McCain Proposes Suspending Campaign to Deal With Economic Crisis

| Wed Sep. 24, 2008 11:59 AM PDT

It's true. He even wants to delay the debate.

For the record, this is a bit surprising coming from the guy who cares so little about the actual business of the country that he has missed more Senate votes than anyone else in the chamber.

Anyway, I'll be taking some paid time off. Thanks, John McCain!

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Is it starting? Is this the end, not the campaign, but to the election?

It would help to have debate on Economy now. May McCain is afraid that the moderators will ask question related to Financial disastor. I think Obama should ask for the debate on Economy now and on Foreign Affairs later. Better for him anyway.

Doesn't he mean quit the campaign because he's just not qualified and admittedly knows nothing about economics?

I'm not about to get sucked into another economics discussion with you, Monica.

Why don't you look up my friend Lex Steel and see if he's up for it?

"Treasury Sec. Hank Paulson's $700 billion bailout plan now has a name: the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. But even as Capitol Hill debates TARP, few seem to have noticed the proposal item that puts taxpayers on the hook for future bailouts. It's in Section 6, and the key phrase is this: 'The Secretary's authority to purchase mortgage-related assets under this Act shall be limited to $700,000,000,000 outstanding at any one time.'"

http://www.truthout.org/092308A

Capitalism Needs Regulation -- NOT FREE MONEY

The dream of capitalists, bankers, insurers and aristocrats is to have an irresponsible, unaccountable, deregulated so called free market economy. An irresponsible, unaccountable, deregulated so called free market economy rides on the backs of the 70% "vile, vulgar and mean" common population of working people, ordinary Americans, like parasites, being supported by, but weighting down the 70% "vile, vulgar and mean" common population of working people, ordinary Americans until the weight from the exorbitant greed of the 10% free market economy of capitalists, bankers, insurers and aristocrats weigh down the 70% "vile, vulgar and mean" common population of working people, ordinary Americans with Federal restrictions, TAXES, LOW WAGES, fees and charges until the 70% "vile, vulgar and mean" common population of working people, ordinary Americans are no longer able to support the irresponsible, unaccountable, deregulated so called free market economy; and their irresponsible, unaccountable, deregulated free market economy collapses; as has been happening; then the irresponsible, unaccountable, deregulated free market economy's leaders whine to borrow FOREIGN MONEY to rescue themselves and further borrowing against the 70% majority "vile, vulgar and mean" common population, ordinary Americans descendants to even rescue foreign capitalists, after having exhausted our country's resources; whining their way into being rescued from the consequences of their own irresponsible, unaccountable, deregulated and corrupt actions, which further extends the length of carrying time and the burden of weight on the backs of the 70% "vile, vulgar and mean" common population, the working people, ordinary Americans who must not ultimately be duped into carrying the load of the 10% capitalists, bankers, insurers and aristocratic corruption, as has been in the past, as ordinary Americans are the base and only support structure for the economy to recover. When the 10% capitalists, bankers, insurers and aristocrats are allowed to make off with their "fire sale" haul without being accountable it will only breed more greed; and printing more money will only inflate the economy making it even more difficult for the 70% "vile, vulgar and mean" common population of working people, ordinary Americans. Make them borrow the money like anyone else, and repay like anyone else, then, in time, after the economy finally recovers, the whole dumb show of the capitalists, bankers, insurers and aristocrats irresponsible, unaccountable, deregulated so called free market economy corruption won't start all over again, because they were made to take responsibility for their actions. Capitalism doesn't have to be made to take advantage of the 70% majority "vile, vulgar and mean" common population, the ordinary Americans. Capitalism can and must be regulated.

Wild capitalism is institutionalized greed, supported by socialism when the cyclical collapse of the trough occurs from the feeding frenzy of the hogs at the trough; the liberal communal resources of socialism are always used to rebuild the infrastructure of the conservatives' trough, and, again, the whole dumb show starts all over again, but it must not be allowed again this time.

What is the conservatives' trough? AIG, Bear Stearns, Enron, Global Crossing, etc., most all banking institutions, insurers and capitalists. Just Google "Bank Failures" and "Government Bailouts" if you want to find the conservatives' FREE corporate welfare troughs. Women needing to raise their children with the assistance of government welfare is the least of our nations issues. No amount of money racks up to the amount corporate welfare receives for the private sector to do with as they please, without any profit to the government.

It is long past time to legislatively regulate capitalism PERMANENTLY in the Constitution of the United States to provide benefit to all; instead of benefit only to the greedy capitalists, bankers, insurers and aristocrats, who grab the money and run, leaving the 70% "vile, vulgar and mean" majority common population, ordinary Americans holding the empty bag.

WE THE PEOPLE must understand that there is a LEFT, and a greedy RIGHT, a left and a right -- two parties. Two truthful political parties were deemed to be able to control capitalism; but truth with REPUBLICANS since John F. Kennedy's assassination has been at a minimum, truth having been exchanged for downright lies, with a little truthiness, as the corporate RIGHT invented the CORPORATE LOBBYIST LED Democratic Leadership Council; INFILTRATED the Left and divided the Democratic Party. Supposed Democrats began demoting liberal views and promoting conservatism against the 70% "vile, vulgar and mean" MAJORITY common population of working people, ordinary Americans. Supposed Democrats vacating liberalism and pushing for a totalitarian autocracy.

Capitalism then no longer had a regulator, because the Left had become ONE with the RIGHT, being tooted as unity. The political left would have and could have regulated capitalism, but the political Left became unavailable, even though the DLC appears to be the Left, the Right has still been in the majority since 2006, not the Left. Due to being overcome with Republicans Lite, the Left has been weakened to nearly non-existence, and the Right has taken complete control.

The RIGHT is always overjoyed to deregulate corporate capitalism and when the best REPUBLICAN ever, DLC Bill Clinton, gave the capitalists, bankers, insurers and aristocrats their joy, it started a "fire sale scam". All DLC members involved in the 'fire sale scam" of the nation's 70% majority "vile, vulgar and mean" common population, ordinary Americans must be held accountable, as well as the REPUBLICANS who originated the scam. An independent investigation needs to be convened to determine all the guilty.

The nation and the world is dynamic; but our political system is NOT dynamic. The political system in the United States is set up for binary emotional rhetoric --- a propagandistic structure; therefore, there must be constitutional legislation to provide more constitutionally legislated choices for representation of the people on the Left, the 70% majority "vile, vulgar and mean" common population, ordinary Americans in order to repair the system and politically insulate against REPUBLICAN truthiness. Having only TWO authorized representative political parties, the REPUBLICANS and the Democrats, representing binarily the haves and the have nots; since the Republicans Lite have chosen to represent the haves, instead of the have nots, leaves the 70% majority "vile, vulgar and mean" common population, ordinary Americans, the larger majority of our country literally unrepresented, even if they don't know it; and, it is because of the lack of representation of the 70% majority "vile, vulgar and mean" common population, ordinary Americans that the REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT'S "fire sale" financial corruption scam is occurring and has occurred.

By way of the Republicans Lite DLC in Congress and the CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN RIGHT WING'S "fire sale" the capitalists, bankers, insurers and aristocrats have taken all the money from the country; and now, the CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN RIGHT WING MOVEMENT is trying to ascertain that the 70% majority "vile, vulgar and mean" common population, ordinary Americans have to accept responsibility and give a FREE RIDE to the corruption and greed that ordinary Americans had nothing to do with, to the extent that the 70% majority "vile, vulgar and mean" common population, ordinary Americans for generations and generations and generations upon generations to come will be paying for the corruption of the CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN RIGHT WING and the Republicans Lite DLC who are and have been greedily loading their coffers with the peoples money, the 70% majority "vile, vulgar and mean" common population, ordinary Americans, and carrying it away. It is apparent there will be no responsibility or accountability from the Bush administration or the Republicans Lite DLC, as they will choose to make the 70% majority "vile, vulgar and mean" COMMON POPULATION of ordinary Americans carry the whole load for their RIGHT WING corruption; which is unacceptable, even if as a whole the 70% majority "vile, vulgar and mean" common population, ordinary Americans don't know it; there are many who do know, and it matters what is happening to the 70% majority "vile, vulgar and mean" common population, ordinary Americans.

It is necessary to enact Federal constitutionally PERMANENT legislative laws against usury as the usury laws were taken down for the REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT'S "FIRE SALE". It is time to restore the regulations on capitalism that have been being knocked down by the REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT, since the time of Goldwater, and constitutionally regulate capitalism PERMANENTLY; so that this type of maneuver by the REPUBLICAN RIGHT WING against the 70% majority "vile, vulgar and mean" common population, ordinary Americans will never happen again.

With capitalism regulated, representatives of the Left, hopefully Obama and a real democratic Congress, will be able to pull our country together and retrieve monies from the CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN RIGHT WING EXTREMISTS MOVEMENT, which must include Republican Lite DLC members, who could be anywhere. McCain has publicly admitted on television that he knows NOTHING about economics, but if the 70% majority "vile, vulgar and mean" common population, ordinary Americans are so economically ill advised that they decide CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN RIGHT WING EXTREMISTS McCain and Palin will be the change needed, nothing will ever level out for the LEFT short of Armageddon, because the CONSERVATIVE RIGHT has no problem at all with putting the Left into slavery. The CONSERVATIVE RIGHT EXTREME firmly applies the concept that there is no shame in taking advantage of a fool(s). It is time for the LEFT to quit playing the part of fools and providing the RIGHT a DUMB SHOW. If you work for a living you are the LEFT --- NOT the CONSERVATIVE RIGHT, not any kind of conservative; and corporations do not need any member of the 70% majority "vile, vulgar and mean common population, ordinary Americans representing them, we work for them, we are not them and we do not represent them, there is a HUGE difference; even little capitalists rely on liberal government.

Besides Israel, corporate capitalism putting their hand out for FREE bailouts of their capitalist corporations is PROOF that communism works in another nation, the United States. FREE BAILOUTS are from each according to their ability and to capitalism according to capitalisms need, which is communism for the 10% minority capitalist, bankers, insurers, and aristocrats. Communism in other countries has been used as a means to help the public majority, instead of the private minority; only in the United States would communism be being used to help private enterprise, instead of the 70% majority "vile, vulgar and mean" common population, ordinary Americans.

The yen and the yang of UNREGULATED Capitalism: Privatized FREE Markets and Nationalized Public Rescue of Privatized FREE Markets. The FREE RIDE MUST STOP. The owners of the private corporations needing money from the publics government to keep their corporation from collapsing, must borrow from the publics government at the same amount of interest that a poor student would have to borrow from the publics government for a student loan, then the private corporations must be made to repay in the exact same way, or the publics government will own the private corporations.

Private corporations getting a FREE RIDE is CORPORATE CAPITALISTIC COMMUNISM, which supposedly is not good for the 70% majority "vile, vulgar and mean" common population, ordinary Americans; therefore it can not be allowed to be good for the greedy 10% minority of bankers, insurers, capitalists and aristocrats.

Martha A. Miller
17607 E 380 Road, Unit B
Chelsea, OK 74016

Why didn't McCain run to Washington days ago when this mess started???

I can tell you...Anyone else??

Which of his 13 cars is he going to drive??

There's no reason McCain has to cancel the "debate". Does he have a magic wand to fix this?
I've been waiting for this... I want Obama to kick his butt on everything!!

The McCain campaign is pulling a new trick out of its hat every day. Today, he is trying to show "the old maverick John McCain I know." At least 8 Repubs (Lieberman, Graham, Hatch, etc.) have been on cable news with the talking points ready to praise his "bipartisanship efforts." It takes the attention away form the Palin's UN media misstep, lower poll numbers, and slimy campaign manager, Rick Davis's dealings with Freddie and Fannie. Pure political theater from the desperate McCain campaign. Come on! Congress doesn't want the two political candidates gumming up the works. That's bogus! It's the Republicans who can't seem to agree about what to do. The Dems pretty much have a plan in place. Bush will speak to the nation tonight; that's sure to put our minds at ease.

This is a developing story on Drudgereport.com

EXCLUSIVE: LETTERMAN MOCKS MCCAIN CANCELLATION
Wed Sep 24 2008 17:41:58 ET

David Letterman tells audience that McCain called him today to tell him he had to rush back to DC to deal with the economy.

Then in the middle of the taping Dave got word that McCain was, in fact just down the street being interviewed by Katie Couric. Dave even cut over to the live video of the interview, and said, "Hey Senator, can I give you a ride home?"

Earlier in the show, Dave kept saying, "You don't suspend your campaign. This doesn't smell right. This isn't the way a tested hero behaves." And he joked: "I think someone's putting something in his metamucil."

"He can't run the campaign because the economy is cratering? Fine, put in your second string quarterback, Sara Palin. Where is she?"

"What are you

Oops, I left off the last line from the posting above.

""What are you going to do if you're elected and things get tough? Suspend being president? We've got a guy like that now!"

Unfortunately, he won't be suspending his campaign for real. You can bet he'll be saying, "Why won't Obama suspend his campaign like I have," every time he is in front of a camera, microphone, or journalist. Talking about suspending your campaign IS campaigning.

Try to keep up, folks.

This is yesterday's news, and it's already out of date.

Debate as previously scheduled.

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