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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
You realize the entire Senate isn't meeting and neither of these two men are on the committees involved in hammering out the hopeful solution to this crisis, right? Injecting the presidential selection process into this process may not result in a good solution, if there is a good solution. We may have let this get to the point where our only options are bad and worse. But I fail to see how adding more politicians to the mix, especially the two major candidates for POTUS, will result in the best plan.
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Right now, these 2 men are supposed leaders of their respective parties. This is something that there is no "quick" fix for, but something BOTH men could go into and work so that a deal is made and something is done.
I feel injecting 2 senators that are looked at as leaders of their party should be there, presidential candidates or not.
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Ok, so screw the debates, screw the election. How far are you willing to take that plan? Are you suggesting Bush remain in office until the crisis is over? Will we know when the crisis is over?
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Screw A DEBATE. By the end of this weekend hopefully something is done and worked on. Then the debates can go on.
Look if Pearl Harbor, 9/11 or another past major event had happened, do you honestly believe 2 US senators would say "Fuck that, we have debates."
To me, it's a matter of them being there, saying, "fuck politics, we're going to work together on this and then resume our campaigns." THAT is bringing America together.
One saying, I'll go and work on this and suspend things until it's done...... is a gamble. While noble, it can be looked at as grandstanding.
The other saying, "Well a president has to multi-task and we need this debate." Is just as much a gamble and also can be looked at as grandstanding.
Why couldn't one or both say, "in this time of uncertainty, I ask my colleague to join with me and help work out a plan with Congressional leaders and the President."
THAT would be the true showing of leadership and wanting the best for the country.
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I agree, it all about what happens behind the scenes. It's all about who can look like they're doing what's right by the country. It's all about who can get the best sound bite. Again, having the two major party candidates in the mix isn't a good idea at all, IMHO.
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This we can agree on. It is sad that even a serious problem that will affect us all and can seriously damage our country and we can't even have the 2 major POTUS candidates agree that they need to work together for what is best for ALL not just their chance for getting elected.
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It's going to matter because the world goes on, life doesn't stop because of a financial crisis. Every four years the US elects a President. When it's a new President, as it will be this year, he inherits whatever problems/benefits the last President leaves.
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True, but again, banks failing and the economic future of our country holding on by a thread doesn't happen often.
It's a moot point...... McCain will go down and debate and then go back and continue working on this.
It is sad that even saving our country has become fucking partisan.
I am ashamed to be an American right now. We should all be working together and not separately. "WE can work it out"...... but WE have to work together, we need to STOP, BREATHE and WORK TOGETHER as a country not as 2 separate egotistical self righteous parties 2 that care only about getting themselves elected.