McCain, WTF is wrong with you?

Stop playing politics. Seriously. Stop.
You were losing ground in the polls because you fail at handling the economy, and you decide that pulling something like this is the best way to make you seem like you’re on top of the situation.
Thank god Obama is calling you out on your shenanigans.

Between this, your outright lies in your ads, and your dirty campaign, I have lost all respect for you and what you stand for. You used to be the politician I respected the most… always spoke his mind, stood for his beliefs and what was right, and never yielded. Now you’re worse than Bush.

Now I hope to god that the nation isn’t so blinded that they won’t see this blatant political move for what it is.

Also, good job Congress for not passing Bush’s irresponsible bailout bill. Now find a way to fix it.

Edit: I see what ur doin thar.
If it’s really so important that you don’t debate this Friday, why didn’t you suggest that the VP debate take place this Friday instead and the debate between you and Obama take place when the VP debate was scheduled for? After all, it’s not like Palin has to be back in Congress for photo ops to politically benefit from fix the economic mess despite not being on the committee in charge of negotiating the bailout.

Edit edit:

Mr. Letterman told his audience that Senator McCain had called him directly on short notice Wednesday, to tell him he had to cancel his appearance.
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Mr. Letterman said Mr. McCain had said the economy was “about to crater” which necessitated that he get to Washington right away.

[Mr. Letterman’s] critique reached a high point when he learned that at the very moment Mr. McCain was supposed to be on the couch next to him being interviewed, the senator was at the CBS News center three blocks away in Manhattan, getting ready to be interviewed by the CBS News anchor, Katie Couric.

Um…
I am so incredibly disgusted right now.
Video here.

The economy is exploding (or, I suppose, imploding).

Presidential candidates: Stop arguing over whose fault it is and give us a good plan to fix it.

Congress: Plz to not be spending $700 billion of our tax dollars propping up failing businesses. You passed laws that made this mess in the first place… can’t you find ways to fix it without spending quite so much?

Also, unrelated, hear hear.

Sarah Palin, huh?
…
Well crap.

I remember back when Greg and I were talking about potential Republican VP picks, and I came across her name as one of the potential picks.
I remember actually liking her, and wishing she was running for president instead of McCain.
Now that she’s the VP… I’m really not sure how I feel about this… and that scares me, since I most definitely don’t want McCain to win, but I generally consider myself a Republican-hater (I’m all for fiscal conservativism and social moderateness, but modern Republicans are neither) and I don’t hate her.

Meh.

Obama/Biden vs. McCain/Palin

This’ll be interesting.

You remember the Obama speech video I posted a few days ago, right?

This is absolutely ludicrous.

“Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal rather than religion-specific values,” Obama said. “It requires their proposals be subject to argument and amenable to reason.”
Dobson said the suggestion is an attempt to lead by the “lowest common denominator of morality.”
“Am I required in a democracy to conform my efforts in the political arena to his bloody notion of what is right with regard to the lives of tiny babies?” he said. “What he’s trying to say here is unless everybody agrees, we have no right to fight for what we believe.”

No, no that’s absolutely not at all what he’s saying. Read his quote again.
Obama is simply saying that you have to support your positions with non-religious arguments, not that you have to convince everybody that you’re right (and certainly not that you have no right to fight for your beliefs).

Ugh I hate evangelicals.
I reiterate that people who misuse religion (or use it to justify their actions) are destroying this nation (and, to a certain extent, the world).

On the flip side, why is this even an issue?

Bhutto’s killing was an “unfortunate event,” he said, but McCain’s “knowledge and ability to talk about it reemphasized that this is the guy who’s ready to be commander-in-chief. And it helped us.”
Asked if McCain would stand to benefit from a terrorist attack on U.S. soil, Black answered, “Certainly it would be a big advantage to him.”

I read absolutely nothing malicious in that. He was trying to emphasize that, in such an event, he believes McCain would be better suited to handle the situation. Perhaps he could have phrased it better (something like, “He would handle the situation better and, as such, would have an advantage over his opponent Barack Obama.”) but I don’t believe the meaning is lost.

Don’t even get me started about how people overanalyzed Mrs. Obama’s comments on being proud of her country (you know what she meant, seriously) and their “terrorist fist jab.”
What is wrong with politics these days?