American presidential campaigns have always been three-ring-circuses but this campaign doesn't even qualify for the Big Tent - maybe a Sideshow but even those participants must be worth the price of admission.

McCain pulled a political stunt, and he will now go over whatever happens or doesn't happen with a scanning electron microscope to find, if only an atom sized tidbit he can spin into a glorious victory for his 'take action' "can do" personality, and the sycophants who gave us 8 years of the Bush/Cheney gang will lap it up.

There are two kind of people who make up the bulk of the modern Republican party; the utterly brain dead Rush Limbaugh dittoheads (subset, homophobes, anti semites, racists) and the educated greedy fascists.

Sarah Palin fits right in;

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

It is not only the lack of regulations that got us into this mess, if indeed it is a mess and not just a political move to try to revive John McCain's campaign. It is also the abandonment of anti-trust laws that might have prevented the concentration of power in a few corporations that can't be allowed to fail. Once you reach that stage, any gamble by one of those corporations is a winner for them. No risk is too great to take, when the taxpayers have to take the losses and the corporation takes the wins.

We still need many more days of serious study and thought about this "crisis", before any action is taken. The consequences of taking the wrong actions is too great to rush into.

Wow it's funny how the name caller above (calling Republicans "utterly brain dead," "subset," "homophobes," "anti-semites," "racists," and "educated greedy fascists") can sit on his high stool and say absolutely nothing productive about Senator Obama and his campaign. You know that name-calling is a sign of low self-confidence right? Maybe it's just your lack of confidence in Senator Obama's ability to govern and do his job if he were to become president.

Let's look at his current job as a Senate member. Heaven forbid he go help to resolve what HE called "the biggest crisis since the Great Depression" instead of going to an almighty debate. Since this one debate (which was asked to be postponed, not cancelled) is absolutely going to affect our children and our children's children for years and years to come.

Neither of them are on the committee that is working on this. They gave their statements about what they considered to be deal breakers and that's all they really can do. So where they both agree add it in and move this thing along. There will always be dissenters no matter what you do. He's been in contact everyday since things got dire talking to the administration and the congressional leadership.

These House Repubs are treating this like global warming "we have 200 economists who say this won't work".....ok. They found 30K scientists who say that global warming isn't man made. What do the other 100K-1million or so scientists/economists say. Don't hear any larger dissension among either sides economic advisers. Warren Buffet's down and put 5 billion on it. With his track record I'm on board as long as the taxpayer protections, reimbursement and the ability to refinance their mortgages are included.