>>>>>John McCain announced yesterday that he is suspending his campaign to help deal with the financial crisis. He said he would not participate in tomorrow night's scheduled Presidential debate if the Senate has not passed a bill in response to the administration's bailout proposal. Barack Obama said he wants the debate to proceed as scheduled.
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>>>>There should be a debate. McCain is not the president. Before McCain was there Bush and his staff were able to solve things. Why would it be different now.
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>>>>McCain just wants to project that he's practically taking office.
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>>>Theoretically he is a US Senator, and the US Senate is absolutely involved in this (sham that it (the situation and the senate) is). Every senator (even ones with no experience like that guy from Illinois) should be involved, understand the problem and the proposed solution, and help with it before trillions of non-existant $$ are committed.
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>>I understand you but is McCain really going to make the difference in making the BIG decision?
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>>To me it's just another political gimmick
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>I think it's the responsibility of all of congress and the president to figure out what to do in this situation. the American people are suddenly threatened with another Great Depression, and are being hustled into throwing ourselves into more trillions of $$ in debt to try to put it off for some time (months, years, days???).
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>This is an incredibly volitile moment, and tragic as it is, our wallets are in the hands of the government right now (like they will be if Obama gets elected too)..

Bill, did you somehow miss the last 8 years when the deficit shot off like it had Mars written on it? It amazes me that some still think the Republican party is the fiscally responsible one. I'm not trying to stir up yet another partisan debate, but really.

The fact is both candidates are fiscal unknowns as President. All presidents are. Bill Clinton ran as a semi-traditional Democrat who could be expected to spend money like a sailor in a whorehouse. In fact the debt and the deficit were reduced on his watch. (Not giving him all the credit by any means -- Bob Rubin is a much better answer). George Bush ran as a fiscal conservative. An MBA president, the professionally managed presidency. We don't truly know about any of them. It's always a leap of faith into the great unknown.

Any candidate who says vote for me, you can count on such and such happening, vote against him.