| Sep 24 @ 11:03 PM |
The right choice: be a politician or be a statesman? be a candidate or a Senator
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Paralegal_at_Law
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McCain chose to perform his senatorial duties instead of campaigning for president, placing the welfare of the nation over the momentum of his bid for the White House.
While Obama supporters would ratify anything Obama says or does, putting party expediency above evidencing a greater loyalty to the nation, shrugging it off as if it means nothing with respect to all of the "direct hit" issues that spotlight Obama's chronic bad choice of associates, the lies he tells, and his rank amateur status, it does offer the voters a stark choice between Obama the ruthless empty-suit politician and McCain the Statesman who opted to meet the financial national crisis head on by attending to his US Senate duties instead of doing political pontificating like Obama is doing.
How can anyone realistically believe that Obama is going to bail-out any part of America's moribund economy? After all, even though Obama reported making $4 Million last year, he continues to show his A$$ and simply ignores the desperate plight of George Hussein Obama, Barak Obama's half brother, who continues to live in a 6 foot by 9 foot shack with no utilities in the slums in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, and only makes about a dollar a month? What heartless millionaire would do such a thing? Why would any voter believe that Senator Obama would treat "We The People" any better if he is elected to the presidency, than Obama treats his own brother -- which is with careless neglect and malicious indifference?
So, here is the question, MatchDoctor Forums posters, is it ever the wrong choice to act as a Statesman, and temporarily cease to campaign for election to the White House, instead of acting selfishly and continuing to campaign for President, when the election is only five weeks away, more of less?
Please confirm or deny that John McCain's decision to not campaign and instead, to report for work in the US Senate was the morally courageous and magnanimous act of a Statesman and the right thing to do?
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| Sep 24 @ 11:14 PM |
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vinnytmd
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Barry is like a kid who just got his first bicycle. He has no understanding of what is going on.
McCain obviously understand how important it is that something is done FAST!
With the do nothing Congress we have he should go to DC with two six shooters and start shooting at the feet of Reid, Pelosi, Frank and Dodd.
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| Sep 24 @ 11:17 PM |
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Always_Striving
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McCain has a good track record of being a senator ...... that is where he should stay.
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| Sep 25 @ 12:51 AM |
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Paralegal_at_Law
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McCain has a good track record of being a senator. Always Striving
And Obama has a good track record of leaving slime in his wake.
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| Sep 25 @ 2:57 AM |
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cre8ive1970
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McCain has a good track record of being a senator ...... that is where he should stay.
And Obama has a mediocre track record of organizing a ghetto....that's where he should stay 
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| Sep 25 @ 5:45 AM |
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vinnytmd
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In his press conference Wednesday Barry said - "If they (WHO?) need me they can call me and I will be there.
Barry - here is a tip. Your Party does not need you. As a junior Senator with no seniority you are nothing.
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| Sep 25 @ 1:55 PM |
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kattsmeow
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If Sen Obama did go back to vote, it would only say "present".
They should both go back to the senate and be there to help.
Of course, we know that Sen Obama will not stop campaigning don't we? Who is the bigger man and better man now??????????
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| Sep 25 @ 2:03 PM |
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Heaveninawildflower
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What help????
John McCain would be a great help if we had a military crisis going on, but as for financials, sorry but he's obviously clueless. All he can do is get in the way of those who really are knowledgeable, and unfortunately all any of us can do is hope that both sides are looking at what's best for the country. In the long run, we'll all hang together or we'll all hang separately.
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| Sep 25 @ 2:08 PM |
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eastham
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Neither Senator Obama nor Senator McCain are on the Senate Banking Committee, the committee with jurisdiction over the bail-out package. Senator McCain, who previously stated his lack of knowledge about the economy, would have no influence in putting a package together. Indeed, as I type this reports are coming out of Washington that a bipartisan package has been ironed out a group of House and Senate Banking Committee members.
The President needs to be the ultimate multi-tasker and the American people deserve to hear in open debate, what the candidates feel about the current economic crisis and how they would address it. Indeed, the polls are showing that the average American wants the debates to go on as scheduled.
Furthermore, while many high-level Republican officials and strategists have lauded McCain publicly, off the record they are shaking their heads.
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| Sep 25 @ 2:11 PM |
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kattsmeow
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They are Senators. They should be there.
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| Sep 25 @ 2:19 PM |
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eastham
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Katt,
I believe that both will be there to vote, but as neither of them are members of the committee on jurisdiction (the Senate Banking Committee) neither would be allowed to participate in committee negotiation and debate on the package.
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| Sep 25 @ 2:24 PM |
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capobeachguy
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McCain is needed to bring in the Republican vote; Barry is needed to run out and fetch snacks.
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| Sep 25 @ 2:25 PM |
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KatiefromStafford
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In my opinion (which is just that, my opinion so I don't have to prove a thing) the only reason McCain dashed up to D.C. (before the President called him 'home') is so he can be there when the people really doing the work iron out something that everyone can agree on. Then he would stand in front of the Capitol Building and say, 'I came and they worked things out, see how good a leader I can be?' This from a man who is self-proclaimed as having little to no knowledge in economics. Well bad news, Senator McCain, but that is the largest problem facing America right now. Iraq has taken a back seat to the threat of looming depression for the U.S. And I am not the one using the D word, it was first stated yesterday by Paulson in the Senate hearings bout the bailout.
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| Sep 25 @ 2:26 PM |
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eastham
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McCain gambled and lost. Aside from a few neo-cons on these threads, no one is buying this act.
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| Sep 25 @ 2:28 PM |
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KatiefromStafford
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According to posters here, McCain is a maveric who has always bucked the Republican party, why the heck should anyone in the Republican Party listen to him at this point anyway.. ?
And all members of Congress are getting calls saying, hell no, to the bailout.. we have all been losing money, our portfolios got hit and we lost a lot, but we are going to save their butts? Why? ... and no one is answering us, are they..
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| Sep 25 @ 2:33 PM |
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cre8ive1970
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McCain gambled and lost. Aside from a few neo-cons on these threads, no one is buying this act.
Bill Clinton is. 
Bill Clinton on McCain and Debates
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| Sep 25 @ 2:38 PM |
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capobeachguy
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An agreement has been reached.
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| Sep 25 @ 2:39 PM |
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KatiefromStafford
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My guess is anyone who will not be hurt directly by this will be willing to sit back and poke sticks at those who are going to be hurt by this crisis (Mr. Bush's word).
The American public is outraged that this bailout is being considered. The attitude seems to be, they got themselves into this, let them suffer. As some of the posters here were very vocal about that same attitude about the people losing their homes to foreclosure, then I can't see why anyone should be happy about this bailout. Unless, of course, they have a personal state in the companies in trouble and need that bailout to save them from going under along with the companies that started this mess to begin with.  
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| Sep 25 @ 2:44 PM |
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capobeachguy
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I have stakes in many companies...none of which are involved in the problem but all of which will be affected by a recession/depression. Thankfully, I also have many liquid assets outside of the market.
None of that is really important. I don't want to see innocent people losing their jobs, not being able to adequately feed their families, heat their homes, drive their cars, etc. I find the attitude of many to be rather cavalier about this matter...until they find themselves in the unemployment lines.
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| Sep 25 @ 2:49 PM |
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KatiefromStafford
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I looked at your link, not saying it is not correct, but no one else seems to know about this.. how reliable is this source? Please understand, I just want to know, not attacking your source. It would be nice to know they had reached an agreement before the meeting this afternoon in the White House..
that would definitely take any wind out of McCain's political sails as he said they needed him in Congress to settle this, and he would, at most, have been haunting the halls, just like everyone else, as he is not on any of the committees that have to deal with the bailout, and will just have to wait for the vote like everyone else.
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