If this is true McLame is a most cowardly POS... I was looking forward to that damn debate!

No debate but we need another trill to the 6 we already borrowed from foreign interests for this administration, OMG

Off topic, but what the hell... Randi's on a roll...

"They got Sarah Palin wrapped up in a sandwich bag."

I think that this may the first step to Bush calling off the election to deal with the economic crisis.

McCain*Baling To Busy Baling

Duplicate Thread. Mods Merge?

THIS IS BULLSHIT !

I hope the FEC and Obama push back hard - what a fucking coward.

He's feeing the interview...gotta go make propaganda tapes

What an escape artist. A sign of a desperate man, a desperate campaign. Time to change the dialog FAST.

What a coward.

What a mother F'n Chicken. Suspend his campain to push through this 700 Billion Heist.
I just finnished and posted my latest "Animated What Now Cartoon" about this Federal Billionare Bail Out, I focus on the begining of this Con-Servative Movment from the day Regan "Relaxed FDR's Anti Trust Laws, that created the feeding frensy of companies being bought by larger conglomerates, to today where they run to the umbrella of FDR's policies for socialized help.
here's the link to this informative cartoon that gets the story straight for voters who may not see the big picture.Click to view attachment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8arYlKgYws

We did this cartoon for no money, we did it because it was important to do.
there's others at my website, and on Randi's home page today, thanks Girl, you Rock!

Wuss.

He knows he can't win, so he's preemptively withdrawing.

How's that for Mr. "We'll stay in the fight for 100 years if necessary."

Sure, if somebody else is fighting.....

What a fucking grandstanding stunt.

Obama had the idea about dealing with the economy jointly FIRST!

MSNBC reported it. Obama suggested a joint statement of policy on the bailout which McCain agreed to. Now McCain has tried to steal the initiative away from Barack. Weasel.

Witness the actions of Bullies and Cowards. To quote Patrick Henry,

Is Peace so sweet that it must be purchased with the chains and bonds of Slavery? I say, "Forbid it, Almighty God!" I know not what course others may take. As for me, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!

I wish I could stay and listen to the show, but I have more important things to do. I'm going out AGAIN today to Register voters for Barack Obama. I'll be doing it from now to Oct.7 and I'm on my third batch of 50 registration/absentee ballot caches. That means I'm closing in on 100 new voter registrations in Valencia County.

Si Se Puede!

Yes we can

Jefferson Airplane: We Can Be Together


Whatnowtoons! Kudos Dude! Your Cartoon is on the homepage today. WTFG, Tovarisch!

We are forces of chaos and anarchy.
Everything they say we are, we are.
And we are very proud of ourselves.

Tear down the Walls!

I'll say it again and use unnecessarily big letters:

Obama needs to make the point that Presidents don't get to choose to deal with one crisis at a time. Presidents have to be ready to deal with foreign and domestic problems at the same time.

Move the debate to the Kennedy Center if the commute is a worry. But hammer it home: PUTIN WON'T POLITELY WAIT AROUND FOR YOU TO SOLVE YOUR DOMESTIC PROBLEMS.

Keep one eye on the spin...and the other on the movement, relocation of VIPs. If the banksters lose this one...we could be looking at a cointelpro operation starting WW3, even invasion.

For once, America will witness how we are under incredible threat by these criminal oligarchies. These subhumans have absolutely no scrupples in killing millions, even billions.

Unregulated capitalism spawns genocide - human and ecological. Without question.

Another thread on this in General Discussion:

BREAKING - MCCAIN CAMPAIGN ON HOLD, Budget plus ducking Friday debate

Obama's position should be that the debates go forward, and that the topic should be the economic crisis, not foreign policy. The American people deserve to hear such a discussion. As someone mentioned in another thread, the debates could be held in D.C., instead of Mississippi.

The MSNBC article stated the following:

McCain said he has spoken to Obama about his plans and asked the Democratic presidential nominee to join him.

The Obama campaign said Obama had called McCain around 8:30 a.m.
Wednesday to propose that they issue a joint statement in support of a package to help fix the economy as soon as possible. McCain called back six hours later and agreed to the idea of the statement, the Obama campaign said. McCain's statement about postponing his campaign was issued to the media a few minutes later.
So McCain decided to grandstand!!!!!

fleeing

I wonder... could this be cover for a McCain health issue?

Sign the petition for McCain to fully release his medical records:
http://therealmccain.com/doctors/

Just heard that Obama wants to go forward with the debate.

Obama should demand that the candidates go forward with the debate Friday, except they should discuss the ECONOMY, "because the American people want to hear from the Presidential candidates on this".

Obama should just show up at the debates on his own, and invite reporters to ask questions of him alone.

He'll get a free 2 hour commercial, and McCain will look like an idiot.

I just thought of that too. GMTA!

IF MCCAIN WON'T SHOW UP MAYBE BOB BARR WILL.

Maybe McCain needs to drop out of the campaign altogether and focus on his senatorial duties.

Or Ralph Nader, because he opened his worthless suck hole today with BS. But why take the stage with a garage band when you're the headliner...

Or Ron Paul, or Cynthia McKinney for that matter. It would be acceptable to we progressives to hear from the independent/Third Party candidates. This is what popular democracy is all about.

I sincerely would like to hear what McKinney, Barr, and Paul have to say. This could be very nice.

Good.

How much money does McCain save every day he "suspends" his campaign?...anybody know how McCain's financing is going? And. of course, with McCain suspending, that would mean even less access to the also-suspended campaign of that Moose-turd hockey puck, Palin. Neat trick.
Now, if Nancy Reagan keels over, or any other Repub icon drops, they'll suspend for that, too. And then the invasions of Pakistan and Iran will mean things are too busy to campaign then, too, so...oh what the heck, let's just suspend the whole damn election.

Stop channeling Bushco...


http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18591.htm

Look, McCain has pulled a stunt - one nakedly calculated to politics. Frankly, I don't think we'll know for about 24 hours whether it has done him any good. I think it's pretty clear the first response doesn't look too good for him. But that's only the pundits. We need a day to see how Americans respond.

At the same time, Obama has responded the only way he could, by assuring all he can do both.

Especially since it was Obama who made the first moves to do something jointly on the issue - and he had the integrity to do so in private, and kept it private until McCain pulled his stunt - he really has no viable alternative but to reject McCain's stunt.

To go with McCain's stunt would create the perception he was following McCain's lead, and it would be a misleading stunt created exclusively for political purposes.

Obama had to say no. I hope he doesn't suffer for it, and don't think he should. But I also don't give the American people all that much credit for recognizing truths deeper than the very shallowest surface.

JOHN McCAIN IS A FUCKING SCUMBAG, TOTALLY UNFIT FOR LEADERSHIP.

Is there a link as to Obama's initiating this proposal to suspend the debates?
These right wing dings on this other board are saying how John McSame is such a leader
in suggesting to go to DC instead of the debates to fix this economy crisis. I just want to
slam them at how wrong they are.

Well, now we know that the joint, bipartisan statement notion was initiated by Obama -- and McCain is saying it was his idea.
This is just the latest such piracy:
* Obama runs on a message of change; McCain says, Yeah, me too, I want change.
* Obama has consistently warned against the problems of insufficient oversight; McCain jumps on that bandwagon -- long after the fact.
* Now McCain claims credit for the bipartisan statement idea -- and then tries to get out of a debate that he knows he'll lose, even in his supposed strong suit.
What's next? Is McCain gonna claim to be Harvard-educated and half-black?
At least the media are calling him on these lies now, and the public is catching wise.

Will this financial debacle be solved in the 90 minutes it takes for Friday's debate? Of course not. I hope Americans understand that and see McCain's stunt as just that. Along the same lines, I hope Congress doesn't rush into ANYTHING the Bushies want. BTW, whatever did happen to the Stubborn Democratic Donkey? We need some digging in, not more rolling over.

This so far ...http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/24/151942/594/254/608947

A leader would get up in front of the public and give his perception of the situation, what got us here, and how to get us out of it. It was all setup, it was time for a leader to get in front of us and tell us where we are going from here. McSame did not faulter, he did not hesitate, HE RAN LIKE HELL!

Thanks, No Yards!

i agree with Randi something else is up!

Obama And Democrats Call McCain's Bluff

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/24/s...s_n_129009.html


Barack Obama rejected the proposal -- put forward by John McCain today -- that the two presidential candidates leave the campaign trail, delay Friday's debate, and return to Washington to work on a bailout package for the economy,

"Presidents are going to have to deal with more than one thing at a time," he said, "it is not necessary for us to think we can do only one thing and suspend everything else."

Expressing concern about infusing "Capitol Hill with presidential politics," Obama said it was his desire to see the debate go forward.

"With respect to the debates it is my belief that this is exactly the time when the American people need to hear from the person who in roughly 40 days will be responsible for this mess," he said. "I think it is going to be part of the president's job to deal with more than one thing at once. I don't see why we can't be constructive in helping with this problem."

Can you say "freefall", children?
-- Mr. Rogers, of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood

The debate commission says they are moving ahead with the debates ... McCain can either show or be represented with an empty podium ... too - many - jokes --- must - resist!

I know I don't have a source, and I know I'm going on gut feeling, but I agree with previous posters, the Republicans have got something up their sleeves. I don't like this...

Please, don't, share -- like (I'll take the easy one)

"An empty seat has better ideas than McPalin"

THX to the folks at dKOS...

Let's just say an empty podium will do him better than showing up and removing all doubt.

You may have hit the nail on the head there....would anyone really be surprised?

It is called Martial Law. Then there is the Coup de tant.