On a day when 2 trillion has been lost in retirement accounts

[SurfingAtWork]

I hope Obama points out tonight that like Bush, McCain supports supplementing the system with personal accounts. I had to find a cached version of his website to find this. You can't find a peep about this on his current site.

"Reform Social Security: John McCain will fight to save the future of Social Security and believes that we may meet our obligations to the retirees of today and the future without raising taxes. John McCain supports supplementing the current Social Security system with personal accounts -- but not as a substitute for addressing benefit promises that cannot be kept."

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1. McCain definitely doesn't want to talk about Social Security

His response to the AARP Voters' Guide was worthless:

http://www.aarp.org/makeadifference/politics/voters-guide/voters_guide_channel.response.362.512/#Social%20Security

McCain: "The only way we can ensure benefits for future generations is to put Social Security on a sound financial footing. As president, I will work with Congress on a bipartisan basis to make the hard choices to assure the solvency of Social Security and to protect the retirement security of the American worker."

[TwilightGardener]

2. How does he "assure" solvency of SS when he calls the whole system

"a disgrace" by its very nature?

[ladjf]

3. It is time to put away the "toys" of political naivete' and give some

mature, intelligent thought to how best to extricate ourselves from this awful quagmire. We don't need any references to any trivial and irrelevant incidences from decades past.

If McCain attempts to trivialize the night, Senator Obama should respond with something along the lines of, "Senator McCain, we are in the process of trying to help the American people decide who they want to lead them out of the economic disaster. We just don't have time to fritter around with political gimmicks. Could we please limit our discussion to relevant topics?"