I never said he was perfect. I initially went for Hillary, but after seeing her attacking Obama for no reason but to win, I bailed on her. Is he perfect? Of course not. I don't like the way he flip-flopped on the Iraq war and when to bring them home, I don't like how he caved and went along with the offshore drilling and I don't think he is compassionate as he could be and really, really needs to be.

However, when I look at the alternative - McCain who has Phil Gramm telling him what to do on economic matters (Phail) vs. Clinton's former financial secretary (a whiz), McCain who has Palin that's nothing more than a bundle of fun but hasn't been grilled yet like the rest of the candidates and faces an abuse of power charge, McCain who can call Obama an elitist when though Obama owns just one house and one hybrid vs. John's 13 cars in 7 houses and who said the economy is fundamentally strong. But really, what about retirement? His stance on staying in Iraq for 100 years? His campaign dude taking money from Freddie Mac and McCain was clueless on it and "He didn't take money."

LOL - yeah, but you know if you read him he's no fan of Obama either. However, if you wanna see Dem fanboys, all you have to look at is Friedman and Dowd on the NY Times.

I may disagree with many of the Democrats’ proposed policies, but they at least have some principle and stay true to their platform. They do favor increasing the size of government, but they also seem to prefer balanced budgets. I may disagree with how they balance the budget (increasing taxes instead of spending cuts), but they delivered on their promises and passed the Budget Reduction Act of 93. The Republicans are in dire straits because they abandoned their principles. They now favor an aggressive foreign policy that is detrimental to the US. Since when did advocating torture (McCain did not) and denying prisoners their day in court become sound policies? Why do we preach about small government and less regulation only to flip-flop and increase the size of the government exponentially? When did a balanced budget become cutting taxes whilst increasing spending? When did reducing the government’s role in education become passing the NCLB Act? I am sorry to rant, but the GOP is dead to me and I sometime need to vent about it.

McCain has very little chance of winning the Presidential Campaign. Appointing a redneck, hockey mom in Palin as your VP was a stupid move.

Regarding the state of the economy there is not much the US government can do about it. The $800 billion buying out bad debts by the US Government of companies who caused the economic crisis is regarded by a lot of economic analysts as merely delaying the inevitable, Global economic recession.

I think people fail to realize McCain isn't asking to cancel the debate. But to do it later when this bill has gone through. Had Obama agreed. There would of been no ploy as both would of stopped their campagins in a joint statement.

Its a clever ploy isn't it?  "We just want to postpone the presidential debate! Not cancel it!"  They scream from the rooftops.  And then they quietly slip this in:

"McCain supporter Sen. Lindsey Graham tells CNN the McCain campaign is proposing to the Presidential Debate Commission and the Obama camp that if there's no bailout deal by Friday, the first presidential debate should take the place of the VP debate, currently scheduled for next Thursday, October 2 in St. Louis"

Bravo, McCain campaign.  Bravo.

My question is why did he not discuss this with Obama when he talked to him RIGHT BEFORE he anounced this about a joint statement? If it was not a ploy they would have. Obama and his campaign had no idea this was coming.

Exactly.  McCain did not ask Obama to do the same thing.  He just went ahead and did it.

Wait, are you guys actually arguing whether this was a political ploy or not?

It's one month from the election. At this point, everything McCain and Obama do is a political ploy.