Barack Obama is one of a hundred US Senators. He’s drawing a salary, paid for by you and me, to be a US Senator. Right now, the US Senate is debating whether or not to dump over 700 billion of our dollars into a financial bailout plan. Obama’s campaign counterpart, John McCain is already heading back to Washington and has suspended his Presidential Campaign to work on the problem even though the Harry Reid, who apparently forgot that US Senators don’t give commands, ordered him to stay away.
So what’s Barack Obama, community organizer par excellence, planning to do?
Preparing for the debate in Florida, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama held a previously unscheduled news conference, arguing the debate should go on.
“I believe that we should continue to have the debate,” Obama said. “It’s my belief that this is exact time when the American people need to hear form the person who in approximately 40 days will be responsibly for dealing with this mess and I think that it is going to be part of the President’s job to deal with more than one thing at once.”
Obama said that unlike McCain, he will not suspend ads, or campaign events scheduled between now and Friday’s debate.
“I think it’s very important that the American people see the people who potentially could be in charge of this problem within the next couple of months and so my attitude is that we need to be focused on solving the problems, as I have been,” Obama said. “It’s also important that we communicate where we need to go in getting us out of the situation.”
Obama said he will stay in Florida for the time being and will not return to Washington unless asked by Congressional leadership.
“I’ve told the leadership in Congress is that if I can be helpful then I am prepared to be anywhere at anytime,” he said.
It should be noted that the debate on Friday is on the subject of foreign policy, not economics.
If ever there was a time when Obama’s community-organizing skills are needed, it’s now. He has been telling us for months how his community organizing chops give him just the right about of leadership experience to be President. Yet, when it comes time to step up and bring those vaunted skills to bear on a serious problem facing the country, he decides to sit it out.
Hope.
Change.
Cowardice?
Come on, Senator Obama. Earn your salary and prove that all your talky-talk is more than just idle gum-flapping. Get yourself to Washington and organize that community!
Tags: Barack Obama, Economics, Foreign Policy, Harry Reid, John McCain
Yeah, because John McCain is going to single-handedly solve the economic crisis. i promise the same thing will happen if McSame is present or absent.
Besides…why would he have to suspend the campaign to focus on another issue? I’m afraid the presidency is going to require more multi-tasking than that. And what does suspending ads have to do with it? Ads run with no effort on McCain’s personal part. And it’s not an economic issue because they’re already paid for.
Not to mention the fact that the argument is lame anyway being that it is so close to November 4th. As president, either candidate could be a hell of a lot more effective in tackling this issue than they could ever be in the Senate. So not giving THAT your all will ultimately render you less effective than ’suspending your campaign’ for a few days to ‘work on the problem.’
Even if that were not true, McCain isn’t suspending his campaign. Please believe there are still buttloads of people and buttloads of dollars at work for McCain 2008 as we speak. It’s just a way for him to get press and appear like he cares/matters more than he does. Lame political tactic.
you’re ignorant.