Ok, finally the bombshell. As you should know, Bush, Paulson (Treasury secretary) and Bernake (new head of the FEC, followed Greenspan) have gotten together and created a draft of a bailout plan for the market what got squished. John McCain came out with a plan for the economy's salvage, and Nobama twiddled his thumbs and said "no comment" while waiting for his poll results to come in so his speechwriters could tell him what to say. But the Congress hasn't been able to get its act together, which should totally be a surprise, since they've been able to get it together so often since do-nothing Pelosi took over in '06 (please, infuse sarcasm here).
So today, John McCain announced that he would be suspending his campaign to go help deal with the crisis, seeing as he's a Senator still. This has Obama a little miffed, because his teleprompter is ready to go for Friday, and he figures the people of Chicago can take care of themselves (by the way, if he was such an amazing community organizer, and his good buddy Bill Ayers and he did so much good on all those committees together, wouldn't Chicago be a safer place in general? I'm just saying...). So now he's got all his cultish followers calling John McCain a coward for asking for the debate to be postponed. But who's the real coward?
Obama refused to participate in the town hall meetings McCain's been doing since he started. He's not dropping everything to set aside partisanship and deal with the single greatest crisis facing our nation. He's not out there giving ideas on how to fix this. He didn't want to do more than three debates, and he's left all of his debating for the time when, according to a new survey out today, only 18% of the population hasn't already made up their minds. In other words, Obama doesn't want to lose the followers he gained because of how he says things because of them hearing what he actually says. He doesn't want the message to muddle the delivery.
I think what John McCain has done is incredibly selfless and brave. It takes incredible guts to walk away from this: he will lose momentum, Obama will call him stuff to his back that he would never say to his face, and McCain might lose this election because of what he did today. Should he? Absolutely not. Should he reach across the aisle, like he's said he would? I don't think so, since the Dems are who got us in the mess to begin with, but he will. Should he listen to Reid, who told him not to come? Should anyone ever listen to Reid? The answer, in short, is no.
Some are saying he should send Sarah to Congress in his stead, and Obambi (I like that name for him) should Biden. 2 minor problems with that: 1) Sarah is not a Senator, and has no business being there (yet), and 2) Biden is a senator, and should be there representing the people who put him in the office he currently holds.
In short, the debate should be rescheduled; it would be a dumb debate to have right now anyway (are we still at war? Really?). When they debate, it should be on the economy and what they're going to do to fix it. I mean, we know Obama is going to change it, but I just want to see if he's going to change it into a socialist economy.
Askaconservative!
All right, it's been a while. I would say a lot has happened, but I would be lying. Only two things have happened since last I posted, and I will deal with them seperately. The first is John McCain's brilliant choice of Veep. Can I call them or what? If you'll look back to the only question ever actually asked here at askaconservative, it was who McCain should choose, and Palin was on my short list then. As the days went on, and I started hearing Lieberman's name thrown out there, she got on my shorter list. For the first time in my life, I was contacted by the GOP and asked to chip in. I told them flat out, if it was Lieberman, the answer was no. I also told the very nice young man on the other end of the line that if it were Sarah Palin or someone of her ilk, I would send a check the next day. I sent my money.
As we've all seen, the Obama camp has been passing very large stones ever since. I would say that his camp is exploding, except all the Obamicans who have been posting at the blog sites IN CAPITAL LETTERS AND, POOR PUNCTUATION AND SEPLING. NON THE LESS (if you don't want there to be a stereotype, don't be the stereotype) seem even more likely to wet themselves now than before. I still don't quite understand how people can suspend things like logic and facts, but then, if I did, I would be a Democrat.
Bottom line is this: Sarah Palin was a brilliant choice. She fits all of my guidelines on who he should have picked (and if you want to know what they are, go look for yourselves); she's brilliant, has a sense of humor, and makes John McCain look like he has a heartbeat to keep her away from the White House (and in the Senate, where she would belong). All that blather we heard after her interview with whatshisface from ABC about her not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is, check here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_Doctrine. After all, if Wikipedia has to clarify that there have been four doctrines, why shouldn't Sarah Palin ask for the same clarity?
While I agree that the "lipstick on a pig" thing was ridiculous, it was still interesting to see Obama do it. Wasn't he all about change? There doesn't seem to be anything Obama's been changing during this campaign except for his policies and shorts. I've been hearing him being compared to an empty suit, and falling short--and I'm not sure I disagree. I used to think he was at least fairly smart (he definitely hired the best speech writers this election), but with the Biden choice (and all the backpeddling he's had to do on that), the economy go-around (which he said Biden should have waited before saying anything. Wait for what? The poll results on what people think should be done? Way to lead), the public financing platform, etc., etc., I'm starting to think maybe he's less brilliant and more Manchurian. Do we know of any huge companies that have been giving him lots of money? Oh, wait... (more on that in the next post).
Please ask your questions; askaconservative is itching for a tussle.