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Yesterday came the announcement from McCain that he is suspending his campaign, cancelling his appearance at the debate on Friday, and heading back to DC to work on the economy. He asked Obama to do the same, trying to make it look as if Obama didn’t suspend his campaign as well that he didn’t care about the economy. Last time I checked the President takes care of more than one thing at a time. Last time I checked if McCain was President he wouldn’t be able to suspend his Presidency to take care of a fire on California and ignore the other issues. What kind of leadership is McCain really showing here? A deep concern for the economy (which would make sense with his seven homes and thirteen cars at risk) or the inability to deal with one thing at a time?

Today, he has also requested that the Vice-Presidential debate be postponed for Palin as well. Now THAT is far more telling. The GOP still will not let her be interviewed by the media other than those they hand choose and have control over what questions are asked and they are still whining that she is being ‘picked on’ by the media because she’s a woman. She’s running for VP, odds are she’d end up as President. If she can’t handle the heat then she never should have been picked. They certainly didn’t stand up for Hillary when things were being said about her. She sucked it up and accepted that it came with the territory.

It seems to me that there is a lot being covered up with the McCain-Palin ticket and it terrifies me that so many are ignoring the obvious facts and still supporting the lies and spinning from the GOP.

More on the economy front - why are we, the American people, not up in arms over the fact that Paulson wants this $700 Billion bailout with no strings attached and no questions asked? Why has he made it clear in writing that if he gets this that he will never be allowed to be prosecuted? What is he planning on doing with the money? If he was really using it to do what he claims then why the concern over being questioned and possibly prosecuted for it? And for those who missed it, he also managed to blame future administrations for the economic mess. Yes, future - as in never existed yet.

Yet, I cannot say it is only the GOP and their supporters who are completely clueless. This past weekend, I attended a private home event with Jill Biden. Many of the women there were Hillary supporters and were there to hear Mrs. Biden’s reasoning as to why they should support Obama (yes, there are those who still refuse to swallow their pride and do what’s best for the country). While some of the questions they asked were old news but I can understand they wanted to hear an answer in person the one suggestion that was brought up made me want to lunge across the room and whack this person upside the head. She told Jill Biden that Hillary needs to do a thirty second telelvision ad telling her supporters that she is supporting Obama and she wants them to as well. And that this commercial needs to be aired often. Based upon Jill Biden’s face, I suspect I would have been in line behind her to slap this woman. She very diplomatically reminded this woman that Hillary had, in fact, done that at the convention. The woman replied that wasn’t enough. They needed commercials telling them what to do.

Yes, these women, supposedly intelligent and educated, agreed that they needed a complete stranger to do a tv commercial telling them what to do before they would vote for Obama. I bit my tongue but I really wanted to stand up and tell them that if they needed their tv to tell them what to do they had no right voting because they were obviously too stupid to vote too.

While it appears stupidity is running rampant among voters on both sides, I go back to the original part of the post. What is McCain trying to hide by ducking out of the debate and what is the GOP trying to hide by keeping Palin hidden? And why don’t the voters educated themselves a bit more than merely a tv ad?

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