A big majority of Americans aren’t buying into McCain’s campaign suspension and debate delay
September 25th, 2008 at 08:17pm Pat Cunningham
If John McCain thought the suspension of his presidential campaign and his bid for postponement of Friday’s scheduled debate was going to impress the American public as an example of daring leadership in dealing with the financial crisis, he’s been wrong so far — way wrong.
A NEW POLL by Survey USA shows that the strategy is going over like a proverbial lead baloon.
Three-fourths of Americans say they want the campaign to continue forthwith and the debate to go on as scheduled.
For good measure, half the respondents also say they have “no confidence” in McCain’s leadership abilities “during these economic times.”
UPDATE: THIS ACCOUNT of ongoing negotiations on the proposed Wall Street bailout deal, as reported by Politico.com, is not exactly flattering to McCain.
Democratic Rep. Barney Frank, one of the principal negotiators, said McCain has not been a factor in the talks.
“Nobody mentioned him,” Frank said of McCain. “The man’s irrelevant to the whole process. No Republican mentioned his name. I’m the only one who raised his name. They winced when I did.”
UPDATE II: McCain’s visit to the White House today also is SAID to have been undistinguished.
Consider, for example, this account:
“At the bipartisan White House meeting that Mr. McCain had called for a day earlier, he sat silently for more than 40 minutes, more observer than leader, and then offered only a vague sense of where he stood, according to people in the meeting.
“In subsequent television interviews, Mr. McCain suggested that he saw the bipartisan plan that came apart at the White House meeting as the proper basis for an eventual agreement, but he did not tip his hand as to whether he would give any support to the alternative put on the table by angry House Republicans, with whom he had met before going to the White House.”
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1. David Johnson | September 25th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
hahaha…one of the reasons the so called “deal” is in the toilet is because the Dems didn’t include any of the GOP leadership (House or Senate) in on the negotiations. And it came back to bite them in the rear end big time. Conservative Republicans aren’t going to agree to hand over $70 billion to a government bureaucracy that has shown time and time again that they can’t (oops I mean won’t) protect the American taxpayer. Now that they’ve figured out that they’re not going to be able to get away with it…maybe they’ll come to the table in good faith…I know…it’s a stretch…Dems so often don’t anything in good faith. That being said…McCain also succeeded in many other respects with his campaign strategy, and I doubt you Pat, will be able to figure out how till the crying is done. And I’ll bet the man child you call Obama will say “no fair”! To bad.
2. thomaspearl | September 25th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Does this newspaper dare to have an “unabashedly” conservative blogger to create preposterous headlines that are supposed to read like real news? Pat, I can’t believe that you are becoming the king of tabloid trash! You USED to be a journalist, right?
3. McCain's great-great-great-great-greatgrandson | September 25th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
huh??? none of what david johnson just said makes any sense, and furthermore everyone who has just read his comments has just become a little dumber. thankyou david for your retarded comments
4. Pat Cunningham | September 25th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Thomas Pearl: If if I follow your logic, such as it is, you want this Web site to come up with a “conservative blogger to create preposterous headlines that are supposed to read like real news.” Your peculiar way with words suggests that you might be a likely candidate for the job.
5. Chris Thompson | September 25th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Well put David.
The suspension of his presidential campaign was John McCain puting his country first as he has done so many times in the past.
Obama’s response was call me if you need me, in other words PRESENT.
6. Chris Thompson | September 25th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Another media organization in the tank for Obama.
7. Pat Cunningham | September 25th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Chris: Yeah, and all those people in the poll mentioned above are in the tank, too. It’s a vast conspiracy against the forces of decency and good. The damn liberals have taken over America. It’s time for torches and pitchforks.
8. Chris Thompson | September 25th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Pat, when the advertisers come into my office from the Rockford Register Star ill be reading your post to them and keeping my wallet in my pocket. You go vote for higher taxes and socialism and leave the reporting to the real jurnalist.
Read Pats post on this one, too funny.
http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/05/05/john-mccain-has-his-own-bill-ayers/#comments
9. Pat Cunningham | September 25th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Chris: Thanks for linking to that post about McCain and G. Gordon Liddy. But that one was just for practice. I later did a better post on the subject. Check it out:
http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/09/08/the-story-of-the-presidential-candidate-and-the-1970s-political-radical-a-convicted-felon/
10. unmanager | September 26th, 2008 at 4:35 am
“…one of the reasons the so called “deal” is in the toilet is because the Dems didn’t include any of the GOP leadership (House or Senate) in on the negotiations….”
not so much TRUE…
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13946.html
“Four of the five parties involved in the deal — House Democrats, Senate Democrats, Senate Republicans and the White House — had agreed to the general outlines of a plan…
That left one remaining obstacle: House Republicans….Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) stood in for the House Republicans…. having been publicly chastened by House GOP leadership earlier in the day. Bachus, said Frank, excused himself from the meeting, explaining that since he wasn’t authorized to speak on behalf of his caucus it wasn’t useful for him to stay. …Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) represented the GOP, with Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) endorsing the negotiations….”
Seems there is real confusion WHO the “leadership” of the GOP IS….
11. swamprat | September 26th, 2008 at 7:52 am
The Republicans (and John McCain) fiddle while Rome burns.
12. DingDong | September 26th, 2008 at 8:48 am
Pat: Look at that, a bank failed and the sky did not fall. WaMu went down and now is owned by Chase. Who owns the bad assets? The FDIC, see same outcome but without just throwing money at the situation.
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