McCain To Put Country First, Obama Puts Campaigning First

As many of you know by now, McCain has suspended his campaign in order to head to Washington and help deal with the financial mess. It's a tremendous risk for him because even if he is instrumental in any result, who's going to report it? If Obama swoops in, changes one word, he will receive all the praise and adulation from the press.

Obama said a president should be able to do two things at the same time. Any decent president would forego any campaign stops or PR events to handle a REAL situation. But it's quite evident that Sen. Obama couldn't even do one thing at the same time. That one thing is being a senator. This Ain't Hell has good write up about this.

I agree with McCain that both candidates for president should be there negotiating and debating the solution to the financial mess. Of course, Obama doesn't. I suppose he will be the only debater at the debate tomorrow, yet, I will bet anything he still makes a fool of himself. I hope the moderator asks Obama about how much Fmr. Fannie Mae & Lehman Brothers executive Jim Johnson had to do with the financial mess. Jim Johnson was chosen to help Obama pick his VP candidate. You can read about how bad Jim Johnson screwed up by reading this (.PDF, skip to page 168 to read the conclusion)

My hope is that McCain goes to Washington and says, "This is ridiculous, we're not bailing out anybody".

While we're on the subject of the corporate welfare bill, The Jawa Report has a post including prominent Conservative and their thoughts on it.

Does anyone really think that corporate welfare will be limited to $700B? We already have $25B for automakers. Once the government gets a hold of this, it will include more businesses for more reasons. Don't forget, there's not a bill passed that doesn't include pork for special interests.