Last week John McCain was all over Obama because Obama didn’t have an instant plan to solve the financial crisis. He said that if you’re going to be president, you’ve got to act immediately and show leadership.
McCain really didn’t have a plan either, but gosh darn it, he was going to lead!
Eventually both men set out their principles on the issues that should be in a bailout/”rescue” of the economy. They sounded exactly the same as they WERE exactly the same.
McCain’s polls did not rise.
Obama reached out to McCain to release some sort of joint statement. Yes, as lame as it sounds. McCain immediately decided to grandstand and half mentioned that maybe they should put the campaign aside for a bit. Obama said “hey maybe we’ll put the statement out first” then think about that.
McCain already had his statement and reporters standing by. His mind was made up with or without Obama.
So McCain does an interview with Katie Couric, cancels an appearance on David Letterman, doesn’t actually stop campaigning, does a speech to the Clinton Initiative then goes to Washington.
Bill Clinton, obviously still pissed about the Hillary thing, keeps giving sound bytes about how awesome McCain and Palin are. If he’s said anything good or actually CAMPAIGNED FOR OBAMA (as he promised!) you sure wouldn’t know from the headlines.
Hours before McCain got to Washington there was a bipartisan announcement that there was a deal on the economy.
Then comes the meeting with the president.
By all accounts, Obama was active at the meting. McCain rambled something at the end but really no one knew a thing about what he was saying.
The leader of House Republicans stormed out of the meeting and announced to the press that there would be no deal.
Republican spokespersons at CNN had their new talking points already (HMM!) and came out swinging. One even comparing the Democratic support to a deal to alcoholics drinking. Because you know, them there drunks can’t resist booze like Democrats can’t resist spending our money.
He said it as smugly and as arrogantly as he could because he was trying to incite Democrats off the issue. I’ve said stuff about drunks too this week, but obviously, I’m not anyone who knows anything about finances or politics.
MEANWHILE Washington Mutual collapses and is bought out by JP Morgan. My sister has all of her money in Washington Mutual. They say it’ll be seamless and she won’t lose her money but she’s not a registered Republican so I’m betting she loses both houses.
CNN jackass Lou Dobbs (who really is a jackass) has his new talking points from his “independent” point of view has decided that we don’t need a bailout. He hates the Democrats and thinks that the House Republicans are patriots. Go old insane Lou Dobbs (should we lynch an illegal too in the name of America, Lou?).
Obama’s fallen two points in the latest poll of polls. McCain hasn’t gained anything.
House Republicans have decided that they’re not even going to show up to negotiate tomorrow.
John McCain’s “non-campaign” still continues to attack Obama. Obama’s campaign hasn’t stopped attacking McCain.
Someone let Palin speak to the press during all of this and in a low-ball interview to Katie Couric she came off nearly as nuts as McCain has in recent days, offering gibberish whenever she was pressed on things like what her foreign policy experience was or why Jerusalem was a key ally.
Joe Biden flubbed a lot of things too, but he doesn’t have boobs and no one cares.
The McCain campaign is essentially running Alaska right now since Palin can’t be bothered with it and that pesky troopergate won’t go away.
Oh and there may or may not be a debate tomorrow.
At the start of the week, that was the #1 thing I was worried about.
Now, not so much. If the current McCain shows up, we’ll get a random collection of nonsense and USA chants and that’ll be that. He’s got the election in the bag.
My impression of him will be less than flattering, of course, as I see him as a man in a raincoat and his hands in his pockets while he screams in Swedish at random strangers while exposing his thoughts in a public park.
That’s good old John!
If Jim Morrison, Elvis, Jesus Christ, John Lennon, Keith Moon, George Harrison and Ziggy Stardust all come down from where ever the afterlife has kept them and come back to judge American Idol, I’ve called it first.
Obviously, stranger things have happened this week.
But I called it first!
Put that in your McCain and smoke it!
I’m going to bed.
Jim