Here is the situation. This is the onset of the great depression, of the 21st century. I've posted about this before. It happened on the 15th of September, 2008.

The President, and John McCain are largely responsible for this situation. They were paid off by lobbyists, of whome there were and still are 134 paid lobbyists running the McCain campaign.

They stood up during their convention and cheered about drilling wildlife reserves the entire time the Texas big oil guys were selling us short
in offshore accounts.

And its the unbridled derivatives market, that is doing it. Its a completely unregulated thing.

And that lack of regulation caused the economy to falter.  It was unregulated because lobbyists paid the GOP off to de-regulate it.

So this is the great Depression.  And even in the early days, there will be dog and pony shows.

Anything to take people's mind off the reality that is facing them.

Let me explain a bit more. People think crashes happen overnight. They dont. It might take three months.

And Obama has stated the most profound fact of this entire problem: its 40 days to elect another president, who will deal with this - and the America people deserve to know what they're going to do about it.

McCain, if he stayed home - this past eight years - would have cleared the way for regulation that could have prevented it. Instead, he led the charge to make the markets the way they are.

And now he wants to regulate them. And so does the so called "anti regulation" president.

I guess what really happened is the lobbyists that have McCain running like a puppet on a string, decided that yes, there is a great depression on the way. And they want to make themselves look nifty. Fast. Because the GOP is darwinistic: they have as much to fear from their own party as they do the Dems.

Meanwhile. Another candidate speaks for us, in a strong and clear voice. The depression means you work harder, and might get paid less.

But in the end, it will be about your friends, and your ideals - and your strength.
And that. ... is precisely why the words of Obama ring out like peal of thunder ...

1. setup an indepedent review board to find out how the money is going to be spent

2. american taxpayers should be set up as investors  - and paid off if things go well

3. provision should be made for main street, not just wall street

4. the american people should not be rewarding the ceos that got us into this mess

Those are his principles, that he sought to outline into a joint statement.   Which McCain ignored - because he was actually not in washington, but in a CBS studio giving an interview to Katie Couric. Claiming he's in washington.

Its my belief that this is exactly the time that the American people need to hear from the person that in 40 days will be responsible for cleaning up this mess.

How can we be most helpful? - Obama said the most helpful thing we can do now, to let everyone know that all standardbearers - are saying we need to deal with this problem and extraneous issues that threated to cloud the rescue - with partisan politics - need to be left out of this thing.

Ex. Bankruptcy reform should be left out.
The stimulus package shouldn't be in the package.
Etc.

Bottom line: regulation is what is being called for. And if we get proper regulation, we have a chance to power out of all of this.

Presidents are going to have to be able to do more than one thing at a time. Its not practical to suspend everything else if something comes up

And in the end, for me, as a voter, its important to know that we're being asked to pony up 700 billion dollars.  Obama believes we should have the debate. So at least we can be involved in it.

But McCain and the Bush Republicans are so corrupt, so run by lobbyists - that they just want a middle of the night deal that makes them look good.

He can prep for the debate in DC, too.

What are you smoking?

Well, McCain sure isn't spending any time preparing.  He is nervous now, and so that will be reflected in his behavior at the debate if he goes.  Obama seems to be pushing hard to have the debate, so he must feel prepared enough to go up against McCain.  This is McCains worst type of setting, too.

This is definitely a win for McCain.

On the one hand, McCain gets outed as a coward on late night TV. This ups his sympathy vote.

On the other hand, Mr. "5th from the bottom" forces Mr Law Review to study on a plane.

Clear McCain win.

Obama's in DC tomw b/c Bush called a meeting, not b/c of McCain.

LOL. This is Obama, not Palin. He'll be fine.

Assuming there is a debate on Friday.

Well, if they did it every night for eight years to come I would be worried with you, until then...  Not  so much.

Maybe it isn't usually this pointed, but comedians often shape our perceptions of the candidates (as do political cartoons, etc.).  I don't think there's really that much difference this year, other than the fact that they're not tearing apart a Dem for a change.

Act like an ass, get called out as an ass.

Democrat or Republican, I don't care.

Perhaps the media would stop being so mean to John McCain if he were to stop acting like an addled meth addict; frenetic activity with little point to it all, complete inability to be honest, and general dickishness.

He can go back to being honorable hero John McCain, bestest of a bad party, on 11/4 -- until then, he's reaping what he's sown and I don't care how hard he falls.... because he's the doofus who decided to climb on the roof in the first place.

What's your point?  

That Dave is effective?

...cause that really doesn't work with your theme.

I feel the same way!  I get so angry when I think of all of those butterflies that flapped their wings in Switzerland and caused Hurricane Ike.

The race is over.

McCain is a loose goofball.

You really think it's over? New polls out today: NBC/Wall St. Journal has a 2 pt. Obama lead...Rasmussen also has it +2 pts. for Obama.

If you peg your thinking to Letterman and/or the media, you may indeed think it's over.

But if you pay attention to voter sentiment--as measured in the polling of likely voters---maybe think about why...in a GOP administration that's presiding over a crumbling economy....the Democratic candidate can only scrounge up a 2 point lead in the polls.

...meme is staring to permeate into the public narrative.

This is getting fun.

I love it!

Like shooting fish in a tub.

So Palin is helping McCain now?  Is that why they're hiding her away from the media?  She gave him a brief bump in the polls, but people like her less the more they know about her.

What's it like sucking on a six-foot high cylinder of Nitrous Oxide?

I really want to know?

So let's get this straight:

1. You absolutely hate Obama and you want to see him lose.

2. You are giving free advice to Obama supporters and telling them how to win.

3. You are expecting people to not see through your bullshit.

Got it.

Rush Limbaugh is helping Barack immensely. We should all be cheering Sean Hannity on.

Yeah, I don't believe it either.

The electorate is much less sophisticated than you seem to think. Dave basically called McCain a coward, and so to a significant number of people he IS a coward. At least today.

You can spin that as good if you want, but it doesn't pass the smell test.