to come down and save the negotiations. Most people believe what he did was interrupt the negotiations to come down and save his campaign.

If Gallup is any indication, McCain's ruse backfired pretty badly.

 

McCain Went to Washington in a Bi-Partisan Effort?

On Wednesday afternoon, John McCain claimed to want to put partisanship aside to focus his attention on the financial crisis. “We must meet as Americans, not as Democrats or Republicans, and we must meet until this crisis is resolved,” he said. Yesterday, McCain’s top aide Mark Salter stressed that McCain was “calling members on both sides.”

 

But throughout his short involvement in the negotiations over the past few days, McCain has talked almost exclusively with Republicans. The New York Times reports that McCain aides “released a list of people they said Mr. McCain had called from his campaign headquarters on Saturday.” Among them were:

 

President Bush

Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)

Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH)

Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ)

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH)

House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO)

 

The list included “nine House Republicans.” No Democrats were listed.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, where was this John Kerry in 2004?

 

Go SOX Please win!

oops, no bailout deal

 

McCain is going to have to suspend the campaign again

Edited September 29, 200817 yr by mr_genius

oops, no bailout deal

 

McCain is going to have to suspend the campaign again

 

If he wasn't pressured into doing that stupid debate he would have fixed everything by now.

Now that the debate is over... McCain might have to suspend his campaign again... until the next presidential debate I assume.

 

 

We see how well his last suspension worked. If a 2 day suspension cased the deal to fall apart, what might a week do???