Sometimes it takes an extreme situation or a crisis to see the true colours of somebody. In the recent economic turmoil that has devastated Wall Street and has led to unprecedented government intervention that has put a proposed $700 billion price tag on the tax payer, there has been one candidate that has continued to show a calm poise and provided thoughtful and productive commentary, and then the other candidate that has looked confused, flip-flopped almost on a daily basis, and has not sent out any signals of confidence to the electorate. As I mentioned in my previous article, this current crisis is a great litmus test for the candidates to display to the American people who really does have the right virtues to lead the country, and to be frank, Barack Obama has passed this test while John McCain has failed.
The failing has not gone unnoticed by McCain himself, and as true to his form, what does he do when things are not going his way? He goes with his gut and makes another gutsy move. This time, pandering to the public and the media to provide a false-tense that he is suspending his campaign to go to Washington to make sure this bailout is pushed through. Now at first glance, this may actually seem like a non-political, non-partisan move on his part. Yet, as with many of the other falsehoods that John McCain and his team has put out in the past few weeks, if you just scratch barely beyond the surface, you begin to see what a political stunt this is. Now I can go into details why this is so, but I think David Letterman is really spot on in his dissection of the situation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjkCrfylq-E
John McCain has been throwing a lot of hail marys in his campaign. His selection of Sarah Palin was one. His push for putting up ads and talking points that focuses on the personalities instead of the issues was another one. Yet this maybe the biggest one of them all. Most media outlets and the general public are calling him out on this as well. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out, but one thing is for sure - the debates will continue tomorrow, with or without John McCain.
Yes we can. Yes we did! Barack Obama brought through the barrier and history was made on November 4th 2008. The mantra for change was dominate throughout the electoral map, as once strong Republican states such as Indiana, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Colorado and Nevada turned blue and went to Obama.
Can’t wait until he takes office in January!