Tonight's Debate.

I don't think McCain or Obama have anything to offer the bailout right now. I think Obama was right to say let's continue to campaign and continue with the debates and let them handle the bailout. The most McCain and Obama can do right now is show up and offer their vote on the bill. McCain doesn't even know enough about the bailout plan to be going up there and butting in right now. He is wasting everyones time. I really think he found this as an excuse to stall on the debates for both him and Palin. The longer he stalls on his debates the longer it will stall Palins debates. I think they are both going to do a terrible job with their debates. Heck Palin has screwed up most of the interviews she has done so far and made herself look like an idiot. I really think they just need to move with things as scheduled. Because like you right now my vote is pending the debates right now. I'm really interested to see what happens tonight.

Political history indicates that whenever any candidate thinks he is ahead and winning, the thought of debating becomes abhorent. Afterall, if you are winning what can a debate do for you? Help your opponent come from behind? What candidate wants that? Perhaps, McCain thinks he is winning and is using the excuse of "I've got important business elsewhere.", as a two edged sword against 0bama. 1) Looking like a Presidential statesman whose knowledge and experience is valuable and needed. 2) Duck the debate which has more potential to help 0bama than McCain. I'm not saying these things are true, just that McCain might be thinking this way.

I was for Hillary also and I am a registered Democrat. I researched Obama and found that I really do think his plans for our country are good ones that I think will work. I think McCain pulled his little stunt yesterday to try to get out of debating Obama; and I think that is the main reason he did it. I think he is also attempting to look like a leader fit to run the United States. I don't think it worked out that way. He sat quiet during the entire meeting until the end when I think he spoke for about 2 minutes. Even Republican leaders said that he offered nothing helpful at the meeting. It was all grandstanding on McCain's part. I read that McCain is the one who called President Bush about having the meeting; Bush then called Obama himself. lol I doubt that McCain was expecting Obama to show up. There was no need for either of them to go to Washington. When it comes time to vote, then it would be useful for them to do so; but it's nowhere near a vote! McCain hasn't voted since April on anything. I don't see what McCain could add to the proposal anyway; he has consistently voted for de-regulation for all the years he has been in Washington. That's one of the reason's we are in this situation now. If banks hadn't been deregulated, we would not scrambling to come up with something now. McCain is scared to debate Obama; of that, I am sure. If he doesn't show up, it will prove it beyond a doubt.

I must agree with you. At first,like you, I was for Hillary, now I feel left without any good decision! Both McCain and Obama are nothing special. It just didn't even matter to me anymore but after yesterday, I think I might have to side with Obama. At first hearing what McCain was saying in regardsto the debate and not showing, For qa second or two I thought, wow, he is putting aside something that he wants badly to help our country right now when it needs it most. But, then I realized(to what I truely believe)..wait a minute, he is scared to show up at this debate and is trying to weasel his way out! Even though I am siding more with Obama as of now(which could change at the drop of a dime),I still don't think he is could do much better! You make alot of sense and unfortunatly I think we are not the only ones to feel this way!

I personally think this refusing to debate is a politically move/ploy. I feel that McCain will show tonight for the debate. I don't think you really have anything to worry about.

what did u listen to? Obama said plenty in the meeting..he made clear where he stood and even asked 2 of the senators in the meeting how they felt about what he said...I cant quote word for word...but pls get ur facts straight. McCian aint have didly to say but yet u guys support such a candidate. I agree it is getting to be just crazy with these candidates but what are they supposed to do just bow out? NO, this is an election and may the more qualified man win.

Ya got me there. I thught he did want the debate for he had to do his senetor duties. There must of been something in this plane he didnt like maybe he was to save the country of higher taxes to pay for this bailout

While both candidates should definitely seriously work on and vote on the bailout, I don't see any valid reason for canceling the debate. One of these guys will be president in the near future and he will not be allowed to choose which crises he attends to at a given time. He will have to take them all on as they occur. The situations in Afghanistan and Georgia are not going to take a back burner so Mr. Bush can attend to the financial crises. He has to handle it all. If McCain or Obama cannot handle the bailout legislature as well as the debate, how are they ever going to handle the presidency? At least that's the way I feel.

McCain is going to participate in the debate tonight. I am not even remotely interested in watching it since both candidates will be trying to say what everyone wants to hear. I do think the financial bailout is important, but not for the reasons most people are interested. Whomever wins this election is going to face some real tough issues and problems, I prefer experience to help with the decisions. I think that in one or two years we will either be on the crest of the wave or on the sinking ship with no rescue available.

I'm with you on this one. I was all for john edwards and thought that for once, I knew early on just who I was going to vote for. Then he dropped out and Hillary seemed the best candidate at the time. Then she goes and drops out. I am not at all comfortable with either of these choices and a bit put off that we have such poor choices here. The debates are on while I'm working so I don't get to watch them but I do hear from others and read up on them. Sounds as if I'm not missing a whole lot.

This whole election, at this time in history, will be remembered for a long time. The two candidates are up against a lot more than I think that they ever could have possible imagined. I have to give it to McCain though. I think that postponing the debates to go back to Washington was more important. To me, it shows that McCain has more common sense to prioritize an emergency crisis. The U.S. has jumped into too many things in the past 8 years without sitting back and organizing first. Look what happened with our soldiers after 911? We were like a mob that was running the fences with out any thought as to how to go about equipping our men to protect themselves once they got over there. Have any of us, that has had a family member in the service, or that are generational military families heard of where our soldiers were asking for the family back home to send them equipment? I just thought that was horrendously embarrassing. I think that McCain has shown the better of the two logical minds in the financial crisis. I'm not saying that I have made up my mind, one way or the other, as to who I am voting for, it's just that we need a leader that knows that no one in the heat of the moment or crisis, has the ability to think in a logical, rational line of thought until they calm down and look at the bigger picture. President Bush has never shown this Country that he had that ability. He has been of the "shoot first, ask questions later" mindset. Now with Obama, there comes a time when that no matter what difference of opinion you may have with someone or whatever other agenda you may be following, that you put off what you are doing to join others in a crisis. We all did that in 911 just on the home front. Here we have a serious home front crisis and Obama seems to think that it's just business as usual. His agenda comes first. Just my opinion on how I see all of this. DCMerkle

I'm a cynic. Whenever someone starts waving their superhero cape and singing, "Here I come to save the day!", I figure that they've either got a hyper-inflated notion of their own importance or they're determined to call attention to themselves. McCain's campaigning style from day one has been "shake 'em up!" and this is just - dare I say it? - more of the same, especially when you remember that he has repeatedly asserted that he doesn't 'get' the economy.

I don't remember what part i am but I may not vote for John McCain I just dont like what he is all about plus he is to old to be running I think