McCain suspends campaign, calls for Obama to do same!!

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Date: 24 Sep 2008, 14:57


McCain suspends campaign, calls for Obama to do same

* Story Highlights
* NEW: White House statement: "We welcome Sen.
McCain's announcement"
* NEW: McCain calls on Obama to join him in effort to focus on economy
* Obama and McCain campaigns have spoken by phone
* McCain also calls for postponing Friday's presidential debate

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain announced Wednesday that he is suspending his campaign to return to Washington and focus on the "historic" crisis facing the U.S. economy.


The Arizona senator called on his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, to do the same.


The Obama campaign announced that Obama would make a statement shortly.


He also urged organizers of Friday's presidential debate at the University of Mississippi to postpone the event.


"I am calling on the president to convene a meeting with the leadership from both houses of Congress, including Senator Obama and myself," McCain told reporters in New York. "It is time for both parties to come together to solve this problem.
" VideoWatch McCain's announcement »

It was not immediately clear how extensive the suspension he announced would be -- whether it would include dropping television advertising or just canceling scheduled appearances. McCain took no questions after reading his statement.


Immediately after the announcement, White House press secretary Dana Perino released this statement: "We welcome Sen. McCain's announcement. We are making progress in negotiations on the financial markets rescue legislation, but we have not finished it yet. Bipartisan support from Sens. McCain and Obama would be helpful in driving to a conclusion.
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McCain's campaign also said that he had canceled his scheduled appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman" for Wednesday night.


McCain's announcement came just hours before President Bush was scheduled to address the nation on the troubled state of the U.S. financial system -- a problem for which his administration has proposed a $700 billion bailout.


The Obama campaign said Obama called McCain at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday to ask if the Republican nominee would join him in a joint statement of "shared principles and conditions" for the proposal. It said McCain called back at 2:30 p.m. -- shortly before his New York announcement -- to agree, and "The two campaigns are currently working together on the details.
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The bailout plan has met with a cool reception in two days of hearings on Capitol Hill, where both Democrats and Republicans have expressed skepticism about the proposal drafted by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.


"It has become clear that no consensus has developed to support the administration's proposal," McCain said. "I do not believe that the plan on the table will pass as it currently stands, and we are running out of time.
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But he added that he believes Congress could forge a consensus on legislation "before the markets open on Monday.
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McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, were in New York to meet with world leaders at the United Nations. They had met with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko.


"Senator, governor, I'm really honored to be here with you. I know you have a very important campaign to run," Saakashvili said. "Overall, I have to say I greatly appreciate the solidarity we felt from the American people.
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Earlier, Palin met with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.


Obama on Wednesday lashed out at the Bush administration and his opponent on the handling of the crisis on Wall Street as well as the $700 billion bailout plan by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson.


Congress and the White House are trying to negotiate the details of what would be the most sweeping economic intervention by the government since the Great Depression. Bush has asked Congress to act quickly on the bailout proposal following news of failing financial institutions and frozen credit markets.


"The clock is ticking on this crisis. We have to act swiftly, but we also have to get it right," Obama said in Dunedin, Florida. "And that means everyone -- Republicans and Democrats, and the White House and Congress -- must work together to come up with a solution that protects American taxpayers and our economy without rewarding those whose greed helped get us into this problem in the first place.
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Obama said it's unacceptable to expect the American people to "hand this administration or any administration a $700 billion check with no conditions and no oversight when a lack of oversight in Washington and on Wall Street is exactly what got us into this mess.
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He said struggling homeowners must be taken care of in any economic recovery plan -- and that taxpayers should "not be spending one dime to reward the same Wall Street CEOs whose greed and irresponsibility got us into this mess.
" Read more on both candidates' recovery plans

He also hit McCain for switching from his stance as an advocate for market deregulation to a strong supporter of regulation since the Wall Street crisis became front-page news.


"He's suddenly a hard-charging populist," Obama said. "And that's all well and good, but I sure wish he was talking the same way over a year ago, when I introduced a bill that would've helped stop the multimillion-dollar bonus packages that CEOs grab on their way out the door.
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McCain's bombshell comes as a new CNN "poll of polls" out of Virginia on Wednesday shows McCain with the slimmest of leads in a state that traditionally has been a safe bet for Republicans.


The latest polls could be a warning sign for McCain that he still has work to do to lock down certain states where previous GOP nominees had to spend little time or effort doing so.
VideoWatch more on where the candidates stand in the latest polls »

In the new poll of polls, McCain holds a 1 percentage point lead over Obama (47 percent to 46 percent) in Virginia, while 7 percent remain undecided.


The poll of polls is an average of three recent surveys of the state -- MSNBC/Mason-Dixon (September 17-22), ARG (September 17-20) and ABC/The Washington Post (September 18-21). The poll of polls does not have a sampling error.

Men det har vi ju sagt hela tiden, eller hur?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bNDPioifrU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpjNZXBoLd8

Jag är inte riktigt med nu, kan nån förklara hela baktanken med just detta?

Trodde att det skulle bli terrorattentat eller Iran som skulle fixa till så att det inte skulle bli något val. Men detta är ju faktiskt "smartare" av dom...

Blir nog inget val... Men agendan kommer väldigt snart att snabbas upp. Dom flesta kommer inte fatta vad det är som håller på att hända... Dags att väcka våra medmänniskor.

Nån som kan förklara snabbt vad ni tror är hela baktanken med detta?

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Får jag gissa så betyder det att valet blir inställt och Bush installerar sig som diktator.

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ja, men hur skulle detta kunna bli möjligt?
jag förstår verkligen inte hur dom skulle kunna få igenom en sån här grej på så kort tid genom att skylla på ekonomin?

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Kort tid? Det här har det planerats för i årtionden....

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äh, du förstår inte vad jag menar

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Kanske det här förklarar lite bättre än mina ord kan....

"Directive 51" redirects here. Directive 51 can also refer to Hitler's order for the fortification of the Atlantic Wall.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National ... ty_Presidential_Directive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1qOMCBLIB0

Välkommen till fjärde riket...

Postade den här länken i ett annat forum för ca ett år sedan:

Bush paves the way for martial law: 2007 National Defense Authorization Act

Visst kan en ekonomisk kris vara den utlösande faktorn, i kombination med upplopp eller andra oroligheter i USA.

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thx, nu är jag på spåret igen :)

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Vilken tur att du gissade fel då.