financial meltdown

DETROIT, Mich — Speaking at a small fund-raiser at the Detroit Public Library on Sunday, Sen. Barack Obama reflected on the coming Jewish New Year.

Where to even begin…
Last night, President George W. Bush helped to bail out Sen. John McCain following the latter’s erratic decision to suspend the campaign so he can come to Washington to help bail out Wall Street. Bush invited both candidates to the White House for a meeting with Congressional leaders for a discussion on [...]

Sen. Barack Obama just dashed past his Republican opponent in today’s Washington Post/ABC poll, grabbing what The Post calls his “first clear lead” of the entire general election.
The national poll, which does not reflect the Electoral College or prioritize the swing states that actually decide the election, shows Obama besting Sen. John McCain by 52 [...]

Facing heavy criticism for not taking questions from his traveling press corps in 40 days, Sen. John McCain relented and held a press conference this afternoon in Freeland, Mich. It lasted for slightly more than 10 minutes, and McCain took a total of six questions — well, seven if you count the two-parter from Bloomberg’s [...]

The Sunday political talk shows deliver debate, if nothing else. They are produced, booked, written and hard-wired for a relentless back and forth. Thus this exchange from ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” was remarkable in its unanimity — journalists, conservative pundits and lone Democrat Donna Brazile all agreeing that Sen. John McCain is a [...]

Sen. Barack Obama is opening a new line of attack against Sen. John McCain, his Republican rival, arguing that a vote for McCain could endanger Social Security as we know it. That’s technically true, but highly unlikely.
Last week, I reported that the financial crisis enabled Democrats to attack McCain on Social Security privatization — [...]

Harry Shearer plans to buy up all the comedic talent in the world, one jokester at a time.

Talking about Wall Street’s financial meltdown during a campaign stop in Green Bay, Wis., Sen. John McCain this morning blasted Sen. Barack Obama for his coziness with two former CEOs of the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — and accused the Democratic nominee of “profiting” from the broken system.
From McCain’s prepared remarks:

Sen. John McCain knows as much about the economy as Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin knows about the Bush Doctrine.
That’s the thrust of the Obama campaign’s current offensive, which blasts McCain at every turn for saying this week, oddly, that the “fundamentals” of the American economy remain strong.
The attack is more about McCain being clueless than [...]