Oh, now its BO fault for the pressure McCain is feeling? I guess McCain saying he wont show up without a deal has nothing to do with it.

Lets call a spade a spade: If there is no deal tomorrow, the crap has it the fan, and is all over JM face.

It didn't work as an excuse for the negative ads, what makes them think this will work now. Okay, now either his advisors are idiots or McCain is ignoring them and just flying off the batshit crazy handle.

Holy crap this is some of the lamest shit I've ever heard. Seriously.

LAME.

This might be the most juvenile exercise I've ever seen by a big time politician.

I'm sure you do wish that, Senator. I'm sure you also wish you were up 10 points in the polls.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

This is just stupid and petty. It really is. And in its pettiness and stupidity, it's annoying.

McCain better start pushing. Congressional Republicans, and even Senator Shelby, are rejecting the entire Paulson request, in all it's current permutations.

Capt Suspender McCain, better pull up his suspenders, and get his own Republican colleagues on board now, or he will get exposed to the nation, once again, as the dithering Drama Queen that he has always been.

"Today all Americans are Georgians" John Drama Queen McCain

And Greg?

I don't McCain is going to show up for the debates. Because I don't think there's going to be an agreement reached tomorrow.

Frankly, I'm hoping McCain doesn't show up. Obama will have two hours to chat with the audience and Jim Lehrer, while McCain will be where, exactly? Working late in Washington? Right.

If you believe that, there's this bridge in Alaska where you can see Russia, and I'd love to sell it to you.

P.S. Comments are getting wiggy again.

Shorter McCain...

Hey!  Quit picking on his height!  He's already having to deal with his senility!

Your shitty candidacy is reality's fault.

My Friends,

I feel that I am entitled to call a campaign and debate suspension, because for five and half years I was deprived of the right to suspend stuff.

I remain,

John Drama Queen McCain,

and never forget that All Americans are still Georgians. What is that Sarah? You want me to add your YUP! YUP!

Sarah also asks me to remind all you parents out there to keep on reminding your teenage boys to keep their Johnsons in their Levis.

Will the networks cover the debate if McCain isn't there? I mean will they give Obama 2 hours of coverage?

I think this is just cover for a bad debate performance - the spin doctors and surrogates can say "Well McCain was shite, but it's because he was too focused on the economic crisis..."

Did Obama agree to the Stephanopoulis town hall debate that McCain had already agreed to?

What a fucking crybaby!

And you know who the last candidate to throw a hissy fit and refuse to show up to a presidential debate was?

Jimmy Carter.

That worked out real well for him rite?

John McCain is paying a make up specialist, from American Idol, enough to pay five monthly mortgages, for each time she does his make up. She has been hired to hide his age.

She does a fantastic job. In his recent public appearances, John McCain has not looked a day over 95 years old.

He is the biggest burned out Supernova in the Universe.

I really don't see how McCain can not show up tomorrow.

McCain keeps falling back to that townhall excuse, I really think he is using it as a excuse for himself in his mind to use all these low ball attacks.

Posit for a moment that you are a senior McCain campaign strategist, as hard as that might be. Turn away from the ill-gotten sacks of money—'earned, if that's a reasonable term, as a lobbyist—and try to get your head around 'the problem:'

If the candidate fails to show, the best spin you can hope to have stick is that a Senator unable to attend more than a single vote all year, none since April, and relatively few the year before—who is not seated at the table as a member of ether committee studying the matter or involved directly in cross-party, cross-house negotiations—is the hero who laid down arms for the good of the nation, sacrificing his personal ambitions to become President, returned to Washington to rally the members of both parties and both houses, thus single handedly saving the nation! Not so much, Superman. Actually, not close at all.

Or, he shows up at the scheduled debate—tired, but combative—and likely experiences a meltdown in the process, actually seriously underperforming even the now ridiculously low expectations which exist surrounding him, flailing wildly at the scary black man and all around him, as his plane literally falls from the sky. Bad memories.

If you're one of those advisors, this is a lose/lose proposition you candidate has created, painting himself into a corner from which he is not likely to emerge unscathed. Laughable to some degree, but pitiful to a greater one.

If your head has not already exploded as you try to strategize with the others around you, it soon will. While all of the members of his team deserve everything they get as this disaster unfolds, I wouldn't want to be one of those guys…

How far the Grand Old Party has fallen from its glory days.

I'm sick and tired of ALL FUCKING REPUBLICANS.
I just heard Buchanan urging a dramatic show3-up by McCain and grandstand any deal as bad for America.
What a disingenuous asswipe.

They are, with VERY FEW exceptions, the most dishonest, craven bunch of assholes in the history of the country.

Country First my ass.

He will look like a WEAK FLAKE Flip Flopper if he shows up tommorow night. HOWEVER, it will be even worse if he doesn't show up. O will have 2 hours of primetime coverage ALL TO HIMSELF.

Not one to complain but posting is totally whacked tonight.

There is one thing that's beginning to make me nervous. McCain keeps throwing "hail Mary" passes (attacking Obama's patriotism, lying without shame, selecting Palin, grandstanding as leading on the Wall Street bailout while having been one of the Keating 5, debate ducking) without running out of downs.

Sooner or later unless McCain is made to turn over the ball, one of those long down field passes is going to make it in to the end zone. It's like McCain gets an endless supply of throws without any penalty for failing to connect.

Perhaps, McCain only appears to be getting an endless set of downs because of the great amount of good will he's banked over the years, and therefore it's taking a long time to deplete. If that's so, we've got less than 40 days in which for him to run dry.

So.

1. Suspend campaign explaining that you need to focus all your energies on getting the financial crisis solved and that you cannot e.g. spare even four hours to go to a debate that partly determines the fate of the nation and that 75% of people want you to go to.

2. Fail to read the Paulson report (all 3 pages).

3. Spend nearly two days holding a rally, giving an intensely political speech at a completely unrelated venue and giving interviews to network news.

4. When finally getting to D.C., break the bipartisan compromise deal that had already been forged while you were still holding a rally and giving TV interviews, thereby prolonging the crisis for absolutely no good reason.

5. ???

6. Crisis solved!!!

John McCain '08!

Maybe if McCain had been protected from witchcraft none of this would be happening.

I just got back home from the Mayflower Hotel (yes, the infamous Spitzer one, right across from ABC news) where they did the press conferences and interviews. When McCain came out there was a small crowd with a substantial portion booing... People (myself included) stood around in the cold rainy weather for well over an hour hoping to get a glimpse of Obama when he came out. First, let me just say it was the end of a really, really rough day at the office and I was NOT in a good mood. The positive spirit and cheerfulness of such an amazingly diverse crowd really made my day. We were worried we had missed him when a decoy motorcade drove by but a little while later the Secret Service guys got really active and assertive and then Obama came out a side entrance and stood waving at us and everybody left with a huge smile and positive vibe! It really kicked ass. I can't wait until he kicks the repubs ass this november!

The contrast with McCain could not possibly have been greater.

I hope somebody out there is keeping track of McCain's hourly schedule so that if he doesn't show we can ask how he found so much time in the midst of singlehandedly saving the country from economic meltdown to go on the evening news shows, make speeches, meet donors, etc., but somehow couldn't manage to show up for the presidential debate.

How DARE Obama choose to show up for the debates that they agreed to. Shouldn't he just submit himself to whatever McCain's Stunt-of-the-Day is? This Obama guy seems too stable. We definitely want McCain's constant roller coaster drama and high stakes gambling. Four years of that would be so pleasant.

If only Obama had agreed to do the townhall meetings, I wouldn't have been forced to:

(a) lie about him;
(b) pick an incompetent running mate;
(c) lie to the American people;
(d) provide full employment for all the graduates of the Rove School of Campaign Management;
(e) lie to myself about being an honorable man.

I could go on.....

I get the plan now, McCain will be at Washington "working" all day tommorow until 5 oclock, in which he will hop on that plane and head straight for the debate. Then he will announce how right after the debate he will fly off back to Washington. It could actually turn out well for him.

I agree with you. McCain has all the attention turned on him now. This is exactly what he wants and when the agreement on the bailout is made he will try to take credit for brokering the deal.

He'll fly into Ol Miss at the last minute .. piloting his campaign plane himself ... to declare victory for ... something!

It's a Catch 22... the deal was 98% done until mccain showed up and gummed up the works... now he won't leave until it's done? Geesh. Mccain has sure turned into a piece of work. He was getting hammered by his lack of knowledge on economics so he goes to DC (for the first time since what April?) and makes like he 1) knows what they're doing and 2) has anything substative to add and 3) isn't campaigning (offices open, surrogates dissing Obama, fund raising, interviews and getting his name associated with what everyone else in Congress has been working on for weeks. What integrity he had is long gone. Anyone who buys this ploy is just not paying any attention.

Just listening to CNN and Ed Rollins said, there will be a debate or Obama will talk with JIm Leher and the audience in Miss. for 90 minutes in front of 35 million viewers. I hope McCain DOES NOT show up and Obama gets all that time to have a televised town hall.

If mccain does show up, the planned subject for the debate is foreign policy (but Jim Lehrer indicated he could possibly ask economic policy questions as well). So mccain, who is just very confused and agitated (early signs of dementia) will be clueless on what's been going on in the foreign policy arena the last few days, especially North Korea's suspension of weapons inspections and reprocessing of weapons grade plutonium, or Pakistani and US troops exchanging fire on the border with Afghanistan or any number of events going on - He won't know.

I also wonder, with the Wash Mutual failure what is going to happen when the markets open - both here and abroad. Will the NY markets open?

Again with the friggin' town halls. he just can't stand the fact that he's not calling the shots. instead of preening in front of tame audiences where he can recite his talking points, he's going to get grilled in front of the whole world with someone younger and smarter just waiting to pounce. Well, TOO bad.

Pass the popcorn.

Senator Obama, and congressional leaders should loudly announce they are walking away from the bail out until the repugs
and the white house present their bail out plan.

It is not for the democrats to solve this problem.
Why should Dodd, Frank et al trust Paulson and Bush's dire warnings when
McCain and the Repugs obviously don't

At press confrerence tomorrow they should was their hands of this repug squabble. Blame McCain and go to the debate like adults

Put the burning tire around McCain and BONERS necks

i just listened to npr and the question of the day was this: why did mccain make such a big deal of this deal by dramatically "suspendind" his campaign but remained totally mute during the negotiations? did you hear me? mccain was mute as in had no input, as in totally quiet and not offering an opinion one way or the other?

this is a joke and we as americans are super stupid if we allow obama to lose to this idiot....i never thought i would see the day when anyone makes bush look acceptable...mccain has been doing just that...

re: McCain Ad During McCain Campaign Suspension

Notice how the "Ripoff CEO" in the ad is black...? Is McCain planting subliminal messages in addition to just flat out lying his ass off???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj4abfnmwwg&feature=related

Why does everyone forget that Obama had COUNTERED the offer of 10 town hall meetings with 5 town hall meetings? As usual, McStain and the Repukes believe in my way or the highway. They have no concept of negotiation. PLUS, the 10 town hall meetings was to be completed before the conventions, so there would still have been Presidential Debates.

You want to see Senator McCain really in a panic and scrambling? Take him up on the town hall meetings!

Just be sure to have an electronic jammer in place so as to prevent any audio signals getting through. I hope they have one tonight.