Obama Avoided Debates for Months, Now Claims They’re Most Important Thing In The World

Since the day when Senator McCain clinched the Republican nomination, he put out an offer to Senator Barack Obama to go on the road and do a series of town hall meetings with the American people. The idea was to campaign together, face to face, and inform the American people in the most direct, honest, and forthright manner. Senator Obama refused. He avoided facing Senator McCain time and time again. Only when the Presidential commissions on debates scheduled tonight’s Presidential debate did Senator Obama agree to face Senator McCain.

Enter: A National Crisis.
Now, whether one believes that the economy is on the brink or not, the fact is that it’s been described that way by very intelligent, important, and influential people. Banks are failing. Unemployment is rising. Inflation is rising. Homesales are declining. Large purchases are declining. Overall consumer confidence is extremely poor. These are problems that need to be addressed. When people like the Secretary of the Treasury get down on a knee and beg for bailout money it’s got to be addressed. When financial legends like Warren Buffet and Jack Welch describe the situation as a financial Pearl Harbor, or as the biggest financial meltdown since the stock market crash of 1929 that set America into the Great Depression…that’s a signal that addressing the problem is more important than campaigning for personal power.

Well, it is for most people-not for Senator Obama.

Sen Obama believes that having a debate (after he avoided debats for months-saying they were not necessary), is the most important thing he can be doing right now; more important than his job as a Senator.

One can be reminded of how Pres Bush was chastised by Democrats for sitting with children and not fleeing in panic during the 911 attacks. If the financial crisis is half as bad as described, millions of people will be in serious trouble. One wonders what the left would have said had Pres Bush addressed the cameras during the 911 attacks and told the world that it was more important for him to campaign or do something/anything else at a time of national crisis rather than do the job he’s paid to do and lead?

NOTE: Senator McCain halted his Presidential campaign, and at the direct, specific urging of Sen Majority leader Harry Reid (D), of Treasury Sec Paulson, and of President Bush…returned to DC to do his job. He says he’ll debate when the job’s done, and the crisis is dealt with rather than seek personal power in the meantime.