And says he won't a computer

In any of Cindy's 9 homes.

The headline of this post doesn't really seem to reflect the content of Sen. Obama's quote.

This is the kind of thing the Dems need. Call McCain on his grandstanding bullshit.

Well played, Obama.

Maybe he and Scarlett Johansson can just text everyone their thoughts.

Obama seems to think it's a good thing to just let the market fucking crash. The worse the economy is for the country, but better it is for him getting elected.

He has thrown a monkey wrench into the process. Then, when the deal is finally worked out, he'll claim credit for it. If it doesn't get solved and people's 401k's get gutted, how many votes will he get? I say few, if any. I think that the more he mugs for the network cameras, the lower his poll numbers will be.

Come on, you can do better than douchebag, can't you?

Did you see the market crash today? I didn't. This "imminent financial disaster" is being exaggerated, just like Iraqi WMD. The markets actually responded well when there appeared to be bipartisan support before McCain rode to town and shot the deal to hell. Some leader....

News flash, genius. The market meltdown was already well underway before Obama appeared on CBS, and in any case there's nothing any one person can do to stave it off, if it can be staved off at all. But better someone reacting coolly and with reasoned measures that racing around in panic mode like a Chicken Little media whore.

John McCain's method, on the other hand is to do th hard legislative work.

I hope that on Friday, they break into the one-man Debate telecast with a breaking news announcement from the Capitol that McCain and the Congressional leadership have reached a deal. Then, in the next two debates, including the one that is supposed to be about the economy, McCain can explain to Obama how he did it.

He doesn't just claim the moral high ground, he inhabits it.

Palin argued that people aren't looking to see what Obama is going to do. While that's certainly not true, the point could be made that (unlike a certain "maverick") we don't need to watch Obama because he's already handed us his actual economic plan.

Of course, one could consider Obama's comment to equally point the finger at George W, another politician in desperate need of a photo-op.

If this crisis is truly as serious as he has told us, Paulson needs to break ranks and call McCain out. Obama can't do it alone.

The reality is very clear here. McCain (and Schmidt) are politicizing the crisis and, for that reason, prolonging it. They are doing it because they have backed themselves into a corner and this is there only choice politically. Anything else makes them look opportunistic and weak. But if Paulson and Bernanke and Bush have not been speaking in hyperbole, then the McCain strategy is a clear and present danger to the American economy and our way of life.

Paulson is the one who needs to name this behaviour as deeply Un-American and demand that McCain remove himself. McCain is on Paulson's turf and playing with fire. If the Secretary is really committed to leadership in this crisis, he needs to burn them. Party or country sir?

Obama is a douchebag? Wow! I'm definitely voting for McCain now because of your excellent insight and analysis of this article!!!!

Thanks!

Please enlighten us to what "hard legislative work" McCain is doing. Please educate us on what particular bi-partisan brinkmanship McCain is practicing. All he's succeeded in doing is starting a fire fight within his own party and grand-standing for the cameras.

You're going to tell me he can't spare 90 minutes talking to the American people, the ones he says he wants to "serve?" If he won't debate tomorrow night then we should go ahead with the VP debates. I think Biden would be up for it. Isn't Palin supposed to be ready on day one to step into McCain's shoes? Republicans are cowards. John McCain used to be an honorable man but he has let ambition become his master. John McCain doesn't love this country. John McCain loves his ambition to rule this country.

John McCain's method, on the other hand is to do the hard legislative work.

By showing up at the last minute and throwing a monkey wrench into a deal that had been worked on for days? Any jerk can ruin the work of others.

I'll hold my judgement until I see what McCain has to offer, but I won't hold my breath waiting because McCain has already admitted many times that economics isn't his strong suit.

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said that "nobody mentioned McCain" during the several-hour-long meeting on the $700 billion market rescue plan, other than Frank and that his Republican colleagues "winced" when he did. "He’s been irrelevant to the process. He remains to be," said Frank. "I was afraid that his dropping in here, like Andy Kaufman’s Mighty Mouse—'here I am to save the day'—I thought that would slow things down. I didn’t see any sign of our Republican colleagues paying any attention to him whatsoever." Franks went on. "Nobody mentioned him. The man’s irrelevant to the whole process. No Republican mentioned his name. I’m the only one who raised his name. They winced when I did," he said. ...

Even his Republican colleagues know that he's clueless vis finance and economic matters(he isn't much better on world affairs-still cannot tell the difference between Sunni and Shi'a unless Lieberman whispers in his ear)) and don't want him anywhere near them. This old punk knew that the issue of him being in the forefront of the financial markets de-regulation and having the most corrupt lobbyists working in his campaign would've come up 2 minutes into Friday's debate, and that's the only reason he took his blanky and ran to hide from the debate.

There's a group of old lifelong Republicans at my gym. I see them everyday sitting in the common area, drink coffee and discuss politics. They are old style Republicans, you know-keep taxes low, bust the unions but keep the government out of my life, including my bedroom. They would never dream of voting for a Democrat and will certainly vote for old yellow-belly this November. However, I was amazed at how angry and disgusted they were at McCain this morning for ducking Friday's debate. Not even one of them supported his crazy move. They used words like shameful, cowardly, afraid to defend his record in front of a 100 million people, he can run but he can't hide, can you imagine Reagan or GHWBush running away from a presidential debate, etc. It was totally amazing.