Sep 25 2008
McCain’s Handlers Make Good Call But Public Recognizes Pandering
The same day that an ABC News poll showed that Barack Obama is 9 points ahead in the national polls, based largely on economic issues, John McCain called on Obama to suspend politicking and cancel or postpone the first presidential deabte. McCain said he thinks the candidates should work together on the economy.
In fact, he said unless the $700 billion bailout package is complete by Friday, he won’t be attending the first debate.
I guess that even Republicans understand “It’s the economy, stupid.”
And, I’ll give McCain credit. Stopping the politicking when you are clearly losing and grandstanding about the economy is a bold and probably needed move. All his claims of experience in Washington don’t help when he has openly admitted he doesn’t really udnerstand how the American economy works. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that Obama gets all the intracacies either, but I do think he knows that two days of attention from the Congress will not solve two years of economic woes.
I admit it. I come from a long line of autoworkers. My grandfather was a Ford retiree and grandma still gets a Ford pension. One uncle is a GM retiree and another retired from Ford. The company my mother works for makes some parts that are sold to the automobile industry, though thankfully that is only a fraction of their business.
I have a great interest in the economy of Michigan even though I don’t live there. People I love do live there. So you’ll have to forgive me if I can’t get excited about the bailout of banks and lending institutions. It will help some people–maybe–but it is not an economic solution for this country and I resent the hell out of John McCain and George Bush for trying to pretend this legislation fixes everything.
Yes, John, please get to work on the economy. It needs it. But don’t grandstand and tell me you are suspending your campaign to do it. You ahve theoretically been able to do your job while campaigning for the last year. Now, it’s time to prove it.
You should probably harbor some resentment that W. blamed this whole thing on the American people, and called for more deregulation of the market after we give him $700 billion. What a tool. I come from a GM town myself, and it’s a mere shadow of what it used to be.