For Obama & McCain, Finance Crisis Is Posing on-the-Fly Tests

[groovedaddy]

WASHINGTON — The financial crisis has turned the race between Senators John McCain and Barack Obama into an audition for who could best handle a national economic emergency.

Mr. McCain, the Republican nominee for president, called on President Bush on Thursday to dismiss the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Christopher Cox, a former Republican congressman and a Bush appointee.

Mr. McCain, who early in the week seemed to struggle to find a consistent message on the economy, also proposed a government body to relieve struggling financial institutions of some bad debt in hopes of keeping them solvent. A similar approach was being considered Thursday night by the Bush administration and Congressional leaders.

Mr. McCain is expected to lay out a broader view of his approach to the crisis on Friday morning in Wisconsin.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/us/politics/19campaign.html?th&emc=th

[firedupdem]

1. McCain isn't being tested. He doesn't bother to take any

questions because he has no answers. I don't know why he has that dingbat standing behind him while he reads whatever somebody just wrote for him. He's anti regulations and wouldn't give a shit about this crisis. I was happy to hear Obama say the people on main street have been suffering long before this mess with Wall Street.