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Stunt Fatigue
STUNT FATIGUE....Over at The Corner, even Kathryn Jean Lopez thinks Barack Obama sounds more sensible today than John McCain. Jason Zengerle comments:
That's how a McCain supporter is reacting to all of this. You do wonder if stunt fatigue is simply setting in. First there was the Palin pick. Then there was the jihad against the Times. At a certain point McCain's "bold" moves start to seem a little stale and predictable, don't they?
The McCain campaign is running on fumes at this point. They've been all over the map on the financial crisis. Both McCain and Palin are afraid to meet with reporters and answer actual questions. Even their prepared statements barely make sense anymore. They're completely at sea.
And now this. Obama calls McCain to privately work out a genuinely bipartisan statement about the bailout bill, and McCain immediately panics and runs off to the TV cameras to offer up a faux public one instead (and then leaves without taking questions, of course). A joint statement? Hah! Too puny. I dare Senator Obama to suspend our campaigns, sequester ourselves from the American public, and hold photo ops on Capitol Hill instead! In fact, I double dare him!
Sheesh. It's time for the Drama King to take his bows and exit stage right. Enough.
sensible?
now she's suggesting that maybe Palin should fill in for him!
Yes, yes, please! Make Palin debate! Please, please, please!!!!1!
The great part is that they buy their own horsecrap enough to think that's a good idea.
A commenter at Washington Monthly suggested McCain's next bold move: He points a pistol at his own head and says "If you don't elect John McCain, the old man gets it!"
They forgot the stunt to suspend the republican convention and go down to New Orleans during hurricane Gustav.
Drama King! Good one, Kevin. Time for him and his consort to abdicate. Have you EVER seen a train wreck like the McCain-Palin campaign?
Does anyone else feel like John McCain's campaign is turning into a remake of Duck Soup, with McCain as Rufus T. Firefly?
The good news is that the McCain campaign is running on fumes. The bad news is that a lot of people are still huffing those fumes.
He's still got the trump card:
"My friends, I'm not a n****r, and I have a normal American name."
Let us not go to sleep, folks.
I will say one thing in McCain's favor though: Having a debate on foreign policy now in light with what's going on in the economy is arguably a deck chairs on the Titanic type moment.
How about we change the topic of the debate to economic issues.
McCain is cancelling his part of the debate because he is going to captial hill for a change, (the guy that never shows up for work, suddenly wants to show up for work) so McCain can try and rush the bailout bill for little Bushie and all his many campaign contributors.
The Obama campaign should ask why McCain can't do do both? Why is McCain running from the debates? Just a week ago one headline said McCain wasn't ever preparing for the debates - McCain was simply going to wing it, now McCain isn't even coming to the Friday debates.
One short announcement from the McCain campaign, and instantly, all late night comedians achieved a state of nirvana! Maybe John McCain has supernatural powers.
I'm not sure that this is as dumb a stunt as it initially looks. The global credit market started freezing earlier today and by the looks of comments from European and Asian business sectors credit could be in an ice age by tomorrow am. That's serious. If a deal for the "bail out" isn't made by tomorrow or Friday, then we, the taxpayers, are going to see a big hit from this.
McCain choosing to get deep in the fray and broker a deal might look a tad more Presidential than someone insisting on jawboning about the problem Friday night.
This reminds me of the moment in 1992 when George HW Bush looked at his watch during the debate with Clinton. At that point I knew he had thrown in the towel and that his heart wasn't in the fight anymore. It was the economy then and its the economy now. Deja vue all over again.
The folks over at the corner are mostly honest, so Lopez said what she thought, even though it was positive about Obama. You very seldom read a left winger similarly being honest and praising McCain.
The McCain position is probably a good one. First, let's hope it produces a good result. As a political move, he comes across as a man of action, while Obama is a man of words. Even if the politicians fail to reach agreement, McCain then can attack the do nothing democratic congress. In the process, he changes the dynamic about the economy, which was hurting him, and postpones the foreign policy debate, so it can help him down the road. Liberals are letting their partisanship cloud their political assessement of the issue.
"You very seldom read a left winger similarly being honest and praising McCain."
Well, that is one of the most ridiculous statements you've ever made.
Brian is correct about one the thing -- the credit markets are freezing up and we are very close to a major economic disaster.
But Obama is correct that we have an important election 40 days from now, and we must have this debate. Besides, McCain's participation at this point is meaningless, obviously.
Also, Bush is going on TV tonight to ask us for $700bn. Shouldn't he take responsibility for this mess and resign? The guy never takes responsibility for anything, but just asking.
You very seldom read a left winger similarly being honest and praising McCain.
Posted by: Brian
To abstain from broadcasting insincere flatteries is a more honest tendency than giving praise without merit.
If a deal for the "bail out" isn't made by tomorrow or Friday, then we, the taxpayers, are going to see a big hit from this.
And the evidence for your single-digit hour timeline is what, exactly? We, the taxpayers are going to see a big hit from this whether this deal happens by tomorrow morning or the middle of next week, but the idea that we, the taxpayers, are somehow going to be better off if we bend over & gratefully accept the ultimatum the administration's trying to shove up our collective ass is beyond idiotic. The mere suggestion that the administration knows what's best for us is preposterous. The only thing more ridiculous than that is the idea that McCain will part the waters & lead us to the promised land by virtue of his magical presence & vote -- his first such Senate vote since, by the way, April 8th.
Beyond any of that, though, what particular insight or wisdom does McCain bring to the issue at hand? He's got a genius solution that he's been holding back on? And what, precisely, is his pull with this administration that he's going to somehow bridge the gap between the administration's demand for a blank check & no oversight, and a bipartisan consensus among congressional leaders that that's not gonna happen?
Maybe, just maybe, McCain's "choosing to get deep in the fray and broker a deal might look a tad more Presidential" if he displayed any intelligence on the matter, or any ability to negotiate shrewdly with the administration. Or if he hadn't already established himself as a serial prevaricator.
Yes, Junebug, I think you're right, McCain has nothing to offer here. He's just playing games as he plummets in the polls. But we needed a plan yesterday to give some relief, or else we'll be in a depression.
I hear the Dems will offer $150bn as a temporary measure. I think that's a very good idea.
The folks over at the corner are mostly honest
Ha...ha..ha..ha.hahahahahahaha
Too fucking funny Brian. Next you will regale us with tales of your brave exploits in Iraq and the strategic lessons you learned from your time as a soldier there.
You dimwitted moron.
Well, for those of us that have just begun paying attention to the presidential race today (us and a few of cables republican strategist), John McCain, as Mavericky as he could ever be, proving once again that he puts country first!
He is willing to go as far as sacrificing the first debate (or Palin's) so that he can lend Washington all of his economic accumen.
At a time like this the American people don't want to hear from the next president!
A vision for the future is in no way relevant when the economy in crises hasn't been stronger since WWII and we're facing a cratering economy. And by economy I mean our hemispheres weather.
The fact that Obama is making sense is good for John McCain!
What's with McCain's left eye?
Has he had a stroke?
All right, weenie, let's postpone the presidential debates so we won't have to put Palin out there in a veep debate. I really think we should just go on blind faith here and pick her cuz she's so cuddly. And gramps, too, cuz he's so...grumpy?
OOOh, Brian. The National Review is soooo centrist. McCain is running scared, because with this "meltdown" his whole campaign is now skating on thin Alaskan Ice! Oh, wait, not the Straight Talk Express! It's sinking...oh, noooooooooooo!
Let's put McCain's situation into language even an ex-bomber jock like he is could understand. McCain is "out of speed, out of altitude and out of ideas." Most flyers would recognize what the next status is for the pilot who finds themself in such a situation. If McCain had any sense at all, he would be punching out right now because a heat-seeking missile is just about to explode up his ass.
Perhaps that what the MSM misunderstood by his comment that he's "suspending" his campaign. He's actually bailing out.
I really think it's okay to call McCain a drama queen. It's much more gender-neutral than you would think, and it's a better insult.