Bill Kristol: To Help Economy, McCain Should Talk About Ayers

The economy is in tatters and shambles, and it's tattering and shambling its way along no matter what bailouts and rescues and Jim Cramer rant choruses are thrown at it. Now's the time for our presidential candidates to show leadership and vision, right? Not according to Bill Kristol, who thinks America needs to find out if our market woes weren't actually caused by a secret plan, hatched during a meeting of the Annenberg Challenge, in which Barack Obama and William Ayers agreed to use Weather Underground mind control techniques to convince Henry Paulson to stand back and do nothing while Ayers terror-bombed Lehman Brothers with his radical liberal derivatives. That's the basic gist of what Kristol was spitting at Fox News Channel this afternoon, as he stoically made the case for McCain going negative, forever. Why can't America understand that everyone got deep into bad mortgages and crazy credit default swaps because Barack Obama attended a Chicago Machine Church?

[WATCH.]

KRISTOL: The economy will be center stage but I disagree with some of the advice that McCain is giving. Saying you have to talk endlessly about the economy. These attacks on Obama on Bill Ayers and Reverend Wright don't matter. I don't agree. It is a severe economic crisis and McCain and Obama don't know what they would do. They both supported the bailout. It's not clear except on taxes that there are huge divisions about what to do with the credit markets. McCain has to show is he concerned about it and willing to be a strong leader and say look, when you're in a crisis you have to judge the character, the judgment, the background of the person you are putting in charge, that's more important than trying to evaluate the details of Obama's plans on credit swaps. I don't think we will be able to judge what the best way to handle bad debt. So McCain has to tie the economic crisis to Obama's character and judgment and say who you want in charge in difficult years, who is up to the job, liberal democrats who has hung out with characters, do you want him to run the country. That's got to be the core of McCain's message.

Comments

[SwingVoter]

John McCain is corrupt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r-kOIs-W6E

John McCain corrupt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDofbll86dY

[SwingVoter]

John McCain is corrupt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r-kOIs-W6E

John McCain is corrupt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDofbll86dY

Kristol is apprenticed under satan.

[ekwbowen]

The reality is that McCain has nowhere to go and nothing to do BUT attack Obama. He can't run on the issues, particularly not on domestic issues. His only chance is the smear.

Fortunately, it's too late for the smear. They've been trying for the past few months and it hasn't worked. If McCain follows Kristol's advice and goes on the attack with that craziness tonight, it will only work in Obama's favor. It makes McCain look mean and desperate - both of which are probably true. It will drive his poll numbers down, not up, so flail away Senator McCain.

Meanwhile, Barack Obama stays cool, calm and collected as he continues to build on his current lead and takes the presidency.

[Adagio]

Okay, let's talk about characters the candidates have hung out with. Let's see, we have Bill Ayers, 60's radical who moved on to work on improving education in America... and then there is Phil Gramm former Senator who set the groundwork for the collapse of our economy and then left government to cash in with his friends in the financial community. Like Barack is fond of saying, "That's a debate I'm happy to have!"

[DevRock]

Kristol is one of those few political pundits who make me sick to my stomach. A despicable, dishonest human being. Can someone remind me why ANYONE cares what he has to say and why anyone pays attention to him?

[comacoma]

Because republicans are despicable, dishonest human beings.

[BarackMarley]

They have nothing to do but mudsling now. Let's judge McCain and Palin's character. Keating 5, McCain's wife stealing drugs from a charity to feed her addiction. And how come no one on the right is even addressig the fact that Palin was invovled in a radical Alaskan Secessionist group. Theif founder said 'THe fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government­.' That make Reverend Wright look like Toby Keith

Read About Palin and the AKIP Here
http://newsone.blackplanet.com/elections/akip-interview-on-palin/

[harvest9]

A pox on the New York Times for hiring this slimeball as a columnist. He's an embarrassment to an otherwise basically decent paper.

He's also wrong all the time, so let's hope McCain takes Kristol's bad advice and "goes there." He is truly oblivious to how much damage his demented angry old man bit is doing to his campaign.

[Madmac]

The Neo Conservative (GOP) movement. Bankrupt of ideas, plans, morals. R.I.P

[AZterritory]

Squirrels should be attacking this guy . . he is such a nut.

[rockyb26]

Why do the Republican strategists always recommend what's best for politics rather than the country? How can they be so wrapped up in the campaign that they don't realize what's really at stake here? I guess life is still too good for them. This is what you call tone deaf.

[Missmn]

Because they only care about winning. They don't care about the country or the people who live here.

[smark]

Because all they care about is winning and getting in control and getting richer and richer. Not about the country, not about the American people, PERIOD.

[independent32955]

We can only hope that McCain and his cronies take Kristol's comments to heart, because this is exactly NOT what people want to hear 3.5 weeks before the Presidential election, they want to know what your plan on the economy is...and if you can't articulate it, then you simply aren't qualified to be President.

If McCain wants to bash Obama for the next 3 weeks, I'm not going to complain..­.i doubt there's a single person left who is undecided and will allow that kind of tripe to work on them.

Obama 364 - McCain 174

[whiteboyblues]

Does it stink worse when your head is that far up there?

[Ms. Lou]

McCain is listening and connected to the Neo-conservative and their agenda.
4 more years of Bush. See U later Mr. McBush!

[amantell]

Hmm...what­'s the best way to say this? How can I best describe my opinion of Bill Kristol? Oh, right. He's a tool.

[HWNA]

Do I want a liberal Democrat who served on a charitable board with an ex-radical or do I want an erratic, angry and dishonorable liar who sold himself out to the agents of intolerance?

I'll take the liberal Democrat who has proven himself a steady hand in this campaign any day.