hah! you coulda fooled...well, everyone

McCain says his campaign is focused on the economy

PHILADELPHIA – Republican presidential candidate John McCain dismissed the idea that he can't win the presidency if the top issue is the flagging economy and used a remark by Democrat Barack Obama's own running mate to argue that Obama isn't ready to be president.
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Polls show that voters have more confidence in Obama when it comes to economic issues. McCain has been using a remark by Obama that he wanted to "spread the wealth around" to criticize the Democrat as favoring socialist economic policies.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden provided McCain an opening on a different issue — readiness to be president — when he told supporters at a weekend fundraiser: "Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."

"We don't want a president who invites testing from the world at a time when our economy is in crisis and Americans are already fighting in two wars," McCain told a crowd Monday in Belton, Mo.

"What is more troubling is that Sen. Biden told their campaign donors that when that crisis hits, they would have to stand with them, because it wouldn't be apparent Sen. Obama would have the right response," added the Republican nominee, who was spending Tuesday in Pennsylvania, another battleground.

"Forget apparent," McCain said. "Sen. Obama won't have the right response, and we know that because we've seen the wrong response from him over and over during this campaign."

Biden, however, drew a far different conclusion than McCain. He compared Obama to President John Kennedy and said, "They're going to find out this guy's got steel in his spine."

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Yeah, we really don't want a president like McCain and a VP like Palin getting tested by the world when we are in 2 wars and an economic crisis! We know that they would flounder as they have in their campaign responses.

And McCain is the last person who should be talking about a wrong response in a campaign! Wow! This is the most pathetic campaign that I - and many others - have ever seen. I think that he's looking at his own campaign when he makes a ridiculous comment like that!