McCain suspends campaign temporarily and asks for postponement of debate

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Considering how well the rose garden strategy worked for Carter (i.e. cut down on campaigning to deal with a crisis) what was McCain (and more importantly, the campaign professionals that are working for) thinking when he came up with this idiotic stunt?  It has been enough to shift me from Strong McCain to Lean McCain.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Most of you don't get it.  This is McCain's "I shall go to Korea."  He's running against an Adlai Stevenson type; he's a military hero.  We're in 1952.

Problem is, McCain is using a play from the 1980 Carter playbook, not the 1952 Eisenhower one.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

J.J., I'm hoping your just trolling.  This is making McCain look either very panicky or very calculating.  It is not making him look presidential at all.   If McCain wanted to look like a doer as you put it, he'd be laying out a clear idea of what he thinks the bailout should look like.  Instead, what ideas he does have on the subject are being hopelessly blurred in the public perception by this stunt.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

J.J., I'm hoping your just trolling.  This is making McCain look either very panicky or very calculating.  It is not making him look presidential at all.   If McCain wanted to look like a doer as you put it, he'd be laying out a clear idea of what he thinks the bailout should look like.  Instead, what ideas he does have on the subject are being hopelessly blurred in the public perception by this stunt.

McCain has a bailout plan, and has released it to the public.

And how much press has his plan gotten?  A press release on the campaign web site five days ago is hardly pushing his ideas.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

J.J., I'm hoping your just trolling.  This is making McCain look either very panicky or very calculating.  It is not making him look presidential at all.   If McCain wanted to look like a doer as you put it, he'd be laying out a clear idea of what he thinks the bailout should look like.  Instead, what ideas he does have on the subject are being hopelessly blurred in the public perception by this stunt.

McCain has a bailout plan, and has released it to the public.

And how much press has his plan gotten?  A press release on the campaign web site five days ago is hardly pushing his ideas.

He's spoken about it (in Michigan, IIRC) and a snippet or two got on the evening news.  Now, he gets to bring that plan to Washington.

But my main point is that your initial point was incorrect - McCain HAS laid out a clear idea of what he thinks the bailout should look like.   I don't think Obama has (IIRC, he claims to have a plan but hasn't released it).

That press release doesn't strike me as particularly clear.