I’ve made this reference before, but it bares repeating.  Ask anyone who has ever played or been involved with team sports.  Winners and Leaders want the ball when the game is on the line.  Losers and Followers want to pass.

During the current economic crisis, with the economy on the brink and the bailout on the line, John McCain wanted the ball.  He has proven he is a leader… Barack Obama, not so much.  Barack Obama whined about meeting tonight, I guess acting as a Senator and not just running for office is above his pay grade.

Barack Obama told Fox News tonight:

“It’s not clear to me that having presidential candidates in a high-profile way in the negotiating process is useful.”

Does that surprise anyone?  Barack Obama is whining because he is expected to do his job as a U.S. Senator.  If he is too busy to do that, and is whining about having some responsibility to fix the current economic mess, what will he do as President?  The President doesn’t get to pass the ball, and he doesn’t get to vote present when the country is on the line.  Barack Obama is proving without a shadow of a doubt that he is not a leader and not capable of being President.  You would think someone running for the highest office in the land would take a stand and lead at this tumultuous time… clearly Obama can’t be bothered with that.

And it is incredibly phony when they complain that John McCain is there, doing his job, even with the stakes of his Presidential campaign are on the line.  John McCain was asked to be there.  We know Harry Reid asked John McCain to take a leadership role in this mess:

“We need, now, the Republicans to start producing some votes for us. We need the Republican nominee for president to let us know where he stands and what we should do.”

And we know from Bob Scheiffer, no friend to the right, that Secretary Paulson asked John McCain to get involved:

Paulson then called, according to my sources, Senator Lindsey Graham, who is very close to John McCain, and told him: you’ve got to get the people in the McCain campaign, you’ve got to convince John McCain to give these Republicans some political cover. If you don’t do that, this whole bailout plan is going to fail. So that’s how, McCain, apparently, became involved.

So John McCain is not only doing his duty as a United States Senator, but he is doing what both the Majority Leader and the Secretary of the Treasury asked him to do.  Now that John McCain is doing his job, acting Presidential and trying to lead in a moment of crisis, Barack Obama and the Left are whining and moaning because it might be beneficial to the McCain Campaign.

Clearly some people are playing politics with this mess, and they all have a (D) beside their names.

Complaints from the Democrats ring incredibly untrue, especially when McCain is doing the right thing.  What kind of hypocrite thinks he can be President, but can’t be bothered to help lead at a time of crisis.  A crisis that Barack Obama himself called the most serious since the Great Depression.  If Obama truly believed that, but wasn’t willing to take a leadership role in getting it fixed, you have to question why.

By the way, the ridiculous assertions on the left that John McCain is some kind of chicken and doesn’t want to debate Barack Obama is absolutely absurd.  McCain proposed many more debates, but Obama ran scared.  After saying he would participate in joint Town Hall meetings, Obama broke his promise (just like he broke his promise on public campaign finance rules).  John McCain spanked Obama at Saddleback.  John McCain stood tall at many of the Republican debates.  Meanwhile Obama got his butt handed to him time and time again by Hillary Clinton in the Democrat debates and refused to debate her in the end because he was getting beat so badly.  So to assume that John McCain is scared to debate Obama is preposterous.

John McCain has once again put his country first, something Barack Obama will never understand.