I've only one advice for McCain
If you're in a hole, stop digging !!!

OBAMA /BIDEN 08

too bad the 'maverick' hasn't been much of a 'maverick' at all during his campaign for the presidency. if he had told his cut-and-dry, black-and-white GOP handlers to back off from day 1, there's a good chance he'd be ahead in the polls right now.

Shut up Newt Gingrich! Go back into obscurity where you belong. McCain's campaign is a lost cause. The American people see through his desperate attempts to sway their mindsets. As Sarkozy put it, the times of laissez faire are OVER!!!

In April this year, McCain stated that he will not run a dishonorable campaign, and guess what?
McCain is now running a dishonorable campaign. So what does that say about this man?

Palin and he have constantly accused Obama wrongly, of things they have been guilty of doing themselves. What does that say about McCain and Palin? That they are hypocrites? You betcha.

They have fooled some people into believing the lies, unfortunately. It also seems that since they are now doing very badly in the polls, their attacks are more vicious than all the wolves in Alaska.
Their campaign rallies are becoming ugly, and dangerous. They even attacked the members of the
media who were non white. What does that say about these two people? Do you think they will unite this country? Not these two fake mavericks.

I'll have to disagree with Newt on this one. There is nothing that McCain can do in order to catch up, not even if he makes a public break from the economic bailout proposal.
McCain would have to break with GOP, Sara Palin and John McCain of 2008. He would have to get into a magic time machine and go back to the year 2000 pick up the old McCain and bring him back here.
What I am trying to say here is that nothing short the impossible will bring him back. McCain is lost and McCain and the entire Rethuglican party HAS lost, not only this presidential election, but they are going to lose the Senate seats as well, over the course of the last 8 years.
This isn't just the crisis of McCain's career. This is the culmination of proof that republican policies simply DON'T WORK! THERE IDEAS ARE TAINTED WITH CORRUPTION AND GREED. And now they have left no doubt in the American public's mind of this fact. Republicans are now proven failures.

VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS (especially in the Senate)
VOTE FOR OBAMA

It's over, McCain. And it will not get any better before 11/4.

An Obama landslide it looking more and more likely!

Thank you, America! My faith in you is restored!

Who cares what Newt Gingrich thinks? I wish these hacks would leave the public domain when they left office.

Why is all of this falling on McCain's shoulders? People are living in fantasy land if they think Obama has any more fix-it tricks than anyone else on the economy or anything else. This is known as false hope and fear-driven emotional hysteria. If anything, Obama, being as superficial as his platform has been, won't cure what ails this economy and will play the blame game every chance he gets to bolster his own image. McCain needs to come out swinging on the debate and LOOK OBAMA in the eyes -

Good! I hope John McCain does distance himself from the bailout plan. As a loyal Obama supporter, I think it would seal McCain's fate as a loser if he turns on the only bi-partisan agreement we have, one which while imperfect, is absolutely essential to avoid total disaster. He would be seen as a fool and irresponsible if he turns around, especially now that he's come out in favor of the plan. Imagine the flip-flop TV ad potential…..

If McCain was really against the bailout why wouldn't he have said so BEFORE it was voted on. Gingrich can suggest that McCain distrance himself from Bush but if McCain does that now, it's just lip service. Seems like that's just more of the McSame saying "whatever" to get ahead, regardless of the level of truth (or more accurately untruth) involved. McCain and Palin have both demonstrated repeatedly that they are not worthy of anyone's respect because their comments have become caustic, untruthful, misleading and nearly racist, all in the interest of furthering their campaign. They're not providing any answers or suggestions. They're just pointing fingers. That's not presidential behavior.

OK….. so let me ask a question. Newt wants McCain to change position to get votes? This is what is wrong with American politics.

We as voters think we are voting on the beliefs and values of an individual, but really they will say anything they can to get your vote! Where is the integrity? I guess that goes out the door with politics.

I have to give Obama credit for choosing Joe Biden. Hillary would have gotten him to the White House, but he chose who he thought would do the best job, not who would get him in the Oval Office.

I too would have to agree, but I also believe that his choice of VP was very distasteful. I think she was an attention grabber at first - but now that all has settled down people have realized that Palin is a disgrace and I'm still in awe that she is even a governor. Palin is clueless and this has made his numbers go stumping down in the polls.

There's no way McCain can go against the bailout now; he'll look even more erratic than he has in the recent past. He's got one foot in the grave now.

I think that's right, I think the country needs somebody who will speak truth, not simply promise more huge government programs. This country has an opportunity to come together and save this country from it's politicians and big money government. Maybe McCain will be the one to do it, Obama is doing nothing but promising to continue to bankrupt this country.

Voting against the Bail Out bill wouldn't help. Picking Mitt Romney as your VP. would have. Just a question to all Americans. Where does anyone get off calling a United States American Senator a Terriost. This is the lowest form of politics i have ever heard. Neither Barack Obama or John McCain are Terriost. For people or campaigns to speak this way reminds me why the country is in shambles. Senator Clinton, Senator Biden, Senator Hagel , Senator Martinez are not terriost. Enough with the Silly and BS talk. These comments by Palin are not American by any means no matter what side of the fence you are on. Just fair and honest. I don't care about either side i just think US Senators should be shown some respect. So Palin talk about how you and your ideas can help as Obama / Biden. This is just way too serious.

Mccain has supported Bush policies 90% of the time and
still supports many of his ideas, beliefs.
If Mccain does not talk policies, solutions and address
the American voters tonight on what they want to hear
it will be curtains for him.
The people are getting sick of the attacks,
lies and distortions. They want to see substance
and the republicans have not provided that.
Our country is sitting on quicksand and and swiftboating
is not the solution.
We do not want or need politics as usual.

How is it possible for McCain to argue now or in the future that he's against the "bailout", when he urged Congress and others to support it?

How can McCain argue against the "bailout" when he "suspended" his campaign to "lead" the nation in a financial crisis?

The answer: It isn't possible. It's not possible that the American people can be swayed so easily. He cannot rail against Bush-Paulsen economic policies when he has embraced them in the past, the present and will continue to embrace them in the future.

It's just not possible.

How can you be aganist something that you supported and voted for les than a week ago?

Hey Newt - why doesn't McCain do one better and 1) come out against the Iraq war; 2) come out for improved public healthcare and education; 3) agree that diplomacy may be a better foreign policy approach…….or maybe he can just suspend his campaign until November 4th and spare us all the negative character attacks.

Sorry but Newt Gingrich has no credibility left. He sees that his own party is in disarray yet he is only interested in trying to save his own skin. An absolute coward.

Newt has gained wisdom since he had to resign,
Good advice but the people pulling mccains strings will not follow it, in only a few short days John will be kicking back drinking a few free beers wondering what happened and sarah and toad will be back in Alaska smoking crack and watching the northern lights.

How is McCain going to unite the country if he can't even unite his party.

Turning the conversation away from the economy is going to be a huge failure and mistake for McCain, because that's not what people out there right now want to hear about or talk about. Economics is the topic of the hour right now, if you're president during an economic crisis, you can't shift the conversation towards Iraq.

Democrats tried the same thing in 2004, National Security was the big issue, and Kerry kept trying to turn the conversation to the economy, the Enron fallout, etc…, and it didn't work then. Democrats were seen as weak on National Security, and not wanting to talk about it only reinforced the public's view.

McCain's real time should have been in 2000, he would have been a great president during 9/11 and against Bin Laden. However, that time has past. This just isn't the same country it was then, and unless McCain can keep up with our needs now, he's not going have a chance to make a comeback.

Newt is a typical Republican CLOWN! He rallied the House GOPs against the bill, then released a statement in SUPPORT of the bill…now after McCain has already VOTED FOR the bailout bill after the stunt of fake suspending his campaign Newt believes that it is possible for McCain to separate himself from the bill? That is absurd…the country is not as stupid as the GOP thinks.

What McCain needs to do is dignify his campaign and get a clue about the issues. I won't hold my breath for that.

McCain does not have any solutions and does not want to work his brain cells to come up with any. Actually, he paid people to come up with solutions, but I guess their brain cells are not working too good either. All he and his boss, Palin know how to do it attack. They are dirty politicians to the max!

The campaign of Senator McCain is beyond divisive and nasty with deep deep racial undertones. If you say no - you are completely ignoring the facts of American history. Racism is to a large degree a matter of how it is perceived by those who are violated. Often as they are being bullied by the most powerful of all: fear.

Yesterday a white Police Sheriff presented Sarah Palin to the crowds. He was in uniform during the speech. He hailed her as he pronounced her to the rally as Vice President Sarah Palin. Police forces have a political candidate to whom they hail? (Think 1960's)

Today, CNN producer Carey Bodenheimer reports that at several recent rallies, audience members are openly hostile to members of the traveling press covering Palin; one crowd member hurled a racial epithet at an African-American member of the press in Clearwater, Florida, on Monday.

Please think - I do not care about "Republican" versus "Democrats," political view points opposing one another. But KEEP OUT the racism. Keep out religion. Keep out who is a patriot and who is not. Unless all implied candidates are patriots, they should be impeached in their positions as senators and governors. Do not forget they are already serving our country.

Yesterday during a McCain rally, McCain said Obama's name and a person in the crowd yelled "terrorist" - McCain should have been a man of honor and love for his country - he should have STRONGLY rebuked such language of a fellow senator, of a fellow American. It is terrifying.

McCain is the top of his ticket. He is to be held responsible for this dishonorable divisive campaign injecting hate and racism into the crowds at rallies for his ticket.

The economy is not just McCain's problem, Sarah Palin is also a big factor in his decline in every possible poll…McCain made a bad choice in picking this woman as his running mate, Palin has no idea of what the world is about outside of Alaska, no foreign skills to represent America on the global stage..alos the fact that she's bumb as a stump.. McCain's wealth and life style has made him out of touch with the American people…

Not only McCain supported the bail out plan, he put his campaign on hold to advocate for this plan! again lack of judgement from McCain
Im voting for Obama

Days late and 700 billion dollars short.
To seperate from legislation of this importance now would be a glaring example of erractic hasty behavior, and JSM could never double talk his way out of it. He was for it before he was against it never plays well. . . .
BO08

Maybe if he would have picked someone experienced in economic issues he may have been in a better position to argue about economics but instead he picked a show woman who is behaving like out of control looser.

Given that McCain has already voted YES for the bailout, coming out against it now probably wont help him much.

Suffice it to say Americans who only vote Republocrat this fall don't have much choice regarding the bailout. They get to decide between one candidate who voted "YES." (Obama) and another who voted "YES?" (McCain)

McCain should continue to run negative ads, take his eye off the economic ball, and he and Palin can talk about everything not really important to me and the rest of the country. It's really helping his numbers. Darn that liberal media for reporting the real news.

Too late, Mac! We can see through your phony tactics.

Obama '08

I know you won't print this, but anyway here it goes.
Obama needs to Call out McCain on the "Pallin around with Terrorist" thing from Palin; Point blank ask, John do you really believe as a US Senator, that loves this country with all my fiber; with everything it's given me and my family in life, that I truly agree with and Pal around with Terrorist? Point Blank!!!

Voter's are just as culpable for the mess we're in right now but they want instant results. Instant gratification. We're in a mess right now, but Obama is definitely not the answer. McCain will do it. Voters are just too willing to overlook all the "Nasty" that goes with Obama because they want that "feel good" lifestyle. Well America, you play hard you get dirty. We got dirty. Now it is time to get back to work and quit whining. McCain/Palin…your only anwer.

McCain could not get my vote for a million dollars. He cannot and willnot win this race. The race ended when he picked sarah palin and then said the economy was fundamentally strong. Talk about clueless.

His voting record speaks for itself–95 percent of the time he voted to endorse Bush policies. I think it's too late to make a break now. The fat lady has begun to sing.

Obama/Biden

That's absurd! Both Obama and Biden voted for the $700B bailout too.

McCain can't do anything Newt says because he is not a thoughtful leader and now he is painted into a corner by his stunt of flyingback to Washington and tying himself permanently to the bailout.

I believe that the McCain campain is setting up Mr. Obama, they are getting him all wound up so he will be overly defensive tonight jsut like he was in the town hall with clinton. McCain will then embrace the idea being floated that will cost the tax payers hardly a thing. The one that the former head of the FDIC said was "a reciepe for success"

TOO LATE NOW. Obama could afford that mistake. McCain could;nt

Another flip flop is not going to help him.
Another "I was for it before I was agin' it "is not going to help.
He (John McCain) is a consumate LIAR and I will never believe another word coming from his slime filled mouth.

The economy is not the only area where McCain/Palin are flunking. Somebody ought to take Palin in and give her a good grounding in when and when not to be familiar, i.e., her rudeness in greeting her elder statesman at the beginning of the debate and familiarity in calling him "Joe", the say it ain't so, Joe - what utter crudeness; her snubbing the moderator's questions in favor of her own illogical tangents; her conclusion that the VP position should be expanded - as Dick Chaney had already done in the Bush administration to include more than the tie-breaker vote in Congress - a clear indication McCain intends to continue the next four years as Bush has done in the last eight; and please could somebody teach her how to speak English and keep her mind and articulations in sync. Or is this the real Palin that hardly levitated off the floor she had been on post-convention? McCain's choices are another reason his pools are going through the floor.

I hope he is done for. He needs to go back to Arizona and let Cindy continue to do her peace and charity missions. Sarah needs to go back to Alaska and get a little humility. Hopefully Obama will win in a landslide and he'll then have the toughest job in his life and possibly the toughest Presidential job at least this century. Good Luck and we are with you all the way!

Who will believe him now? If he opposed the bailout at the beginning on the grounds of polks, he got a chance to claim his maverick. But if he switch now, the negativity of being call flip-flop is too big for him to take. His missed the best opportunity he got, partly due to his "tactical" move to suspend his campaign. He shot himself in the foot, basically.

Gee, Newt…

Aren't you the one who tutored
Phil Gramm, Ronald Reagan, and John McCain on the virtues of Trickle Down Economics?

Or was that Voodoo Economics?

What is interesting to me is that it seems that CNN is more interested in Barack Obama and John McCain getting into an argrument during the debate rather than speaking on the issues. I believe that it is time in this Country that we focus on the problems and what they can do to help. I believe that if something isn't done very soon, we as citizens are going to wish that something was done. But, It will be to latre then, but then you will have something to talk about, if CNN is still around.

Right now the McCain/Palin campaign just reeks of defeat. And every Bubba and Joe Six Pack needs to wise up to the fact that his support of the $700 billion bailout signifies that he's more interested in saving the a$$es of the corporate CEOs then in saving the dirt farmers, hicks and hayseeds that support him.

I thoroughly agree. Being out of touch, or being in a constant state of confusion, is not the real problem.

The problem is that McCain is running at a time, when the economy is falling apart. His economic philosophy has been proven a catastrophic failure… and his erratic behavior, along with his VP pick proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that MCCAIN DOESN'T HAVE THE TEMPERAMENT, NEITHER THE JUDGMENT TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

And no matter how desperate his campaign becomes , no matter what he says or does, from this point on, can't change that.

This election is a referendum on a failed republican philosophy. POINT BLANK.

I think mccain has already made up his mind that he is going to lose the election. He just wants to go down fighting, but sadly demonizing the character of Obama. The republicans should have let him choose his own vp, but they didn't and he has lost his will to fight. I just can't believe that he is the same person, it is almost like he has been cloned. His eratic moves and changes is his way of displaying his temperment. Look at his eyes, he has no soul left. Newt and the other republicans should ask for a mental and physical evaluation, get rid of palin and let lie-berman run.

McCain already lost his opportunity. He is more negative NOW than ever. But this was expected. McCain will also lose this election keeping the negativity alive (along with Governor Palin herself). All we Democrats, Independents, and also some Republicans need to do is just sit back and watch McCain dig himself into a deeper hole. This Hillary Clinton supporter will be voting for Obama/Biden. Time for the Democrats to take back the White House and fix the awful mess this Republican administration has made the past 8 years!!!!!!!!!

Wow, the wheels have really fallen off for John McCain.

His judgement when under pressure has been terrible. I don't think he has done anything right since winning the nomination.

And now he's about to 'take the gloves off' giving us bitter nasty politics as usual - no 'change' whatsoever.

I dare not imagine how he would run our country?!

John Mccain is such an arrogant creature he wouldn't listen to anybody anyway…..no, he knows he cannot compete against Barack Obama on the economy and wants to stay away from that subject!!!
I guess McCain thinks he has this next debate all sewn up…….he likes to think he is so strong in a town hall setting…..but it won't be among his followers and he will get asked tough questions and I suspect a lot about the economy.
I'm sure we will see the real McCain tonight if he starts getting agitated and can't tell his "war story' to avoid the subject……Barack Obama will nail him on the economy and most everything else.
I can't wait to see that smug, smarmy, stupid grin wiped of his face.

GO GET HIM BARACK…WE ARE ALLWITH YOU.

And if he does that, Newt, he will look like even more the erratic fool than he already does — blown by the political winds of your suggestion!

McCain and his campaign have no clue how to fix our economy, financial system or anything. This is the reason they do nothing else but continue to throw dirt, spout lies, misrepresentations, and smears. McCain and his arrogant intellectually-challenged VP, Sarah Palin, act like malfunctioning or poorly-programmed robots.

There's no way that McCain can turn around now and be against the bailout package. I know that his entire campaign has been one flip-flop after another, but this one would certainly stick out in people's minds.

Wait a minute…..Obama supported the bill too!?!

Oh, that's right. The American people aren't electing the next President….the ultra-liberal press is choosing him for us.

The problem is he has nothing new to offer. It's as simple as that.
In fact, his campaign had resorted to copying Obama's plans on just about everything and trying to twist it around.

While Obama voted for the plan itself, he had the courage to explain his position when he took the stand on the senate floor. After my own aprehension of this plan, I realized what he said was painfully true.
There is no time to develop and come up with a better plan.

Unfortunately for McCain, he belongs to the party whose Presidency caused all these. Apart from he himself fought for deregulation of the banks.

There really is no corner for him to turn other than mud sling politics.
Obama had time and again offered a better plan. Wasn't afraid to tackle the realities of the issues and offer a solution. He just looks and sounds more in tune and more trustworthy in terms of finding a real solution.
That is why he is up in the polls. It just glaringly shows.

As a life-long registered Independent Voter McCain has lost me in the last 3 weeks especially as he trumped up his racist rhetoric. I wasn't expecting this out of McCain but I guess all those rumors from his Naval buddies are true, he despises anyone who is non-white.

I am deeply troubled what a McCain Administration would mean to our country. We cannot afford to lose to another war in the name of racism. I thought we were beyond that, apparently not.

This Independent voter is heading Senator Obama's way with thousand others. We held a meeting over the weekend the the mood is the same, McCain is out of touch and has become the most dangerous person to America.

Oh, so now he's going to all of a sudden be AGAINST the bailout? For political purposes? Wow. One word:

ERRRRRRRRATIC.

It would be one thing if McCain truly didn't believe in the plan, but he has already supported it and voted for it. How hypocritical will it seem if suddenly he decides he's no longer for it? I think they call it "pandering."

Problem with this logic is that he voted for the $700B bailout, he suspended his campaign for the bailout, and that he is republican. So its impossible that anybody will forget this, especially since this happened LAST WEEK!!!!!!! Republican as a whole are idiots, they helped create this mess and now don't want to take responsibility for their own actions.

Palin is married to a secessionist who hates America and thinks Alaska should secede from the US. Todd Palin has been a member of the Alaska Independence Party, whose motto is "Alaska First, Alaska Always". If Barack or Michelle Obama had been in a group that had a motto "Chicago First, Chicago Always", you can bet you'd hear about it. Palin and her husband are anti-American. Notice how whenever she isn't wearing her big gaudy flag pin, she's wearing a big gaudy pin that says "ALASKA". And McCain doesn't wear any pin at all.

Who is putting Country First? Not McCain-Palin.

There is no crisis. The republicans should not have selected him and he should not have selected her. But, there is no crisis in his career. He is a senator and I think he will still be one next year. Unless America is totally scared of change.

So, the message here is SAY ANYTHING YOU CAN TO GET ELECTED.

I'm afraid it's over for the hateful and a new era is being ushered in for the hopeful.

I used to be a republican. Now I am without question voting for Obama.

Even republicans realize McCain can't win. He doesn't want to talk about issue #1 and that's what's costing him this election. he's proven through his campaign that he is no different than GWB.

Bush=Rove=McCain

This is not change I can believe in!

OBAMA/BIDEN 08

Well, I just hope that MC Bush finally understands that just because he has seven homes and thirteen cars, that the fundamentals of our economy are not strong according to the New York stock exchange and in the everyday lives of average Americans. However, when your that out of touch with society it makes perfect sense.

Obama/Biden

Most of the anger over the bailout is due to poor communication by the administration. It was probably (unfortunately) necessary, even though it doesn't appear to be working right away. All we can do at this point is hope we make a few bucks when we sell all this garbage we're buying (I personally make it a point not to buy garbage, but oh, well). Too late now to come out against it — it's a done deal. Just like Iraq and the Patriot Act.

McCain voting for the bill could have been the final straw. He should have refuted at least on the premises of all the pork added to the bill that turned it into a bloated 400+ page mess! He could have risen above the fray. Obama is mere exploiting the situation for our gain and continuing the fear. He won't even concede that he has to cut some of his spending plans, merely looking at the option to postpone some of them. His plan will worsen the situation!

McCain had a real opportunity here and blew it. He should offer up an amendment now to cut the specific pork pieces and "make them famous". Otherwise, I think he has lost some serious ground on his own platform.

Sticking with the issues and not going negative has been the key to Senator Obama's success. The majority of voters appreciate a candidate who talks about our issues instead of using each and every opportunity to bash the other candidate. Our economy has never in my lifetime been this bad and so the last thing I need to hear from ANY candidate is negative attacks about the other.

Not surprising that the GOP along with Mclame would try any last ditch effort to win this. It's not going to work, the American People aren't stupid, we may have been in the dark for 8 years but no more. Enough!

I am an average American. I also don't think that myself or anyone else "like me" should be president or vice president. I am dying for someone to explain to me why they would want an "average everyday American" to be president or VP. Can someone tell me the answer to this? Do those of you who like certain candidates because they are "like you and me" think that you or I would make a good president or VP?

I want people who are better than me to run this country. Thats what an elitist is. I want a president who thinks he or she is better than I am. If they don;t then I think there is a serious problem. The founders of this great country and writers of the constitution all had at least one thing in common. They were elitists.

Wouldn’t that be flip-flopping since he voted for the bailout? Not that it has stopped Senator McCain Before.

Obama 08! It's time to let the Harvard guy fix it.

The Republican ticket wants to "turn the page" on the economy? How far does the DOW have to drop before they realize "it's the economy, stupid!"

I guess he can now be against it after he was for it. Haven't we heard that before? Or how about if he flips a coin each day before the election. If it comes up heads, then he'll be for bailout package that day; otherwise, against. This is how people think McCain makes decisions.

John McCain is going to lose the election, no matter what. I hate the mudslinging, but if the Republicans think they are going to swiftboat their way into the White House again, they have another think coming. We will fight fire with fire this time. John McCain is a dishonourable man and please, he is not the only POW in America. He believes that he is entitled to the presidency: well…that's not going to happen. So he can take his ignorant running mate and just disappear into the sunset. Republicans are mostly racist, bigotted, and filled with hatred. They are used to gutter politics, well this time they are going to get fried, and really good. We are taking this country back from you and there is nothing you can do about it John McCain. As for Sarah Palin, she is a joke and not really worthy of much mention right now.

The best thing for McCain is to retire after loosing the election. Palin needs to go back to Alaska and work on her legal problems.

Go ahead and flip flop like you always do McCain… it is over! the people have spoken and they would rather have a steady, honest hand on the wheel. Not a guy that has lied to get his way and has had everything handed to him all his life.

McCain could have earned my respect, if not my vote (I voted early), if he had strongly opposed the bailout bill. Since he proved that he's as willing as Obama to bailout fatcats on Wall St., I'm glad I voted for Obama because at least he is well-educated and didn't select a pretty face for a VP.

EVEN NEWT KNOWS A LOSER WHEN HE SEES ONE.

PERHAPS BECAUSE HE IS ONE HIMSELF, HE KNOWS THAT OTHER REPUBLICANS ARE STILL LIVING IN DENIAL.

29 DAYS LEFT UNTIL 8 YEARS OF DEMOCRATIC RULE.

Bill Clinton spoke about citizenship. Well, Americans will be branded as "shmucks" by the world over and become a laughing stock if they choose Obama. Americans will be seen as vunerable in times of chaos. If others can destroy them on 9/11, they can be destroyed right on their throne of power. Best advice…go with experience and someone who is not only black who won't last anyway, but someone who has not even begin to hone his instincts. Americans will be lose the trash talking competition from kids the world over. Racism? Hell no. Its straight talking. Its reality.

with all due respect to seniors, my uncle jim is seventy-two years old, i love him, by no means would i want him as president, and mainly due to his age, accordingly America need to consider a cutoff age for being elected president, futhermore the supreme court appointments shouldn't be lifetime, despite the clerks that they use, America has seen through the senior senator, in a word

I get so tired of Republican's talking about how bad this bailout idea is/was.

WHAT IS THEIR SOLUTION THEN??? I haven't heard anything.

What are we supposed to suffer through.. just so they can drive this country into the ground?

I don't get how they can bark so loudly without substance.

McCain can do it. Here is the way for him to do.
1. get real angry with OBAMA tonight.
2. Call OBAMA an elitist and go nasty tonight.

He not only supported it, he had an active roll in the arm twisting in the House. McCain finally got me off the fense with the Palin choice and then threw me right over the fense with this bailout vote. Obama for president so we have a chance for a real conservative in 2012.

And we all know how successful Gingrich was at a national level. He's worse than McCain!

The problem with McCain has been, all along, the fact that he has no vision for America. He is driven, and he cares…He has a lot of experience and deserves respect, but really does not have a real large grasp of America in the long term globalized world.

Instead of grasping onto somewhat irrelevant moral issues, we need to completely re-investigate our NEW role (yet to be defined) for putting America not just to work, but work for something harder, faster, stronger, better, and most importantly sustainable. Maybe new energy industries, or a better way to compete with China over the next century…it all starts NOW

Obama at least projects himself as someone who has spent a lot of time thinking about the decisions we have made uncritically and unknowingly as a nation…ie america as the world's police department, america as the ultimate consumer society, etc

I don't think McCain could be sincere about understanding the economic crisis because he is totally wealthy. He has 9 houses and 13 cars; how could he possibly understand. He may pretend, but he doesn't know how people feel. I would rather have the guy with one house and a young family to raise. He isn't poor, but his Mom and grandparents were and he has made his way up as a true American. McCain has lied and cheated all the way and he continues doing it today.

I don't see how McCain can now challenge the bail out. As the article points out, he suspended his campaign and went to work rallying support for it. Second, he voted for it. Third, he and Obama issued a joint statement calling to the parties to put partisan politics aside and to get something done.

Fighting the bail out now would make McCain look terrible. It is fresh in the minds of Americans. Who could possibly trust him or his judgment if he challenged the bail out at this point?

The Democrats supported Bush policies and refused to consider impeachment. The Democrats encouraged loose lending by Freddie, Fannie and other financial institutions. Obama was supporting these lending practices in Chicago. So how do McCain and Obama differentiate themselves from one another? Which candidate is really best and worst for the future of America and why?

How can McCain separate himself from the bailout now? He signed off on it. It is too late.

Indeed he is facing such a crisis, along with the crisis of realizing that he really picked the wrong person to be his running mate. Look at the behavior of people attending a Palin rally in FLA this morning. People, get ANGRY about this! Repub supporters are abusing the PRESS with racial epithets: Jake Tapper of ABC News and Dana Milbank of The Washington Post are reporting that the tone being set by McCain's pit bull, Sarah Palin, has crowds turning ugly at campaign events. From WaPo:
Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."
And, from Tapper:
This does not appear an isolated incident. Yesterday at a McCain rally, after McCain asked "Who is the real Barack Obama?" a member of the audience yelled "Terrorist!" And so on.
-I would LOVE to see these YAY-hoos on Nov. 5 when the whole nation and world is celebrating PRESIDENT OBAMA'S ELECTION!!!
Obama/Biden '08 & '12

His crisis is not showing how the democratic party(not neccessary Obama) is the primary source for the economic crisis this country is in. The question that should be asked is that with a 96% party voting record and an A.C.O.R.N supporter would he done things different from his party if he knows now was voted on then. Denying the democratic party is the party that is mostly responsible for this is just showing ignorance and your inability to actually look up things.

All Voting Records for congress can be found at government official websites. Democrats voted overwhelmingly for the Deregulations as well and blocked measures to stop the problem when a problem was known.

corruption at its best, here you have to men that cheated on their wives, stolen money, lied to the public, does not care about anyone but themselves and has a very low oppinion of women. And they want to run the country. I thnk not. My life is too important to me than to let a man like McCain run it.

Smartstart
Ellenwood, GA

Conservative after conservative are seeing John McCentury for who he really is….an out of touch, out of reach, out of options insider who has lost ground in this general election.

The one issue that is on the minds of the majority around the world is the same issue that the McCrazy/FAILin campaign is trying to avoid, the economy.

In the words and slogan of the last great democratic president, 'IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID'!!

~Lawrence in Denver

Why are the 2 major parties/candidates all we hear about as options to address this mess?

We have a Libertarian Party candidate in Bob Barr who offers a path to daylight. To leave him out of the discussion is to deny Americans knowledge of the third choice they have in four weeks. It is maddening to hear "either" or "both" candidates when discussing the coming election. It's difficult enough for a good candidate to get in the game. Incompetent reporting makes it all the more difficult.

If the Dow falls to 6,000 by election day, you can bet you'll be considering another candidate than Obama or McCain.

There's a reason Newt Gingrich is on the sidelines these days, trying to make some traction as a pundit. Only someone with nothing to lose, like Gingrich, can overlook the ludicrousness of recommending that McCain break with the bailout package after McCain "suspended" his campaign to "rescue" the package. That would be the Mother of All Flip-Flops.

The viciousness of the folks who are coming to Palin's rallies and her tacit support for those "rednecks" who are yelling "Terrorist" or "Kill Him" has convinced me to get off the fence. I wanted Huckabee, but now I am voting Obama.
Heck of a job, Johnnie.

America is feed up with the GOP, it didn't matter what his position was on the bailout! We were not going to elect a Republican again, Scooby-do could be running against him and win; but instead we have a qualified Barack Obama to do his best.
Sure, we know it want be an easy job for Barack; but at least he is a voice for the people.!

So your advice is to rally against the solution that he JUST VOTED FOR IN THE SENATE??????

I don't think McCain can win but wouldn't this strategy be a losing one? To cry out against something he supported just days ago? It would be easy to paint him as out of his mind if he were to follow this advice.

And speaking of Americans being sick of Bush….Didn't you help to get him elected Newt?

Republicans are the party of blame everyone and anyone but have no solutions…

Let's not forget that Newt was also the architect of the K Street project, was having an affair while persecuting Bill Clinton for doing the same and is probably angling for his own run at the White House in 2012.

Tell us Newt, since McCain has already voted for the bill, how does he distance himself from it? You're not suggesting he "flip-flop" again, are you?

Folks, the Republican Party is eating itself alive…… CHOW DOWN BOYS.

Mccain in a joke. Palin is a joke. The republican Party is a joke. The only thing Mccain will break is his hip, he better take his vitamins and calcium. Glenn beck is the functioning moron. I wish i could have a drug and alcohol problem, and then find Jesus, and then get a lousy television show where I dipose everything that i am.

I agree, if he doesn't do well in this debate, and the media relay a message claiming the McCain is in the lead, it will discourage investors, He has to show what he is talking about. It would be funny if Obama, out of the blue, decided to quiz McCain, with general economic questions to show that he hasn't any clue where we stand in the economy

Too late - we've been watching the old gray haired man for two years - or is that 8 years - or maybe 25.

NOTHING can make me vote for him EVER.

Barack for President - Constitutional Scholar, even temperament, thinking, considerate.

NO MORE WARS.

I think John McCain is showing his true colors:
1- He doesn't pay any attention to advisors who might help him actually make a good decision.
2- He goes off "half-cocked" and jumps into actions that later on appear foolish. AND he admits he does this. !!!!
3- He is stuck in the 20th Century mind-set and refuses to look at how he could benefit this country.
4- and, according to his own words in his book "Faith of Our Fathers"
He decided when he was 62 he should "go for the big PRISE" the POTUS.
He has lost his edge; He could have been a "good" POTUS if he had pushed harder in 2000. too late now. bye bye, John… sigh… hard headed old crank.

McCain's crisis of his career should be the crisis of his conscience.

Whatever semblance of honor he may have had as recently as 2004 has devolved into a moral and ethical abyss. He has sold his soul to the devil, in the persons of Karl Rove and Steve Schmidt, for his last chance at the White House.

I don't think McCain, or Palin for that matter, will be judged too kindly by their Maker when the time comes.

"McCain campaign aides have since said they are aiming to turn the narrative on the campaign trail away from the country's financial woes and the unpopular economic bailout — a strategy Gingrich sharply opposes."

The reason Gingrich opposes it is because you can't simply stick your head in the sand over this. Every household in America is talking about the economy - how can the campaign "turn the narrative away"? Won't that be perceived as ignoring the people they're supposed to be courting in this election?

McCAIN, IS NO MAVERICK.

HE POSTED IN HIS BOOK, FOLLOWING HIS DEFEAT IN 2000, THAT HE DID NOT RUN FOR PATRIOTISM, BUT RATHER, FOR HIS EGO.

HE SHOULD SEEK COUNCLING. HE NEEDS IT.

What is Gingrich smoking? McBush would be the biggest flip-flopper EVER if he tries to make a break from the economic bailout proposal after the stops he has pulled like "suspending" (but not really suspending) his campaign. It's a lose/lose. No way would Americans not see through such a desperate, pandering move. McLame is finished. I honestly can't see how he can win this election when all he has to go on is hate and fearmongering.

Senator McCain is facing a major crisis! He has gone so negative, is not willing to bring our troops home and save American citizens 10.5 billion dollars a month and picked the wrong VP. This is one Republican that will not vote for him.

Isn't this problem endemic to John McCain? He doesn't seem to understand the real issues and when he finally gets on board he doesn't understand how to solve the problem. He doen't even know what poverty is, he refuses to acknowledge that it exists, and he has no idea how to reduce it.

A little hard to back away from the bail out after claiming a hand in getting it through and "suspending" his campaign to do so.

While unpopular, the bail out is critical to avoiding worldwide financial failure.

Shame on the Republicans for getting us into such a position!

And I hope Obama becomes an expert on the Keating Five in time for tonight's debate.

McCain is no stranger to bank scandals, and it's high time the public was reminded of it.

John McCain has turned into nothing but an angry old man. He is angry because when he last ran against Bush, he conceded with the promise that 08 would be his turn. He wasn't a "maverick" then and he is not a "maverick" now. McCain needs to grab a hold of Cindy's hand and ride off into the sunset, to one of his many, many houses to which he can't remember.

Actually McCain lost me long ago-when he said he did not know economics,when he chose Karl Rove to attack, when he chose Sarah Palin and it became clear she can only repeat what she has been told and cannot think- and I realized she is a step away from the Presidency with a 72 year old former cancer patient. She is not a pit bull-she is George Bush in lipstick and cannot be allowed close to the White House. My vote will go to someone smarter and me and Sarah Palin put together and I have 2 college degrees in only 5 years.

All McCain can do is talk a good game. He is not fit to lead this country because he is just one-sided.

War, that is it. The new president is going to have to deal with 2 wars, the economy, education, health care and a whole host of stuff. I will feel sorry the new president because he has a whole host of stuff to deal with and I feel McCain can't handle it.

Just look at how Obama runs a multi-million dollar campaign to how McCain runs a multi-million dollar compaign.

He is effecient, organized and no problems, no firings, no changing of advisors etc….
McCain is actually more of the same AND at least BUSH had all of his people on the same page as him. The McCain camps has 5 different messages going on at the same time and nothing coherent.

The only problem is that McCain already decided to support the bail out, and voted for it. Flip flops and for it before you were against it won't fly one month before election day.

McCain campaign aides have since said they are aiming to turn the narrative on the campaign trail away from the country's financial woes and the unpopular economic bailout — a strategy Gingrich sharply opposes.

Never tell your opponents your plan of attack it might back fire.

Obama/Biden 2008

Now all you republicans you read this right? You all are aware his campaign admitts that they will change the subject off the economy. So now that means if you vote for McCain and fall for this distraction tactic, who is the fool? McCain or you?

Vote safe vote Obama/Biden

These are the people McCain is going to have running our Government and then we will all be on the sideline looking in on our own country.

Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama

And it's official, Gingrich is beginning his 2012 run for the presidency.

The bailout may not have been the ideal plan, but it certainly beats the mccain alternative - do nothing, but look serious.

"If McCain is confused or uncertain about how bad this economic performance is, he will never get the country to listen to him", says Gingrich. Please take "if" out of the sentence, Newt, the dye is now cast !!!!

The crisis that McCain faces is a crisis he created for himself. He has ran a terrible campaign, chosen to side with Bush 90 to 95% of the time, selected Palin who is wholly unqualified to be President, and has decided to "go for broke" and spend all of his money on negative, baseless lies and attacks. This is no one's fault for McCain. Obama needs to stay focused and on top of his game. He cannot allow McCain to distract Americans from the real and severe problems at hand! Obama needs to come out swinging tonight.

Sen. McCain is unstable, angry, and erratic. He would be a disaster as President. Who knows what in the world he would do if he behaved the way he did with the economic crisis. We need a steady hand in the White House, not someone prone to panic.

THANK GOD AMERICA IS WAKING UP AND SEEING MCCAIN AND PALIN FOR EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE…………..DESPERATE, LYING, ATTACKING, DISTORTING AND ACCUSING……DID I MENTION DESPERATE?

McCain has concluded that the only way he can get enough votes is to pay for them with his once-valued dignity and honor. And it appears he's not planning to leave any of that precious personal capital in the bank by the time election day rolls around.

So here it comes. One last desperate, pathetic, sordid attempt to distract the country from anything resembling a real debate about a real issue. Don't have health care? Rezko, Rezko, Rezko. Wonder why our financial system is on the brink of collapse? Ayers, Ayers, Ayers. Worried about whether we'll ever get out of Iraq? Wright, Wright, Wright.

McCain and his hatchet mom VP nominee are hoping to expose the "real" Barack Obama to the people of America; but what they are really exposing is how morally corrupt McCain has become. And how complete has been his transformation from a noble reformer, willing to stand up to his own party when it failed to meet his moral code, into an ignoble hack, willing to abandon his most deeply held values in his lust for the presidency.

This was John McCain in 2000, commenting on the disgusting attacks against him by Karl Rove, George Bush, and a few of the people now doing their very dirty work for him.

"Sooner or later people are going to figure out that if all you run is negative attack ads you don't have much of a vision for the future, or you're not ready to articulate it."

He's right, much as I dislike Newt. McCain had a real chance to put his maverick stance out there, as well as his stated and overstated hatred of earmarks, by voting "NO" last week. He chose to remain silent and go along with what Bush wanted. I don't see how he can revive this campaign….Palin is an idiot, and McCain seems lost.

Well, this country is suffering a major crisis of our own. This is the worst I've seen in my lifetime.

I won't be crying any rivers for one of the champions of deregulation, who is going through his personal political crisis. I won't vote for him either.

Obama/Biden 08 - turning Ohio blue!

Its too late for him to come out against the bail-out. However it would NOT surprise me if he did. Flip-Flopping, and lying are the only things he is good at!

Mr Grinch, please be careful before Mccain's pitbull (sarah palin) attacks you! she is unleashed.

I'm not sure how he could make that break though - he very publicly "suspended his campaign" (debatable) to get THIS deal done. To now distance himself… it would be a hard sell.

MCCAIN'S STUNT OF CHOOSING PALIN AND INSULTING ALL AMERICANS, ESPECIALLY WOMEN ACROSS THE COUNTRY, HAS BLOWN UP IN HIS FACE…………..BIG TIME AND RIGHTLY SO.

THE REPUBLICANS HAVE ALWAYS DEPENED ON THE IGNORANCE OF THE VAST MAJORITY OF AMERICANS TO BE EASILY LED, WILLING TO DO AS TOLD WITHOUT QUESTIONING, ETC.

WELL THE COUNTRY IS WAKING UP AND REFUSING TO DRINK THE KOOL-AID ANY LONGER.

WHEN MCCAIN LOSES IN NOVEMBER HE WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BLAME HIS LOSS ON THE ECONOMIC SITUATION, PAINT OBAMA AS A CROOK AND LIAR, AND ANYTHING ELSE HE CAN THINK OF SO AS NOT TO SEE THINGS AS THEY REALLY ARE.

MCCAIN TORPEDOED HIS OWN CAMPAIGN BY:

1. INSULTING THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN HIS SELCTION OF PALIN FOR VP, ESPECIALLY WOMEN.

2. BY LYING, CHEATING, ATTACKING, WHICH IS NOT WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT IN THIS CAMPAIGN. WHAT THEY WANT IS ANSWERS, SOLUTIONS, IDEAS, A PLAN TO GET THE COUNTRY UPRIGHT AND BACK ON TRACK, ALL OF WHICH MCCAIN IS TOTALLY UNABLE TO DO.

3. WHEN MCCAIN LOSES IN NOVEMBER I HOPE THAT HE STILL FEELS THAT TRADING HIS INTEGRITY, MORALS, AND CHARACTER, IN PURSUIT OF HIS LUST TO BE PRESIDENT, WAS WORTH IT.

NO ONE OTHER THAN JOHN MCCAIN HIMSELF WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS LOSS, AGAIN, AND FOR THE LAST TIME.