McCain looks like the Top Gun Pilot as he outmaneuvers the supposed “Smarter”, “Younger”, “Faster” Obama.
Obama is the new “Young Gun” candidate in the neighbor. He is supposed to be the “New Top Gun on the block” who can take down the “Old and in the way” candidate for president of the United States of America. But McCain continues to weave, bob, dive, and turn before Barry knows which way is up. From McCain’s miraculous wins in the primaries to his Palin move and now his rolling turn to help turn the country’s financial problems around McCain 360s around the slower more cumbersome wordy O-bla-ma.
While Obama stumbled into the nomination over a soaring Hillary Clinton, McCain was gunslinging and out shooting Romney, Giuliani, Huckabee, and Thompson. Then Obama picks old slow Joe while McCain swoops in with a young vibrant Palin. Now Oblama stumbles through accusing McCain of ditching the debates after McCain has invited Obama all summer to face each other Mono0a-Mono. Obama just looks outmaneuvered and tired, McCain looks like the “Young Top Gun”. And all McCain is doing is being McCain, “Quicker, Smarter, Faster”.\
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Posted by: Bill Dyer at 2:00 AM (Guest Post by Bill Dyer a/k/a Beldar)
Hugh’s summary of today’s events, posted earlier tonight, is exactly accurate, and I agree with it all. With his, and your, indulgence, here’s my own very similar (albeit far more wordy) take:
A politician can declare that he is a leader. His political party can declare that he’s a leader. And hundreds of thousands of acolytes around the world can swoon devotedly at his feet, and he can rack up all the trappings of leadership. But none of that in fact makes him into a leader if he actually isn’t one.
Crises reveal, make, and define leaders. When the crisis is over, it’s easy to recognize in hindsight who the leader was, even if there was some doubt as to that during the crisis itself. Looking back, we can recognize a leader because he’s the one who the other potential actors and decision-makers actually followed.
I do not care what anyone says today, or what buffoons like Michael Moore said at the time: George W. Bush led through the ruins of 9/11/01 and kept us safe from further attacks on our soil for the seven years thereafter. However much nuance future historians may put on his two terms in office, that will be the one-sentence verdict of history as understood and remembered by the public. Well-educated eighth graders in 2088 will know that even if they know nothing else of his presidency.
More one-sentence verdicts which we also all know: Washington gave this nation its birth of freedom in the Revolutionary War. Lincoln saved it from self-destruction in the Civil War. Teddy Roosevelt brought us recognition as a world power. FDR led us from Pearl Harbor through the defeat of fascist empires in Germany and Japan. Truman stood fast at the beginning of the Cold War. And Reagan won it.
Sometimes the one-sentence verdicts of history are not flattering. Grant, a great general, was an inept president unable to control corrupt cronies. Hoover lost the country’s confidence that he could deal with the Depression. Carter collapsed when America was first confronted with radical Islamic terrorism. And Clinton, in a time of no particular external crisis, nevertheless let his ego and appetites rule him, in the process bringing shame to the Office of the Presidency. (more Hewitt)
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Bush summons Obama
posted at 8:25 am on September 25, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
Yesterday’s strange pas de deux between Barack Obama and John McCain ended with a form of Deus ex machina, as George Bush summoned Obama to Washington after he first refused to go. McCain suspended his campaign and declared that he would, in effect, get back to work at his current job in order to help forge a solution to a national crisis. Obama, in effect, said he wasn’t needed:
McCain called for his Democratic rival to agree to a postponement until Congress agrees on a $700 billion government plan to rescue banks from enormous debt, saying, “We are running out of time.”
Obama rebuffed his GOP rival, saying the next president needs to “deal with more than one thing at once.”
Both were heading back to Washington on Thursday, summoned by President Bush to attend a White House meeting with congressional leaders in hopes of securing the legislation to rescue the fragile economy.
So who prevailed? McCain wound up with both of them in Washington, and managed to embarrass Obama in the process. Obama held a press conference to explain why he thought it was a waste of time for him to return to the Senate — and he didn’t describe himself in terribly glowing terms: (more Hot Air)
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Breaking: McCain suspends campaign over bailout, wants debate postponed; Poll question added: What do you think?; Obama camp responds
Scroll down for poll…what do you think of McCain’s move?…Obama camp responds…upshot: We can walk and chew gum at the same time…4:44pm Eastern…Obama speaking…gives a shout-out to GOP Sen. Tom Coburn…recounts negotiations over joint statement with McCain…staffs still working on joint statement…re. debates: “This is exactly the time when the American people need to hear” from [us]…
John McCain has asked the presidential debate commission to suspend this Friday’s debate so he can return to Washington to vote on the Mother of All Bailouts.
Your move, Barry O.
Lead, follow, or…
McCain is also asking President Bush to convene a “leadership” meeting, whatever that means. (more Malkin)
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By: $700 Bailout: See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil. « Republican Party of Jefferson County, TN on September 25, 2008
at 11:41 pm
The good news is that, despite the attempts of the Obama campaign and hte media (pro-Obama) to portray McCain’s actions as merely a political ploy, the American people realize that it is McCain (not Obama) who actually realizes the severity of the crisis and the need for focused attention on resolving it. (It is not a crisis on the same level, as Obama said, “the crisis of kids who don’t know how to pay for a college education.”)
A Zogby poll just out today has McCain now leading Obama nationally 46-44%.
But most important… McCain is actually doing better than that figure indicates since it includes the first half of the poll, which was done before McCain suspended his campaign to take care of the nation’s crisis.
Basically, as a result of McCain taking action and Obama just wanting to talk, there was a shift of seven points!
(Looking at the singular poll in its two parts, Obama was up by one in Part One of the poll — prior to McCain’s announcement — but McCain went up by 5 in Part Two of the poll — after his announcement)
Following is from the article
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http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1562
The survey, half conducted before McCain’s announcement Wednesday that he would suspend his campaign to concentrate on the financial crisis and half conducted after the announcement, shows movement in McCain’s favor after his announcement.
Before the announcement – which included about half of the total polling sample – Obama led by one point.
But McCain led by 5 points in polling completed after his statement about the suspension of his campaign.
Overall, the interactive survey, conducted Sept. 23-25, 2008, included 4,752 likely voters nationwide and carries a margin of error of +/- 1.5 percentage points.
Pollster John Zogby:
“The financial crisis appears to have trumped the campaign at least for now, but what remains true is that this race is really very close.
Obama was clearly leading before – we had him up by three points over the weekend – but I never thought his lead was as high as nine points, as at least one poll had indicated.
We are careful to weight our poll samples to reflect the proper proportion of Democrats, Republicans, and independents. And of course, we always sample likely voters, not registered voters, to most closely reflect what would happen in an election.”
Zogby International was the most accurate pollster in every one of the last three presidential election cycles, and continues to perfect its telephone and interactive methodologies using its own live operator, in-house call center in Upstate New York, and its own secure servers for its online polling projects.
By: zyle on September 26, 2008
at 6:43 am