Wednesday, September 24, 2008
The Maverick Counter
John McCain's insecurity in dealing with the economy over the past two weeks has been apparent. Now, in a pretty savvy political move, he is attempting to neutralize this by calling for a suspension to his campaign, and a return to Washington to help put together a bailout plan. As transparent a gimmick as this is, I think it's a smart political move. Ezra Klein eviscerates this ploy, and rightfully so. Following up on his analysis, for better or worse the ball is now in Obama's court. My advice to the Obama campaign (as if they care), would be to reject the call for the debate cancellation, stressing the importance of a national dialogue on the economic issues, and offer to McCain that the debate be repositioned from one on foreign policy to one on the economy. This not only undercuts the McCain stunt, but allows Obama an opening to reposition the debate to a terrain that he is more comfortable on than McCain.
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The confusing thing is that the only reason the economic debate is not first is because of a request by Obama. He wanted to have an opportunity to look strong on Foreign Policy apparently. But, this would be a great opportunity to back peddle in the wake of earthquake on Wall Street. McCain is full of crap - claiming he doesn't want to politicize such an important legislative matter by politicizing it! As if Hank P. and the rest of the Senate need either of them to actually be present for these negotiations to happen - especially the Maverick who doesn't even have a good grasp of his personal economics, let alone something this complicated.
The McCain campaign is an ideological and literal joke. It sees that Obama is leading in the poles with respect to Americans that trust him with resolving the economic crisis (which, by the way, is arguably the worst one since the Depression) and needs a quick fix.
The McCain camp views this slump as the ideal time to show that McCain is not the disconnected, wasteful candidate voters view him as, but rather, someone who "cares" enough about the crisis to stop his whole campaign to solve the issue his own party got us in.
BTW, this is the first time in history that a candidate refuses to align himself with his own party (note that there was little-to-no mention of the word "republican" at the RNC.) why? because they realize that they are the source of most of our economic woes beginning with the prime leach - the iraq war, sucking billions of dollars out of our once thriving economy.
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