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- tcbishop12, on 09/29/2008, -0/+24FTA: Oh, and one more thing: Jerking people around [McCain] is not presidential.
- inactive, on 09/29/2008, -0/+19Well, here comes John McCain on TV to try and wipe the egg off his face for taking credit for the bill which has now failed. I'm a registered Republican but won't be voting red this year. McCain's awful. Go Obama.
- oldgal, on 09/29/2008, -0/+15Having done crisis management for many years I can say that the two things that are absolutely destructive and get in the way of resolution are hysteria and finger pointing. As a manager the first thing you do is isolate the folks who will solve the problem from these destructive forces. It takes a calm and cool (and sometimes creative) demeanor to calm the hysteria and cut off the fingers. One situation was so bad I looked at the execs and said, "I caused it, and I did it on purpose, now can we get on with life?" They all knew I had nothing to do with it, but I didn't see another finger for the duration.
- dld0531, on 09/29/2008, -0/+14McCain is going to try to turn this around and blame Obama for not doing enough to get votes in his party...Please! McCain is 1) desperate 2) unable to reach across party lines, and 3) doing NOTHING to help the crisis.
- neognostic, on 09/29/2008, -0/+12McCain seems to have a problem understanding the difference between jerking around and off.
- inactive, on 09/29/2008, -0/+9Are you kidding? McFail is unable to reach WITHIN party lines.
- sullivanst, on 09/29/2008, -0/+8What's more, Obama's party voted more "Aye" than "Nay"; McCain's voted overwhelmingly more "Nay" than "Aye".
Just after McCain had been taking the credit for winning the compromises that would bring his party around to supporting the bill, too... - inactive, on 09/29/2008, -1/+8But McCain was a POW!
- aussiejan, on 09/29/2008, -0/+6Go jperson!
- webwatch, on 09/30/2008, -0/+5McCain has no clout with his own party members. Republi-cons were not too crazy about McCain before the Palin pick.
- MediaWeasel, on 10/02/2008, -0/+1Quote: "So: Who was the talker here, and who was the doer? Who exercised quiet but real influence? And who preferred, instead, to stand in front of a microphone, two days before a debate that had been in the works for years, and tell everybody that true patriots stall debates, rather than have them? Who preferred to sandbag Obama into flying to Washington for an hour of kabuki theater in which McCain himself didn't even have a speaking role --- a charade that only proved correct Obama's own previously stated doubts about the usefulness of such an exercise? Who decided, after all of that --- and after thieving from Obama a day of debate prep --- that, you know what, he would debate after all, even though his own conditions for doing so had not been met?
Jesus, I seem to recall, much preferred the person of sincere faith who prayed in his closet, to the loudmouth hypocrite who shouted his prayers in the public square. I'm sure Sarah Palin knows the verse.
Oh, and one more thing: Jerking people around is not presidential."
Interesting and very revealing piece. And despite Obama's attempts to include McCain and to acknowledge bipartisanship - McCain refuses, then rebuffs him in the Senate ... - talktuff2, on 10/06/2008, -0/+1Right, McCain was a POW and also for five years he didn't have a house to live in. That's why no one should ever criticize dear, dear old McCain for being out of touch about how many houses, cars, boats, or planes he has or the cocktail drinking elite he is and associates with. It is so frustrating for McCain to be up against a really intelligent, well regarded, and a real Christian man that Barrack Obama is.
- Gemfinder, on 09/30/2008, -3/+1Mostly agree with your comment, but McCain has shown that he can indeed reach across party lines in his Senate record.
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