Crisis Language:
i feel as though we're seeing something potentially unprecedented right now. A real, live crisis for presidential candidates to figure their way through... and display their ability to handle these situations. Yes, the current president has his hand in things too, but we know how irrelevant Bush has become over the last four years.
Here are excerpts from a CNN.com article explaining what happened today:
Republicans and Democrats blamed each other for the failure of the (financial bailout) bill, which President Bush had urged Congress to approve.
The bill failed by a vote of 205 to 228, with 140 Democrats and 65 Republicans voting in favor and 95 Democrats joining 133 Republicans against.
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Barack Obama: "stay calm, because things are never smooth in Congress."
"There are going to be some bumps and trials and tribulations and ups and downs before we get this rescue package done," he said. "I'm confident that we are going to get there, but it's going to be a little rocky."
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John McCain's Campaign Statement: "Their partisan attacks were an effort to gain political advantage during a national economic crisis. By doing so, they put at risk the homes, livelihoods and savings of millions of American families," Doug Holtz-Eakin, a senior policy adviser for McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, said in a statement.
"Barack Obama failed to lead, phoned it in, attacked John McCain and refused to even say if he supported the final bill. ... This bill failed because Barack Obama and the Democrats put politics ahead of country," he said."
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So, the McCain campaign has decided to blame the Obama campaign for politicizing and complicated the bailout which republicans vetoed. The campaign has also decided to use the bill's failure to pass through the House of Representatives as a campaign dig against Obama, saying that the bill didn't pass because Obama failed to lead and put his campaign over the passage of the bill.
If I had ANY shred of doubt... if AMERICA had ANY shred of doubt on who is more qualified to lead the country.... I'm pretty damn sure that this answers it.
I'm angry that a hypocrite, "say-anything-to-get-elected" minded person like John McCain ... (who has the audacity to criticize his opponent for supposedly using an underhanded campaign tactic, when he is abusing the same tactic IN THE SAME SENTENCE...) has a chance to become president of this country. Politics is dirty. Please elect the decent person, America. We need it now more than ever.
Here are excerpts from a CNN.com article explaining what happened today:
Republicans and Democrats blamed each other for the failure of the (financial bailout) bill, which President Bush had urged Congress to approve.
The bill failed by a vote of 205 to 228, with 140 Democrats and 65 Republicans voting in favor and 95 Democrats joining 133 Republicans against.
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Barack Obama: "stay calm, because things are never smooth in Congress."
"There are going to be some bumps and trials and tribulations and ups and downs before we get this rescue package done," he said. "I'm confident that we are going to get there, but it's going to be a little rocky."
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John McCain's Campaign Statement: "Their partisan attacks were an effort to gain political advantage during a national economic crisis. By doing so, they put at risk the homes, livelihoods and savings of millions of American families," Doug Holtz-Eakin, a senior policy adviser for McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, said in a statement.
"Barack Obama failed to lead, phoned it in, attacked John McCain and refused to even say if he supported the final bill. ... This bill failed because Barack Obama and the Democrats put politics ahead of country," he said."
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So, the McCain campaign has decided to blame the Obama campaign for politicizing and complicated the bailout which republicans vetoed. The campaign has also decided to use the bill's failure to pass through the House of Representatives as a campaign dig against Obama, saying that the bill didn't pass because Obama failed to lead and put his campaign over the passage of the bill.
If I had ANY shred of doubt... if AMERICA had ANY shred of doubt on who is more qualified to lead the country.... I'm pretty damn sure that this answers it.
I'm angry that a hypocrite, "say-anything-to-get-elected" minded person like John McCain ... (who has the audacity to criticize his opponent for supposedly using an underhanded campaign tactic, when he is abusing the same tactic IN THE SAME SENTENCE...) has a chance to become president of this country. Politics is dirty. Please elect the decent person, America. We need it now more than ever.