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Great article by Dick Morris. He is dead right. McCain in going to Washington, shows leadership, while Obama plays politics as usual.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09252008...mps_130637.htm

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FACING a postconvention fall in the polls, John McCain once again reshaped the dimensions of the race by suspending his campaign and calling for postponement of tomorrow's debate.

This bold move could have an impact on the race akin to McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate. Defensively, McCain had to act to stop the fall in his poll numbers.

Offensively, he has placed himself at the epicenter of the only issue on the national agenda - proactive action to stop a total international financial collapse.

Obama's response to McCain's initiative is lame. As with his initial reaction to Sarah Palin, Obama has miscalculated. While he tries to spin McCain's move as a mere response to his initiative, it was the Republican who first issued the call for a suspension of the campaigns.

Both McCain and Obama will now go to Washington. McCain on his own initiative. Obama as a result of the president's call for an economic summit.

But it is McCain who will play the proactive role. Obama will come to Washington, but will keep one foot outside the Beltway.

Even though the president has called both candidates to Washington to save the country, Obama continues to campaign. Politics as usual.

He doesn't want to cancel the debate. He would debate while the markets burn.

McCain is going to work while Obama is phoning it in.

Oddly, McCain and Obama agree on the bailout package. But it is only McCain who can pass the bill. Only McCain can deliver the administration and the Republicans.

McCain will be at the center of the process, managing it through to success while Obama lingers on the outskirts, irrelevant and uninvolved.

McCain will pass Barack Obama's bill (which parallels his own proposals), and will get the credit for it.

There are compelling reasons why McCain may be saving his campaign by this bold move.

McCain's entry into the legislative foray personalizes the economy issue.

As long as McCain stayed away from Washington, it was the Democrats against the Republicans. Polls give the Democrats the edge. But voters trust McCain personally more than they trust Obama to manage his way out of a crisis.

By showing up in Washington, McCain makes the issue personal, not partisan.

And the rescue legislation will pass. Washington has no alternative but to act. And it probably will work. The markets will calm down. The bailout legislation will have done it.

Including the Democratic amendments, it will become a fairly popular piece of legislation and it will have been McCain's bill. Obama can claim authorship, but it will have been McCain who will have brought the Administration into line.

Once the bill is passed, McCain will have the credentials to go on the offensive and warn of the impact of Obama's tax increases on the recovery.

Had McCain not acted, Republican opposition to big government might have doomed the economy and destroyed Republican hopes.

By going to Washington, McCain makes it imperative that the Republicans pass the legislation. His presence makes it an issue of party survival in a way that lame duck Bush could never do.

As Woody Allen said "half of life is just showing up."
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I guess TJO missed this one...LOL
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No one is buying this crap from McCain not even the Commission on Pres Debates, true leadership would have been proactive a week ago when all this started. Instead McCain makes another knee jerk decision to attempt to gain the lead...Now isn't the time for him to barge in a screw up what bi-partisan work that has already been accomplished.
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I guess TJO missed this one...LOL
Now I just found this:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-fi...ccain-got-invo

So Paulson called McCain to save the bailout.

Evidently McCain is the leadership in Congress.
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This is funny...keep it you guys!!

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No one is buying this crap from McCain not even the Commission on Pres Debates, true leadership would have been proactive a week ago when all this started. Instead McCain makes another knee jerk decision to attempt to gain the lead...Now isn't the time for him to barge in a screw up what bi-partisan work that has already been accomplished.
Get it right the libbies are trying to spin McCain's brilliant move to their advantage.
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Dick Morris, eh?

Hm.

Has he ever been RIGHT about something?



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Dick Morris: Nominate (Condi) Rice. Otherwise Hillary will win.
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This is funny...keep it you guys!!

It is funny how Obumble is blew an opportunity. Glad to see you agree.
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What great insite does McCain hold on the issue at hand? Does he sit on the committee that is handling this issue? No, so what on Gods green earth could McCain do besides hinder things further?
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Now I just found this:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-fi...ccain-got-invo

So Paulson called McCain to save the bailout.

Evidently McCain is the leadership in Congress.
Hilarious!

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