Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Pat Huntington NY — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:32:22 GMT

The president has to focus on more than one thing at a time McCain...this shows either you are not truly presidential material, or, it is YOU who is taking advantage of the economic crisis [brought on by your deregulation policies] for political purposes. McCain, you are a coward! You don't deserve to be called a former Vet!

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Doug, Renton, WA — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:32:52 GMT

Well said congressman. McCain is running scared right now and knows that he cannot possibly win a debate against Barack Obama on the topic of the economy. And people will be watching this one like no other.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Suzanne — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:33:28 GMT

What about the ongoing crisis for 46,000,000 Americans who lack health insurance? What about the energy crisis? Or the crisis faced by real families every single day who can't send their kids to decent school?

McCain served nearly 30 years in Washington. The only crisis he sees is his poll numbers falling like a rock. This stunt is as dishonest and dishonorable as the man himself has become.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Anne/Ohio — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:34:01 GMT

Do these guys still vote in the senate while they are campaingning? And if not why not?
This is important but they do need to multi-task, they both do need to go to DC and submit their vote, but they do need to do the debate also.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

markus, Boston, MA — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:34:01 GMT

LOL!!!!!!!!!!

That's my congressman right there. Great guy...

McCain is pulling out all the stops to keep the GOP in power, isn't he? Why didn't he make this "announcement" days ago???????

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Stunt — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:34:13 GMT

This is plainly a political stunt. The campaigns were in talks this morning about releasing a joint statement. This is a fact. But before the statement is released, and likely after some back-and-forth between the campaigns, McCain makes the "shocking" "suprising" announcement that he wants to suspend the presidential campaigns. If, as has been established, the two campaigns were working on a joint statement, why did McCain's campaign not bring this idea up BEFORE making the VERY PUBLIC announcement that it was suspending its campaign? There is only one explanation: it is a stunt. If, as I am sure the McCain campaign will assert, McCain is "putting country first", why then - and note to the press, please ask this question - why then did the McCain campaign not try BEFORE making the announcement, to get the Obama campaign to agree to the suspension, just as they were doing with the joint statement? Stunt, stunt, stunt.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Mike L, Burlington, Vermont — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:34:15 GMT

Do you suppose this is what McCain's been "praying" for? Seems like political opportunism to me.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Cindi in Louisiana — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:34:19 GMT

Go, Barney, you call him out on this!!

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

UCLAdy04 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:34:43 GMT

Hail Mary was the first thing that came to mind. Desperate, pathetic, and cynical all came next. McCain...not ready to debate, and not fit to be POTUS!

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Beverly in Chicago — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:34:58 GMT

That is exactly right!

Enough of your constituted fears, Senator McCain
No way!
No how!
No McCain/Palin!
Nobody but Obama/Biden
NO BLANK CHECK

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

HHB in Estero — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:35:01 GMT

Now this is the funniest thing I have ever read on this site.

Go Obama

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

John Burton, Baltimore, MD — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:35:12 GMT

We can smell the despiration, Johnny...and it smells like wet Depends.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

dw — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:35:16 GMT

Send in the clown, oops I mean Palin. If McCain can't debate then Palin should. After all she should be able to step in at a moments notice, well that moment appears to be Friday's debate. The debate should go on and if neither GOP candidate is ready, then in my book neither GOP candidate is ready to lead this faltering nation.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Kathy — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:35:39 GMT

Desperate! That's what McCain's announcement is. He is loosing on this subject. Hopefully the public won't be fooled.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

happy, boston, ma — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:35:51 GMT

SPOT ON! sometimes the democrats make me proud.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Sam, Seattle, Washington — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:36:34 GMT

I agree with Rep. Frank. It is clearly a political stunt in response to new polling placing McCain further behind Obama than was previously thought. A president must be able to multi-task. He can not only focus on one issue at a time. Moreover, rather than depoliticizing the bailout, he will be furthering the politicization of the crisis.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Becky, CA — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:36:58 GMT

One more: Is this how McCain will govern? Shoot first and Ask later. I cannot work like this in my office. We need a sensible President, not a attention grabbing show-off. He will tick off people who works for him and the foreign leaders and mostly us American People.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Andrea, New York City — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:37:28 GMT

The debates should go on.

A lot of commitments have been made.

A entire segment of the United States (about one hundred million people) are waiting to weigh in on these candidates and their performance.

They both have planes. They can still be in washinton on Thursday—fly to Miss. for the debates and come back afterwards to work over the weekend.

I think McSame his scared and needs a break.

He cannot be trusted under any circumstances. He always has a game going. It Always McCAIN FIRST. Do not be fooled.

And I do not want McCain representing us Americans on the foreign scene.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Fred, Teaneck, NJ — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:37:37 GMT

Amen, this is so obviously a political ploy. Just like saying he was talking about Americans are fundamentally strong when he said the economy is fundamentally sound.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

PAMama4Obama — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:38:11 GMT

That's priceless...I love it!

McCain is imploding...all of his own making.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Where is Palin in your time of need, McCain!!!! — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:38:14 GMT

McCain is the Cowardly Lion. He will crash and burn like the many times he's been shot down in Viet Nam.

ENOUGH!!!

The Presidential Candidate should be able to multi-task. If not, then that Candidate is not ready to lead.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Suz in KS — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:38:14 GMT

Barney Frank is a hoot. I'm so glad he and Chris Dodd are leading the way on this crisis. I feel so much better with two cool heads pervailing on this issue.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Frankie D, Union, NJ — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:38:15 GMT

that was actually pretty funny! lol

"It's the longest Hail Mary pass in the history of either football or Marys."

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

twostepcub — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:38:22 GMT

and THIS is the reason why i love Barney Frank.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

ts mpls, mn — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:39:02 GMT

I would even go as far as to call holding on the McCain camp. You can't win a football game by constantly doing hail mary passes. It don't work that way.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Peter McArdle, Penfield, NY — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:39:05 GMT

I hope Obama doesn't bite. McCain's been dreading this debate for weeks. The man is scared, and that's obvious.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

kristi — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:39:44 GMT

Of course this is a hail mary. McCain knows there is one posession left, he's just not sure what game he's playing.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Sandra, Tennessee — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:39:45 GMT

Way to go Rep Frank. Thanks for calling this maneuver
for exactly what it is-Political Tactics-Shame on McCain!!

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Sarah, Brooklyn, NY — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:40:08 GMT

Exactly. Nothing but gimmicks...

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

American Citizen — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:40:11 GMT

OH! OH! Barney! That's the best line of the campaign so far. Except the whole, "I can see Russia from my house".

Bless you Mr. Frank.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

voter — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:40:15 GMT

True. Of course there will be a debate. For McCain to suspend his campaign to the economic crisis is a gimmick. McCain said yesturday that his vote on the bailout bill was not neccessary. McCain deregulated the markets and has not voted on a bill since April. All of a sudden the economy is so important to McCain he wants to vote on the bill. Please. Don't fall for it. McCain is running scared because he is falling behind on the polls.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Robert Pivarnik, Providence, RI — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:40:20 GMT

What a ridiculous ploy on McCain's part--how silly this is!

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

David, Los Angels,CA — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:40:33 GMT

Agreed, McCain/Palin is as dead as an empty suit and they know it.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

BECCA — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:40:53 GMT

McCain, despite his words, has just interjected MORE partisan politics into the financial crisis than we need right now.
Go Barney Frank!!

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Leslie — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:40:59 GMT

Barack Obama has what it takes to be President. A President has to be able to handle many issues and crisis at one time. He will not be able to pick and choose what crisis he will handle first. He will need to wake at 3:00am for that call that cannot wait until morning. He must, at a moments notice, make rational decisions that are critical to the country and the world.
Barack Obama has the tenacity to work to his full capacity to make this a better country.

Barack Obama IS our CHAMPION! AND he will continue to be when he is our PRESIDENT!!

John McCain is getting his DUFF kicked and now, out of concern for the country, he is suspending his campaign? Give me a break! He wants to cancel the debate and focus all his attention on the ecomony. McCain, the one who admitted he knows nothing about the economy!

Barack Obama's poll numbers are gaining daily and he is surging in all polls because people have confidence that he does know how run Washington and the country. He has McCain running scared.

McCain is a coward. He cannot stand up to Obama and he knows that his attempt at looking "presidential" is the only chance he has.

MCCAIN IS A COWARD!

ONE MORE REASON WHY I AM VOTING OBAMA/BIDEN '08

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

gepa — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:41:05 GMT

I never was impressed with anything about Mccain, Never, Ever.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Dan — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:41:10 GMT

McCain is running scared - as well he should. This is not going to help him at all. Another bad judgment on his part.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Stella, Tucson — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:41:29 GMT

Go Barney!! That's priceless....

Next thing you know, Palin will want to "postpone" her debate too so that she can concentrate on "Troopergate".

ENOUGH!!!

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Dan — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:41:30 GMT

McCain is running scared - as well he should. This is not going to help him at all. Another bad judgment on his part.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

another mama for obama — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:41:31 GMT

Like I tell my little boy when he's faced with something he isn't happy about, "it's time to put your big boy pants on and get it done."

Of course, he usually doesn't like to put his toys away or brush his teeth. It's not like he's down in the polls and desperately avoiding debating his opponent or anything. But still...big boy pants would help John McCain right about now.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Dan, WI — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:41:57 GMT

But Senator McCain, you said the economy is fundamentally strong.

5 days after Paulson and Bernanke revealed that plan, McCain suddenly acted like his hair is on fire.

Clearly, McCain's campaign saw today's poll numbers and is panicking.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Hillary Girl, Tulsa, OK — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:42:40 GMT

Well, if you guys would take your blinders off, you would realize that we, the taxpayers, do not pay these guys to campaign for the Presidency. They are paid to be senators. They should be doing their jobs. If Obama was the one calling for a postponement of the debate, you guys would be talking about how inspirational he is to make that decision, and how wonderful it is that he is putting this HUGE, MONUMENTAL, UNPRECEDENTED economic crisis first.

And I don't want to hear it. I'm voting Obama this election cycle, only because I feel he is the lesser of two evils. I just see the bias for what it is, because I don't have a pony in this race. My candidate (the best candidate) lost in the primary.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Justin Grimes — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:43:01 GMT

Dow finished about even today. McCain's panic doesn't help the market. Congress seems headed for a stop-gap bailout agreement. So what's McCain up to? Pure politics. It is what it is. Perhaps Governor Palin can tag along to osmotically absorb economic knowledge.
What's next from this "fundamentally sound" candidate?

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Retribution — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:43:32 GMT

Pile on dems.

We love the smell of napom in the debates!

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

DWoods, Northbrook, IL — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:44:06 GMT

Barney Frank may be one of the most like men now!

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

EricW, Newtown, PA — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:44:22 GMT

Barney Frank is one of the funniest people in politics, and one of the sharpest too.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Eileen, Portland, Maine — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:45:54 GMT

Mr. McGimmick is at it again.
How many more from that campaing will fit into that 'cone of silence'?

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Cut and Run McCain — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:45:55 GMT

You are glass McCain. We see through your posturing. It's sad that you really believe the American people are so stupid. p.s. I don't expect you could handle a 3 am phone call either.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

chris, SC — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:46:16 GMT

Apparently, McCain can't multi task. Not a promising future for a want-to-be president.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

jennyp — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:46:58 GMT

Grandstand, This is a political move, We will be hearing in his campaign what a unselfish move he made, postponing his campaign for the good of the American People. Give me a break McCain this move is just as sincere as your reason for picking Sarah Palin as your running mate. Your reason was out of desperation then and it is the same now.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Get Real — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:49:23 GMT

The dems are running scared from the finance debacle that THEY created. It was not McCain's fault. The dems FORCED loans to people they knew couldn't afford it.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Fair view — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:49:48 GMT

Isn't this debate over foreign policy ????

If so then they should stick to ONLY that topic ! Or for that matter only debate the topic set. The moderator should both to the topic at hand and nothing else.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Lee-- Dallas, TX — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:51:45 GMT

Boo-ya!!

Debates a go. This is the best time for the next President to talk about what he will do and show his ability to do several things at once.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

HM, Cambridge, MA — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:52:16 GMT

They could also hold the debate in Washington. there's no excuse for this. Let's hope the President doesn't try to declare a state of emergency tonight.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Eric, Salinas, CA — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:52:40 GMT

We don't need to have presidential politics invade Washington when there are critical decisions to be made. Barack Obama is correct in saying that the debates should go on. We can now see who the real coward is, the one who wants to go back to the Senate to catch up on his naptime while ducking a debate he knows he'll lose.

Go Obama/Biden 08/12!

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Michael McCarthy Nashua NH — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:53:16 GMT

Barney Frank? The same congressman that led opposition to any attempt to look into and reign in Fanny May and Freddie Mack since 2001?
Back in 2005 McCain sponsored legislation to further regulate the activities of Fanny May and Freddie Mack, guess who opposed it? Barney Frank.

Many Democrats like Frank received large amounts of money from Fanny May and Freddie Mack, and their voting records reflect that. Now they want to act like this whole mess is a Republican problem.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

independent voter - female — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:54:02 GMT

Oh, for pete's sake. McCain can't even do two things at once and he wants to be President!

Barney Frank nailed it the same as Biden nailed it earlier today.....lmao

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Diane, Skowhegan, Maine — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:54:10 GMT

Got to agree with Barney on this one. There is no reason to delay the debate. I saw on another site that McCain's campaign made a statement that they had delayed the Republican Convention because of Hurrican Ike. Does anyone remember a delay in the convention? I quite sure it started the exact day it was scheduled to.

The only reason for McCain to ask for a delay is because he is not prepared to go forward.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Texan — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:54:39 GMT

You've got it all wrong, folks. This is what real leadership looks like.

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Bill in Chicago — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:54:56 GMT

Hey, I just figured out why John McCain suspended the debates!

After reading the latest polls, he realized he was going to need a bigger supply of colostomy bags!

Maybe he'll agree to stick to the schedule if Obama allows him to debate while standing in kitty litter!

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Erin Flynn, Rockvegas — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:55:00 GMT

This latest move by the GOP's maverick candidate is appalling. Americans expect their president to multitask, and McCain just showed us that he can't walk and chew bubble gum at the same time. It is his assumed role and duty to try to get elected president for his party. With six weeks to, this is no time to try to be a hero. The Debate is Friday.

An Avid Obama Supporter
An Irish Catholic resident of the I-4 corridor

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

John In Nebraska — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:55:13 GMT

Why don't we just call off the election completely until all of the world's problems are solved? McBush says that we need to work together to help the American people...that's why he chose an unqualified person who happens to be female as his VP candidate and why he and his lobbyist friends make up huge lies about his opponent; because he's such a team player! Go away and just shut up McSame and Photo-Op Palin! You are full of it!!!!!

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Anybody but Obama — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:55:14 GMT

Can you save these blogs and read them later ???

This may not be so funny come nov 5th and McCain IS the next POTUS

Barney Frank on McCain, Hail Marys

Eric Rudolph (R) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:56:20 GMT

How will McBush respond to that 3:00 AM phone call,
"Can we postpone please I'm not ready."