Posted by Dave on 09/24/08 at 03:30:47 pm
Categories: Campaign 2008

So John McCain is suspending his campaign so that he can focus on the "historic" crisis facing the U.S. economy.

He also wants to cancel Friday's debate.

What a joke.

But it gets better - he also wants Obama to join him in suspending campaign activities, including ads. Of course, Barack Obama has a lot more money to spend on ads, so it would be extremely beneficial to Sen. McCain to have a suspension of ads.

Does he really think that voters will not see right through his stunt?

****UPDATE****: Hmm... it looks like Sen. Obama had already reached out to Sen. McCain to put out a joint statement on the bailout:

At 8:30 this morning, Senator Obama called Senator McCain to ask him if he would join in issuing a joint statement outlining their shared principles and conditions for the Treasury proposal and urging Congress and the White House to act in a bipartisan manner to pass such a proposal. At 2:30 this afternoon, Senator McCain returned Senator Obama's call and agreed to join him in issuing such a statement. The two campaigns are currently working together on the details.

So Sen. Obama tries to reach out and make a bi-partisan move on the bailout issue, and Sen. McCain tries to one-up him with this political stunt. Lovely.

And the Obama campaign says the debate will still go on.

****UPDATE II****: Obama's statement:

“It’s my belief that this is exactly the time the American people need to hear from the person who in approximately 40 days will be responsible with dealing with this mess," he said. "In my mind, actually, it's more important than ever that we present ourselves to the American people and try to describe where we want to take the country and where we wnt to take the economy as well as dealing with some of the issues of foreign policy that were initially the subject of the debate."

"What I think is important is that we don’t suddenly infuse Capitol Hill with presidential politics," he said.
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"Presidents are going to have to deal with more than one thing at a time," he says. "It’s not necessary for us to think that we can do only one thing, and suspend everything else."

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