It is sad that George Bush had to personally summon Obama back to Washington. One would have thought that Obama would have the judgment to make such a decision on his own, I guess he doesn’t.
McCain called for his Democratic rival to agree to a postponement until Congress agrees on a $700 billion government plan to rescue banks from enormous debt, saying, “We are running out of time.”
Obama rebuffed his GOP rival, saying the next president needs to “deal with more than one thing at once.”
Both were heading back to Washington on Thursday, summoned by President Bush to attend a White House meeting with congressional leaders in hopes of securing the legislation to rescue the fragile economy.
Instead of heading back to DC immediately, Obama held a Press Conference where he had the following words of wisdom for the American Public:
As I said before, I think that one of the things we have to determine is how we can be most helpful. It’s my sense that the most helpful thing we can do right now is, uh, to let everyone know this is a sufficiently important problem. I can be helpful, and I am prepared to be anywhere, anytime. So, uh, I think the message is, if I can be helpful, I am prepared to be there at any point.
So, let me get this straight. Obama wants to be the President in January, yet when the most serious financial crisis to hit us in 2 generations is upon us, all Obama can do is say he is prepared to help if he can be helpful? Wow.
In an editorial in the New York Post,
none other than the infamous Dick Morris made the following observations:
Both McCain and Obama will now go to Washington. McCain on his own initiative. Obama as a result of the president’s call for an economic summit.
But it is McCain who will play the proactive role. Obama will come to Washington, but will keep one foot outside the Beltway.
Even though the president has called both candidates to Washington to save the country, Obama continues to campaign. Politics as usual.
He doesn’t want to cancel the debate. He would debate while the markets burn.
McCain is going to work while Obama is phoning it in.
Hotair has an interesting take on why Obama does not want to return to Washington:
Obama has another problem with returning to Washington, one that received little attention in the analysis of McCain’s challenge yesterday. Obama has to raise $3 million each day in order to hit his target of $100 million a month. He needs to conduct fundraisers constantly in order to make that goal. Taking three or four days off the campaign trail means a potential loss of revenue for Obama, one he can ill afford at the moment. That’s a “sufficiently important problem” that would keep Obama out of Washington.
Hmmm. So raising $3 million a day for Obama’s campaign is more important than helping millions of families keep their homes and their life’s savings…
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