McCain has gone to Washington today to help work on the bailout crisis. Obama is on TV right now, saying he's planning to stay on the campaign trail, and stay in touch with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi by phone. He's saying that if they need him, they'll know how to reach him. Besides, Obama says, we should still have the debate on Friday because what better tiime for Americans to hear from their presidential candidates about plans to fix the economy?
There you have a man who wants to talk about fixing the economy, versus a man who is actually on Capitol Hill right now doing the hard work to actually fix the economy. I mean, hell, this is by far the biggest issue the next president will have to deal with; you'd think a real leader would want to have some hand in crafting the solution.
Quite a contrast, I'd say.
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"Rob, so what? Everyone/Anyone is allowed to come here & post whatever they want. I am sorry if you just can't take it.
That's not true.
Posted by: Rod Dreher | September 25, 2008 9:37 AM"
Well Rod, I looked at the Code of Conduct and I did not see anywhere that only certain people are allowed to post here (and yes these people are posting comments directly relating to your post so I don't see how they are committing any problems). Is there something I am missing?
However, it does mention that Rob's comments shouldn't be tolerated. Oops, me bad most of the time he agrees with you so I guess it makes it okay:)
I agree, Hugo.
Within a week, McCain went from saying "the fundamentals of our economy are sound" to saying "We are in an emergency and will slide into another Great Depression if I don't suspend my campaign and postpone the Friday night debate."
We all have our biases, but I try and judge people honestly. Frankly, I am appalled and angry at what I see as naked political grandstanding by McCain. And, I happen to be more or less in agreement with McCain about Iraq and I also voted for him in the primary.
I also preferred Hillary to Obama. It doesn't matter now. We need a steady hand and a calm person in charge right now, and that is definitely not John McCain.
Noodle Beach,
And which ones of the statements below are not true?
"McCain even said himself he doesn't know anything about economics"
"McCain just wants to continue the policies of Bush"
"McCain wants to give tax breaks to big oil so his friends can get rich"
"McCain wants a 100 year war in Iraq"
"McCain voted 90% with Bush, and we can't have 4 more years of that"
"McCain is a warmonger who wants to keep us in Iraq for 100 years"
"McCain is going to let lobbyists run his White House"
"McCain thinks the economy is just fine"
"John McCain and the Republicans caused the banking crisis with their deregulation policies"
Good point, EricW. Why would McCain "run" from a debate when he's all along been pushing for more of them, and for 'town hall meetings' as well?
Obama ought to be glad he can postpone a Ralph Cramden moment here: "Hummana, hummana, hummana..."
Well Rod, I looked at the Code of Conduct and I did not see anywhere that only certain people are allowed to post here (and yes these people are posting comments directly relating to your post so I don't see how they are committing any problems). Is there something I am missing?
Yes, there's something you're missing. I've long made it clear that I don't allow comments here that personally insult or abuse someone else posting in these threads (it's why I edited a regular's comment this morning; this poster almost always followed the rules, but crossed the line in a comment today, so I took out his offending line). I also reserve the right to unpublish posts from people who aren't adding anything to the discussion, but are rather behaving like trolls -- people who just want to shout down the opposition. I don't care if you're a right-wing troll or a left-wing troll, if you're carrying on in an obnoxious way that would get you shown the door if you were at a party at my house, you're not going to be allowed to remain on a particular thread. If you keep doing it, you won't be allowed to post here at all. My interest is to keep this a place for robust and diverse discussion within an atmosphere of civility. If you want to rant, there are plenty of left wing and right wing sites where you can rant to your heart's content.
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