Quote Originally Posted by daihashi
Though you didn't necessarily say anything bad about McCain you refuse to acknowledge the obvious which cannot be denied. BOTH of these candidates need to put the campaign on hold so that they can do THEIR JOB!

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No they're not more important but their in the middle of an election. He proposes they put that on hold and get back to congress and DO THEIR JOB!

Do you not understand that they still have an obligation as senators and McCain is asking Obama, as a senator, to go back to washington to do their jobs.

I don't feel there is anything wrong in that, but if you want to paint McCain as a badguy then by all means go for it. It seems that instead of realizing the obvious you would rather misinterpret the intentions of his statement.

Political move or not, he is more or less saying let's go back and do our jobs over this CRITICAL issue.

If you can't see that then I can't explain it any further because you will just want to view it as pointless when it is anything but the sort.
Wrong.

It is not critical that these two men be in Washington or suspend the debates or suspend their campaigns in order for them to DO THEIR JOB on this issue.

How do you think this stuff works? Do you think all 100 senators sit together in a room working things through together? Do you think nothing gets done if one of them is not in the building? No. Party leadership from both sides canvass their membership on what is acceptable to each and what they want, and then it gets hashed out in committee. If a compromise is necessary, they contact everyone to see how they will vote. NEITHER ONE OF THESE MEN HEADS OR SITS ON A RELEVANT COMMITTEE. As long as they are in contact with their party leadership, they don't need to be there, except to vote. They certainly do not need to supend their campaigns.

That's why I asked what Super Maverick thinks he is going to do. Is he going to barge into the committee meetings where he does not belong? Perhaps he will entertain with a song and dance? Maybe he will hold press conferences and look "presidential." I'd say he should spend the time boning up on his debate topics.

Most likely what he will do is disrupt the whole process. If the candidates go to Washington and start staking out sides, this whole thing is going to degenerate into a situation in which every representative and senator is acting as a proxy for his candidate. And that is how this whole thing is going to get screwed up. This is a very imoportant and very delicate situation, and it should not be infected with partisan presidential politics. This is probably the WORST possible time for a crisis like this to happen, right in the middle of an election. Both of these candidates should keep their distance, let their leadership know what they want, just like all the other Senators, and let it get negotiated outside of the context of the presidential campaign by the people whose proper role it is to handle this thing.

I don't criticise McCain for wanting to "do his job." I criticise him for pulling a stunt in the middle of something serious. He knows what his role is as senator, and he is overstepping it and making the situation worse. And he is doing it so that he can appear to be doing more than he really is. It's purely political, and he should not have done it.