Wow, big day on Wall Street. Largest ever plunge of the Dow (but not the largest %). And of course, the blame game is on full swing. Why did the bailout not pass the House? Let’s do the simple math: 2/3 of Dems voted for it, and 2/3 of Repubs voted against it. So who do you think is most responsible for it not passing?
According to McCain, it's Obama!
Never mind that McCain and his top aides took credit for building a winning bailout coalition – hours before the vote failed and stocks tanked.
Speaking at a rally in Columbus, OH just shortly before the vote,
McCain had bragged about his involvement and mocked Sen. Barack Obama for staying on the sidelines. “I've never been afraid of stepping in to solve problems for the American people, and I'm not going to stop now,” McCain told a rally in Columbus, Ohio. In fact, said McCain campaign communications director Jill Hazelbaker on Fox News that the deal would not have happened “without Sen. McCain.” Sadly for McCain, the rush to claim he had engineered a victory now looks like a strategic blunder
that will prolong the McCain’s campaign’s difficulty in finding a winning message on the economy. It’s truly amazing to watch this man and his wild swings with the “truth” – it’s getting impossible to separate McCain’s lies from the truth – the ease with which he denounces his own statements, sometimes made the same day, is truly astounding. The Audacity of Hope? Forget it, McCain is trumping that with the Audacity of his Lies.
In the same speech in Columbus, McCain said “You know, remarkably, some people have criticized my decision [to “suspend” his campaign], but I will never, ever be a president who sits on the sidelines when this country faces a crisis. I know that many of you may have noticed, but it's not my style to simply "phone it in."
Except he did phone it in.
John McCain stayed in Washington last weekend, supposedly to keep working on the bailout legislation. But not on Capital Hill, however, preferring to work out of his campaign office
"He can effectively do what he needs to do by phone," said his senior adviser Mark Salter. 'Nuff said.
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