Holy Hail Mary! You really have to hand it to the man -- he's as unpredictable as a wounded elephant. And he just so happens to be a wounded elephant. Well, metaphorically speaking.
Today was quite possibly the worst day of the campaign for John McCain. It started out with his running mate taking flack for banning reporters from her meetings with world leaders yesterday, it veered off course when new Washington Post/ABC and Fox News polls showed him trailing Sen. Obama by 9 and 6 points respectively, and came in for a crash landing when news broke that Freddie Mac paid campaign manager Rick Davis's firm $15,000 a month from 2005 through last month. The revelations concerning the $15,000 payments were undoubtedly the straw that broke the elephant's back as McCain had just told CNBC and The New York Times on Sunday that Davis had not been involved with Freddie for several years.
So what did McCain do? He threw what Congressman Barney Frank called "the longest Hail Mary pass in the history of either football or Marys." That is, McCain suspended his campaign and asked that Friday's debate be postponed, an obvious political ploy meant to divert attention away from the fact that his woefully unqualified running mate won't answer questions, that he has no idea what to do about the economy, and that his campaign manager lobbied until recently for the very reckless, hands-off policies that set the current crisis in motion.
2 Responses:
and Obama's response...
call me if you need me.
Now...THAT is "leadership"????
This is what Barack Obama, Joe Biden and John McCain REALLY get paid to do-- work to pass bills. Forget about pontificating at some debate about foreign policy this week. These Senators need to be in DC hammering out a solution to this mess we are in and be held accountable to actually VOTE for or against this 1 trillion dollar give away, so voters can know where they stand!!!!
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