9/24/08

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Obama says the debate to go on, he doesn't see the need to go back to Washington and bring presidential politics into the negotiations. Obama stated he started the thoughts privately looking for a non partisan statement on principles that are agreed upon where McCain goes out and says he says he suspends his campaign.
"I believe that we should continue to have the debate," Obama said at a Florida press conference after McCain announced he was unilaterally suspending his campaign in response to the financial crisis."

Representative Barney Frank:
"The Hail Mary Pass of Hail Mary Passes....and also the Mary"

BREAKING NEWS ALERT!
New York Times

McCain Seeks to Delay Presidential Debate

Senator John McCain said he would temporarily suspend his presidential campaign on Thursday to return to Washington to deal with the financial crisis and the bailout package pendin before Congress. Mr. McCain is asking Senator Barack Obama's campaign and the Commission on the Presidential Debates to postpone the debate scheduled for Friday night.

My thoughts: A TIME OUT!
During a campaign everything is about the campaign---or political. The reason; everyone views it that way for a candidate is being judged by every action they take. McCain called a time out. He is losing, he and all of the nation knows it. If he were winning he would not have called a time out. He can now hide from the press and change his entire campaign, try to stop the eroding polls, delay all the voter's decisions going against him in the UNDECIDED's, for at least the time being. He also can dodge the questions and inquiries about his campaign manager, now found to be taking money and lying about it from Freddie Mac. Now let us see how Obama reacts and I am confident he will trump McCain with this stunt like he trumped Clinton and the race and Rev. Wright issue.

Now think about this for a minute, if McCain really wanted to make a bi-partisan agreement do you think he could do it with him in it and he leading it? No McCain is killing any chance for a bi-partisan agreement---why---the campaign.

Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo, echos my thoughts on the McCain ploy in BE HONEST

Let's state outright a few obvious points. Bringing the presidential candidates and their press entourages back to Capitol Hill won't speed or improve the process of coming up with a good bailout deal. It will politicize it. That's so transparently obvious that it barely requires stating. And of course that is the point.

By going public with his 'suspension' announcement as a breaking news statement McCain intended to make any agreement between the candidate impossible. Contrast that with Obama's campaign, which apparently tried to get both campaigns to agree on a common set of principles privately before going public. There's no logical reason there can't be a presidential debate while a bailout plan is being negotiated.

Finally, does anyone think that McCain would have come up with this gambit if his polls were where they were two weeks ago instead of where they are today? Of course, not. This isn't a reaction to the national financial crisis but to the McCain polling crisis.

The McCain supporters who are cheering this aren't doing so because they think it's the right thing to do but because they hope it's ingenious politics.

If anyone can think of any reason why these points are not incontestably accurate, I would be obliged if you could let me know.

He's desperate and reckless. This is what it appears to be: political stunt dressed up as vainglorious self-sacrifice. In other words, typical John McCain.


Let us start with a basic point of credibility where the McCain campaign is now teetering on where the weight of lying advertisements, Palin maintenance, and McCain's flip-flopping double-talk comes to the head with this new revelation: NEWSWEEK and NY TIMES breaking news late yesterday evening Rick Davis, McCain's campaign manager, had a secret monthly retainer paid by defunct and bailed out Freddie Mac until last month! Freddie Mac continued to send checks to McCain campaign chief's firm after he supposedly stopped working with one of their front organizations and WHILE DOING NOTHING for over TWO YEARS!. Now, Rick Davis, who is part owner of [Rick] Davis Manafort, the firm that is in question, insists that he hasn't drawn any compensation from the firm since 2006 [---is that word smything or was it a lay-away plan?]

Hmmm...let us use the smell test: Rick Davis, the campaign manger who has been caught in so many other different lies, a person without any credibility now is trying make a claim based just on "his word" and absent of actual and irrefutable evidence that he is not connected to lobbying---even though a Freddie Mac Exec has said publicly the only thing Davis had to offer was access to McCain who was known to be running for President.

What else he is saying, [and this doesn't make any sense in the real world], that he hadn't had any contact with the mortgage giants since the "front group" he ran for Freddie Mac, which was shut down in 2005, and a group that's purpose was to lobby for minority home ownership, is now being revealed that in the following year (2006) he asked Freddie Mac to keep sending more checks---apparently in return for no services rendered -- a point, any of you should note. The McCain Campaign appears UNABLE TO DENY. SMELLS like the rotting garbage in my trash can and there still is a day before the truck comes!.

Maybe it is just me but I have done professional services for major corporations and never have I heard of a company paying for services that nothing is being done for the money! In fact, had to have to signed off on those invoices---every month---and accounting would demanded some form approval so there has to be some expectations of a return on investment. So let us see----a retainer for no services at $180,000 annually, (looks like a ghost payroll executive level pay check to me), done in secret, but not drawn upon by the owner of the services firm who has his name on the door---looks like a lay-away plan to me? What is amazing is it is to the tune of half a million dollar$ (plus or minus a few $15,000 installments), where the partner in the company simply defers his compensation for later dividends when they want to close the books. Could it had been a buyout fund in secret?

David Donnelly of the independent Public Action Campaign Fund has a statement on this:
"John McCain's campaign manager and Freddie Mac essentially had what amounts to a secret half a million dollar lay-a-way plan. For almost three years and as late as last month, Freddie Mac made secret, monthly payments of $15,000 to Rick Davis's firm, apparently in exchange for providing special access to a future McCain White House. If McCain knew about this, his presidential campaign should be in serious trouble. If he didn't know about it, he ought to fire Rick Davis immediately," said David Donnelly, Director of Campaign Money Watch.
BREAKING NEWS: NOON----Rick Davis running away! Lynn Sweet, SunTimes:

WASHINGTON--John McCain campaign manager Rick Davis--under the spotlight because of his work for mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac--is skipping a Wednesday lunch with reporters sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.

On Tuesday, word came that McCain political director Mike DuHaime will substitute for Davis because he is "heading out on the trail" today.

Davis is the subject of stories in the New York Times and Newsweek about his work for the failed mortgage market makers. At issue right now: did Davis contradict McCain's statement that he has not been involved with Fannie and Freddie for some time.

Well yesterday the Financial Markets Bail Out hearings and discussion drowned out almost anything else. Except for a few items like the McCain Campaign's daily FUBAR (#ucked up Beyond All Recognition) by trying to break with the press's long standing practice of pool editorial writers accompanying pool camera crews when Palin went and met Karzai of Afghanistan at the UN. This the day after Rick Davis and the Campaign's COO, Steve Schmidt, openly chastised the NY Times and the New York Times:
"It is a pro-Obama organization that every day attacks Senator McCain, attacks Governor Palin, and excuses Senator Obama."
The NY Times response Bill Keller the Times executive editor:

The New York Times is committed to covering the candidates fully, fairly and aggressively. It’s our job to ask hard questions, fact-check their statements and their advertising, examine their programs, positions, biographies and advisers. Candidates and their campaign operatives are not always comfortable with that level of scrutiny, but it’s what our readers expect and deserve.


The press response by Joe Klein takes the press's reaction Not Buying:

Ben Smith fact-checks the McCain campaign's ridiculous conference call assault on the press. But it should be remembered that Steve Schmidt is doing this for two (nefarious) reasons:

1. he's hoping to work the refs: if he complains enough about press bias, we mainstream sorts will cower, cringe and try to seek false equivalences between the two campaigns.

2. the more time we spend covering this nonsense, the less we'll spend on the real issues in this campaign.

Sorry, Steve. Not buying.


I wonder what will be today's McCain FUBAR. I have not seen a Presidential Campaign run and operated so badly in my lifetime---it is a combination of Nixon, Dukakis, Dole and GW Bush---all their bad stuff in one bag. Back to the Bail Out; No matter what comes out this, a new economy will emerge once the old one is dismantled and restructured which will be the most prevailing political event since 9/11 and ultimately define the next Administration and Government for the next decade or two. I am not surprised either. Just how hard will the restructuring be?

No wonder the polls are breaking fast for Obama where now the ABC-Washington Post, considered by the industry to be one of the gold standards of national and state polls gives Obama a NINE Point lead! No wonder the state polls in almost every battleground states have Obama in the lead and there are now emerging battleground states in previously safe Republican states like North Carolina, Nevada and Virginia.
Quinnipac State Polls
  • COLORADO Obama 47% to McCain 41%
  • Michigan Obama 5o% to McCain 38%
  • Wisconsin Obama 47% to McCain 40%
  • Minnesota Obama 47% to McCain 45%
Other State Polls in Battleground States
Finally locally we are commencing with a direct effort to increase our Mail In ballot voting to 50 new early votes per precinct. The issue is plain and simple. The elections department now estimates that a voter could take up to thrity to forty-five minutes to vote on the Colorado ballot with all its initiatives if they have not reviewed the questions beforehand. With an expected record turnout, record registrations exceeding 375,000 voters, 380 precincts lines will exceed three to four hours. We now believe our Obama victory will be made or lost by how many Mail In or Early voters we have encouraged to change their manner of voting this year.

HI TOM! You don't like my politics but they are politics of truth....not fantasies.
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